ALICE COOPER - Generation Landslide & lyrics [ French TV 1982 ]

" Please clean your plate dear
The Lord above can see you
Don't you know people are starving in Korea

Alcohol and razor blades and poison and needles
Kindergarten people, they use them, they need them

The over-indulgent machines were their children
There wasn't a way down on Earth here to cool them
'Cause they looked just like humans
At Kresge's and Woolworth's
But decadent brains were at work to destroy
Brats in batallions were ruling the streets
Saying generation landslide
Closed the gap between them

And I laughed to myself at the men and the ladies
Who never conceived of us billion dollar babies

Militant mothers hiding in their basements
Using pots and pans as thier shields and their helmets

Molotov milk bottles heaved from pink high chairs
While Mother's Lib burned birth certificate papers
Dad gets his allowance from his sonny the dealer
Who's pubic to the world but involved in high finance

Sister's out till five doing banker's son's hours
But she owns a Maserati that's a gift from his father

Stopped at full speed at one hundred miles per hour

The Colgate invisible shield finally got 'em

But I laughed to myself at the men and the ladies

Who never conceived of us billion dollar babies "


Alice Cooper
Special Forces
Recorded in December 1981
Aired on the 14th January 1982
TV special, Paris, France

This exceptional show was recorded in Paris in December 1981 just before the start of the "Special Forces"european tour.
All the first songs of this broadcast were filmed in several characteristic and typically touristic places of the french city : le Sacré-Coeur church (Montmartre district), la Rue Saint-Denis (the hot district), Pigalle (the Moulin Rouge district), the George Pompidou Museum also called Centre Beaubourg etc...
Other places of shootings were however less conventional : a breakage of cars in border of the ring road (peripheral), in the parisian subway or in famous "Abattoirs de La Villette" (slaughterhouse) which ought to become later a cultural park in Paris.
Shots would have been made in the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral but they finally didn't appear in the show. Maybe it was about the song "Go To Hell", finally shot at the Sacré Cœur church.

After a brief and hilarious Alice's self interview (where Vincent Damon Furnier meets Alice Cooper !) the show is changing into a live in the studio setting for the second half. Some of the old tracks were re-recorded for the special. This second part of "Alice Cooper in Paris" was shot in the television studios of Boulogne and offers for the occasion some Alice Cooper's classics "live".
The sound recording of the performance was made on the spot, then Alice Cooper and Special Forces' band made a very funny playback on these recordings !

The versions of all these Alice Cooper's Special Forces songs remain thus officially unreleased to this day in any format. The Alice Cooper show was aired on the french channel then called Antenne 2 (today France 2) in 1982 on the 14th of january. The show was presented within the very first broadcast of the famous french TV show "Les Enfants Du Rock"."


Alice Cooper's Special Forces are :
Duane Hitchings (keyboards)
John Raymond Nitzinger Jr (guitar)
Eric Scott Pilipowitz (bass guitar)
Graig Kramph (drums)
Mike Pinera (guitar)

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[killbucket1]

You can look THAt bad then, still be alive NOW?!?! I'm staying up to party tonight!

Love you Alice!

[TheBebopstyle]

waw ! amazing! I often go to this place and that's great to see that Alice Copper went here to sing ! But that's right he didn't look in his good times

[GTVAlfaMan]

Poor Alice looks like a walking skeleton in this video. He was at his worst time of alcoholism when this video was made.

[dimebagdave77]

this is just awesome! weird to hear something from B.D.B. performed during this era.Alice was in a bad way at this point,but he still had his chops! great post!

[SanJoseCraig100]

I went to this tour at Concord pavilion in Calif.-Flush the Fashion Tour

[bizchazlien]

THIS IS AWESOME!!!! WOW!!! Man, good ol'Alice Cooper! :) Loved him since '85! Thank you for posting this gem!

[50WaysToKillMe]

sick