SPECIAL FORCES
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SPECIAL FORCES
Special Forces is the thirteenth studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 1981, and was produced by Richard Podolor, most famous as the producer for Three Dog Night. Singles included You Want It, You Got It , Who Do You Think We Are and Seven and Seven Is . Flo and Eddie, former members of The Turtles, performers, and radio personalities, performed on this album. -Wikipedia
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Musoscribe
2010 - while the lean production aesthetic of Special Forces may have been in step with the sound of 1981, it didn’t mesh well with the songs themselves
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All Music
While Special Forces didn't return Cooper to his earlier status as a chart-topping superstar, it is certainly one of the strongest and most interesting releases of his post-1975 period.
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Metal Misfit
I like six of the ten songs here, so I suppose I can’t say this is a bad album but they are more like six decent songs. Not six great songs, so I wouldn’t call Special Forces a career highlight for Alice.
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Daily Vault
2001 - the tepid production and mix are certainly a major cause for the album's lack of firepower
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Mike Ladano
It rocks hard enough, and it sounds great to my ears.
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Ginger Nuts of Horror
2018 - an incredibly strong offering with finely crafted songs which continue in the New Wave style Alice initiated on Flush the Fashion
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Don Ignacio
I gave all of these songs an A
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Only Solitaire
This one further continues Alice's winning streak, an excellent and actually innovative - no, I'm not afraid to use that word - record that serves as a perfect "mediator" in between Alice's usual goofiness and the new sounds of the Eighties.
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Louder Sound
The best of Alice Cooper’s early-80s oddball new wave records, Special Forces finds him reinventing himself as a paramilitary drag queen, singing cinematic odes to gay cops (Prettiest Cop On The Block) and gay dictators (You’re A Movie), ...
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Mark's Record Reviews
an album that at the time of its release was the most enjoyable LP Alice Cooper had released since his original band broke up
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