My Ten Favorite Woman Songs: Only Women Bleed (#3)

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I guess you know where I was last night: along with about 40 million others, I watched a World Series Game 7 for the ages. That game ranks right up there with game 6 of the Rangers/Cardinals game, game 7 of the 91 series between the Twins and the Braves, and game 6 of the 75 series between the Reds and the Red Sox. And I'm elated that the Cubs won, but I have to congratulate the Indians on a marvelous season. We haven't seen the end of either team in the postseason! And now for my next song on the list of my ten favorite "woman" songs. #3: Only Women Bleed - Alice Cooper Yeah, Hillbilly likes this song. In fact, Hillbilly loves this song. I think it's probably the first bona fide "power ballad" in hard rock history (who saw this coming from the guy who gave us "I'm Eighteen" and "School's Out"?). And, of course, people who have no brains to analyze things caused a controversy over this tune when it came out in 1975. They thought the title (listed on the single as "Only Women") was a reference to a woman's, ahem, "monthly cycle." Those were the same people who probably thought Randy Newman's "Short People" was actually about short people (instead of short-minded people) or that the band "Kiss"'s name stood for "Kings in Satan's Service." You're talking about rock and roll, where we have songs like "Sympathy for the Devil" and bands named Black Sabbath. C'mon, people, get a freaking life. In actuality, this is one of the most sympathetic songs about women, especially abused women, that's ever been written...and it was written by a man. Go figure. Despite the controversy it was a top 15 hit for Cooper in 1975. That was the year I started listening to rock and roll in earnest, so this is one of my earliest favorites. Only Women Bleed Written by Alice Cooper and Dick Wagner Recorded by Alice Cooper From Welcome to My Nightmare, 1975 She cries alone at night too often: