Fridays with Alice

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Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” - Matthew 19:14

When Hell Comes Home (Welcome 2 My Nightmare, 2011) - Fridays With Alice Cooper... This week we revisit the Welcome 2 My Nightmare (W2MN) LP, released in 2011. The album is a continuation of Steven’s dreams and nightmares found on the original Welcome to My Nightmare LP, and it is also related to Alice Cooper Goes To Hell as well. W2MN is a combination of those albums, but these...

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He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit - Titus 3:5

Hell Is Living Without You (Trash, 1989) - Fridays With Alice Cooper... This week we re-visit Trash, an album that firmly placed Alice back into Top 20 status in both the US and UK. The record was released in 1989, and the song "Poison" was the ultimate catalyst for the album's success. The LP also featured collaborative works with Jon Bon Jovi and Steven Tyler. This we...

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‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” - Revelation 21:4

Pain (Flush The Fashion, 1980) - Fridays With Alice Cooper... ‘Flush The Fashion‘ is Alice’s twelfth studio album and the song 'Pain' is this week's focus. Released in 1980, the LP falls under an umbrella of genres from Rock, Hard Rock, to New Wave. With a mixture of sarcasm and some story-based songs, the album still delivers a Cooper-based vibe and fee...

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You are my hiding place; You preserve me from trouble;
You surround me with songs of deliverance. - Psalm 32:7

Sanctuary (Brutal Planet, 2000) - Fridays With Alice Cooper... This week's post focuses on another track from the 'Brutal Planet (2000)' LP. "Sanctuary" is the third track on the LP. And the song’s narrative paints the picture of the modern-day man using work, pills, possessions, and society’s objectives as his catalyst for “survival.”

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But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior - Titus 3:4-6

Salvation (Along Came A Spider, 2008) - Fridays With Alice Cooper... Released on July 29, 2008, “Along Came A Spider” is Alice Cooper’s 18th solo album. The LP, like many others, is a concept album, this time dealing with the life of a sociopath. "Salvation," the last track on the LP, spins the album in a new direction...

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“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” - Revelation 1:8

Is It My Body? (Love It To Death, 1971) - Fridays With Alice Cooper... This week we travel back to 1971 and the release of the breakthrough album, Love It To Death. This post focuses on the song "Is It My Body", and the album has become one of the greatest of all-time - a quintessential Classic Rock record. Songs such as “I’m Eighteen,” “The Ballad of Dwight Fr...

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https://fridayswithalice.com/spring-break-2022/

It's time for our annual sabbatical away from "Fridays With Alice." During this time we will be reflecting on God's Word, reconnecting with nature, and listening to some Alice Cooper albums. ;)

We look forward to beginning posts again at the beginning of April. Each one of you are special and dear to our hearts. We will also spend this time uplifting the page, the group, and all its members in prayer. YOU ARE LOVED!

In the meantime, do you know much about Alice Cooper's Solid Rock? If not, check out Fans for Solid Rock and learn more about ways to give back to their mission and cause.

Be well and God Bless!

Steadfast & Straight Ahead! (Spring Break 2022) - Fridays With Alice Cooper... It's time for our annual sabbatical away from "Fridays With Alice." During this time we will be reflecting on God's Word, reconnecting with nature, and listening to some Alice Cooper albums. ;) Spring Break! We look forward to beginning posts again at the beginning of April. Each one of you are spec...

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“Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly, we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.“ - 2 Corinthians 4:16-17

Wind-Up Toy (Hey Stoopid, 1991) - Fridays With Alice Cooper... This week's post focuses on "Wind-Up Toy" from the album 'Hey Stoopid' which was released in 1991. This album featured a number of different artists from that time period including Slash (from Guns N' Roses), Steve Vai, Ozzy Osbourne, Joe Satriani, and many more. It is the follow-up album to 'Trash'...

