Album
Dirty Diamonds
Dirty Diamonds is Alice Cooper's seventeenth solo album and his twenty-fourth studio album overall, released on 4 July 2005 on Spitfire Records. It is a straight-ahead rock and hard rock record, and it follows The Eyes of Alice Cooper from 2003 in a run that had seen him working in a leaner, more guitar-driven style.
The album gave him a welcome lift on the American charts. It reached number 169 on the Billboard 200 and number 17 on the Billboard Top Independent Albums chart. That made it his highest-charting album since The Last Temptation, eleven years earlier. It is worth a listen if you want to hear Cooper in the mid-2000s, still turning out hard rock records and finding a fresh audience for them. Along Came a Spider followed in 2008.
Dirty Diamonds: tracklist, credits and charts
13 tracks · 46:53Tracklist
- 1Woman of Mass DistractionBoston, Cooper, Garric, Johnson, Roxie4:00
- 2PerfectCooper, Johnson, Roxie3:31
- 3You Make Me WannaBoston, Cooper, Garric, Roxie3:31
- 4Dirty DiamondsBoston, Cooper, Garric, Johnson4:03
- 5The Saga of Jesse JaneAlice Cooper and Ryan Roxie4:17
- 6Sunset Babies (All Got Rabies)Cooper, Johnson, Roxie3:28
- 7Pretty BallerinaMichael Brown3:02
- 8Run Down the DevilCooper, Elizondo, Hudson, Hughes3:29
- 9Steal That CarCooper, Garric, Johnson, Roxie3:16
- 10Six HoursAlice Cooper and Ryan Roxie3:24
- 11Your Own Worst EnemyAlice Cooper and Ryan Roxie2:19
- 12Zombie DanceBoston, Cooper, Roxie4:24
- 13StandBenenate, Boston, Cooper, Xzibit4:09
- Produced by
- Rick Boston, Steve Lindsey
- Recorded at
- Future House Studios (Culver City, CA & Westside Independent Studios, Beverly Hills, CA), Westside Independent Studios, Phantom Studio
- Mixed by
- Dave Way
- Mixed at
- Way Station
- Engineered by
- Adam Hawkins, Gabe Veltri, Rick Boston
- Labels
- Spitfire Records, New West, Spitfire
- Length
- 46:53
Line-up
- Lenny Castro · tambourine, percussion
- Tommy Clufetos · drums (drum set)
- Chuck Garric · bass guitar, guitar
- Damon Johnson · guitar, bass guitar
- Steve Lindsey · organ, Moog, guitar, tambourine, shakers, keyboard, piano, strings
- Alice Cooper · lead vocals
- Benji Hughes · background vocals · guest
- Mark Hollingsworth · saxophone, flute · guest
- Peggi Blu · background vocals · guest
- Edna Wright · background vocals · guest
- Rick Boston · guitar, acoustic guitar, 12 string guitar, bass guitar
- Chris Tedesco · trumpet · guest
- Tony Gilkyson · electric guitar · guest
- Mark Lennon · background vocals · guest
- Teddy Andreadis · piano, organ · guest
- Jim Cox · keyboard · guest
- Bridget Benenate · background vocals · guest
- Dinah Englund · background vocals · guest
- Mike Elizondo · bass guitar, guitar · guest
- John “JR” Robinson · drums (drum set) · guest
- Mark Hudson · background vocals · guest
- Daniel Lenz · sampler, synthesizer · guest
- Lyle Workman · guitar · guest
- Xzibit · vocals · guest
Peak chart positions
| Chart | Peak |
|---|---|
| UK Albums Chart · 2005 | 89 |
| US Billboard 200 · 2005 | 169 |
| UK Rock & Metal Albums · 2005 | 6 |
| US Independent Albums · 2005 | 17 |
| Swedish Albums · 2005 | 40 |
| Austrian Albums · 2005 | 66 |
| German Albums · 2005 | 71 |
| Dutch Albums · 2005 | 88 |
| Scottish Albums · 2005 | 91 |
| French Albums · 2005 | 159 |
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Releases and pressings
How we know the release date wikipedia + musicbrainz + wikidata
| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 4 July 2005 | |
| Wikipedia infobox | 4 July 2005 (GB) | |
| Wikidata | 4 July 2005 | |
| Wikipedia (other date) | 2 August 2005 (US) | |
| US release | 2 August 2005 | earliest US date |
| UK / Europe release | 4 July 2005 | earliest UK or European date |
10 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | DE | Spitfire Records | 5036369525729 | other |
| 4 July 2005 | RU | CD‐Maximum | 4607092399171 | original |
| 4 July 2005 | AU | Spitfire Records | 9336043000037 | original |
| 2 August 2005 | AL | New West Records | 607396607839 | other |
| 2 August 2005 | US | New West Records | 607396607822 | other |
| 2010 | DE | Armoury Records | 5036369752620 | other |
| 2013 | US | New West Records | other | |
| 13 April 2019 | US | New West Records | 607396530014 | other |
| 8 November 2019 | US | New West Records | 607396535514 | other |
| 18 September 2020 | XE | earMUSIC | 4029759143192 | other |
Cover art sources
fanarttv · upscaled: major: best source 1000x1000, upscaled to 1500 (x1.50)
| Source | Size | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| fanarttv ✓ | 1000×1000 | upscaled: major: best source 1000x1000, upscaled to 1500 (x1.50) |
| coverartarchive | 3312×2898 | rejected |