Alice Cooper: Brutally Live

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Brutally Live
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Released5 December 2000
Recorded19 July 2000
Genre Hard rock, heavy metal, shock rock
Length105:00
Label Eagle Records
Director David Barnard
Producer Richard Leyland
Alice Cooper chronology
British Rock Symphony
(2000)
Brutally Live
(2000)
Live at Montreux 2005
(2006)

Brutally Live is a DVD of American rock singer Alice Cooper's concert on 19 July 2000 at the Labatt's Hammersmith Apollo in London, England, released later in the same year. [1] It was re-released in 2003 on DVD accompanied with an audio CD of an edited version of the DVD's soundtrack.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "The Controler (Intro)" – 1:39
  2. "Brutal Planet" (Alice Cooper, Bob Marlette) – 4:52
  3. "Gimme" (Cooper, Marlette) – 4:52
  4. "Go to Hell" (Cooper, Dick Wagner, Bob Ezrin) – 3:42
  5. "Blow Me a Kiss" (Cooper, Marlette, Ezrin) – 3:06
  6. "I'm Eighteen" (Cooper, Michael Bruce, Glen Buxton, Dennis Dunaway. Neal Smith) – 4:28
  7. "Pick Up the Bones" (Cooper, Marlette) – 4:54
  8. "Feed My Frankenstein" (Cooper, Nick Coler, Ian Richardson, Zodiac Mindwarp) – 4:18
  9. "Wicked Young Man" (Cooper, Marlette) – 3:32
  10. "Dead Babies" (Cooper, Bruce, Buxton, Dunaway, Smith)  – 3:28
  11. "Ballad of Dwight Fry" (Cooper, Bruce) – 4:39
  12. "I Love the Dead" (Cooper, Ezrin) – 2:30
  13. "Devil's Food" (Cooper, Ezrin, Jay) – :47
  14. "The Black Widow" (Cooper, Wagner, Ezrin) – 3:52
  15. "No More Mr. Nice Guy" (Cooper, Bruce) – 4:23
  16. "It's Hot Tonight" (Cooper, Wagner, Ezrin) – 2:46
  17. "Caught in a Dream" (Bruce) – 2:28
  18. "It's the Little Things" (Cooper, Marlette) – 5:15
  19. "Poison" (Cooper, Desmond Child, John McCurry) – 4:53
  20. "Take It Like a Woman" (Cooper, Marlette) – 2:37
  21. "Only Women Bleed" (Cooper, Wagner) – 4:17
  22. "You Drive Me Nervous" (Cooper, Bruce, Ezrin) – 2:23
  23. "Under My Wheels" (Bruce, Dunaway, Ezrin) – 4:41
  24. "School's Out" (Cooper, Bruce, Buxton, Dunaway, Smith) – 4:41
  25. "Billion Dollar Babies" (Cooper, Bruce, Smith) – 2:26
  26. "My Generation" (Pete Townshend) – 1:28
  27. "Elected" (Cooper, Bruce, Buxton, Dunaway, Ezrin) – 4:49

Bonus video

CD track listing

  1. Brutal Planet 6:30
  2. Gimme 4:51
  3. Go to Hell 3:41
  4. Blow Me a Kiss 3:06
  5. I'm Eighteen 4:20
  6. Feed My Frankenstein 4:26
  7. Wicked Young Man 3:30
  8. No More Mr. Nice Guy 4:18
  9. It's Hot Tonight 2:51
  10. Caught in a Dream 2:26
  11. It's the Little Things 5:16
  12. Poison 4:53
  13. Take It Like a Woman 2:37
  14. Only Women Bleed 4:15
  15. You Drive Me Nervous 2:23
  16. Under My Wheels 4:45
  17. School's Out 4:36
  18. Billion Dollar Babies 2:24
  19. My Generation 1:29
  20. Elected 4:49

Personnel

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [2] Gold7,500^
Canada (Music Canada) [3] Gold5,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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