Alice Cooper

If anyone could pull off a concept album about life in a sanitarium, it's Alice Cooper, the
man who turned dead-baby jokes into high-school national anthems and made a whole
career of exactly the kind of comic grotesqueness the new LP promises. And From the
Inside isn't an obvious failure: the songs are full of good ideas, the lyrics often close to
brilliant. Then why does everything sound so forced and overwrought? Because,... More >