Sometimes shorter is better, with no filler solos or extended choruses that should have faded out minutes earlier can sometimes make a song more enjoyable to me. “Why Trust You” is a song that is a short, which is sometimes good in my opinion. It’s just a catchy song to sing along with, especially with the chorus. I remember this song being played on my local Top 40 radio station (just outside Youngstown, Ohio) when it came out. When looking at the chart position for this review, I was shocked to see that this song did not chart higher in the US. I state this comment in many of my reviews, because when some acts get major radio play, some fans of hard rock immediately yell that the artist “Sold out”. The song has a radio friendly sound to it, while just being heavy enough not to turn off hard rock fans. Co-written by Joan Jett, it was the third single off of the album. “House of Fire” is one of my favorite Alice Cooper songs in his whole catalog. The rocking tempo of the song keeps the classic Cooper fans happy while listening to the album as a whole.
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This song probably sounded much better with a full live sound (from my guessing from watching the YouTube concert footage of it).
Most people who stopped listening to Cooper‘s work came back to him with this song, with its major MTV and radio play. Track two “Spark In The Dark” flows well on the album, right after “Poison.” It has a ’80s sounding feel to it and fits well with the classic Alice Cooper song style. The song is only four minutes long, which is nice as well. Alice hadn’t made the charts since 1977’s “You And Me” (that single hit #9 on the U.S. “Poison” starts off the album, with its famous intro and guitar riff. The song has become one of Cooper‘s most famous songs, charting at #7 in the US. Although I liked hearing “Poison” on the local radio station when it came out, I never ran out to buy the album (there were just so many acts I could afford at the time with a limited allowance income), but years later after the show, I found the Trash CD at a Best Buy in the sale bin, and grabbed it to add to my growing Alice collection.
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I was too young to remember the 1970s Alice Cooper Band, so in 1996, when a co-worker at the time asked me to go with him to see an Alice Cooper / Scorpions concert in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania one summer, I thought “Why Not?” The venue was an hour plus drive for us, from my hometown of Columbiana, Ohio, so road tripping also sounded fun. After seeing the show, where Alice ended up being the opener, I ran out the next day to buy as many Alice CDs I could find, because I became an instant fan (along with the new found respect for guitar player Reb Beach, who was playing in Alice‘s band). Oh, yeah, I knew him from the Muppet Show episode from 1978. However it wasn’t until 1987, when he appeared at ringside for Wrestlemania III in Michigan (seconding Jake “The Snake” Roberts), when I started to think this guy is really cool. I knew some of his songs from the 1970s, along with him having one of the best stage shows. I was late joining the fan base when it came to Alice Cooper.
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