Alice Cooper - School’s Out (REVIEW)

[@billadkins5150]

Early 70’s guys! Slap that in your 8 track.

[@mikemaricle9941]

Your cassette recorder that you used to record it off of AM radio.

[@Bloodewing]

I'm 64 years old. I remember in my 8th grade year on the last day of school before summer they played this over the PA system. You could hear the whole school rockin' up and down the halls. Good times.

[@VinzClorthokeymasterofGozer]

Did Randall Pink Floyd, Benny, and O'Bannion catch you guys and paddle you?

[@JB-Deadskins]

​@@VinzClorthokeymasterofGozerlol, I was just thinking the same thing 😂

[@Bloodewing]

@@VinzClorthokeymasterofGozer Ha ha! Nah, for once I escaped a paddling!

[@blackwolf6082]

63 here and I remember the same thing

[@had64198]

In high school, they used to play this over the loud speaker

[@chrismiller4348]

Heard this the last day of school every year. The 70’s

[@alicekarberg4738]

I graduate HS in 1979, and kids would always be singing this on the last day of school as we were leaving. Epic.

[@jgsrhythm100]

Alice Cooper became the main guy. Everyone in the audience assumed he was Alice so thats what he became. In 75 he became a solo artist and 4 concept albums followed.. He never stopped recording and touring since. Fall tour 2024. Next " Ballad of Dwight Frye" (73)

[@KennyCamaro2364]

Watch out! Look out Laa and Chee! SCHOOLS OUT! ALICE COOPER! Another Detroit legend!

[@danclark745]

Hmm, went to the same high school as Alice and Bruce in Phx AZ, Cortez, now some of the replacement players played in the great Detroit band Frost, but the Alice Cooper Band is a Phoenix band made of guys that went to Cortez and Camelback high school, these guys played the first two lps which are the best.

[@KennyCamaro2364]

@@danclark745 Alice was born in Detroit. The Alice Cooper band broke out in Detroit. Alice Cooper claims Detroit as his home town. He grew up in AZ, the band and there manager,Shep Gordon made Detroit home from 69-71. Detroit was the hotspot at that time with. Alice, Nugent, Seger, Grand Funk, MC5, Iggy and the Stooges, the Frost, Frijid Pink, and many others playing the club scene in metro Detroit.

[@KennyCamaro2364]

@@danclark745 they played on the first six albums

[@tonidarcy5515]

In 72 i was 11 and remember this so well.. Banger song! I'll say again the 70's were the best music that ever came out even today!!

[@daveheesen9174]

I was a bit of a delinquent...on the last day of school for the sixth grade I walked out of Mr Rickard's classroom, lit a cigarette and walked out of the school singing this song...12 yrs old...amazing I survived

[@JB-Deadskins]

Dazed and Confused is the movie Che is thinking of.

[@carrerlluna66]

Ned from Spain sayin OH BOY now you went and did it. This classic was our anthem from when I was a lad in 1972. This was used perfectly in Dazed and Confused when the incoming freshmen are trying to get home without getting caught and their butts paddled by incoming seniors. The original LP was designed to fold into a desk that could open it's lid and if you were lucky it came with pink panties made out of paper !

[@KelE-mq8bv]

Love Alice! Great guy, great music. No More Mister Nice Guy.

[@gavinschwier8242]

Love this tune. Dazed and Confused (the movie) inspired me, so I played it every last day for all HS. Last day of HS ever, I blasted this on the car stereo as I peeled out the parking lot! lol in college played this as we had a BBQ Keg party. Such a great song tied to so many visceral memories. ❤🎉🎉🎉 Alice Cooper was the band, and he was the lead singer as well. Now Alice Cooper come the 80s was pretty much him and his band. (His real name is Vincent Fournier and he used to be drinking buddies with Keith Moon!)

[@bwpsg42]

Ok, I know I’m old but in 1967 or 8 several of us heard an ad on the radio that Alice Cooper was playing at the convention center so we showed, tripping, thinking we were going to see Al Kooper. Yikes!😂

[@Friend_Of_The_Muse]

LOL. A slight difference in shows.

