No More Mr. Nice Guy (song)

"No More Mr Nice Guy"
Single cover
Single by Alice Cooper
from the album Billion Dollar Babies
A-side	"No More Mr. Nice Guy"
B-side	"Raped and Freezin'"
Released	1973
Recorded	1972
Genre	Hard rock, heavy metal
Length	3:06
Label	Warner Bros.
Writer(s)	Alice Cooper, Michael Bruce
Producer	Bob Ezrin
Alice Cooper singles chronology
"Hello Hooray" (1973) "No More Mr. Nice Guy" (1973) "Billion Dollar Babies" (1973)

"No More Mr. Nice Guy" is a single by the hard rock group Alice Cooper, taken from the 1973 album Billion Dollar Babies. The single reached #25 on the US charts and #10 on the UK charts, and helped Billion Dollar Babies to reach #1 in both the UK and the US. Alice Cooper and Michael Bruce wrote the song.

Cooper wrote the song about the reactions of his mother's Church group about Cooper's stage performances and the characters he played onstage. It was him saying that there was worse stuff that he could do in his life and that the "gloves were off now."^[1]

Heavy metal group Megadeth did a cover of the song for the 1989 film Shocker. The song was also covered by Pat Boone for the cover album In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy. Czech singer Aleš Brichta recorded this song with the Czech lyrics under the title "Couvnou, pane Bourák" for his second solo album "Ráno ve dveřích armády spásy" in 1996.

The song was re-recorded by Alice Cooper and featured in the video game Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock.^[2]

The song was played in the film Dazed and Confused, television show Family Guy, in the episode "Jungle Love" in a parody of the scene from Dazed and Confused, and in the television show The Simpsons, in the episode "Love Is a Many Strangled Thing".

"No More Mr Nice Guy"
Single cover
Single by Megadeth
from the album Shocker
A-side	"No More Mr. Nice Guy"
Released	January 1990
Genre	Heavy metal
Length	3:03
Writer(s)	Alice Cooper, Michael Bruce
Megadeth singles chronology
"Mary Jane" (1988) "No More Mr Nice Guy" (1990) "Holy Wars...The Punishment Due" (1990)

Tracklisting

1. "No More Mr. Nice Guy" - 3:06
2. "Raped and Freezin'" - 3:19

Album appearances

• Billion Dollar Babies
• A Fistful of Alice
• Alice Cooper: Brutally Live
• Live at Montreux
• Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits
• The Beast of Alice Cooper
• Classicks (Live Version)
• The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper
• Mascara and Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper
• The Definitive Alice Cooper
• The Essentials: Alice Cooper
• School's Out and Other Hits

Chart positions

Year	Country	Position
1972	US	25
1972	UK	10
1972	Austria	14
1972	Holland	6
1972	Ireland	18
1972	Germany	10

Personnel

• Alice Cooper - vocals
• Glen Buxton - lead guitar
• Michael Bruce - rhythm guitar
• Dennis Dunaway - bass
• Neal Smith - drums

References

1. ^ http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3596
2. ^ "ALICE COOPER, THE RUNAWAYS Re-Record Tracks Exclusively For 'Guitar Hero: Warriors Of Rock'". http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=143547.