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Welcome 2 My Nightmare Review

Alice Cooper
** 1/2

Welcome 2 My Nightmare
Universal Music Enterprises

Schlock godfather throws a ghoulish party, invites Ke$ha

On 1975's Welcome to My Nightmare, Alice Cooper largely traded in high school parking-lot hard rock for fright-show theater; it had bruising moments, but also self-parodying schmaltz. Welcome 2 My Nightmare is its sequel, so we get recurring bad-dream rockers, plus an "Underture" that melds Cooper's melodies into a symphonic montatge. The fun comes when he abandons the sequel concept in favor of a New Wave duet with Ke$ha a decades-tardy anti-disco tune ("Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever") in which Alice tries to rap. Slapstick was always his strong suit.

Key Tracks: "Ghouls Gone Wild," "What Baby Wants"