[@JuniorFarquar]

And a good time was had by all! We always said that if we got busted while tripping that at least we'd have fun in jail

[@Friend_Of_The_Muse]

@@JuniorFarquar Personally I cannot think of a more bad trip triggering situation than jail but that what makes us all different. The rule used to be "Set and setting" meaning a good mindset and a good setting." Though I dont think we followed those rules much! LOL Thats why it was called "Experimenting". I guess.

[@mtzoar]

I remember as a 14yr old trying to sort out Cooper from Kooper. Once I figured it out, I was a fan for life of both

[@gregseibel3310]

I graduated in 73, this song was huge then. Became an anthem.

[@jgsrhythm100]

Alice Cooper- "Ballad of Dwight Frye" (71) That's a track that must be hit!!

[@gabrielvanhelsing8214]

Alice's 'Love it to Death' album was released back in 1971 is one of my favorites. Besides the track "Ballad of Dwight Fry", "Eighteen" was the song that launched Alice's popularity worldwide. 😎👌🍻🥂

[@mr.snicker-doodles7081]

I gotta get OUT of here..

[@t.j.payeur5331]

I was gone for 14 days..I mighta been gone for more...

[@Bassman2353]

The live performances back when were incredible.

[@jgsrhythm100]

@@Bassman2353 No doubt. They should check it live for sure but perhaps after the studio version. Would mean a lot more

[@willblood7082]

The songs been in Scream, Dazed and Confused, Rock 'n' Roll High School, and I Love You, Beth Cooper and as y’all said The Simpsons. I was 12 in ‘72 and already a AC fan due to having an older sister. This song is still played locally on rock stations on the last day of school. I still have the 45rpm I bought when it came out. Pure rock anthem for school age kids everywhere!

[@gandalf679]

I'm 65 years old, and Back in the day, when we bought this album the album cover opened up like a school desk, and "inside" the desk was a free pair of pink panties...(made of paper) but it was the stuff bands did back in the day...Rock ON!!!

[@steviemccormick3762]

This is the unofficial anthem of students everywhere !!!!

[@sharon-jo9gb]

I was 9 when this came out in 1972 in the UK. Got to number 1 & remember the outcry when he performed this on TV! Still love this song ❤

[@fasteddie777666]

I was 9 as well in 1972,,,cheers mate

[@chaosandcreation4118]

I'm 64 and we used to run home and blast this as soon as the school year was over. There were lots of songs by different bands aimed at the teen audience.

[@user-ej7xs2zd7x]

Back in the seventies, this was the anthem to be heard on the last day of school!

[@Tarkus_]

"Alice Cooper" started out as the band name, but at some point, the lead singer, Vincent Furnier, took on that moniker. In fact, in their song "Be My Lover," there is a lyric, "She asked me why the singer's name was Alice." In 1975, Alice Cooper (now the person) went solo with the "Welcome to My Nightmare" album, and has been solo ever since. So yeah, the guy with the snake is Alice Cooper, and has been for a long, long time.

[@stillstanding8286]

This song was released as a single in April 1972, just a few short months before I graduated high school. Hearing it always brings me back to those days. Thanks for the great reactions, guys.

[@t.j.payeur5331]

Me too...

[@stevesuttie2644]

I’m 61 and I heard this playing over the loud speakers from the school across the road from my house last summer. Sure brought back memories!

[@wiliamwidlacki7459]

This was an anthem for every graduating class throughout the '70s.....i was happy to be one of them!!!

[@bobschenkel7921]

The Alice Cooper Band started in the late 60's in Phoenix, and were a tight unit until the late 70's, when some members left, and Vince Furnier took the stage name Alice Cooper for himself. Saw Alice in the later 70's, the mid 80's and then again about a year and a half ago. His voice and stage presence are still very strong, great backing band, lots of stage antics and props, and of course LOTS of hits.

[@SpuzzyLargo]

I graduated from high school that year (1972). This song was extremely new and fresh at the time. A few months later I turned 18, and Alice Cooper's new album had "I'm Eighteen" on it. It was the first time we 18-year-olds were allowed to vote, which I got to do that November. What a time for a young adult about to go out on his own.

