The Studio Albums 1975-1978

CD1 WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE

1. Welcome To My Nightmare
2. Devil’s Food
3. The Black Widow
4. Some Folks
5. Only Women Bleed
6. Department Of Youth
7. Cold Ethyl
8. Years Ago
9. Steven
10. The Awakening
11. Escape

CD2 ALICE COOPER GOES TO HELL

1. Go To Hell
2. You Gotta Dance
3. I’m The Coolest
4. Didn’t We Meet
5. I Never Cry
6. Give The Kid A Break
7. Guilty
8. Wake Me Gently
9. Wish You Were Here
10. I’m Always Chasing Rainbows
11. Going Home

CD3 LACE AND WHISKEY

1. It’s Hot Tonight
2. Lace And Whiskey
3. Road Rats
4. Damned If You Do
5. You And Me
6. King Of The Silver Screen
7. Ubangi Stomp
8. (No More) Love At Your Convenience
9. I Never Wrote Those Songs
10. My God

CD4 FROM THE INSIDE

1. From The Inside
2. Wish I Were Born In Beverly Hills
3. The Quiet Room
4. Nurse Rozetta
5. Millie And Billie
6. Serious
7. How You Gonna See Me Now
8. For Veronica’s Sake
9. Jackknife Johnny
10. Inmates (We’re All Crazy)

CD5 BONUS MISDEMEANORS

1. Welcome To My Nightmare (Single Version)
2. Department Of Youth (Single Version)
3. Only Women Bleed (Single Version)
4. You And Me (Single Version)
5. From The Inside (Single Version)
6. No Tricks (With Betty Wright)
7. Road Rats

Alice Cooper’s 1975 platinum-certified solo debut, Welcome to My Nightmare, was the first of eight studio albums and the beginning of a new chapter in a legendary career that has haunted music for half a century. Rhino covers the early years in a new set featuring Cooper’s first four solo albums with a selection of rarities.

The Studio Albums 1975-1978 is available July 31 in 5LP (available exclusively at Rhino) and 5CD configurations. The albums include Welcome to My Nightmare (1975), Alice Cooper Goes to Hell (1976), Lace and Whiskey (1977), and From the Inside (1978). An album of bonus material adds seven tracks, including single versions of “Welcome To My Nightmare” and “You And Me.” (In the vinyl set, this LP is cut at 45 RPM.)

After the original Alice Cooper band redefined rock with global anthems like “School’s Out” and “I’m Eighteen,” Cooper went solo in 1975 with Welcome to My Nightmare. Produced by Bob Ezrin, the concept album exploring a child’s nightmares was certified platinum, peaking at #5 on the Billboard 200. It was followed by a TV special, a groundbreaking theatrical world tour, and a concert film. Its concept continued a year later on the gold-certified Alice Cooper Goes to Hell, which introduced his biggest-selling single, “I Never Cry.”

Cooper shifted gears in 1977 on the platinum-certified Lace and Whiskey, adopting the persona of the bumbling, hard-drinking private investigator Maurice Escargot. It featured the Top 10 ballad “You And Me.” His fourth album in four years, 1978’s From the Inside is a concept album co-written with Bernie Taupin that draws directly from Cooper’s recent experience in an asylum. Produced by David Foster, the album includes the hit single, “How You Gonna See Me Now,” which peaked at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100.

With a career spanning nearly six decades, Cooper has sold more than 50 million albums, headlined numerous sold-out tours, and fundamentally influenced the trajectory of hard rock and heavy metal. A cultural icon and 2011 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Cooper continues to evolve as a creative force. He hosts the long-running national radio show “Alice’s Attic with Alice Cooper” and recently debuted “The Cooper Club,” a line of golf apparel. This October, he will release his long-awaited autobiography, Devil on My Shoulder, offering an unfiltered look at one of the most enduring careers in music history.