Song · Alice Cooper
“Elected” by Alice Cooper
From the album Billion Dollar Babies (1973)
“Elected” by Alice Cooper appears on 14 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 1990 and 2022. It was first released in 1973 on the album Billion Dollar Babies. Its best result is #343 on the WCSX Rock & Roll 500 (2021).
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"Elected" was the first single the Alice Cooper band lifted from Billion Dollar Babies, their sixth album, and it plays the 1972 US presidential race for laughs: Alice, scourge of the planet, on the ballot. Cooper called it pure political satire from a band that hated politics. It's hard rock with a glam swagger, and the riff and part of the tune were salvaged from "Reflected" on their 1969 album Pretties for You.
Bob Ezrin produced, and all five of them share the writing credit: Alice up front, Michael Bruce and Glen Buxton on guitars, Dennis Dunaway on bass, Neal Smith on drums. It made 26 in the US during election week, 4 in Britain and 3 in Austria. John Lennon loved it, though he figured Paul McCartney would have done it better, and Cooper agreed; Joey Ramone, Cooper says, owned up to its likeness in "I Wanna Be Sedated".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 572 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
| 1994 | 478 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) | 1000 |
| 1995 | 604 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) | 1000 |
| 1996 | 531 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) | 1000 |
| 1998 | 688 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) | 1000 |
| 1999 | 593 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) | 998 |
| 2011 | 902 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1100 Countdown (2011) | 1100 |
| 2012 | 948 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1200 Countdown (2012) | 1200 |
| 2013 | 540 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Grand Jam 1000 (2013) | 1000 |
| 2014 | 743 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX 1K Countdown (2014) | 1000 |
| 2015 | 541 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Classic Rock Countdown (2015) | 1007 |
| 2016 | 707 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Countdown for 2016 | 1007 |
| 2021 | 343 | WCSX | WCSX Rock & Roll 500 (2021) | 499 |
| 2022 | 722 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '70s | 908 |
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