Welcome To My Nightmare
by Alice Cooper
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Welcome To My Nightmare is ranked 4th best out of 43 albums by Alice Cooper on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Alice Cooper is Billion Dollar Babies which is ranked number 1689 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,012.
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Welcome To My Nightmare track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Welcome To My Nightmare rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Olli | Top 100 Music Albums of 1975 | 87/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | abbolton | Top 40 Greatest Music Albums | 4/40 | 90 |
| 2026 |  spigelwii | Top 10 Music Albums of 1975 | 4/10 | 4 |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 49 Music Albums of 1975 | 17/49 | 3 |
| 2026 | thenat | Top 30 Music Albums of 1975 | 18/30 | 2 |
| 2026 | spigelwii | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 35/100 | 13 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Rock albums of the year 1975 by Metal Storm | 1/6 | - |
| 2026 |  JMGL95 | Top 33 Music Albums of 1975 | 26/33 | 1 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1975 | 36/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Glitterboiii | Top 50 Music Albums of 1975 | 45/50 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 158 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 765 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/17/2026 02:22 |  phantom1305 | 2,813 | 71/100 |
| ! | 07/19/2026 20:59 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
| ! | 06/25/2026 17:57 | abbolton | 77 | 83/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.2/100, a mean average of 76.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.0.
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Welcome To My Nightmare forum mentions
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This is a classic album still worth a listen. Cold Etyhl is a Cooper classic. The WTMN tour set the standard for most rock theatrical shows that followed. All hard rock fans need this classic in their collection. (Edited)
Decurso TOP 100 COMMENTER 10/08/2014 13:50 | #123709 | TOP COMMENT
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Even when taken out of context, the individual songs here are great. Welcome To My Nightmare and Steven are creepy as hell, Cold Ethyl showcases Alice's morbid sense of humor, some Folks is a bit vaudeville and Department of Youth is a wild fist shaking anthem. No bad songs here at all, and the fact that it's a concept album just adds to the enjoyment. (Edited)
AAL2014 TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/04/2015 00:27 | #149194 | TOP COMMENT
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Steven is a listening experience unlike almost anything I've heard before.
This album is great! Alice goes solo and benefits from work by the likes of Tony Levin and Dick Wagner. Some classics, and amazing deep cuts here. (Edited)
Alice Cooper's first solo album's a conceptual affair - as decadent as the era in which it was released (so I've heard, anyway) - and if you're looking for one hard rock album to sum up everything wrong and right with rock during the '70s, welcome to my nightmare, indeed. :)
To Alice Cooper's credit, it's extraordinarily listenable, (the only track that didn't really float my boat is called "The Awakening,") and outside of one of the late '60s concept albums by The Kinks, I can't think of a tighter concept album than this.
To the album's detriment, producer Bob Ezrin so thoroughly bloated it with mid-'70s studio trash/camp/glitz - and anyone who's heard "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" will know if they dig that scene, maaaan - that it either takes away from the diverse set of songs, or further endears them to you, depending on whether you take your Alice with a side of ballet dancers, (or for that matter, your Elton in a Donald Duck suit.)
Bottom line: it's a bloated-sounding yet lean (in the best sense) mega-album from a bloated but somehow lean (not in the best sense) era... And I can't help loving it, despite that while listening to it - as Alice himself would later say - "my senses tell me to stop." I feel right at home.
The story of little Steven begins here, a story every Alice Cooper fan must pay attention to. There are great lyrics and fantastic production value and songs that give you something new every time!
Welcome to My Nightmare is much more than an album. It's a journey into a new era not only for Alice Cooper, but for concept albums. This is a must here for any Alice Cooper fan. The ONLY must here album from him because, and this is coming from a big fan of Alice, every other album is garbage compared to THIS!
So listen to Welcome to My Nightmare.
I think you're gonna like it. I think you're gonna feel... you belong...
Ever see the 1975 tv special? I'm still trying to find the songs in it after "Steven."
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