Watched a YouTube retrospective on Alice Cooper. Though made by a reprehensible character, it did get me interested in the work I would have heard as a teenager as it was coming out. I find it hard to take Alice Cooper seriously. His work can have an absurdist tone which works for songs like "No More Mr. Nice Guy" (the line about the reverend punching Alice in the nose during mass is hilarious but also works). For songs like "Hey Stoopid," an anti-suicide song, the tone doesn't work for me.
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