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“Welcome to My Nightmare” by Alice Cooper
“Welcome to My Nightmare” by Alice Cooper appears on 15 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 1990 and 2025. Its best result is #297 on the Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,485 classic rock song of all time.
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"Welcome to My Nightmare" is the title track of Alice Cooper's first album as a solo act, sent out as its third single in 1975, and it's a stranger brew than the horror-show title promises: disco, jazz and hard rock stirred over a heavy but funky beat. Dick Wagner wrote the music and plays acoustic guitar, Cooper wrote the words and Bob Ezrin produced, with Steve Hunter on electric guitar, Tony Levin on bass, Jozef Chirowski on clavinet and Johnny "Bee" Badanjek on drums.
Record World found Alice positively ghoulish on the remixed, edited single. It stalled at 45 on the Hot 100, though AOL Radio later ranked it tenth on a list of the best Halloween songs, and Cooper even sang it on The Muppet Show.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 297 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
| 1994 | 838 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) | 1000 |
| 1995 | 924 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) | 1000 |
| 1996 | 931 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) | 1000 |
| 2011 | 923 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1100 Countdown (2011) | 1100 |
| 2012 | 969 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1200 Countdown (2012) | 1200 |
| 2013 | 700 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Grand Jam 1000 (2013) | 1000 |
| 2014 | 746 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX 1K Countdown (2014) | 1000 |
| 2015 | 706 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Classic Rock Countdown (2015) | 1007 |
| 2016 | 877 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Countdown for 2016 | 1007 |
| 2019 | 904 | 102.5 KZOK | KZOK Top 1025 of 2019 | 1025 |
| 2021 | 332 | 97 Rock | 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2021) | 500 |
| 2021 | 807 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2021) | 1043 |
| 2024 | 679 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2024) | 1043 |
| 2025 | 837 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2025) | 1043 |
Also listed as: Welcome To My Nightmare; Welcome to My Nightmar.
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