10 Classic Rock Bands That Went Disco
9. Alice Cooper
From day one, Alice Cooper was always meant to be the worst nightmare of everyone who laid eyes on him. Along with his songs about being a hard rock punk, his macabre stage act was enough to infuriate many moms back in the day as well, trying to be as threatening as possible at the time. If you're trying to be nightmare fuel though, that same scary energy will turn on you.
During his notorious years when he was out of his mind on drugs, Alice ended up dipping his toes into disco territory with the song No More Love At Your Convenience. After already liking the idea of putting Alice in bad situations on Welcome to My Nightmare, it felt like the logical conclusion to put him in a setting that he hates...a disco. In the process though, someone forgot that this wasn't just Alice's least favorite genre...it was his audience's least favorite genre as well.
Compared to the solid gold stuff that you hear on '70s compilations, this sounds more like a cheap imitation of what disco was, with the horn arrangements sounding way too chipper to have the name Alice Cooper associated with it. Although Cooper admitted that it didn't work out that time around, he did end up going back for seconds on Welcome 2 My Nightmare on Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever. Alice has been through hell and back in the world of rock, and he's definitely got some musical scars to show for it.