[@art3mis290]

1972 I was 20, tellin' you boys the 70's were lit! The best groups/music era of all time in my opinion. Thank you for reacting to this song!

[@workingman6681]

We used to ride the RTD bus to the beach with all my high school football buddies here in So Cal area. This was the song we always played on our boom box when summer started. Keep up the great reactions my friends!👍

[@888jimm]

So you remember which bus it was? I almost can.....😂😂

[@workingman6681]

@@888jimm I think it was the 820😂👍

[@888jimm]

@@workingman6681 Very good!

[@cazkain]

I live one block from School on last day had my speakers on the porch every year in the 70's right after school!!!

[@Sp33gan]

It was tradition, no matter whether I was in elementary or high school, that this song was played on the PA system on the last day. It was especially poignant the year I graduated as the city was closing our school and tearing it down to build the new courthouse, with a church across the street where the wood and metal shops had been.

[@craigmarkowski7156]

I was 11 years old in the 5th grade when this came out , Played the hell out of it ! My brother's 5 years older than me , So he turned me on to all this hard core classic rock like Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper and Edgar Winter at a very early age ! Loved it ...

[@Mikeluvdrums]

In the 1970's it was the Kids that were buyig the records and going to the clubs to check out and support the bands .. I remember CBGB's at 16 years of age .

[@DixieBlue]

This song was featured in the 1993 film, "Dazed and Confused" - by FAR the most accurate representation of what High School life was like in the mid-1970s.

[@michellec2514]

Yessss Total look into my high school years lol

[@Sirknight47]

I remember seeing an old interview, Alice Cooper was talking about 'School’s Out,' along with other pieces from his repertoire. He mentioned being a parent to a teenager, possibly around the age of 16 or younger, (I don’t remember that part too well ) anyway he Said that this age group is the primary audience he envisions when creating his music." Always enjoy you two’s reactions keep cranking them out, Steven

[@genecase9464]

Ya, what a great song to hear on your last day of school before summer vacation! Actually a real banger any time of the year!

[@homebrew2070]

Last day of senior year 1974. My ‘65 Plymouth Sport Fury. My friends in my car, windows down circling around the school parking lot with this blaring out of the 8-track.

[@elwood4939]

Senior in '76. I had a blue '65 Sport Fury. I wish that I still had it.

[@dangabbert3944]

I graduated from high school in May of in ‘72’ and this song was released in April. This song was played consistently that last month of school.

[@emilymartinez6961]

This song came out when l was in High School but when it was my kids last day of school, back in the 90's, l was that crazy mom that would blast this song in the parking lot waiting for them, dancing and singing with some of the other kids but of course my kids were hiding around the corner until everyone would leave...lol!! Best memories EVER!!!!🤘🥰🎶

[@JuniorFarquar]

6th grade, 1973, end of school we could bring anything we wanted to and i brought my 45 rpm of this song. Mrs. Long rolled her eyes at me, as usual. 11th grade , 1978, in Creative Writing we had to bring song lyrics. I brought my Black Sabbath Masters of Reality lp, lyrics are on the back, and played Children of the Grave. Huge eye roll lol

[@ronjm945]

I played it at the end of every school year, priceless….

[@DM-hk4cw]

I saw Coop two years ago and Ace Frehley opened for them. Alice Cooper's show was phenomenal, and the musicianship was excellent. "We can't think of a word that rhymes," is my favorite lyric in this song because they couldn't think of a word that rhymed with "principal." He's very smart and hilarious. He's a preacher's son, also. Alice has been sober for years and is a positive influence. Ace Frehley came out and jammed with the band on this one. Alice Cooper is still touring...and the band is named Alice Cooper and also Vincent's on-stage character. (Off stage, "Alice" is really Vincent Furnier.) He's also a scratch golfer and was great friends with the late Glen Campbell. He is a very approachable and kind man according to my best friend who has seen him in the St. Simons/Jekyll Island area in Georgia as he plays golf there at times. He says he answers to both Alice and Vincent....lol.

