79. Alice Cooper - "The Revenge Of Alice Cooper"

Frankly, I have lost count which number return to form this is for Alice Cooper. He has got into a cycle of making a plethora of pretty dire records and then suddenly coming back with a bit of all right. This bit of alright heralds the return of almost the original Alice Cooper band and is credited as their first album together since 1973 “Muscle of Love”. I say almost as guitarist Glen Buxton died in 1997, but fittingly enough, he is here in spectral form as unearthed studio recordings of his guitar playing have been spliced into three of the tracks. This is gloriously over-the-top prime-time Alice. It ignores the genre hopping he has indulged in over the years and goes back to the psychedelic ham horror he made his name with. It is fun, flirtatious and fantastically camp.