Album
DaDa
1983Hard Rock · Music · Rock · Arena Rock · Glam Rock · Metal
A delightfully strange foray into art rock inspired by ’80s goth.
Tracks
- 14:45
- 24:19
- 34:06
- 43:50
- 54:25
- 65:18
- 73:47
- 85:53
- 95:46
About this album
The spectacularly strange and ambitious DaDa boasts all of Alice Cooper’s trademark moves, yet they’re reimagined for a generation raised on ’80s gothic rock and horror-movie soundtracks. The cinematic title track cloaks his hushed, half-mad murmurings in malevolent electronic textures, and “Former Lee Warmer” dips his obsession with Poe-style storytelling in orchestral darkwave. As for Cooper’s genius for social satire, “I Love America” is a biting takedown of Reagan-era patriotism riddled with machine-gun fire, military marches and an A-Team reference.