Apache comments on each track on the album WHO DO YOU THINK WE ARE
WHO DO YOU THINK WE ARE is one of Alice Cooper ’s best unknown songs. It comes from his early 80s new wave period (check out the albums Flush the Fashion and Special Forces ). It was one of our first choices when selecting covers for this album, and this was also our first attempt at adapting it into a Midnite Razors song. I allowed myself to tweak one line slightly. At first, we weren’t satisfied with this version — it sounded a bit too modern to us. So we recorded it again, this time heavily influenced by Twisted Sister . But the original version was really liked by a good friend of ours, who convinced us to give it a chance. Over time, we came to feel that it was actually the best possible choice to open the album. Besides these versions, there’s also a new wave take on the song by our side project Young Analphabets — which only proves how important this track is to us. And as if that wasn’t enough, we ended up using the title for the album itself. Given the way the recor...