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Here’s some music for you. I’ve been painting vampires this week. It’s all been very “gothic” in my little painting corner of the workshop. Which got me thinking about how I forgot how much I loved Alice Cooper.

Listening to Hey Stoopid, it’s not such a goofy album as I first thought, back in the early 90s. Wind Up Toy is spectacularly creepy. There are some great songs on Trash too. But his earlier work has some belting songs too. I think this has to be a brilliant example of how very few people really “got” Alice Cooper – as he groans his way through a song about personal tragedy, in ripped leggings and makeup running down his face, an audience of middle-aged suit-and-ties politely clap because they’re not quite sure what else to do. Brilliant.