Paranormal

The title track of Alice Cooper's 27th album, the prog-flavored tune tells the story about a girl and her best ghoul friend.

The Paranormal album features Larry Mullen Jr. as guest drummer, who plays on every track apart from "Rats." It was producer Bob Ezrin who was responsible for getting the U2 stickman involved in the sessions. Cooper recalled on the May 5 episode of the SiriusXM radio show Trunk Nation: "Bob Ezrin and I sat there, and Bob says, 'What do you think about Larry Mullen on drums?' And I went, 'That's a great idea. It'll change things up so much on just the basic tracks.'"

Larry Mullen Jr was the first drummer that Cooper had ever worked with who wanted to know about the lyrical content. Alice recalled to Billboard magazine: "Larry [said], 'I wanna see the lyrics.' I said, 'Really?' He [said], 'Yeah, I play to the lyrics. I don't play to the bass.' And I said, 'That is so cool - just the idea that you're interpreting the lyrics on the drums.' So that totally makes the album another album."