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A prudent man sees evil and hides himself,
The naive proceed and pay the penalty. - Proverbs 27:12

Dirty Diamonds (Dirty Diamonds, 2005) - Fridays With Alice Cooper... The title track from “Dirty Diamonds” is this week's focus. "Diamonds" is Cooper's 24th studio album and was released in 2005. The album is a back to the basics Rock album. It has no theme per se. Some songs that we will most likely revisit from the album include: "Perfect", "The Saga of Jesse J...

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"Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God." - Psalms 90:2

Changing Arranging (Pretties For You, 1969) - Fridays With Alice Cooper... "Pretties For You," the Alice Cooper Group (ACG) debut album, was released in 1969. After ACG moves to L.A., they are introduced to Frank Zappa, producer and co-founder of Straight Records. With minimal direction, the band records the album and Zappa uses Edward Beardsley's painting entitled Prettie...

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And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. - Revelation 21:6

Holy Water (Paranormal, 2017) - Fridays With Alice Cooper... This week we look at "Holy Water." Released in July of 2017, Paranormal is the 27th studio album by Alice Cooper. The album features three songs performed by the 'classic' line-up (Neal Smith, Dennis Dunaway, and Michael Bruce). The album also features Alice hooking up with various other musicians s...

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Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. - Romans 2:1

Pass The Gun Around (DaDa, 1983) - Fridays With Alice Cooper... This week's post focuses on "Pass The Gun Around" found on Alice's 8th solo album, "DaDa." The last of three albums referred to as the "blackout" albums - it winds up being his final album for Warner Bros. Records. The cover art is based on a painting by surrealist artist Salvador Dali, and the albu...

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So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. - John 8:36

Freedom (Raise Your Fist and Yell, 1987) - Fridays With Alice Cooper... Revisiting 'Raise Your Fist and Yell', we look at "Freedom" this week. A song written in protest of the PMRC (Parent's Music Resource Center), an organization designed to oversee and promote parental control over music it deemed violent, drug-related, or sexual in nature. The bipartisan Washington D...

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Children are a gift from the Lord;
they are a reward from him. - Psalm 127:3

Dead Babies (Killer, 1971) - Fridays With Alice Cooper... "Dead Babies" is found on the 1971 LP, "Killer," The album is the Alice Cooper band's fourth studio recording. Reaching #21 on the Billboard 200, the record continued to propel the group forward into the limelight of the music industry. With songs like "Under My Wheels," "Be My Lover," "Desperado,"....

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“For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all; therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised” - 2 Cor. 5:14-15

Man of the Year (The Eyes of Alice Cooper, 2003) - Fridays With Alice Cooper... The Eyes of Alice Cooper was released on September 30, 2003, in the U.S. "Man of the Year" is a humor-based track filled with irony, wit, and a little bit of horror.

Food for thought... this one floored me.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. - John 15:9

Our Love Can Change The World (Detroit Stories, 2021) - Fridays With Alice Cooper... Alice’s 21st solo album, “Detroit Stories,” will be released on February 26, 2021. Inspired by Alice’s hometown, Detroit, MI, the album pays homage to “the birthplace of angry hard rock,” as the Coop defines it. Interestingly enough, “Our Love Will Change The World” fits perfectly in...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

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In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’” - Acts 20:35

Giving Back (Christmas Pudding, 2021) - Fridays With Alice Cooper... For the second to last post of 2021, we look at a quick interview dated December 4, 2021, from The Arizona Republic’s YouTube channel. Alice and Sheryl Cooper discuss Christmas Pudding, a concert to raise money for Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock Teen Centers in Phoenix and Mesa. Giving back to their ...

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No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. - 1 Corinthians 10:13

The Garden (Use Your Illusion I, 1991) - Fridays With Alice Cooper... This week we, once again, step outside of the Alice Cooper catalog and into another one of his guest appearances. “The Garden,” the eleventh track on Use Your Illusion I, finds Alice lending his sneering vocals to the LP. As he bellows out his lines, it’s apparent “The Garden” is something...

