'Bed Of Nails' is one of the best songs on the album for me. It isn’t a bad song, and slows down the album halfway through which serves as a breather before picking up the pace with 'Bed Of Nails.' Listening to the lyrics always makes me feel like that old cliché where men aren’t supposed to vocalise how they’re feeling because it just wasn’t done, and how hard it is to not say those things. I like my music a little faster than this track and it hasn’t got the sort of intensity that resonates with me either. 'Only My Heart Talkin’' is one song on the album that doesn’t grab me. There’s also some great lyrics in it that I find very memorable and it’s a good addition to Trash. This song also strikes home how false people can be, how someone can promise you the world but can’t follow through. 'Why Trust You' is a track that I often forget when thinking about this album, but when I listen to it it’s got the same energy as much of the album and Cooper sounds like he’s having a lot of fun with the vocals. It’s also a great track to have blaring in the car on a hot summer’s day. It makes me feel like I can do anything I want, if I put my mind to it. There’s a sense of that during passion the right person can bring, but it’s also a song that pumps me up. I really do love the positivity of the song. Its simple lyrics and energy have stuck in my mind from when I first heard it. With 'House of Fire' we get a track that is pure optimism and one of the catchiest tracks on the album. It has that grimy element to it, and strikes home how passionate that early part of a relationship can be. Not as memorable as some of the other tracks on the album but one of my favourites. The conflict of passion for someone who could be so poisonous to you wasn’t something I would experience until years later, with Poison smashing to the forefront of my mind when it did.Īfter Poison we get 'Spark In The Dark'. Compared to the poppy stuff I tended to listen to this felt real, dirty, like an exposed nerve which is felt throughout the album. The first few seconds of 'Poison' crawled from my speakers and straight into my head. The cover of Cooper, head hanging, a leather studded jacket on with a t-shirt that had an image of Alice Cooper on with half of his flesh removed from his face, immediately grabbed me and I remember sticking the disc straight in my Hi-Fi when I got home. It was a few years after seeing Wayne’s World when I was in HMV. The first Alice Cooper album I brought was Trash. I believe it was The Last Temptation as Lost In America is almost ingrained into my eardrums. Being older than me, my brother got hold of an Alice Cooper album before I did.

I can’t speak for my brother, but when Cooper burst through that skeleton and started working his way through Feed My Frankenstein, I was blown away! Not only had I never seen someone who looked like Cooper, but I’d not seen someone with the attitude he had, nor had I heard music like Feed My Frankenstein. We had no idea who Alice Cooper was though. We gleefully noticed Meat Loaf as a club doorman- we’d known of him since getting our Dad a Meat Loaf greatest hits CD for Father’s Day a few years before. I’m pretty sure it was something my brother had come across. I don’t know how it came about but my brother and I were watching Wayne’s World.

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