Dirty Diamonds

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Dirty Diamonds
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Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 4, 2005 (Europe, UK)
August 2, 2005 (US)
Genre
Length46:46
Label New West, Spitfire
Producer Steve Lindsey
Alice Cooper chronology
School's Out and Other Hits
(2004)
Dirty Diamonds
(2005)
Live at Montreux 2005
(2006)

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.

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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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Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Woman of Mass Distraction"Alice Cooper, Damon Johnson, Ryan Roxie, Chuck Garric, Rick Boston 3:59
2."Perfect"Cooper, Johnson, Roxie3:30
3."You Make Me Wanna"Cooper, Roxie, Garric, Boston3:30
4."Dirty Diamonds"Cooper, Johnson, Garric, Boston4:02
5."The Saga of Jesse Jane"Cooper, Roxie4:15
6."Sunset Babies (All Got Rabies)"Cooper, Johnson, Roxie3:28
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, Garric3:16
10."Six Hours"Cooper, Roxie3:24
11."Your Own Worst Enemy"Cooper, Roxie2:15
12."Zombie Dance"Cooper, Roxie, Boston4:27
13."Stand (feat. Xzibit)" (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, Roxie3:59

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2005)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [1] 66
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [2] 88
French Albums (SNEP) [3] 159
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [4] 71
Scottish Albums (OCC) [5] 91
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [6] 40
UK Albums (OCC) [7] 89
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC) [8] 6
US Billboard 200 [9] 169
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [10] 17

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