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"God is within her, she will not fall.” - Psalm 46:5

Every Woman Has A Name (Dragontown, 2001) - Fridays With Alice Cooper... This week we discuss another song from the album “Dragontown”. “Every Woman Has A Name” is another beautifully written Alice Cooper ballad. Almost picking up where other ballads like "Only Women Bleed" leave off, this song expresses the importance of women, their identities, their self-worth...

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When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. - Psalm 56:3

Lullaby (The Last Temptation, 1994) - Fridays With Alice Cooper... This week we look at "Lullaby". Another song from The Last Temptation which discusses one of the enemy's age-old tools - Fear. The song finds Steven confronted by all sorts of evil staring him in the face...

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A Thanksgiving Tradition...

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All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation - 2 Corinthians 5:18

Going Home (Alice Cooper Goes To Hell, 1976) - Fridays With Alice Cooper... This week we once again travel back to 1976. Revisiting 'Alice Cooper Goes To Hell,' we find 'Going Home' as the final track on the LP. The song is beautifully written and offers a peaceful ending to the nightmarish ordeals that precede it. The listener finds Steven, the beloved character of many Al...

For those in the States....

We hope it's been a wonderful Thanksgiving! Football, Food, Family, Friends, etc.

But most importantly, we give thanks for God's most precious gift to the world, His Son - Jesus Christ.

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Pray without ceasing. - 1 Thessalonians 5:17

The Quiet Room (From The Inside, 1978) - Fridays With Alice Cooper... 'From The Inside' was released in 1978. An expressive, autobiographical album which delivers tales and songs recounting Cooper's stay in a rehabilitation center to help cure his alcohol addiction. “The Quiet Room” is a heart-wrenching song about isolation and emotions – in this case, some very...

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“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. 19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. - Isaiah 43:18-19

Skeletons In The Closet (Special Forces, 1981) - Fridays With Alice Cooper... Special Forces, the sixth Alice Cooper solo album, was released in 1981. It is the first of three LPs that Alice has coined the “blackout” albums – records he doesn’t remember much about. Another concept album, this one finds Alice playing the role of a decorated war general - an arrogant pe...

Still remains our prayer... even today!

Heavenly Father,
Today we say thank you to our veterans. We honor and pay respect to these worthy men and women who gave their best when they were called upon. Called upon to serve and protect their country. We respect them. We thank them. We honor them. We are proud of them. We pray that you would restore any with broken hearts and damaged minds. That you would watch over them and their families. Bless them with peace and happiness. And show them that they are loved. Amen.

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for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light - Ephesians 5:8

Who I Really Am: Diary of a Vampire (by Alice Cooper, 2021) - Fridays With Alice Cooper... Rock and roll in the BC (Before Cooper) era was a tamer, milder world. In Who I Really Am, Cooper’s latest addition to Audible’s Words + Music series, we learn how the boa-wearing (not the feathered kind) maestro arrived at a show and sound - let’s call it AC for After Cooper - that has entert...

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For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. - Romans 1:20

Sun Arise (Love It To Death, 1971) - Fridays With Alice Cooper... This week we travel back to 1971 and the release of the breakthrough album, Love It To Death. The post focuses on the song "Sun Arise", and the album has become one of the greatest of all-time - a quintessential Classic Rock record. Songs such as “I’m Eighteen,” “The Ballad of Dwight Fry,”...

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Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. - 1 John 4:8

Cold Machines (Brutal Planet, 2000) - Fridays With Alice Cooper... This week's post focuses on another track from the 'Brutal Planet (2000)' LP. 'Cold Machines' lines up perfectly with humanity and, believe it or not, the current state of the Body of Christ. Keep in mind this track was written before the age of smartphones. Before those glowing rectangles controlle...

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He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” - Revelation 21:4

I Never Cry (Alice Cooper Goes To Hell, 1976) - Fridays With Alice Cooper... In 1976, Alice released his second solo album, Alice Cooper Goes To Hell – the sequel to Welcome To My Nightmare. The nightmare may be over, but Steven, the main character, now finds himself placed in the bowels of hell confronted by darkness. "I Never Cry" is the final track on side A of the LP.....

Some photos from last night, Jacksonville Show, October 9th, 2021.