{"id":10270,"date":"2019-10-23T20:40:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T00:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/millheiser.com\/hokeyblog\/?p=10270"},"modified":"2022-11-01T09:24:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T13:24:19","slug":"buttkickin-halloween-songs-gail-alice-cooper-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/millheiser.com\/hokeyblog\/2019\/10\/23\/buttkickin-halloween-songs-gail-alice-cooper-1987\/","title":{"rendered":"Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Gail” — Alice Cooper (1987)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A tree has grown on the spot<\/em>
\nWhere her body did rest<\/em>
\nBlood seeped in the soil<\/em>
\nFrom the knife in her chest<\/em><\/p>\n

The bugs serve time in her skeletal jail<\/em>
\nI wonder how the bugs remember Gail…<\/em><\/p>\n

Listen, let’s be completely real here. You could do an entire decade of Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs<\/em> and feature nothing but Alice Cooper, and it would be utterly righteous and kickass and no one could tell you otherwise.<\/p>\n

So I limit myself to only one AC song per annum. I do the same with Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Rob Zombie, Kiss, all the usual suspects.<\/p>\n

But as far as ultra-theatrical horror-rock royalty is concerned, it’s hard to argue against Alice Cooper being at the top of the food chain. And accordingly, we’ve featured him here with the following righteous tunes:<\/p>\n