Welcome to My Nightmare

Welcome to My Nightmare is a concept album by Alice Cooper, released in 1975. This was Alice Cooper's first solo album (all previous Alice Cooper releases were band efforts). The cover artwork was created by Drew Struzan. Rolling Stone Magazine would later vote it as one of the Top 100 Album Covers Of All Time.^{[citation needed]}

Welcome to My Nightmare is a concept album. The songs, heard in sequence, form a journey through the nightmares of a man named Steven.

A Halloween favorite^{[citation needed]} and a renowned rock album,^{[citation needed]} Welcome to My Nightmare inspired the Alice Cooper: The Nightmare TV special and a worldwide concert tour in 1975, and the Welcome To My Nightmare concert film in 1976.

A line in the song Cold Ethyl references Refrigerator Heaven, a song from Alice's second album, 1970's Easy Action.

The remastered CD version adds three alternate version bonus tracks.

[edit] Track listing

"Welcome to My Nightmare" (Alice Cooper, Dick Wagner) – 5:19
"Devil's Food" (Cooper, Bob Ezrin, Kelly Jay, Vincent Price) – 3:38
"The Black Widow" (Cooper, Wagner, Ezrin) – 3:37
"Some Folks" (Cooper, Ezrin, Alan Gordon) – 4:19
"Only Women Bleed" (Cooper, Wagner) – 5:49
"Department of Youth" (Cooper, Wagner, Ezrin) – 3:18
"Cold Ethyl" (Cooper, Ezrin) – 2:51
"Years Ago" (Cooper, Wagner) – 2:51
"Steven" (Cooper, Ezrin) – 5:52
"The Awakening" (Cooper, Wagner, Ezrin) – 2:25
"Escape" (Cooper, Mark Anthony, Kim Fowley) – 3:20

[edit] Personnel

Alice Cooper - Vocals
Bob Ezrin - Synthesizer, Arranger, Keyboards, Vocals, Producer, Fender Rhodes, Remixing, Mixing, Remix Producer
Vincent Price - Special Effects, Vocals
Dick Wagner - Guitar, Vocals
Steve Hunter - Guitar
Josef Chirowski - Synthesizer, Keyboards, Vocals, Clavinet, Fender Rhodes
Prakash John - Bass
Tony Levin - Bass
Pentti "Whitey" Glan - Drums
Johnny Badanjek - Drums
Greg Allen - Art Direction, Design
Craig Anderson - Mastering
Bob Brown - Second Unit Director
Spencer Chrislu - Author
David Ezrin - Vocals
Jim Frank - Engineer
Dan Hersch - Mastering
Bill Inglot - Mastering
Bret Lopez - Photography
Gary Lyons - Vocals
Gerry Lyons - Vocals
Allan MacMillan - Arranger
Toby B. Mamis - Project Assistant
Trish McKinnon
Jeff Morgan - Liner Notes
Brian Nelson - Project Assistant
Rod O'Brien - Engineer
David Palmer - Engineer
Phil Ramone - Engineer
Mike Reese - Mastering
Michael Sherman - Vocals, Production Assistant
Ed Sprigg - Engineer
Corky Stasiak - Engineer
Julee Stover - Editorial Supervision
Drew Struzan - Artwork
Charlie Watts - Mastering
Gerry Yons - Guitar

[edit] Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1975	Pop Albums	5

Singles - Billboard (North America)

1975	"Only Women Bleed" (released as "Only Women")	Pop Singles	12
1975	"Department of Youth"	Pop Singles	67
1975	"Welcome to My Nightmare"	Pop Singles	45

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Studio albums	Pretties for You \| Easy Action \| Love It to Death \| Killer \| School's Out \| Billion Dollar Babies \| Muscle of Love \| Welcome to My Nightmare \| Alice Cooper Goes to Hell \| Lace and Whiskey \| From the Inside \| Flush the Fashion \| Special Forces \| Zipper Catches Skin \| DaDa \| Constrictor \| Raise Your Fist and Yell \| Trash \| Hey Stoopid \| The Last Temptation \| Brutal Planet \| Dragontown \| The Eyes of Alice Cooper \| Dirty Diamonds \| Along Came a Spider

Live albums	The Alice Cooper Show \| A Fistful of Alice \| Live at Cabo Wabo '96 \| Live at Montreux 2005

Compilations and box-sets	Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits \| Prince of Darkness \| The Beast Of Alice Cooper \| Classicks \| A Nice Nightmare \| Freedom For Frankenstein: Hits & Pieces 1984 – 1991 \| Super Hits \| The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper \| Mascara & Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper \| The Definitive Alice Cooper \| The Essentials: Alice Cooper \| Hell Is \| He's Back (album) \| He's Back \| Poison \| School's Out and Other Hits \| Pick Up The Bones

Videos	DVD and VHS: Good To See You Again, Alice Cooper \| Welcome To My Nightmare \| The Nightmare Returns \| Alice Cooper Trashes The World \| Prime Cuts \| British Rock Symphony \| Brutally Live \| Live at Montreux 2005 VHS only: The Nightmare \| Alice Cooper and Friends \| The Strange Case of Alice Cooper \| Video Trash

Singles	"I'm Eighteen" \| "Under My Wheels" \| "Be My Lover" \| "School's Out" \| "No More Mr. Nice Guy" \| "Billion Dollar Babies" \| "Muscle of Love" \| "Only Women Bleed" \| "Department of Youth" \| "Welcome to My Nightmare" \| "You and Me" \| "From The Inside" \| "I Love America" \| "He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)" \| "Poison" \| "Hey Stoopid!"

Related articles	Bob Ezrin \| Garage rock \| Shock rock \| Hard rock \| Heavy metal \| Nights with Alice Cooper \| Solid Rock Foundation \| "The Garden" \| Mr. Monk and the Garbage Strike