Alice Cooper (September 18, 2001) – Dragontown Album Release
Dragontown is the fifteenth solo and twenty‑second studio album overall by Alice Cooper. Released in 2001 on Spitfire Records, the album continues the heavier industrial‑metal and hard‑rock direction established on Brutal Planet. It peaked at #12 on Billboard’s Top Independent Albums chart and #197 on the Billboard 200 — Cooper’s lowest album chart performance since 1983’s DaDa, which did not chart at all.
This is the first Alice Cooper studio album to contain no singles. Although Cooper toured the album with his Descent into Dragontown tour in 2001 and 2002, only four songs — Sex, Death and Money, Fantasy Man, Every Woman Has a Name, and Triggerman — were performed live, with only Sex, Death and Money and Fantasy Man remaining in the setlist through the tour’s end. Aside from five performances of Disgraceland in July 2003, nothing from Dragontown has been performed live since.
Album Details
Released: September 18, 2001
Recorded: 2001
Length: 50:48 (69:11 Special Edition)
Labels: Spitfire
Producer: Alice Cooper; Bob Marlette
Chronology:
The Definitive Alice Cooper (2001) → Dragontown (2001) →
The Essentials: Alice Cooper (2002)
Packaging
Special Edition released September 24, 2002, limited to 7,500 units. Includes original album + bonus disc.
Reception
AllMusic — ★★★★
Rolling Stone — Favorable
HM Magazine — Positive review
Catalogue number: [Catalogue number]
CD Release (2001)
• Triggerman — 4:00
• Deeper — 4:36
• Dragontown — 5:06
• Sex, Death and Money — 3:39
• Fantasy Man — 4:05
• Somewhere in the Jungle — 5:22
• Disgraceland — 3:34
• Sister Sara — 4:35
• Every Woman Has a Name — 3:45
• I Just Wanna Be God — 3:53
• It’s Much Too Late — 4:40
• The Sentinel — 3:53
Bonus tracks (2002 Special Edition)
• Can’t Sleep, Clowns Will Eat Me — 4:09
• Go to Hell (live) — Cooper, Dick Wagner, Bob Ezrin — 3:48
• Ballad of Dwight Fry (live) — Cooper, Michael Bruce — 4:27
• Brutal Planet (remix) — 5:27
Personnel
Alice Cooper — vocals
Ryan Roxie — guitar
Greg Smith — bass
Session musicians
Tim Pierce — guitar
Wayne Swinny — guitar
Bob Marlette — rhythm guitar, bass, keyboards, programming, string arrangement
Sid Riggs — keyboards, programming
Teddy Andreadis — backing vocals
Eric Dover — backing vocals
Calico Cooper — backing vocals
Gionvanna Morana — backing vocals
Kenny Aronoff — drums
Technical
Alice Cooper — producer
Bob Marlette — producer
Charts
Chart (2001) — Peak Position
Australia — 182
Austria — 75
France — 142
Germany — 54
Scotland — 98
Sweden — 41
Switzerland — 98
UK — 87
UK Rock & Metal — 6
USA Billboard 200 — 197
USA Independent Albums — 12
SOURCES Discogs, 45 World, Wikipedia, BBC Official Charts.
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