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"&lt;p&gt;This isn&amp;apos;t the Killer album that Alice Cooper hoped it&amp;apos;d be, but give the ghoul credit for trying. At a time when his rock &amp;amp; roll stock is nearly bankrupt, Cooper has wisely scrapped the flatulent vaudeville trappings and tragicomic pretensions of his late-Seventies work and reassumed the punk mantle he wore when the original Alice band was cutting a General Sherman-like swath (with rapacious guitars and tortured chickens!) through hippie complacency.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;wm:embed type=\"related\"&gt;&lt;/wm:embed&gt;&lt;p&gt;On &lt;em&gt;Flush the Fashion,&lt;/em&gt; the execution isn&amp;apos;t nearly as good as the idea. Though the new LP includes some of Cooper&amp;apos;s feistiest songs in years, Roy Thomas Baker&amp;apos;s airtight, homogenized-New Wave production squeezes all the arrogance right out of them. You can barely hear the snarl of yore through the forest of electronic vocal treatments in the Devo-lutionary &amp;apos;&amp;apos;Clones (We&amp;apos;re All)&amp;apos;&amp;apos; and &amp;apos;&amp;apos;Model Citizen,&amp;apos;&amp;apos; the latter the artist&amp;apos;s sniggering commentary on his own social status in Tinseltown. Also compare the dramatic clarity of Todd Rundgren&amp;apos;s production of &amp;apos;&amp;apos;Pain&amp;apos;&amp;apos; (on Roadie) with Baker&amp;apos;s Phil Spector- style stranglehold on Alice&amp;apos;s singing in the version presented here.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;Cooper&amp;apos;s group &amp;#x2014; which is mysteriously uncredited-takes up much of the slack with admirable raunch, plowing through a heavy-metal take of the Sixties garage-punk chestnut, &amp;apos;&amp;apos;Talk Talk,&amp;apos;&amp;apos; with the swashbuckling, fuzz-tone elan of the old band. But with spiritual sons like the Ramones and Gary Numan giving Alice Cooper a run for his millions,&lt;em&gt;Flush the Fashion&lt;/em&gt; comes as too little too late. Better late than never, I suppose.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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