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Summary: Worth The Purchase Price
Review: There's a reason it's called "Prime Cuts". The DVD focuses on Alice's best work - his early years. It gives an overview of Alice's career up "Trash." "The Last Temptation" is briefly discussed on the second DVD.While the song footage may be brief, this 2 DVD set is worth purchasing just for the complete videos of "Elected", "Department of Youth", "Poison", and "Lost In America". The last Alice Cooper album I purchased was "From the Inside". However, the video of "Lost in America" (found on the Cooper game) convinced me to give "The Last Temptation" a try. There's some good interviews and concert footage on the second DVD which is the Cooper game. However, the design of the Cooper game makes it difficult to watch because you have to play the game - you can't just choose "Play All." If you're looking for a concert video, don't buy this DVD. If you're looking for a documentary focusing on Alice's early years, this DVD is worth the purchase price.
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Summary: Worth The Purchase Price
Review: There's a reason it's called "Prime Cuts". The DVD focuses on Alice's best work - his early years. It gives an overview of Alice's career up "Trash." "The Last Temptation" is briefly discussed on the second DVD. While the song footage may be brief, this 2 DVD set is worth purchasing just for the complete videos of "Elected", "Department of Youth", "Poison", and "Lost In America". The last Alice Cooper album I purchased was "From the Inside". However, the video of "Lost in America" (found on the Cooper game) convinced me to give "The Last Temptation" a try. There's some good interviews and concert footage on the second DVD which is the Cooper game. However, the design of the Cooper game makes it difficult to watch because you have to play the game - you can't just choose "Play All." If you're looking for a concert video, don't buy this DVD. If you're looking for a documentary focusing on Alice's early years, this DVD is worth the purchase price.
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Summary: All that's left of the original Alice Cooper band.
Review: This is a video about the musical career of Alice Cooper, the individual. Along the way there is discussion of the original members in the band along with concert footage from the 70's, (The Glory Years). Unfortunately the video and audio from the concerts in the early 70's is poor by today's standards, which is unfortunate. Led Zeppelin made their Song Remains the Same movie in 1973, released in 1976. Their video and audio was excellent. The technology was there but Alice Cooper didn't get a good concert film till Alice's solo career concerts starting with Welcome To My Nightmare. There is good sound in studio sessions but the concert clips from Good To See You Again Alice Cooper, a film about the 1973 Billion Dollar Babies Show, has somewhat mediocre sound and poor lighting for the video. Still the clips give some feel of how exciting the original band was. In 1972, the band played on ABC's In Concert program. The audio and video on that show was good but I don't know who has the rights to that footage because it is not on this video. Instead we get what appears to be camcorder type footage with equally tinny sound of the School's Out show. It's too bad that the original band never got a good concert film down for the record. Alice finally mastered the concert film technology in his solo career but it didn't happen with the original band. Alice goes on to talk about his career up to the "Hey Stoopid" period. A good summary of his career although my favorite parts are the concert footage from the original band years even though the quality of those recordings leave much to be desired.
