Alice hones the sound of Constrictor on Raise Your Fist and Yell, and blends it with typical Alice Cooper lyrics. The result is one of Cooper's best solo albums ever. Lock Me Up is a great metal song, and should remain in Cooper's live set list. The drumming is insane on Lock Me Up, a real headbanger. Not That Kind of Love is funny, and another straight ahead metal tune. Give the Radio Back and Raise Your Fist and Yell is Cooper's response to the 80's, Tipper Gore led PMRC attack on heavy metal. Kane Roberts gets to flex his metal muscle with Prince of Darkness, and unlike Constrictor, Kip Winger's bass work is in the forefront of most songs. The reason to buy Raise Your Fist though is for the trilogy of songs: Chop-Chop-Chop, Gail and Roses on White Lace. These three songs tell the story of a murderer and his crimes against a would-be bride. The story is fascinating and Cooper once again creates an audial horror movie. Gail may be Cooper's creepiest song next to Former Lee Warmer. This is one Alice Cooper CD you won't be able to put away for long, perfect for the Halloween season.

Excellent over the top late '80's release from the Coop.This is what I would consider his best work since the 'From The Inside' album.Heard in a interview he did once this lp was to be more of a metal lp,that 'Constrictor' was supposed to be a hard rock lp and 'Trash' was to be more of a classic rock effort.Interesting to know that.'Raise Your Fist...' has everything a good old fashioned Alice Cooper release has...blood,gore and clever story lines behind many of the tunes here.Recently saw the video for the CD's opener "Freedom" is what inspired me to check out this disc again.Other killer tracks include "Step On You",the evil "Prince Of Darkness" and what appears to be in sequence sort of like a horror movie "Time To Kill","Chop,Chop,Chop","Gail" and "Roses On White Lace".Whew!Be sure to look at the lyric sheet for this disc.Awesome material here,I tell you.Line-up:Alice-vocals,Kane Roberts(remember? that Rambo-like dude?)-guitar,Kip Winger-bass,Ken Mary-drums and Paul Horowitz-keyboard.Highly recommended.

This must be one of Alices most underrated albums to date, forget the pretenders, Marylin Manson is a true lightweight when you REALY listen to Alice. Gail must be one the cleverest songs Alice has written, a sing song confession, a nursery ryme with broken glass edges leading into the full blown braggards tale, roses on white lace, truely chilling .The rest of the album is a churning fist thumping affaire, Prince of darkness delivers just that little bit more than the other tracks, but it is the last three Chop,Chop,Chop, Gail and Roses on white lace that realy stir the juices. Not since Welcome to my nightmare has an Alice Cooper album oozed an atmosphere of compleat horror, a feeling of dread and menace and excitement. Kiss are four guys in Alice make-up, Marylin Manson is trying too hard,Gothics are little Alices living the Alice dream while denying his influence. Alice is a true innovator, never to be copyed, matched or bettered ,only David Bowie has influenced as many music trends as Alice. Put the album on, kick back, close your eyes and be entertained

Alice Cooper's "Raise Your Fist and Yell" is a very well-conceived and tightly played album. I bought this when it came out in 1987. I felt it was a HUGE improvement over "Constrictor" in songwriting and musicianship.

The tracks, especially the last four tracks, are classic aggresive Alice. Kane Roberts playing on "Roses on White Lace" is amazing! I never could convince any of the "Metal Heads" at my high school of the greatness of this album. I recently listened to this album about five times one week because it still rocks!! In fact, I would say this album has gained with time.

If you want to listen to some Heavy Metal style Alice, then give this a spin. Please overlook "Constrictor", "Trash", and "Hey Stoopid". There are good tracks on those records, but none of them has the sheer brutality and power of "Raise your Fist and Yell".

Buy this CD for the three following reasons:

1. "Chop! Chop! Chop!'
2. "Gail"
3. "Roses On White Lace"

This trilogy is absolutely some of the best material Alice ever delivered. They tell the murderous tale of a psychotic monster on the prowl that "keeps the city so clean." Absolutely haunting and a incredible audio ride that stirs up some very disturbing Saturday night horror flick imagery. EXCELLENT STUFF!

The rest of the album is more basic late 80's hard rock - NOT to be confused with "hair metal" in any way, shape or form! This is Alice Cooper, not Poison! Yes, THAT was a name of one of his "hits" wasn't it? Well, I have to say that this CD came out a couple years before MTV discovered Alice and turned him into a video star.

"Raise Your Fist And Yell" is his best offering of the decade. Not too far in front of "Constrictor" - but ahead just the same.