https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPBmuTUWtf0 A sequel song to some of Alice's earlier solo work on Welcome To My Nightmare, Wind-Up Toy - the barnstorming rock n' roll number at the end of 1991's Hey Stoopid album - has been a fan favourite for a quarter of a century, and is considered by many devotees to be Alice's best song. It's quintessential Alice: exciting, theatrical, a little bit dangerous and off-kilter, featuring him singing in character as Steven, a possibly schizophrenic victim of abuse and poor institutional care, who still has the mind of a child. The song - and the reintroduction of Steven as a character - proved so popular that Steven would be featured in three subsequent Alice Cooper albums.
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