[@debraschiro6234]

I was in 8th grade when this song came out and every summer after that we sang this song love it love it love it so did my daughters and my grandchildren😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤

[@tonyherrera2570]

The summer of 72’. I had graduated Jr. High and moving onto my freshman year of high school in September…this song hit home for me when I heard it on the radio that summer…😎👍🏼

[@joepilkerton7956]

Every year growing up from 1972 till 1978 radio stations played this last day of school every hour after 3pm 🕒 it was great

[@davidcolonna9341]

I graduated high school in 1975, this song and Chicagos' "Old Days" played constantly on graduation day in the room where we were getting our caps and gowns on. Great memories.

[@robertprice6830]

I was in High School from 72-76. Man could I tell you a story about this song.

[@vernhoke7730]

June 1976, the last day of senior year in high school, as I left the school grounds, I had this cranking from my Craig 8-track player in my '72 Vega GT as I went off to work.

[@michaelrogers7426]

Anthem! We played it everywhere! Brilliant with great riffs, the kids singing, the crescendo…. At my college someone blasted this out into the silence of a finals study day night and the dorms erupted with streakers and mayhem. Epic moment in life.

[@johndrx165]

This was a PERFECT end of school, beginning of Summer song. 8th grade for me. This album had a theme of High School nostalgia for the band. They met and formed in High School.

[@bigdaddyeb56]

This was their Second Hit Record after 18 !!! The Youth of the Country was Front and Center

[@olly8]

I'm 18 and Iike it...came out just after I turned 19. Close enough ✌🏼 😂 We thought he was singing "I'm Insane and I like it" ...works either way👍🏼

[@mikerichards67]

I graduated high school in 1973 and our class president sang this. I really loved it and everyone else there thought wow this is awesome.

[@jenniferfoster1692]

Yes, in so many movies/tv shows! So famous. I wasn't an Alice Cooper fan growing up but I definitely knew this song in the 70s.

[@user-yj7iq6um8g]

I remember this I was 21 good times! Amazing song, thanks guys a great start to my day.

[@billc.5861]

😁. Oh boy I remember this as youngster. Last day of school and blasting this song.

[@pamelarex1877]

I was in high school and remember the last day before summer off screaming down the road in a car full my girls with this blasting on the radio. Good times!!!! I also saw him live

[@ErikaSMHS]

Vincent Furnier (Alice) went to Cortez HS in Phoenix AZ! Total summer anthem! Interesting nuggets…I saw Ronnie James Dio play a concert on Alice Cooper’s restaurant patio in downtown Phoenix in 2005. Out of body experience. Alice is awesome. 👏🏻

[@jasonb.7609]

awesome, Love DIO, I bet that was beyond cool, and trippy..haha

[@ErikaSMHS]

@@jasonb.7609 it was so trippy, because it was on a restaurant patio! I can’t believe to this day that I was there! 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@jasonb.7609]

@@ErikaSMHS wow, that is crazy, and ya, on a patio! What a great story. DIO last in line tour was my first time seeing him!

[@randyallaben9900]

This was our anthem on the last day of school for several years! Blast out of the school doors! Crank this song up! Toke a fatty and pop a cold one!!

[@Roh_Echt]

The radio DJ's would always play this one on the last day of school for the days the surrounding schools would let out for Summer Break. They often played it back to back, for some time, so you could leave the school grounds with it blaring on your car stereo; windows down.

[@sarleywinkle]

Excellent. Alice’s Clones(We’re All) is trippy 80’s fire.

[@827dusty]

This was released in the spring of 1972 my freshman year of High school. Great old song.

[@bluesrock1]

Alice is one of the architects of Heavy Metal, Macabre Rock, and Glam Rock. He was a great performer with a fantastic band.

