WELCOME 2 MY NIGHTMARE
| Alice Cooper
WELCOME 2 MY NIGHTMARE
Welcome 2 My Nightmare (also known as Welcome to My Nightmare 2) is the 26th studio album by Alice Cooper, released in September 2011. Peaking at No. 22 in the Billboard 200 it is Cooper's highest-charting album in the US since 1989's Trash. -Wikipedia
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Ultimate Classic Rock
2011 - surprisingly diverse (heck, borderline schizophrenic) but always entertaining
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Rolling Stone
2011 - The fun comes when he abandons the sequel concept in favor of a New Wave duet with Ke$ha and a decades- tardy anti-disco tune (“Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever”) in which Alice tries to rap. Slapstick was always his strong suit.
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The Guardian
2011 - a thoroughly inventive, modern-sounding record, with unlikely shifts ranging from an Auto-Tuned ballad to Tom Waits-style vaudeville to classical/opera and even a duet with Ke$ha
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Pop Matters
2011 - If you’ve heard any of Cooper’s best songs, you’ve heard all of this before, but better.
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Blabber Mouth
one of the very few sequels to a classic album that doesn't tarnish a reputation or damage a legacy. Well done!
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Icon Fetch
2011 - a great Alice Cooper record and should be in every fan’s collection
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Icon vs Icon
2011 - The album's strong suit is that it features a huge range of styles
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NME
2011 - there are some amazing moments on ‘Welcome 2 My Nightmare’, and he makes the experiments work
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The Rocktologist
2011 - by far the most versatile of all Alice Cooper albums
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My Global Mind
Words simply cannot describe my level of disappointment with this album
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Pop Dose
2011 - it is fun but flawed
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All Music
Ezrin gives this album flair and focus that not only make it an unexpectedly successful sequel but the best Alice Cooper record in decades
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Mark's Record Reviews
So put on some camouflage, take a night on the town and purchase this Great American Songbook, Volume IV tonight!
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Don Ignacio
So I'd only mildly recommend this to Cooper fans. Put this on the strongish side of a
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Metal Storm
while sequels are always risky, Alice pulls this off brilliantly
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Beat
Welcome 2 My Nightmare has a few hokey moments, sure, but it's feels like an honest revisiting rather than a cynical attention-grab.
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Metal Assault
An unbelievable roller-coaster ride with stunning musical variety.
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Indulge-Sound
2011 - overall a good album, but leaves much open to debate
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Vintage Rock
functions effectively as a creative outlet for Cooper’s fertile imagination. Even at this stage in his career, you have to commend him for trying to push forward
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Metal holic
2011 - This is not a bookend to Welcome To My Nightmare, but rather an (at times) inspired contemporary companion piece that journals everything Alice once was and has become. A required edition to the brilliant discography of a master.
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Guitar Planet Magazine
2013 - All in all, this a very welcome nightmare indeed.
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Louder Sound
2011 - In fact, it’s easily the strongest album that Alice and (discounting The Wall) Ezrin, has made since the original Nightmare. One for the ages indeed.
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Last Rites
2011 - Welcome To My Nightmare is his most theatrical moment ... Welcome 2 simply can’t compete with that record’s quality, and in its scattershot embracing of everything from country to surf-rock, it succumbs to its own theatrics and falters.
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New Zealand Herald
2011 - Though the modern-day version is unlikely to warrant such ambitious offshoots (although a tour is planned for next year), there is no denying the solid and surprising diversity of the songs.
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Sleaze Roxx
2011 - Welcome 2 My Nightmare is proof that the nightmare is truly back and confirms that Bob Ezrin is to Alice Cooper what Jim Steinman is to Meat Loaf — hopefully the duo continue working together on a few more albums.
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100.7 WZXL
2011 - GREAT drivin' CD for a daily commute
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Guitar International
Classic rock riffs run throughout the album and for the most part keep things charged and serve as a platform for Alice’s own legendary sound and stagecraft.
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Horror News
2012 - what stands out is the consistent sound and production level that keeps you engaged long enough to skip to the tracks you do like
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The Metal Resource
2013 - Overall, the album jumps all over the spectrum in terms of music styles and has lyrics ranging from darkly serious to comical as Alice again describes his nightmare journey, but ends up as a fun listen.
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Riff Raff
2011 - a rich and diverse platter with an underlying story
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Mike Ladano
Regardless, Alice and Ezrin (let’s give credit where credit is due, Ezrin is the George Martin of this album) have created here a modern masterpiece, a great record to cap Alice’s modern career with one more undenialble winner.
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Pop Entertainment Blog
2011 - it is also the best work that Alice Cooper has done in decades. I don’t know for sure how relevant this music is anymore, but if you love 70s glam shock rock, Welcome 2 will be a welcome jolt back in time.
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Johnny Mercyside
2011 - “Welcome 2 My Nightmare” surpasses the original album released 26 years prior, and shows that music doesn’t have to be serious; it can be pure entertainment and fun.
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Hardrock Haven
The lyrics on here are terrific and longtime Alice Cooper fans will relish in the fact that Alice has went back to his roots and moved away from the harder edged music of the past decade or two.
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Sick Things UK
Yes, it's truly THAT GOOD.
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Mountain King Music
2011 - More than anything, what makes Welcome 2 My Nightmare so great, though, is that it’s obvious to the listener that Alice is having a blast on the record – and his long-time fans are all in on the joke.
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Jett-O-Sphere
Though the album doesn't match the classic Welcome to My Nightmare, it's a fine compilation of what Cooper's about — giving his loyal fans what they need, '70s rock with a bizarre twist.
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Pop Culture Beast
"W2MN" is loaded with a who's who of guest musicians from the past and present. Artists such as Rob Zombie, Vince Gill, Kip Winger and Ke$ha plus original Alice Cooper band members Michael Bruce, Neal Smith and Dennis Dunaway help bring this sequel album to life.
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The Rockpit
No, it’s not a bonafide uber-classic like the original – but no-one has the right to expect it to be. What it is, is one of the best post-70’s Alice Cooper albums, and a very worthy sequel.
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Hell Bound
2011 - By the third song I was quite happy with the album and by the second listen I was sold.
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Fabrications HQ
a startling return to form, diverse in content and themed around the nightmarish scenarios of the original without ever copying or rewriting that classic material
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Heavy Metal Messenger
A diverse, entertaining, album with rockers, ballads, even a little tongue in cheek disco and swing that feels refreshingly fun in a world that rarely shows it’s sense of humor, even if it is a dark and sometimes disturbing humor.
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Metal Storm
This is a true Alice Cooper album; it is full of tongue-in-cheek humor and playful villainy. Its style is an incredibly eclectic one, and you might have to make a lot of allowances to enjoy it.
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Vintage Vinyl news
Really, at that point nothing can surprise me anymore but wait… how’s for a bit of Tom Petty-influenced roots rock on the first half of I Gotta Get Out Of Here? Genius!
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