Product Description

Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits Warner Bros Burbank, CA. Made in the USA. Circ: 1974 Contains 12 hits.

Track Listing

1. I'm Eighteen
2. Is It My Body
3. Desperado
4. Under My Wheels
5. Be My Lover
6. School's Out
7. Hello Hooray
8. Elected
9. No More Mr. Nice Guy
10. Billion Dollar Babies
11. Teenage Lament '74
12. Muscle of Love

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #79490 in Music
• Released on: 1990-10-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Amazon.com
If it weren't for Alice Cooper's onstage antics, Kiss, Marilyn Manson and Glen Danzig might have evolved into summery pop artists suitable for family picnics. Yet as Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits record attests, the grandfather of shock rock brought much more to the rock arena than boa constrictors and simulated decapitations. In addition to classic hard rock anthems like "I'm Eighteen," "No More Mr. Nice Guy," and "School's Out," Cooper unleashed rollicking barroom rockers like "Under My Wheels" and tugged at the heartstrings with cuts like "Desperado" and "Hello Hooray." In retrospect, his songs have more in common with the Who and the Faces than with Black Sabbath or Judas Priest. But his songs were filled with soaring choruses and grandiose horn embellishes that proved he could be larger than life both on and off the stage. --Jon Wiederhorn

Customer Reviews

The singer's name was Alice
This is a compilation album of songs from the Warner Brothers recordings of Alice Cooper(the band). After this album came out, Alice Cooper(the singer) left the band that was named after him. Or was he named after the band? Anyway, Alice Cooper the solo artist never made records as good as Alice Cooper the band did. These songs represent the height of Alice Cooper's career. I highly recommend this CD to fans of '70s rock.

The Commercial Hits Of The Alice Cooper Group
Before Manson,Kiss or even Bowie,there was the Alice Cooper Group;a hard rockin' band at the tail end of hippiedom.Alice had the voice amd wit as sharp as a razor,but could sing as soulful as a choir.They attacked some of society's stupidities with a sense of humor;as a result they were labeled "sick and obscene".This release is a record of ACG's string of hits from 1971-1974 (or if you like,I'M EIGHTEEN to MUSCLE OF LOVE). GREATEST HITS runs the gamut,from the theatrical

(ELECTED,DESPERADO) to the straight ahead rockers (UNDER MY WHEELS,BILLION DOLLAR BABIES).This is a excellent start off point for fledgling Alice Cooper fans;now,go and buy the albums.

A Five Star Album That I Don't recommend!
Yes I gave Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits 5 stars, and Yes I don't recommend you but this CD. Sure all of the Alice Cooper Band's hits are here, 'School's Out', 'Eighteen', 'Billion Dollar Babies', 'Muscle of Love', 'No More Mr. Nice Guy' etc. And all of those songs are excellent. But what is not included are the songs that really gave the Alice Cooper Band it's image and reputation, songs like 'Dead Babies', 'Black Juju', 'Halo of Flies', 'Hallowed Be Thy Name', 'Killer'. The essence of Alice Cooper are the strange and unusual songs, music that no one had even tried creating before.
If all you want are the hits off of the 5 original Alice Cooper band recordings for Warner Brothers then you are shortchanging yourself. There was so much more to Alice Cooper than the 12 songs presented here. Each album should be heard and experienced, instead of a 'Best Of', spend the extra dough to hear the whole albums of 'Love it to Death', 'Killer', 'School's Out', 'Billion Dollar Babies' and 'Muscle of Love'. You will not regret adding these stellar CD's to your collection.