[@TerryKrysinski]

Keep Going,Guys! Anything from these albums is fire! Love It To Death, Killer, School's Out, Billion Dollar Babies, Muscle Of Love and Welcome To My Nightmare...ANYthing! Rock on, T

[@bugsyblack-ml6xx]

Thin Lizzy - Cold Sweat . ( Trust me, heavy riffs, baddest black bassist/singer and very underrated and worth every second )

[@kevinmarker-cz3bx]

One of my favs Gentlemen. I especially liked and still do, the album cover. Because I had those desktops in school. Thank you Sirs.

[@dopeymark]

In my 60s myself... Every time high school ended we cranked this song in the parking lot in our cars. Then went out and partied.

[@renecuellar3078]

The name of the band was Alice Cooper. Alice's name is Vincent Damon Furnier. When he went solo after a brief break, he took the name with him and he was officially Alice Cooper. I think only their first album has him listed as Vince

[@user-ro6ny3dj7i]

The band with Bob Ezrin produced orchestral rock n roll . On this album the songs( my stars )and (blue turk) are excellent examples of this approach to arrangements. They formed in high school.

[@christopherbailey557]

Lived across the street from our school and every year last day of school, I'd run home and fire up the Haron Kardon 100 watt amp and blast this out the window pointed at the school busses heading home.

[@brianmarcos6646]

Being a born and raised Detroiter myself I tend to listen when I hear our own artists who made it big and kept it sort of 100% in an interview. Last year was a big anniversary of one of Alice Cooper' early records. I thought I knew a little of the band, until Mr Alice Coopers says this "Well my studio band and my touring band are not remotely connected". Okay, Alice cooper is a legend in "rock opera style Performance Art" including elaborate props and sets with Alice being hung by a noose for dramatic flair etc. His "touring band" must be music theater performers. If you enjoy cool rock star stories check out Alice's Attic with Alice cooper. He's been recording it from his houses in Hawaii and Arizona for years.

[@rick5440]

Sang at the end of every school year in the 70s.. Classic and iconic.

[@judynorman9497]

Bought this album when it came out, it’s a classic. The album cover opened up like a desk. AC knew their audience!

[@susiedawson3349]

I was middle school when this came out! Very popular song!!

[@telynns8490]

All through HS, the last day of school someone was blasting this in the halls as we were leaving. Every time. Was awesome.

[@gabrielvanhelsing8214]

Vincent Furnier (a.k.a. Alice Cooper) was inspired by Screamin' Jay Hawkins the R&B, soul, and rock & roll recording artist who's known for his hit release of "I Put a Spell on You" from 1956. Jay sometimes used Macabre props onstage. He is one of the pioneers in 'shock rock'. Another psychedelic/shock rock band formed out of England, 'The Crazy World of Arthur Brown' had a huge influence on Alice also. Arthur Brown was one of the pioneers in shock rock as well with his flamboyant and theatrical stage performances. "Fire" an international smash hit released back in 1968 by Arthur Brown was smokin' hot for that time period. Alice's release of "Billion Dollar Babies" a track off the same named album from 1973 is also fire. Drummer Neal Smith gives it his all on the recording. ⚡🎤🎸🎹🥁🔊🔥🔥☮🎧

[@hklinker]

I saw Alice Cooper (with Atlanta Rhythm Section) on the last day of grade 10 in 1977.

[@alphajava761]

Vincent Furnier (Alice Cooper) father was an evangelist preacher. Cooper has been married to the same women since the 70s. Rowdy musician, almost died from addiction, he invented Shock Rock stage performance, and he's one of the kindest most soft spoken guys around. Lot's of great songs.

[@marckeiser3514]

My very first concert. I was 15. 1972 amazing stage show.

[@Bassman2353]

Saw them three times, including the "School's Out" tour. The AC band was GREAT! And Alice was a consummate performer as well as singer. The "Killer" tour was boggling.

[@russrollins9978]

Alice Cooper was very theatrical in his concerts. Lots of props like snakes and guillotines, and he always had great musicians in his band. The Ballad of Dwight Fry is a great Alice Cooper song.

[@RazzleDazz72]

It’s used brilliantly in Dazed and Confused, a movie from ‘93 about 1976.

