Trash

Hot on the heels of fellow seventies burnouts Aerosmith’s miraculous return to the charts, Alice Cooper hired their Permanent Vacation tour guide Desmond Child and performed his own resurrection. Raw-throated toxic relationship ode “Poison” even eclipsed “School’s Out” on the charts and in Spotify spins. It’s definitely of its time — probably his most hair metal effort ever. It still has Cooper’s wry humor, especially on “This Maniac’s in Love with You” and the Aerosmith-guesting Aerosmith-alike title track. “Bed of Nails” (later covered by melodeathers Children of Bodom) is the diamond in the rough, a BDSM ballad that’s both romantic and creepy in equal measure.