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Greatest Hits (Alice Cooper album)

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Released
  
August 1974

Length
  
41:41

Release date
  
August 1974

Recorded
  
1970–73

Artist
  
Alice Cooper

Label
  
Warner Bros. Records

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Greatest Hits (1974)
  
Welcome to My Nightmare (1975)

Genres
  
Rock music, Hard rock, Heavy metal, Shock rock, Garage rock

Producers
  
Jack Richardson, Jack Douglas, Bob Ezrin

Similar
  
Alice Cooper albums, Shock rock albums, Other albums

Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by Alice Cooper, released in 1974. It features the hit singles of songs from their third album (Love It to Death) to the last album with the band's original lineup (Muscle of Love).

Contents

This compilation's song versions were remixed by Jack Richardson at the time, with the remix of "I'm Eighteen" being released as a single in the US. The reason behind remixing the songs was perhaps to boost its appeal as "new" versions because no new tracks were available for inclusion by the group as they were on hiatus at the time.

This compilation was expanded upon when, in 2001, Rhino released Mascara & Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper, which includes the original single versions of the songs in addition to a number of Cooper's post-1974 hits as a solo artist, filling up the entire CD.

Artwork

The album's cover art was designed by Ernie Cefalu and features a sepia-toned Drew Struzan illustration of the band members in front of a 1930s garage, accompanied by such period movie stars as Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, Edward G. Robinson, Jean Harlow, Peter Lorre, and Groucho Marx. The inner sleeve features a similar illustration of the band surrounded by these and other stars of the 1920s, '30s and '40s, including the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in the upper middle. The album was released by Friday Music records on vinyl in 2014 with a gatefold cover for the first time ever. The original album cover was never a gatefold.

Track listing

  1. "I'm Eighteen" (Alice Cooper, Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith) – 2:58
  2. Original version on Love It to Death
  3. "Is It My Body" (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) – 2:41
  4. Original version on Love It to Death
  5. "Desperado" (Cooper, Bruce) – 3:29
  6. Original version on Killer
  7. "Under My Wheels" (Bruce, Dunaway, Bob Ezrin) – 2:46
  8. *Original version on Killer
  9. "Be My Lover" (Bruce) – 3:22
  10. *Original version on Killer
  11. "School's Out" (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) – 3:30
  12. Original version on School's Out
  13. "Hello, Hooray" (Rolf Kempf) – 4:18
  14. Original version on Billion Dollar Babies
  15. "Elected" (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) – 4:08
  16. Original version on Billion Dollar Babies
  17. "No More Mr. Nice Guy" (Cooper, Bruce) – 3:07
  18. Original version on Billion Dollar Babies
  19. "Billion Dollar Babies" (Cooper, Bruce, Smith) – 3:43
  20. Original version on Billion Dollar Babies
  21. "Teenage Lament '74" (Cooper, Smith) – 3:54
  22. Original version on Muscle of Love
  23. "Muscle of Love" (Cooper, Bruce) – 3:45
  24. Original version on Muscle of Love

Personnel

  • Alice Cooper - Vocals, Harmonica
  • Glen Buxton - Lead Guitar
  • Michael Bruce - Rhythm Guitar, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
  • Dennis Dunaway - Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
  • Neal Smith - Drums, Backing Vocals
  • Steve Hunter - Guitar Solo - Billion Dollar Babies, Hello Hooray

    • Songs

    1I’m Eighteen2:59
    2Is It My Body2:40
    3Desperado3:29

    References

    Greatest Hits (Alice Cooper album) Wikipedia
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