Department of Youth (song)

1975 single by Alice Cooper

"Department of Youth"

Single by Alice Cooper
from the album  Welcome to My Nightmare
B-side| "Cold Ethyl" (UK)
"Some Folks" (US)
Released| February 1975 (UK)

* August 1975 (US)[1]

Genre| Hard rock
Length| 2:50
Label| Atlantic Records 3280
Songwriter(s)| Alice Cooper, Dick Wagner, Bob Ezrin
Producer(s)| Bob Ezrin
Alice Cooper singles chronology
| "Only Women Bleed"
(1975)  | "Department of Youth"
(1975)  | "Welcome to My Nightmare"
(1975)

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"Department of Youth" is a song by rock musician Alice Cooper featured on his Welcome to My Nightmare album.[2] The song peaked at No. 67 on The Billboard Hot 100.

## Reception

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Creem said the song, "is a second cousin to "School's Out" with a chorus of child-things sounding like Cooper's dead babies resurrected to sing back-up vocals."[3] NME agreed it was, "School's Out" all over again, complete with demented kiddie choir and watered-down Clockwork Orange braggadoccio."[4]

Melody Maker wrote, "This is typical, a heavy metal Marc Bolan. It's gritty and gruesome, but underneath the yells and screaming arrangement, it's really just a simple, catchy pop song. Don't analyse it, just bop as Alice screeches his way up the chart."[5]

Record World said that "the supreme spokesman for angry young men everywhere is even more vital and exciting here."[6]

## Charts

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### Weekly charts

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Chart (1975)  | Peak
position

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Australia (Kent Music Report)[7] | 7
U.S. (Billboard 100)  | 67

### Year-end charts

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Chart (1975)  | Peak
position

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Australia (Kent Music Report)[7] | 35

## Notable covers

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Pretty Boy Floyd covered the song on their album, Porn Stars.[8]

## References

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1. ^ "Great Rock Discography". p. 170.
2. ^ Greg Prato. "Welcome to My Nightmare - Alice Cooper | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-10-10.
3. ^ Jaan Uhelsxki. "Alice Cooper: Welcome To My Nightmare". Rock's Backpages.(Subscription required.)
4. ^ Charles Shaar Murray. "Alice Cooper: Welcome To My Nightmare". Rock's Backpages.(Subscription required.)
5. ^ Colin Irwin. "Singles from Elton John, David Bowie et al". Rock's Backpages.(Subscription required.)
6. ^ "Hits of the Week" (PDF). Record World. August 2, 1975. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-03-09.
7. ^ a b "National Top 100 Singles for 1975". Kent Music Report. December 29, 1975. Retrieved January 15, 2022 – via Imgur.
8. ^ "Porn Stars - Pretty Boy Floyd | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. 1999-08-10. Retrieved 2016-10-10.

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* "Reflected"
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* "Hello Hooray"
* "No More Mr. Nice Guy"
* "Billion Dollar Babies"
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* "Only Women Bleed"
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* "Love's a Loaded Gun"
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* "It's Me"
* "Brutal Planet"
* "Gimme"
* "Keepin' Halloween Alive"

Compilations
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* School Days: The Early Recordings
* Greatest Hits
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* Classicks
* The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper
* Mascara and Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper
* The Definitive Alice Cooper
* The Essentials: Alice Cooper
* Hell Is
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