ALICE COOPER – A Paranormal Evening at the Olympia Paris [Digipak] (2018)

Last year was a successful one for shock-rock legend ALICE COOPER. He released his last studio album ‘Paranormal’ to critical applause and chart success, breaching top tens across the world. On December 7th, Cooper and his band stopped off at the Olympia, Paris for the final date on the Paranormal Tour, with the end result being this 2-CD recording “A Paranormal Evening at the Olympia Paris”.

The setlist on “A Paranormal Evening at the Olympia Paris” is, essentially, a crowd-pleasing array of hits, fan favourites with a few deep cuts spanning from 1971’s Love It To Death to the modern-day.
‘No More Mr. Nice Guy’, ‘Poison’, ‘Feed My Frankenstein’, ‘I’m Eighteen’ and the obligatory encore ‘School’s Out’ are all here and accounted for, served up to a hungry Parisian crowd by a band with three guitarists; Ryan Roxie, Tommy Henriksen and Nita Strauss.
They all get to time to show off their soloing skills, especially Hurricane Nita Strauss, in the wondrous slice of Eighties metal that is ‘The World Needs Guts’.

Three ‘Welcome to my Nightmare’ tracks get an airing; ‘Department of Youth’, the demented love song ‘Cold Ethyl’ and ‘Only Women Bleed’ – all demonstrating that despite his 70 years of age The Coop is still in fine voice.
After the latter two he breezes through his new song ‘Paranoiac Personality’, with its funky Go To Hell-esque stomp. In between these some rarely played tracks are dusted off – the Iraq War pun ‘Woman of Mass Distraction’ and ‘Pain’, a welcomed surprise from his overlooked, cocaine-drenched, New Wave, record ‘Flush the Fashion’.

Alice Cooper is a living legend. Simple as that. And that’s why this 2CD live album is so much more relevant than most. At his Seventies, Coop has an energy that many teens would envy.
Arguably – as he himself says – armed with the best band he’s ever had, Alice and the guys shine here with a hot-blooded performance. The sound quality is top notch.
Highly Recommended

CD 1:
01. Brutal Planet
02. No More Mr. Nice Guy
03. Under My Wheels
04. Department Of Youth
05. Pain
06. Billion Dollar Babies
07. The World Needs Guts
08. Woman Of Mass Distraction
09. Poison
10. Halo Of Flies

CD 2:
01. Feed My Frankenstein
02. Cold Ethyl
03. Only Women Bleed
04. Paranoiac Personality
05. Ballad Of Dwight Fry
06. Killer / I Love The Dead (Themes)
07. I’m Eighteen
08. School’s Out

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