10 Halo Of Flies ALICE COOPER LIVE 5-20-2016 PITTSBURGH STAGE AE

Описание: Hands down one of the finest releases by Alice Cooper and one of
'CLUBDOC' ALL TIME FAVES: Rolling Stone review of this song and the entire KILLER LP 1972.... One of the strangest faces of his heroism is found in "Halo of Flies." The song begins with an effectively mesmeric moog pulsation and a series of circumfluent guitar solos that remind me of movie sound-track music somewhere between James Bond themes and old films about aristocratic chicanery in the courts of Renaissance Europe. The first line of the song is "I've got the answers to all of your questions," and it moves through a humorous sequence where the lyrics "daggers and contacts and bright shiny limos ... glimmering nightgowns, poisonous cobras" are set to the melody of Rogers & Hammerstein's "My Favorite Things." to a Spanish-sounding interlude where Alice might be parodying Rod Stewart: "And what a middle-Asian lady/She really came as no surprise But I still did destroy her," but the next line is "And I will smash halo of flies."

Alice is creating absurd and outrageous collages of idiomatic borrowings combined with a distinctly teen-age sense of the morbid. The song ends in a flurry of guitar-and-moog screams, and it is almost a relief to come down from its rococo intricacies to "Desperado," which is nothing more nor less than a Hollywood Western turned into a rock & roll song, as Love did with "Singing Cowboy," except that here Alice sounds more than a little like Jim Morrison, which is supremely appropriate for lines like "I'm a killer and I'm a clown." And some of the best stanzas in recent music appear in this song, just as effulgent Dmitri Tiompkinish violins stream over the rhythms like a sunset: "You're as stiff as my smokin' barrel/You're as dead as the desert night/You're a notch and I'm a legend/You're at peace and I must hide."



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