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2	[[caption-width-right:320:''Where's my makeup, where's my face?'']]
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5	''From the Inside'' is the eleventh studio album from Music/AliceCooper, released in 1978. It is a ConceptAlbum about Alice's stay in a New York sanitarium due to [[TheAlcoholic his alcoholism]].
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7	!!Tracklist:
8	[[AC:Side One]]
9	# "From the Inside"
10	# "Wish I Were Born in Beverly Hills"
11	# "The Quiet Room"
12	# "Nurse Rozetta"
13	# "Millie and Billie"
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15	[[AC:Side Two]]
16	# "Serious"
17	# "How You Gonna See Me Now"
18	# "For Veronica's Sake"
19	# "Jackknife Johnny"
20	# "Inmates (We're All Crazy)"
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23	!!This album provides examples of:
24	* AlliterativeName[=/=]AlliterativeTitle: "'''J'''ackknife '''J'''ohnny".
25	* AxCrazy: In a sweet sounding duet, the title characters of the song "Millie and Billie" before the lyrics take a dark turn:
26	--> ''And I liked your late husband Donald\
27	But such torture his memory brings\
28	All sliced up and sealed tight in baggies\
29	Guess love makes you do funny things.''
30	* BoltOfDivineRetribution: From "Nurse Rozetta":
31	-->''Screamed my sermon damning sin and vice''
32	-->''When underneath I was a regular guy.''
33	-->''My pulpit melted like a block of ice''
34	-->''When a bolt of lightning hit me from the sky.''
35	* ComicBookAdaptation: The album was adapted into a comic book, ''Marvel Premiere'' #50.
36	* FaceOnTheCover: Alice in a closeup, with the various inmates being seen through his irises.
37	* GlowingEyes: The priest's view of the titular "Nurse Rozetta" in the chorus.
38	-->''I just can't sleep at night.''
39	-->''Rozetta dressed in white.''
40	-->''She's got the devil's light shining in her eyes.''
41	* GoMadFromTheIsolation: "The Quiet Room" is about Alice's experiences in one.
42	* HospitalHottie: Nurse Rozetta in the titular song.
43	* {{Housewife}}: The video for "How You Gonna See Me Now" has a woman playing Alice's wife who is a frenzied version of one who's having trouble trying to control their children. When Alice gets released and goes home to see his wife and family, he sees his wife being taken away due to her insanity.
44	* HotAsHell: "Nurse Rozetta" is implied to be this by the priest in this line:
45	-->''Satan sent her from the bowels of Hell.''
46	-->''I should have recognized old Jezebel.''
47	* JizzedInMyPants[=/=]NocturnalEmission: Either could apply to this lyric line from "Nurse Rozetta":
48	-->''I'm suddenly twice my size. My pants are all wet inside.''
49	* LetsDuet: Alice Cooper sings with Marcy Levy in "Millie And Billie".
50	* MockingSingSong: "Inmates (We're All Crazy)" has the refrain "we're all crazy" sung in this style.
51	* MurderBallad: "Millie And Billie", about [[MurderTheHypotenuse a couple murdering Millie's husband Donald]] to cover up their affair.
52	* OneManSong: "Jackknife Johnny".
53	* OneWomanSong: "For Veronica's Sake", which is actually about a dog. (In the ComicBookAdaptation, Veronica is a snake.)
54	* OneWordTitle: "Serious".
55	* PowerBallad: "How You Gonna See Me Now".
56	* [[RealLifeWritesThePlot Real Life Writes The Songs]]: Each character in his songs from the album were based on real people Alice had met in the sanitarium.
57	* RecordProducer: David Foster.
58	* SanitySlippageSong: The album is basically a collection of these.
59	* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny: The priest in "Nurse Rozetta" who is being tempted by his desires for the titular character.
60	* ShellShockedVeteran: "Jackknife Johnny" is about one.

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