Brutal Planet

Brutal Planet
Studio album by Alice Cooper
Released	June 6, 2000
Recorded	2000 at the Blue Room and A&M Studios, California
Genre	Heavy metal, hard rock, industrial metal,[1]
Length	47:58
Label	Spitfire
Producer	Bob Marlette
Alice Cooper chronology
A Fistful of Alice (1997) Brutal Planet (2000) Mascara and Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper (2001)

Brutal Planet is the 21st studio album by Alice Cooper, released in 2000. Musically, this finds Alice tackling a much darker and heavier approach than on previous albums, with many songs approaching a somewhat modern-sounding, industrial/metal sound. Lyrically, it's a concept album that deals with themes of dark "social fiction", including domestic violence ("Take It Like a Woman"), prejudice ("Blow Me a Kiss"), psychopathic behavior ("It's the Little Things"), war ("Pick Up the Bones") and school shootings ("Wicked Young Man"). The album was followed by a sequel Dragontown.

Doug Van Pelt, editor of the alternative Christian music-oriented HM Magazine, found that the lyrics communicated biblical morals "in a very powerful way".^[2] Van Pelt stated further that the final argument is provided in the title track, which condemns the systems of judgment that the world uses.^[2] Moreover, "Blow Me a Kiss" urges the listener to think deeper about spiritual matters.^[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
HM Magazine	[2]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Alice Cooper and Bob Marlette except where noted. 

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Brutal Planet"		4:40
2.	"Wicked Young Man"		3:50
3.	"Sanctuary"		4:00
4.	"Blow Me a Kiss"	Cooper, Marlette, Bob Ezrin	3:18
5.	"Eat Some More"		4:36
6.	"Pick Up the Bones"		5:14
7.	"Pessi-Mystic"	Cooper, Marlette, Brian Nelson	4:56
8.	"Gimme"		4:46
9.	"It's the Little Things"		4:11
10.	"Take It Like a Woman"		4:12
11.	"Cold Machines"		4:14

Japanese edition
No.	Title	Length
12.	"Can't Sleep, Clowns Will Eat Me"	4:09

2001 tour edition bonus tracks
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
12.	"It's the Little Things" (live)		5:19
13.	"Wicked Young Man" (live)		3:32
14.	"Poison" (live)	Cooper, Desmond Child, John McCurry	4:52
15.	"My Generation" (live)	Pete Townshend	1:32
16.	"Total Rock Rockumentary"		35:48

Personnel

• Alice Cooper – Vocals
• Ryan Roxie – Guitar
• Phil X – Guitar
• Eric Singer – Drums
• Bob Marlette – Bass, Keyboards

Trivia

• Cooper stated in an interview with Hard Music Magazine, "The funny thing was that The Last Temptation really wasn't part of the trilogy. That was on its own. That was the first thing I wrote as a Christian. And then, it was six years before I wrote Brutal Planet. Brutal Planet was a whole different story."
• The songs "Gimme" and "It's the Little Things" had official music videos.
• Six years passed between The Last Temptation and Brutal Planet, making it the longest break Cooper has taken to produce a new album.
• A song titled "Can't Sleep, Clowns Will Eat Me" was going to be on this album but Cooper thought it didn't fit with the other songs so it was removed. It first appeared as a bonus track on the Japanese and Australian releases of the album, then appeared worldwide on the Special Edition version of Dragontown in 2002.
• In a 2013 interview, Cooper stated that "Cold Machines" was an attempt at a Marilyn Manson-style song.

References

1. IGN review of "Along Came a Spider"
2. Van Pelt, Doug (September–October 2000). "Reviews / Brutal Planet". HM Magazine (85): 65.