Alice Cooper : The Dirty Diamonds (Expanded Edition)

 

RUN FOR YOU LIFE

YOU CAN'T HIDE

CAN'T YOU HEAR THEM COMING

YOU'RE GONNA DIE

Dirty Diamonds

 is the 24th

 studio album 

by 

Alice Cooper 

released in 2005 

on CD and digitally. 

The album peaked on 

Billboard’s 

“Top Independent Albums”

 chart at #17,

 and the 

Billboard 200 

album chart at #169. 

In 2019 

New West Records

 released

 Dirty Diamonds 

on vinyl

 for the first time

 in  America

 In celebration of

 that vinyl release, 

New West is 

pleased to put

 the CD version

 of

 Dirty Diamonds 

back in print

Dirty Diamonds,

 with it's 

unnecessary 

nod to hip-hop

 ("Stand")

 and weak stab 

at country

 ("The Saga of Jesse Jane"),

 won't knock classics 

such as 

School's Out, 

Billion Dollar Babies 

and

 Love it to Death

 from their

 well-deserved perch 

as archetypal blueprints 

of Cooper's 

Halloween-styled

 gutsy rocking. 

Yet, 

at its best, 

the raw guitars 

and tightly 

arranged songs

 refreshingly recapture 

the brash attack 

and dark humor 

of his glory years. 

--Hal Horowitz

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