[@melissatuel862]

Alice's birth name is Vincent Damon Furnier. Vince formed a pop group in high school named "The Earwigs". Somewhere along the line the group name was changed to "Alice Cooper". Then Vince started going by Alice.

[@Wordsmyth8]

This was just one of many great songs featured in the movie Dazed and Confused . The movie perfectly depicted my teenage years and early 20s.

[@elegantirony78]

The movie Dazed & Confused used this & if you want to know what it was like in the late 70s that is your movie. Lots of bands catered to teenagers & young adults. Probably still do. Under My Wheels, Be My Lover are awesome

[@frankpentangeli7945]

Alice Cooper is the guy ... that's the name he took for himself and that's his persona. And EVERY rock band caters to teenagers and high school students. Alice Cooper just had a couple of songs that were explicit about it: School's Out and Eighteen. There may have been more, but none come to mind right now. Having said that, I don't really think it was an ongoing theme for the band ... just coincidence that you might have heard both songs. This was an anthem in the mid-70s when I was in high school.

[@jrsinsf]

This came out when I was 11. Me and my friends LOVED this song, for obvious reasons... Some good stuff to check out on his Billion Dollar Babies album.

[@dellblackman4565]

I remember my last day of school in 1976, and as I was driving away and looking back at the school building and the remaining students milling around on the grounds... this song came on the radio!

[@wentibbetts7833]

Dazed and Confused, Simpsons and other tv shows/movies used this song years after it came out. Classic, they still play it last day off school around here.

[@STAMPER-DESIGN]

Dig into Alice's 70s music, there's a lot of amazing music because of his band. Great work as always gentlemen.

[@pegajense]

And when you saw Cooper in concert you saw a SHOW ❤❤❤❤ You should check out Elected, Under my Wheels and Eighteen by him 😉

[@Zopf-international]

An incredibly great group!

[@vernonallen3370]

The Band were originally called Alice Cooper but the lead vocalist Vincent Furnier officially adopted it as his own when the original members drifted away around the mid 70’s

[@Mary-xo7ue]

This song blasted from every car in the parking lot the last day each year. As well as everyday😂the 80s were the best time to grow up😂

[@monetleiberman7815]

Alice Cooper: I NEVER CRY

[@davespear6662]

Graduated 1987 and we still rocked this on graduation day. As we spun out in the parking lot with our painted up cars.

[@bullzeyez3236]

Played at every first keg party of the summer. Good times,Best times.

[@joeykopack]

This album is crazy good, so many musical stylings on it, a lot of people categorize Alice Cooper as shock rock

[@KelE-mq8bv]

Alice Cooper at this time was the band. Shortly after, in 1973, Vincent Furnier legally changed his name to Alice Cooper which is what everyone has called him since.

[@midnightrambler7716]

It became an anthem for the last day of school each year after it was released when I was 12. None of us had heard of him up till then and having a dude named “Alice” was pretty weird at the time. I remember some kids calling him “Alice Cooper the f@g”. Which of course was ridiculous but times were very different in 1972. Apparently he was quite a fixture in the Laurel Canyon scene of the late 60’s. Apparently Frank Zappa asked the band to come over to his house to jam/audition at 7. He meant PM. The band showed up at 7 AM! 😂

[@user-qs1ko3nu1c]

Originally the band was called Alice Cooper but Alice Cooper (aka Vince Furnier) was also the lead singer. So yes Alice is the man but also the band. The original band dissolved in 1974 and Alice had his name changed legally to Alice Cooper. So he IS Alice Cooper. As a matter of fact when he got married his wife Sheryll took the Cooper name and their three children also carry the Cooper name. The song Schools Out is ubiquitous is pop culture. It's hard to find anyone young or old that's not at least a little familiar with. Not only was it huge smash hit when it was released but over the last 52 years it has been in dozens of movie and TV soundtracks. Also in advertisments and video games as well. Guitar Hero springs to mind. Even local TV news stations play it on the last day of school. Very few songs can claim to be woven into pop culture but this is one of them. One interesting fact , producer Bob Ezrin used a childrens choir on the chorus on this song to great effect. A decade later he used it again on Pink Floyd's "The Wall".