Alice Cooper - Three Temptations From Alice
Alice Cooper - Three Temptations From Alice
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Label: Retroworld
Released 2021
Where everything Numero begins. Three guys in a purple Saturn station wagon drove down to Columbus, Ohio, and came back to Chicago with a lost label - the rest is history. In the early '70s, Bill Moss' Capsoul imprint could barely break wind in the larger music marketplace, and yet today the label's output can stand shoulder-to-shoulder with any classic soul of its era. Isolated in central Ohio and lacking the funds to back them, groups like the Four Mints and Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum & Durr might've easily withstood ten rounds against the Temptations, Smokey, or Otis. The scrappy Capsoul writing team of Dean Francis, Jeff Smith, and Norman Whiteside would've thrown blow-for-hook-filled-blow with any Gamble & Huff or Holland/Dozier/Holland thrown at them. From Bill Moss' civil rights meditation "Sock It To 'Em Soul Brother" to Marion Black's future hit about the future "Who Knows" to Kool Blues bounding "I'm Gonna Keep on Loving You," Eccentric Soul: The Capsoul Label remains dollar-for-dollar the best soul compilation of its century and the perfect primer for anyone piqued by the Eccentric Soul series - otherwise known around here as the "budding Numero enthusiast."
Track listing:
- Poison
- Spark in the Dark
- House of Fire
- Why Trust You
- Only My Heart Talkin'
- Bed of Nails
- This Maniacs in Love With You
- Trash
- Hell's Living Without You
- I'm Your Gun
- Hey Stoopid
- Love's a Loaded Gun
- Snakebite
- Burning Our Bed
- Dangerous Tonight
- Might As Well Be On Mars
- Feed My Frankenstein
- Hurricane Years
- Little By Little
- Die for You
- Dirty Dreams
- Windup Toy
- Sideshow
- Nothing's Free
- Lost in America
- Bad Place Alone
- You're My Temptation
- Stolen Prayer
- Unholy War
- Lullaby
- It's Me
- Cleansed By Fire
