Album · 25 years old this year
Dragontown
Dragontown is Alice Cooper's album of 18 September 2001, issued through Eagle Records. It follows Brutal Planet from 2000 and carries on in the same heavier vein, leaning on metal and industrial textures rather than the glossier hard rock of some of his earlier records. Together they make a darker, grittier pairing in his catalogue, and it sits just before The Eyes of Alice Cooper in 2003.
It was a quiet release commercially. It reached number 12 on Billboard's Top Independent Albums chart and number 197 on the Billboard 200, and it was the first Cooper studio album to come without any singles. The Descent into Dragontown tour ran through 2001 and 2002, though only four of its songs were played, and just "Sex, Death and Money" and "Fantasy Man" lasted to the end. That rarity is part of the appeal for anyone wanting to hear a side of Cooper that rarely gets an airing.
Dragontown: tracklist, credits and charts
12 tracks · 51:17Tracklist
- 1TriggermanAlice Cooper and Bob Marlette4:01
- 2DeeperAlice Cooper and Bob Marlette4:36
- 3DragontownAlice Cooper and Bob Marlette5:07
- 4Sex, Death and MoneyAlice Cooper and Bob Marlette3:40
- 5Fantasy ManAlice Cooper and Bob Marlette4:08
- 6Somewhere in the JungleAlice Cooper and Bob Marlette5:23
- 7DisgracelandAlice Cooper and Bob Marlette3:34
- 8Sister SaraAlice Cooper and Bob Marlette4:36
- 9Every Woman Has a NameAlice Cooper and Bob Marlette3:45
- 10I Just Wanna Be GodAlice Cooper and Bob Marlette3:54
- 11It’s Much Too LateAlice Cooper and Bob Marlette4:40
- 12The SentinelAlice Cooper and Bob Marlette3:53
- Produced by
- Bob Marlette, Alice Cooper
- Executive producer
- Bob Ezrin
- Mixed by
- Bob Marlette
- Mixed at
- Henson Recording Studios
- Engineered by
- Bob Marlette
- Recorded
- 2001
- Labels
- Eagle Records, Spitfire
- Length
- 51:17
Line-up
- Alice Cooper · lead vocals
Peak chart positions
| Chart | Peak |
|---|---|
| UK Albums Chart · 2001 | 87 |
| US Billboard 200 · 2001 | 197 |
| UK Rock & Metal Albums · 2001 | 6 |
| US Independent Albums · 2001 | 12 |
| Swedish Albums · 2001 | 41 |
| German Albums · 2001 | 54 |
| Austrian Albums · 2001 | 75 |
| Scottish Albums · 2001 | 98 |
| Swiss Albums · 2001 | 98 |
| French Albums · 2001 | 142 |
All 11 charts
| Australian Albums (ARIA) · 2001 | 182 |
From MusicBrainz, Wikipedia and Wikidata. Only what the sources record is shown.
42.6
Popularity (0–100, vs the whole vault)
447
ListenBrainz listeners
18k
Wikipedia views, last 12 months
1.5k
Deezer fans (all editions)
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Releases and pressings
How we know the release date wikipedia + wikidata; also seen: 2001-10-24 (musicbrainz)
| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 24 October 2001 | ignored lone early release dated 2001-09-18 |
| Wikipedia infobox | 18 September 2001 | |
| Wikidata | 18 September 2001 | |
| US release | 18 September 2001 | earliest US date |
| UK / Europe release | 2001 | earliest UK or European date |
12 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | CA | IndieBlu Music | 670211520064 | other |
| — | XW | IndieBlu Music | 670211520026 | other |
| 2001 | GB | Eagle Records | 5034504118126 | other |
| 2001 | DE | Eagle Records | 5034504118126 | other |
| 18 September 2001 | US | Spitfire Records | 670211520026 | original |
| 24 October 2001 | JP | Victor | 4988002423194 | other |
| 24 September 2002 | US | Spitfire Records | 670211508925 | deluxe |
| 28 October 2002 | GB | Eagle Records | 5036369118167 | other |
| 11 February 2003 | CA | IndieBlu Music | 670211508925 | deluxe |
| 2011 | GB | Back on Black | 803341343597 | other |
| 18 September 2020 | XE | earMUSIC | 4029759143178 | other |
| 17 September 2021 | US | eOne | 634164659721 | other |
Cover art sources
coverartarchive · cropped: cropped from 2836x2813 to 2813x2813
| Source | Size | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| coverartarchive ✓ | 2836×2813 | cropped: cropped from 2836x2813 to 2813x2813 |
| deezer | 1200×1200 | upscaled |
| fanarttv | 1000×1000 | upscaled |