Dirty Diamonds | ||||
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Released | July 4, 2005 (Europe, UK) August 2, 2005 (US) | |||
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Length | 46:46 | |||
Label | New West, Spitfire | |||
Producer | Steve Lindsey | |||
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Dirty Diamonds is the seventeenth solo studio album by American rock musician Alice Cooper, released on July 4, 2005 internationally, and August 2 in the US.
The album peaked on Billboard's "Top Independent Albums" chart at #17, and the Billboard 200 album chart at #169 - Cooper's highest charting album since The Last Temptation , 11 years prior.
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Blabbermouth.net | 6.5/10 link |
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No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Woman of Mass Distraction" | Alice Cooper, Damon Johnson, Ryan Roxie, Chuck Garric, Rick Boston | 3:59 |
2. | "Perfect" | Cooper, Johnson, Roxie | 3:30 |
3. | "You Make Me Wanna" | Cooper, Roxie, Garric, Boston | 3:30 |
4. | "Dirty Diamonds" | Cooper, Johnson, Garric, Boston | 4:02 |
5. | "The Saga of Jesse Jane" | Cooper, Roxie | 4:15 |
6. | "Sunset Babies (All Got Rabies)" | Cooper, Johnson, Roxie | 3:28 |
7. | "Pretty Ballerina" | Michael Brown | 3:01 |
8. | "Run Down the Devil" | Cooper, Mark Hudson, Mike Elizondo, Benji Hughes | 3:29 |
9. | "Steal That Car" | Cooper, Johnson, Roxie, Garric | 3:16 |
10. | "Six Hours" | Cooper, Roxie | 3:24 |
11. | "Your Own Worst Enemy" | Cooper, Roxie | 2:15 |
12. | "Zombie Dance" | Cooper, Roxie, Boston | 4:27 |
13. | "Stand" (bonus track on all releases) | Cooper, Boston, Bridget Benenate, Xzibit | 4:04 |
14. | "The Sharpest Pain" (bonus track on Russian and UK promo CD releases) | Cooper, Roxie | 3:59 |
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