Raise Your Fist and Yell
Raise Your Fist and Yell is Alice Cooper's tenth solo album and seventeenth studio album overall, released on 5 September 1987 by MCA Records. It follows Constrictor, and carries on that record's fondness for slasher-film imagery. Robert Englund, the man behind Freddy Krueger in the A Nightmare on Elm Street films, turns up as a guest on "Lock Me Up", while "Prince of Darkness" is heard briefly in John Carpenter's film of the same name, where Cooper also appears as a murderous vagrant. The song plays on the Walkman of one of his victims.
Hard rock and heavy metal sit at the heart of the sound. "Freedom" was the album's only single and came with a video. It is also a one-off line-up: Ken K. Mary is on drums here and on no other Cooper record, and Kip Winger plays bass for the second and last time. Jim Warren painted the cover. For Cooper fans, it's a good snapshot of his late-eighties horror-metal phase.
Raise Your Fist and Yell: tracklist, credits and charts
10 tracks · 37:00Tracklist
- 1FreedomAlice Cooper and Kane Roberts4:10
- 2Lock Me UpAlice Cooper and Kane Roberts3:25
- 3Give the Radio BackAlice Cooper and Kane Roberts3:34
- 4Step on YouAlice Cooper and Kane Roberts3:40
- 5Not That Kind of LoveAlice Cooper and Kane Roberts3:15
- 6Prince of DarknessAlice Cooper and Kane Roberts5:11
- 7Time to KillAlice Cooper and Kane Roberts3:39
- 8Chop, Chop, ChopAlice Cooper and Kane Roberts3:07
- 9GailCooper, Roberts, Winger2:30
- 10Roses on White LaceAlice Cooper and Kane Roberts4:28
- Produced by
- Michael Wagener
- Recorded at
- Amigo Studios
- Recorded
- 1987
- Mixed by
- Michael Wagener
- Engineered by
- Garth Richardson, Michael Wagener
- Labels
- MCA Records, MCA
- Length
- 37:00
Line-up
- Alice Cooper · lead vocals
- Kip Winger · keyboard, background vocals · guest
Singles
- “Freedom” · November 1987
Peak chart positions
| Chart | Peak |
|---|---|
| UK Albums Chart · 1986 | 48 |
| US Billboard 200 · 1986 | 73 |
| Swedish Albums · 1986 | 15 |
| Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) · 1986 | 36 |
| Canadian Albums (RPM) · 1986 | 66 |
Certifications
| Region | Certification |
|---|---|
| Canada · 1988 | Gold |
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Releases and pressings
How we know the release date wikipedia + wikidata; also seen: 1987-09-28 (musicbrainz)
| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 28 September 1987 | |
| Wikipedia infobox | 5 September 1987 | |
| Wikidata | 5 September 1987 | |
| US release | 28 September 1987 | earliest US date |
| UK / Europe release | 1987 | earliest UK or European date |
10 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | XE | MCA Records | 5011781339222 | other |
| — | AF | Geffen | 5011781339222 | other |
| 1987 | XE | MCA Records | 022925507426 | other |
| 1987 | XE | MCA Records | other | |
| 1987 | CA | MCA Records | 076742209124 | other |
| 1987 | JP | MCA Records | 076742209124 | other |
| 1987 | XE | MCA Records | 5011781339222 | other |
| 28 September 1987 | US | MCA Records | 076742209124 | original |
| 28 September 1987 | US | MCA Records | 076742209117 | original |
| 28 November 1987 | JP | MCA Records | 4988014356831 | other |
Cover art sources
coverartarchive · upscaled: major: best source 1382x1389, upscaled to 1500 (x1.09)
| Source | Size | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| coverartarchive ✓ | 1382×1389 | upscaled: major: best source 1382x1389, upscaled to 1500 (x1.09) |
| deezer | 1200×1200 | upscaled |
| fanarttv | 1000×1000 | upscaled |