Welcome To My Nightmare
by Alice Cooper

Welcome To My Nightmare by Alice Cooper
Year: 1975
Release date: 1975-03-00
Overall rank: 2,128th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 236 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1975 (32nd)
Award Top albums of of the 1970s (380th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,128th)

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Alice Cooper bestography

Welcome To My Nightmare is ranked 3rd 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 1677 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,023.

Alice Cooper album bestography « Higher ranked (1,682nd)
Killer
This album (2,128th)
Welcome To My Nightmare
Lower ranked (2,245th) »
Love It To Death

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Welcome To My Nightmare track list

  Track ratings 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

Welcome To My Nightmare rankings summary
Overall rank: 2,128th | 1970s rank: 380th | 1975 rank: 32nd  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 236 votes)
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85/100
From 06/21/2025 18:22 | #309655
Brilliant album. The more I listen to it, the more I get from it. I find something new each listen.

It’s certainly floored. The production is a little too over the top but the musicianship and songwriting comes through non the less.
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90/100
From 09/06/2020 01:53 | #257808
One of the best ever concept albums. And one of his top 3 albums. Great rock tracks along with some of the best atmospheric tunes (Years ago / Steven ) Overall an all time classic.
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95/100
From 07/06/2020 04:37 | #255083
Just fantastic from start to finish. Highlights include the title track, Only Women Bleed, and the centerpiece, Steven. Also, what's with the 77 rating on Some Folks? Another of the album's top tunes.
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80/100
From 08/23/2017 05:06 | #196584
Un gran album, temas como Welcome To My Nightmare y Only Women Bleed son fantásticos pero Steven es por mucho una experiencia sin igual, realmente tetrica y una de las mejores canciones que haya escuchado por parte de Alice Cooper
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85/100
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.
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Rating:  
80/100
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.
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Rating:  
100/100
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.
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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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100/100
From 11/22/2012 07:39 | #55629
Best Alice Cooper album. Every track is great. No fillers here. One of the best concept albums ever if you ask me.
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95/100
From 03/26/2011 20:13 | #19614
The king of rock
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