Album
DaDa
DaDa is Alice Cooper's eighth solo album and fifteenth studio album overall, released on 28 September 1983 by Warner Bros. Records. It is a hard rock record, and it came out in the middle of a run of early-eighties releases that began with Flush the Fashion in 1980 and continued through Special Forces and Zipper Catches Skin.
It also marks a turning point in his story. DaDa was his last studio album before Constrictor arrived in 1986, when he returned sober and with a fresh, harder-edged sound. That makes it the closing chapter of one period in his career, and a record worth hearing for anyone tracing how he got from the start of the decade to his later comeback.
DaDa: tracklist, credits and charts
9 tracks · 43:07Tracklist
- 1DaDaBob Ezrin4:46
- 2Enough’s EnoughCooper, Ezrin, Shaw, Wagner4:19
- 3Former Lee WarmerCooper, Ezrin, Wagner4:07
- 4No Man’s LandCooper, Ezrin, Wagner3:48
- 5DyslexiaCooper, Ezrin, Shaw, Wagner4:25
- 6Scarlet and ShebaCooper, Ezrin, Wagner5:19
- 7I Love AmericaCooper, Ezrin, Shaw, Wagner3:47
- 8Fresh BloodCooper, Ezrin, Wagner6:53
- 9Pass the Gun AroundAlice Cooper and Dick Wagner5:43
- Produced by
- Bob Ezrin, Robert “Ringo” Hrycyna, Dick Wagner
- Executive producer
- Shep Gordon
- Recorded at
- E.S.P. Studios (Buttonville), Phase One Studios (Toronto)
- Recorded
- Mid-1983
- Engineered by
- Lenny DeRose, Bob Ezrin, Robert “Ringo” Hrycyna
- Labels
- Warner Bros. Records, Warner Bros.
- Length
- 43:07
Line-up
- Bob Ezrin · synthesizer, percussion, drums (drum set), keyboard, background vocals
- Graham Shaw · synthesizer, background vocals
- Dick Wagner · guitar, bass guitar, background vocals
- Alice Cooper · lead vocals
- Richard Kolinka · drums (drum set)
Singles
- “I Love America” · 18 November 1983 (UK)
Peak chart positions
| Chart | Peak |
|---|---|
| UK Albums Chart · 1983 | 93 |
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Releases and pressings
How we know the release date wikipedia + musicbrainz + wikidata
| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 28 September 1983 | |
| Wikipedia infobox | 28 September 1983 (US) | |
| Wikidata | 28 September 1983 | |
| Wikipedia (other date) | 4 November 1983 (GB) | |
| US release | 28 September 1983 | earliest US date |
| UK / Europe release | 4 November 1983 | earliest UK or European date |
7 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | DE | Warner Bros. Records | 075992396929 | other |
| 28 September 1983 | US | Warner Bros. Records | 07599239691 | original |
| 25 June 1990 | JP | Warner Bros. Records | 4988014735001 | other |
| 30 June 1998 | XE | Warner Bros. Records | 075992396929 | other |
| 27 February 2007 | XW | Warner Bros. Records | 603497999842 | other |
| 2009 | US | Collectors’ Choice Music | 617742207828 | other |
| 17 July 2018 | US | Warner Bros. Records | 603497860760 | other |
Cover art sources
deezer · native: native 1800x1800
| Source | Size | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| deezer ✓ | 1800×1800 | native: native 1800x1800 |
| fanarttv | 1000×1000 | upscaled |
| coverartarchive | 600×598 | upscaled |