Flush the Fashion

Track Listings

1. Talk Talk

2. Clones (We're All)

3. Pain

4. Leather Boots

5. Aspirin Damage

6. Nuclear Infected

7. Grim Facts

8. Model Citizen

9. Dance Yourself to Death

10. Headlines

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
1980 album for Warner Brothers. 10 tracks, including the top40 hit 'Clones (We're All)', plus 'Leather Boots' and 'DanceYourself To Death'. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Tracks:

Talk Talk
Clones (We're All)
Pain
Leather Boots
Aspirin Damage
Nuclear Infected
Grim Facts
Model Citizen
Dance Yourself to Death
Headlines

Album Description

1980 album for Warner Brothers. 10 tracks, including the top40 hit 'Clones (We're All)', plus 'Leather Boots' and 'DanceYourself To Death'.

Album Description

1980 album for Warner Brothers. 10 tracks, including the top40 hit 'Clones (We're All)', plus 'Leather Boots' and 'DanceYourself To Death'.

Album Details

Alice Cooper's 1980 release produced by Roy Thomas Baker (the Cars, Queen). Stands as his experimentation with synthesizers & includes 'Clones (We're All)' (a US top 40 hit), 'Aspirin Damage', 'Nuclear Infected' and seven more.

Customer Reviews:

An Absolute Must In Your CD Collection.......2007-06-25

I was 10 when this was first released and I must admit I wore out the grooves in the vynil with my constant playing. Now 27 years later I have finally repurchased it on CD and I am very happy I did. I love every song on this release and it absolutely rocks, whether the song has a New Wave flavor or is straight-up Alice Cooper rock-n-roll.

Alice is quite a character and it shows in his lyrics and delivery. Not the best vocalist, but hey, does one have to be in order to be a great rock performer? I will answer that for you with a resounding NO!

This is a much overlooked classic and I plan on introducing it to my friends that totally missed it the first time around.

A mixed bag..........2007-06-21

After the great "From the Inside" album, Alice Cooper seemed to be looking for a new direction. This album is basically an experiment in adopting the 80's "new wave" style. The results are inconsistant. There are a handfull of good songs here, and a lot that fall pretty flat.

The album opens with "talk Talk", a remake of The Music Machine's 60's garage-punk classic. It's perfect material for Alice, and he turns in a great sneering performance. Next comes "Clones", a Devo-esque song. It's a good solid song.

My big complaint with this album is that a lot of songs seem like filler ("Aspirin Damage", "Model Citizen", "Nuclear Infected" and "Headlines"). Alice has always been known for his sense of humor, but these songs border on being cheesy, novelty items.

But if you can get through all that, there are 2 songs that make this CD a "must-have" (in my opinion). "Leather Boots" is great. It's got sly, ironic lyrics about power and fear. It's got an interesting mix of raunchy and twangy guitars, and backing vocals from Flo and Eddie (from the Turtles and the Mothers of Invention). What more could you want?

The other masterpiece is called "Dance Yourself to Death". This could be my all-time favorite Alice Cooper song. Unlike most of this album, It has a timeless quality. The twin-guitar arrangement would sound at home on "Billion Dollar Babies". The lyrics are funny, but in a witty, sardonic way. It's a song about a teenager who's embarrassed by his parents, who try too hard to be cool. The chorus is classic - "I get a kiss goodbye. I get all numb and high, from all the smoke left on their breath. I smile and wish them well, and then I pray like Hell, they go and dance themselves to death."

All-in-all, the high points outweigh the low. I wouldn't reccomend this as an introduction to Alice, but if you already like has work, buy this.

this album rocks!!!.......2006-12-03

This is one of the best alice albums,every song is very cool.I am a huge alice fan and have loved every thing that he did.flush the fashion has a sound totally unique to it's self.I hope the coop keeps rocking for a long time to come and keeps cranking out the albums, i will buy them all.
If you dont have the album,get it you wont be sorry.

New Wave Alice, Old School Snide.......2006-11-15

As a pre-note, this particular disc is an unnecessarily expensive import, yet has no additional music from the original release. If you are interested in getting this disc, find a cheaper used copy instead.

Over the course of his career, Alice Cooper has left his mark on a number of musical niches, sometimes carving new ones of his own. One thing that has been fairly consistent has been his biting and incisive sense of humor, perhaps nowhere more so than on this album. The humor is usually black to very black to be sure, but it's not the kind of creepy humor of "Steven". In effect, this album (along with "Special Forces" and "Zipper Catches Skin") is Alice at his jolliest, taking great glee in combining his particularly trenchant lyrics for the most part with early-80s New Wave musical compositions.

