Alice Cooper

When "School's Out" ripped out of the Dutch top-of-the-pops one vagabond summer, it was
like receiving a postcard from home that fairly brimmed with typical American excess,
bravado and humor. This was the meat of the Alice Cooper group's appeal: they were a
living exaggeration of the heavy-metal band, lampooning the genre's inherent violence
with satiric lyrics and a more-sophomoric-than-life visual show that, naturally en... More >

Is this how Johnny Rotten is going to end up? Concocting mildly melodic garage MOR for an audience defined by its tolerance for condescension? I doubt it--but I'm not so sure about Stiv Bators. (Grade: C+)