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Most Killer Songs: No. 3

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'Cold Ethyl'
--Alice Cooper (1975)

Victim: Ethyl
Weapon: One could only imagine
Gory Details: Ethyl sure is frigid, but you would be, too, if your corpse was locked in a freezer. He doesn't disclose details of her demise, but we can safely assume that this twisted necrophiliac had something to do with it. He says, "If I live till '97/You'll still be waiting in refrigerator heaven." Talk about freezer burn!
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Recap55115

While the song has duel meaning (necrophilia and alcohol), I think the lines point more to necrophilia:

One thing, no lie
Ethyl's frigid as an Eskimo pie
She's cool, in bed
Well, she ought to be, cause Ethyl's dead.

While "Cold Ethyl" is one of my favorite songs, I think appropriate songs for this list would be "Steven" and The Awakening" from the same album.

May 18 2010 at 2:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Tess

These "killer" songs are weak. Check out any Black Metal. You want necrophelia?

May 18 2010 at 2:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Heather

Oh dear, that picture of him is rather scary..

June 08 2009 at 11:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
beefboi

This was not Alice Cooper's first song about necraphelia (sp?) either. Check out "I love the dead." Talk about over the top. I believe they brought in a string section for that one. They (meaning Alice and his underrated early band)used to close the show with that and at the climax Alice himself gets beheaded. Years later Joey Ramone said in an interview that he was dissapointed when he found out that Alice wasn't really a necrapheliac, his father was a man of the cloth (which explains a lot) and that he played golf.

August 22 2008 at 11:23 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Gen

This song is a dual pun; it's about necrophilia, because he's Alice Cooper. But it's also about alcohol.

August 10 2008 at 5:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
screxie

yeah doin' it with a dead chick is pretty sick so I'm gonna go with steve on this one

July 03 2008 at 9:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Norm

good idea!!!

July 02 2008 at 11:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Norm

this song is not about killing anybody!!! its about "doing it" with cold ethyl,a allready dead chick!! she could be dead fom old age(yuck!),heart attack at 12(yuck,not the heartatack but the age),or what ever!!! this song rocks!!!musiscally(sp..sorry)

July 02 2008 at 11:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
steve

DO YOU THINK THAT MAYBE HE'S TALKING ABOUT ETHYL--ALCOHOL--HE IS A RECOVERING ALCOHOLIC...IN THE FREEZER...BY THE LIGHT OF THE FRIDGE..NOT A CORPSE..ALCOHOL!

May 02 2008 at 9:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
dmenty

I dunno, as much as Cold Ethyl rocks, later tracks on Welcome to my Nightmare, such as Steven offer a darker killer. I mean, the more memorable murdering occurs later. Not to mention better enactments of murder. But I guess Cold Ethyl is the fun track with lots of silly puns. In any case, I'm glad something from the album made it on

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