From the Inside (Alice Cooper album)

Infobox Album | Name = From the Inside
Type = Album
Artist = Alice Cooper


Released = December 1978
Recorded =
Genre = Rock, hard rock, pop rock
Length = 39:08
Label = Warner Bros.
Producer = David Foster
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:37d3vwmva9uk~T1 link]
*"Rolling Stone" (mixed) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/alicecooper/albums/album/150854/review/5946758/from_the_inside link]
Last album = "The Alice Cooper Show"
(1977)
This album = "From the Inside"
(1978)
Next album = "Flush the Fashion"
(1980) |

"From the Inside" is a concept album by Alice Cooper, released in 1978. It was inspired by Cooper's stay in a New York sanitarium due to his alcoholism. Each of the characters in the songs were based on actual people Cooper met in the sanitarium.

Track listing

# "From the Inside" (Alice Cooper, Dick Wagner, Bernie Taupin, David Foster) – 3:55
# "Wish I Were Born in Beverly Hills" - (Cooper, Wagner, Taupin) – 3:38
# "The Quiet Room" (Cooper, Wagner, Taupin) – 3:52
# "Nurse Rozetta" (Cooper, Steve Lukather, Taupin, Foster) – 4:15
# "Millie and Billie" (Cooper, Taupin, Bruce Roberts) – 4:15
# "Serious" (Cooper, Lukather, Taupin, Foster) – 2:44
# "How You Gonna See Me Now" (Cooper, Wagner, Taupin) – 3:57
# "For Veronica's Sake" (Cooper, Wagner, Taupin) – 3:57
# "Jackknife Johnny" (Cooper, Wagner, Taupin) – 3:45
# "Inmates (We're All Crazy)" (Cooper, Wagner, Taupin) – 5:03

One of three Alice Cooper albums to be reissued in 1990 by Metal Blade records on CD and cassette.The other two were "Muscle of Love" and "Lace & Whiskey". All three are now out of print.

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Singles - Billboard (North America)"From the Inside" was released in an edited version as a promotional single, with Nurse Rozetta as the B-Side.

How You Gonna See Me Now was released with a B-Side called "No Tricks". This is the only time a non-album song was released on a single. The song is now available on CD in the box set.