Album
Along Came a Spider
Along Came a Spider is Alice Cooper's eighteenth solo album and twenty-fifth studio album overall, released on 29 July 2008 through Steamhammer/SPV. It's a hard rock and heavy metal concept record following a psychopathic serial killer who calls himself Spider, and it traces how his plans eventually come apart.
It arrived after Dirty Diamonds in 2005 and before Welcome 2 My Nightmare in 2011, and it went down well with listeners. It became Cooper's highest-charting studio album in the United States since Hey Stoopid in 1991. If you like your Alice with a proper storyline and a darker, heavier edge, this is the one to put on and follow from start to finish.
Along Came a Spider: tracklist, credits and charts
11 tracks · 44:18Tracklist
- 1Prologue / I Know Where You LiveCooper, Hampton, Saber4:21
- 2Vengeance Is MineCooper, Hampton, Saber, Slash4:26
- 3Wake the DeadCooper, Osbourne, Saber3:53
- 4Catch Me If You CanCooper, Hampton, Saber3:15
- 5(In Touch With) Your Feminine SideCooper, Garric, Johnson, Kelli3:16
- 6Wrapped in SilkCooper, Hampton, Saber4:17
- 7Killed by LoveBacchi, Cooper, Garric, Kelli3:34
- 8I’m HungryCooper, Hampton, Saber3:58
- 9The One That Got AwayCooper, Kelli, Lane3:21
- 10SalvationCooper, Fowler, Hampton, Saber4:36
- 11I Am the Spider / EpilogueCooper, Hampton, Saber5:21
- Produced by
- Alice Cooper, Greg Hampton, Danny Saber
- Recorded at
- Hampton Hacienda Lab, Undercity Studios, Wonderland Studios (Hampton Hacienda Lab, Undercity Recordings), Undercity Recordings
- Recorded
- 2007–2008
- Mixed by
- Fabrizio Grossi, Danny Saber
- Mixed at
- Encore Recording Studios
- Engineered by
- Jeremy MacKenzie, Eric Thoms
- Label
- Steamhammer
- Length
- 44:18
Line-up
- Danny Saber · guitar, keyboard, bass guitar, bass synthesizer, slide guitar, piano
- Eric Singer · drums (drum set)
- Alice Cooper · lead vocals, background vocals
- Bernard Fowler · background vocals
- Greg Hampton · background vocals, guitar, strings, bass guitar, keyboard
- Chuck Garric · bass guitar, background vocals
- Slash · guitar · guest
- Jason Hook · guitar · guest
- Keri Kelli · guitar
- Ozzy Osbourne · harmonica · guest
- Calico Cooper · background vocals, spoken vocals · guest
- Steffen Presley · Hammond organ · guest
- Whitey Kirst · guitar · guest
- David Piribauer · drums (drum set) · guest
Peak chart positions
| Chart | Peak |
|---|---|
| UK Albums Chart · 2008 | 31 |
| US Billboard 200 · 2008 | 53 |
| UK Rock & Metal Albums · 2008 | 3 |
| US Hard Rock · 2008 | 6 |
| US Independent Albums · 2008 | 6 |
| Canadian Albums (Billboard) · 2008 | 19 |
| US Top Rock Albums · 2008 | 22 |
| Swedish Albums · 2008 | 25 |
| German Albums · 2008 | 26 |
| Finnish Albums · 2008 | 31 |
All 18 charts
| Hungarian Albums · 2008 | 32 |
| Norwegian Albums · 2008 | 33 |
| Scottish Albums · 2008 | 34 |
| Austrian Albums · 2008 | 37 |
| Swiss Albums · 2008 | 37 |
| Dutch Albums · 2008 | 76 |
| French Albums · 2008 | 101 |
| Australian Albums (ARIA) · 2008 | 147 |
From MusicBrainz, Wikipedia and Wikidata. Only what the sources record is shown.
44.0
Popularity (0–100, vs the whole vault)
715
ListenBrainz listeners
15k
Wikipedia views, last 12 months
1.4k
Deezer fans (all editions)
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Releases and pressings
How we know the release date wikipedia + wikidata; also seen: 2008-07-25 (musicbrainz)
| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 25 July 2008 | |
| Wikipedia infobox | 29 July 2008 | |
| Wikidata | 29 July 2008 | |
| US release | 29 July 2008 | earliest US date |
11 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | US | Steamhammer | 693723906027 | other |
| 2008 | AR | Icarus Music | 693723906027 | other |
| 25 July 2008 | DE | Steamhammer | 693723906027 | original |
| 29 July 2008 | US | Steamhammer | 693723906027 | other |
| 29 July 2008 | DE | Steamhammer | 693723906010 | other |
| 2010 | US | Bigger Picture | 093624959847 | other |
| 2011 | DE | Bigger Picture | 936249633870 | other |
| 1 February 2011 | DE | Bigger Picture | 093624963387 | other |
| 2012 | US | UMe | 602537067206 | other |
| 4 December 2012 | US | UMe | other | |
| 31 January 2020 | XW | earMUSIC | 4029759148708 | other |
Cover art sources
deezer · upscaled: major: best source 1200x1200, upscaled to 1500 (x1.25)
| Source | Size | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| deezer ✓ | 1200×1200 | upscaled: major: best source 1200x1200, upscaled to 1500 (x1.25) |
| fanarttv | 1000×1000 | upscaled |
| coverartarchive | 600×537 | rejected |