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Summary: Flawed To Be Sure, But Worth Your Time
Review: This may not be the best dvd package put together about Alice Cooper, but it is worth your time if you're a hardcore fan. The whole documentary is from the Hey Stoopid era(91) so you won't see any commentary on Last Temptation or Brutal Planet. It is pretty informative about Alice's early years, but it suffers from what so many of these documentaries suffer from-you don't see the videos in their entirety. A few of them, yes, like Elected, I'm 18 and Poison, but I would have liked to see all of Black Juju, Clones, Hey Stoopid and Levity Ball. Plus, Alice just totally skips over his Special Forces/Zipper Catches Skin/Dada/Constrictor/Raise Your Fist and Yell days. These albums may not be favorites amongst fans, but I would have really liked to hear what Alice had to say about them(I've always wondered what he thought of those albums, don't you?). Yes, the second dvd's game is quite annoying-I'm not sure why it's even on the disc. You can access the entire documentary without having to play Chutes and Ladders. Just go to Alice's website to find out, I can't remember offhand. The documentary on the second disc is quite interesting, it's more recent. Despite it's shortcomings, I do enjoy watching this from time to time, and it is an essential piece to the hardcore fans' collection
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Summary: Flawed To Be Sure, But Worth Your Time
Review: This may not be the best dvd package put together about Alice Cooper, but it is worth your time if you're a hardcore fan. The whole documentary is from the Hey Stoopid era(91) so you won't see any commentary on Last Temptation or Brutal Planet. It is pretty informative about Alice's early years, but it suffers from what so many of these documentaries suffer from-you don't see the videos in their entirety. A few of them, yes, like Elected, I'm 18 and Poison, but I would have liked to see all of Black Juju, Clones, Hey Stoopid and Levity Ball. Plus, Alice just totally skips over his Special Forces/Zipper Catches Skin/Dada/Constrictor/Raise Your Fist and Yell days. These albums may not be favorites amongst fans, but I would have really liked to hear what Alice had to say about them(I've always wondered what he thought of those albums, don't you?). Yes, the second dvd's game is quite annoying-I'm not sure why it's even on the disc. You can access the entire documentary without having to play Chutes and Ladders. Just go to Alice's website to find out, I can't remember offhand. The documentary on the second disc is quite interesting, it's more recent. Despite it's shortcomings, I do enjoy watching this from time to time, and it is an essential piece to the hardcore fans' collection
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Summary: Alice Cooper - 'Prime Cuts' (Image Entertainment)
Review: When I first found out about this release,I thought it was to good to be true.A total of 23 snippets and complete songs from Alice Cooper's pre-platinum days to the early '90's.Starts out with a couple of snippets that should've been a tad longer,like some extremely rarely(if ever)seen before scenes from "I'm Eighteen","Black Juju" and "Levity Ball".Would sure like to have a copy of these tunes in their entirety.Remember the 1974 cult movie 'Good To See You Again,Alice Cooper' they used to show in drive-ins?There are four(4)songs from that unreleased film here,"Hello Hooray","Billion Dollar Babies","Sick Things"(with snake) and "Dead Babies".I also recall the "Elected" promo clip here on various late night television shows.A couple of his mellow ballads are included as well,"Only Women Bleed" and "How You Gonna See Me Now?"(from the 'From The Inside' comeback lp).Some clips I haven't seen in YEARS are "Cold Ethyl","Under My Wheels","Department Of Youth" and "School's Out".You get the idea.I would assume that some of these clips might have come from Alice's own private stash of maybe 8mm or 35mm film.The quality is good.Recommended for any and all Cooper fans.
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Summary: Sevral complaints about Limited Edition 2-Disc Set
Review: While I have no regret that I bought this new 2-disc DVD version and rather happy with new 5.1 audio and extras in disc 2, I have several complaints. First, why this is widescreen? Most materials come from '70s-80s TV, so it's safe to assume 4:3 is their original AR. I compared several scenes with the old LD and found top and bottom are cut in this widescreen version.
More importantly, a few minutes between "Department of Youth" and "Trash" are cut, where Alice talks about Kane Roberts and Kip Winger, along with the brief footage of "Freedom".
(One more minor difference I noticed is the images used as the back of the opening title. But I believe no one cares.) Although the luck of simple chapter selection is already noted by other reviewers, I want to add a few words about it. "Jukebox" doesn't allow to go back and forth outside the chosen track, so it doesn't work as the chapter selection. In "Coopergame" you can't even see which column leads to where. It's forgivable only because "Play all" is provided at least. But it should be the first selection, not the last one you have to "throw dice" so many times to reach. Lastly, one reviewer below criticizes the performance in disc 2 as "it appears they were shot without an audience creating a deadness, a flatness, no reaction or energy for Cooper to bounce off of." It may be true, but on the package it is noted these are "dress-rehearsals footage from the 1987 Raise Your Fist and Yell tour" so it's expected in the first place.
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