The album opens with a 60s cover, "Talk Talk" that tropes on one of Alice's favorite themes, gossip and public perception. The song itself is straightforward, and nothing less than infectious.

However, delightful as the song is, "Clones," which follows it, is even more fun. Apparently based on a TV show, the song is about, yes, clones. A nice fuzzy guitar tone, guitar harmonics, effective little keyboard flourishes and that generally somewhat undercelebrated aspect of Alice, his vocals. We all know that he can turn a squeamish, sneery phrase like no other, and his sarcasm is apparent here as well. And yet, in the main body of the song, he manages to have a kind of clone-like dazedness in his voice which makes the rather unhappy lyrics resonate effectively. Very well put together.

"Pain," starts with a soulful little piano flourish, and then launches into what may be the lyrical model for "Sad but True," by Metallica. Musically, this song probably more than any other approaches the "Welcome to My Nightmare" / "Goes to Hell" era, though less slickly produced. Again, it's particularly Alice's delivery throughout--the trademark snide asides, but also a wealth of other vocal flourishes that elevate the song from a novelty or gratuitous litany of types of pain (the character of "Pain" is the narrator of the song) into something more expansive or effective.

"Leather Boots," at 1'36" is a quirky, nasty little piece of psychopathology hidden under extremely poppy music with country overtones, handclaps, and even a cheesy little drum machine fill. Without a doubt, the most leering, toothy little monster on the album.

"Aspirin Damage," as the name might suggest, is about the dreaded effects of taking too much damage. One wonders if the real topic of the song is aspirin. In any case, this is little more than a novelty song, albeit quite cute and harmless.

"Nuclear Infected," is similarly very much in the novelty direction, except for the fact that the lyrics are ridiculously funny, and trace the life of someone who is literally radioactive--"When I'm happy I glow yellow, when I'm sad, I glow blue .." He wants to live on Three Mile Island, because it's tidy and clean there. Despite the trenchantly amusing nature of these lyrics ("Don't get me to sneeze"), the song is still another in that long line of meditations by Alice about public figures who are labeled "toxic."

"Grim Facts," which opens with a boy "who's got a .38 hidden in his desk," covers a somewhat conventional gamut of social ills in this fairly straightforward rocker. "Teenage Lament `74" was probably more incisive, but the song provides more than its share of sleazy innuendo. Great fun.

"Model Citizen," makes explicit what "Nuclear Infected" implied, taking another tour through public perception, delivered with boppy rock, gushing choir, and especially Alicesque lyrics. "I'm a martyr and I'm a sadist. Might be the savior here to save us. I'm a friend of Sammy Davis ... casually." How can you not like such a combination? In particular, this song points in the direction of "Special Forces" to come.

"Dance Yourself to Death" might be the first song (at least in mainstream music) that takes the standpoint of the confused generation of children of the 60s hippies. Though not officially anti-PC, Alice once again shows himself capable of getting into the "youth mindset" that would eventually inform, say, "Pump up the Volume."

"Headlines" one last time essays the life of publicity, with another solid rocker and biting lyrics. The opening riff in particular sounds like that James Gang song (you'll know the one), though the chorus is completely different.

In the final analysis, of this album, "Special Forces" and "Zipper Catches Skin" (the three kind of hang together), this is the most socially conscious and, because of the particular musical personnel, has a sort of hang-together feel to the music as well. The album is not amazingly strong and, of course, the charm of the lyrics (like most near-novelty songs) only lasts so long. If for some reason you are wondering what that Alice Cooper thing is all about, this is probably not the place to start. But if you want a good old-fashioned 80s-style romp through the tulips with a weed-whacker and rotor-tiller, it could hardly hurt to have this twisted little charmer hanging out in the CD collection.

