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Alice Cooper: Along Came a Spider

Jul 15 2008 By Paul Cole

(SPV)

EVER wondered what became of little Steven, who was plagued by a black widow in Alice Cooper’s influential 1975 Welcome To My Nightmare Show?

Well, he grew up to be the schizophrenic serial killer who lurks in the shock-rock original’s 25th album. It’s a criminal concept album that musically steps back from Alice’s recent brutal metal and recaptures the pop hooks of his heyday, particularly on the swaggering Catch Me If You Can and The One That Got Away.

Guitar hero Slash sets Vengeance Is Mine alight with an incendiary solo, and Killed By Love is this year’s Only Women Bleed.

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ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - The Dark Knight (Warner)

WHEN called upon to write the soundtrack to the darkest Batman movie yet, Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard decided to dispense with a hummable hero theme, instead building densely layered cellos and double basses to reflect the complex character of the caped crusader and his Joker nemesis. Read

CHEMICAL BROTHERS - Brotherhood

ODDS are you’ll already have most of this compilation, either on the original albums or the Singles 93-03 collection. Galvanize, Block Rockin’ Beats, Star Guitar and Hey Boy Hey Girl are among familiar faces as Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons play this weekend’s V Festival. Read

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