Raise Your Fist and Yell
Raise Your Fist and Yell is the 17th studio album by rock musician Alice Cooper released on September 28th 1987. It features the track “Prince of Darkness”, which is featured very briefly in the John Carpenter film of the same name, in which Cooper has a cameo as a murderous vagrant. The song can be heard on the Walkman of one of his victims. A music video was made for the song “Freedom”, which also became the album's sole single.
The album continues the slasher film trend created by Cooper’s previous album Constrictor. The track “Lock Me Up” features a guest appearance from Robert Englund, who portrayed Freddy Krueger in the A Nightmare On Elm Street series.
The album cover for Raise Your Fist and Yell was painted by artist Jim Warren.
Tour
The infamous tour for the album, dubbed “Live in the Flesh,” was notorious in Europe in 1988 for its graphic violence and theatricality. The show included many of Cooper’s old favourites, such as the gallows (for the first time since 1972), but offered new theatrics such as impaling a person with a bike (this was also seen in John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness, used by Cooper in a cameo role as a vagrant killing one of the characters). Most of the tour's more violent acts were heavily inspired by the horror movies of the time, by including graphic onstage deaths and large amounts of stage blood. Cooper has been said to be a big fan of these movies.
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Raise Your Fist
by: Running WildFriday night, dressed to kill, hell bent for the show
Shiny leather like a second skin, ready for their first row
You want to go to meet your pals, but your dad won't let you go
He's totally blind, babbling wild and he rages and he blows
"I don't want you boy to live my house this way
Your, your awful friends are gonna lead you astray
You better work for school don't join this fucking show
I won't let you go"
Come on kids unite and let us feel the flame of rage
Together we are strong so let's tear up this golden cage
We shall overcome repression and their strangling strings
The shackles have to fall and we will be Metallian kings
Raise your fist, raise your fist
Raise your fist, high
Raise your fist, raise your fist
Raise your fist, high
Monday morning, ringing school bell, homework isn't done
Teacher's gonna break your balls, don't expect no fun
The jailor's wild and furious, classmates deride you too
The wrath is overwhelming you, can't stand this fucking crew
"I don't want you scums let me get away from here
I don't want to be a cogwheel in your gear
I'm not a marionette in your boring puppet show
So let me go"
Come on kids unite and let us feel the flame of rage
Together we are strong so let's tear up this golden cage
We shall overcome repression and their strangling strings
The shackles have to fall and we will be Metallian kings
Raise your fist, raise your fist
Raise your fist, high
Raise your fist, raise your fist
Raise your fist, high
Come on kids unite and let us feel the flame of rage
Together we are strong so let's tear up this golden cage
We shall overcome repression and their strangling strings
The shackles have to fall and we will be Metallian kings
Raise your fist, raise your fist
Raise your fist, high
Raise your fist, raise your fist