Alice Cooper : Flush The Fashion

Flush the Fashion

 is the fifth

 solo studio

 album by

 Alice Cooper

released in 1980, 

and produced by 

Roy Thomas Baker. 

Musically, 

the album was a 

drastic change of 

style for Cooper,

 leaning towards a

 new wave influence.

 Though the lead single

 "Clones (We're All)" 

only touched the 

Billboard Top 40,

 the album was Cooper's 

most successful album

 in three years 

and is widely

 considered by fans 

as a hidden gem 

in his musical catalog.

The album’s 

ten tracks

 touch on themes

 such as the

 loss of identity,

 taking on other roles, 

and the usual

 Alice Cooper-esque dementia.

 This is evident even in

 the lyrics of 

Flush the Fashion’s 

cover songs

 (for example the “Clones” single). 

Cooper also performs several 

“story” songs, 

presenting a series of 

intriguing vignettes 

in lieu of more

 traditional subject matter. 

By the time of

 Flush the Fashion, 

after a much-publicized stint

 in a sanitarium in 1977

 for alcoholism and

 subsequent sobriety, 

Cooper had secretly 

developed a heavy addiction

 to cocaine, 

although,

 unlike his

 following three albums

 Cooper has some recollection 

 if not perfect 

 of making

 Flush the Fashion.

Cooper did tour

 the album through

 the United States

 and

 Mexico City

 during 1980, 

playing

 “Clones”,

 “Pain”,

 “Model Citizen”,

 “Grim Facts”,

 “Talk Talk”,

 “Dance Yourself to Death”

 and

 “Nuclear Infected” 

on a regular basis. 

The first four songs

 remained part

 of the set list

 for the

 Special Forces tour

 a year later.

 Apart from

 “Clones”,

 of which there

 were a few irregular

 performances between 

1996 and 2003 

and which was a 

regular part of

 Cooper’s set list 

during the 

2011-2012 

‘No More Mr. Nice Guy’ tour,

 nothing from

 Flush the Fashion 

has been

 performed live

 since 1982.

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