I'm A Friend Of Vincent Damon Furnier.....Casually........2006-07-27

Vincent Damon Furnier (aka. Alice Cooper) is a man of many styles, and as a result he has been able to successfully adapt to the constantly changing musical trends. "Alice Cooper" originally started out as a "jam band" but with theatrics not associated or seen in other "jam bands" at that time; and Vincent has always critiqued and satired his society, so it should've come as no surprise when Vincent morphed his sound once more as the 1980's began. "New Wave" and "Punk" music was popular, and Vincent was not going to let his chance at making a statement about the present culture slip past him. AC was making "New Wave" music as early as the "Lace & Whiskey" album, so once again, this new sound should've been no surprise.
AC employed Roy Thomas Baker of Cars and Queen fame to produce this album. AC also hired Davey Johnstone (of Elton John fame), Fred Mandel (who later worked with Queen and Supertramp), and long time associate Dennis Conway. "New Wave" AC was now a done deal! "Flush the Fashion '80" introduces the shorter haired, more "military" Alice. If you think AC looked deranged in the early '70s, take a look at pictures of him from the early '80s, now that is freaky! It was also around this time that AC started swigging the juice again (he had been sober for about a year). "FTF" is a very short album. There is no song longer than 4 minutes, most of the songs are 3 minutes in length. The record was a success as it did chart in the top 50 US Billboard (#44), and had a top 40 hit with "Clones(We're All)" (#40).
The album opens with "Talk Talk", a song penned by Sean Bonniwell that was a hit for his band "Music Machine" in the mid '60s. AC does Sean proud as he updates the song but stays faithful to its sound. The next tune, "Clones(We're All)" was written by David Carron (RIP),which was inspired by the late '70s TV movie "Clones". The line, "Six is having problems adjusting to his clone status", is directly from the movie. This song soldified AC's "New Wave" style. It sounds alot like the Gary Numan song "Cars". "Pain" sounds more like "Welcome To My Nightmare" AC. "Leather Boots" is my favorite song off the album, with great lyrics like:

I saw a cop, he looked pretty shot
By some criminals, left there to rot
I took a look, no one around
I put on his boots and stomped on the ground
Stood so tall and felt so strong
I wanted to be just like him
So I could hurt somebody

LOL! AC at his best IMHO! "Aspirin Damage", "Nuclear Infected" and "Grim Facts" are all solid, rockin' tunes with great lyrics. "Model Citizen" sounds like it could be a leftover from the "Billion Dollar Babies" album. Another fantastic song with AC being the ultimate politician:

Be an Arab, be a Jew
Be a boxing kangaroo
Beat yourself all black and blue
I don't care!

"Dance Yourself To Death" is another paean to teenagers as well as a jab to the hippie parents:

I get a kiss good-bye
I get all numb and high
From all the smoke left on their breath
I smile and wish them well
Then I pray like hell
They go and dance themselves to death!

The last song, "Headlines" proves AC's philosophy that there is no such thing as bad press:

Called a conference with the press
Announced my marriage plans in a wedding dress
Climb a building at six-below
On New Year's Eve without a stitch of clothes
I wanna be in the headlines
Anything to be in the headlines.

I LOVE this album! This a fantastic album with great lyrics and rockin' tunes. IMHO this album is EASILY in the Top 5 Alice Cooper records so far released. To some, this album is The Best Alice Cooper album so far released! This is straight ahead, rock-n-roll/New Wave hybrid music with Vincent's sarcsatic humour and wit brightly shining through. This is also the first album since "School's Out" without a ballad. Alice Cooper did tour for this album, and during the tour his band was introduced as the "Hostages". AC would delve further into his new persona and sound on his next album "Special Forces" (another fantastic album worth getting). Do yourself a favor and don't skip this period of the eclectic Vincent Furnier. Always remember to "Flush the Fashion" when your done!

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Flush the Fashion

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Release Date: 2002-07-19

Welcome To My Nightmare / Flush The Fashion

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Import. Two albums on one CD.

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An Absolute Must In Your CD Collection
A mixed bag...
this album rocks!!!
New Wave Alice, Old School Snide
I'm A Friend Of Vincent Damon Furnier.....Casually.

Flush the Fashion
Alice Cooper
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Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 1997-07-01

Tracks:

Talk Talk
Clones (We're All)
Pain
Leather Boots
Aspirin Damage
Nuclear Infected
Grim Facts
Model Citizen
Dance Yourself to Death
Headlines

Album Description

1980 album for Warner Brothers. 10 tracks, including the top40 hit 'Clones (We're All)', plus 'Leather Boots' and 'DanceYourself To Death'.

Album Description

1980 album for Warner Brothers. 10 tracks, including the top40 hit 'Clones (We're All)', plus 'Leather Boots' and 'DanceYourself To Death'.

Album Details

Customer Reviews:

An Absolute Must In Your CD Collection.......2007-06-25

A mixed bag..........2007-06-21

this album rocks!!!.......2006-12-03

New Wave Alice, Old School Snide.......2006-11-15

I'm A Friend Of Vincent Damon Furnier.....Casually........2006-07-27

Music Review:

Music Review

Music Review

1. Talk Talk
2. Clones (We're All)
3. Pain
4. Leather Boots
5. Aspirin Damage
6. Nuclear Infected
7. Grim Facts
8. Model Citizen
9. Dance Yourself to Death
10. Headlines