There's a transition going on here, but it is only in its earliest formation. It would be easy to dismiss this album after one or two listens, because there is little depth to the songs. If you can do more than that, and put it on for four or five merry-go-rounds, you'll find that it isn't quite as bad as it initially comes across. "Zorro's Ascent" is not an all-too-bad opening track. "Make That Money (Scrooge's Song)" is also listenable. "Adaptable (Anything for You)", "Tag, You're It" and "I'm Alive (That Was the Day My Dead Pet Returned to Save My Life)" all show enough of the developing Alice Cooper parody lyrics to keep your interest.
Probably, that's the best of it. "I Am the Future" was not written by Alice, and was for the soundtrack of the movie Class of 1984, and it sounds like it. A piece of fluff soundtrack song, and no one on it sounds even remotely interested. "I Better Be Good" does have energy, but it seems to go too far into the parody/comedy angle, and isn't quite cartoonish enough to raise a smile.
Anyone with a career as long as Alice Cooper and his band are going to have a couple of duds along the way. For whatever reasons that may exist, whether it be substance abuse or poor writing or no direction, or a combination of all these things thrown into a melting pot, this is a dud. This isn't terrible, it just isn't very good either.
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