We Got No Principles!!!

SCHOOL'S OUT ALICE COOPER WARNER BROS

As we all know, summer never lasts forever, and Alice was faced with the problem of rushing out a follow-up album before the leaves began to fall. The results, while as exciting in places as Killer, show a bit of strain.

Alice’s main suffering is that they always feel they have to make a big production out of everything, and each has to be bigger and more spectacular than the last. Which may make for fantastic concerts, but isn’t always the best thing for albums. Half of the songs here make it in a big way; some of the others are just okay, and * some are just totally pointless outside the context of the show, like movie soundtrack music without the movie. It’s not surprising that Alice would record jazz that sounds like Peter Gunn scores, or the “Walk on the-Wild Side” theme, or “Jet Song” from West Side Story (again), since all those things are their roots as surely as Chuck Berry for the Stones. But the contrivance