Poison By Alice Cooper

Was at the gym yesterday, when this song started playing on the PA system. When the chorus hit, I found myself singing aloud to the song, going “Youre poison running through my veins”. I think the two young musclebound Malay dudes beside me were giving me strange looks in between their bicep curls! 🙂

Long before shock rockers Marilyn Manson, Slipknot and GWAR, there was the original vaudeville horror man himself, Alice Cooper. Named after a 17th century witch, he has a long and interesting history in music since the 60’s, which you can probably find on wikipedia. But for most of my peers, Alice Cooper was popularized through the song Poison and early years of MTV.

Many years after that song, Bernard (the guy working at Kingdom Rock, SS2) told me that Alice Cooper had become a born-again Christian. I was like “What?!” It was probably one of those things that made you feel happy for him, but at the same time monumentally puzzled. At the same time, he released a concept album called “The Last Temptation”, and had a three part comic book series that accompanied it, illustrated none other than Neil Gaiman.

Then there was the extremely funny cameo in Wayne’s World. I still remember it made me laugh until i cried when i first watched it in Kit’s house back then, still makes me laugh out loud today…

These days the only time i see Alice Cooper is in magazine, as an wrinkly dude in white golfing slacks(he’s an avid celebrity golfer). But to me he will always still be the weird Frankenstein-like showman singing Poison.