Greatest Hits (Alice Cooper album)

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).

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.

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Source	Rating
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Robert Christgau	A− link

Track listing

"I'm Eighteen" (Alice Cooper, Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith) – 2:58
- Original version on Love It to Death
"Is It My Body" (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) – 2:41
- Original version on Love It to Death
"Desperado" (Cooper, Bruce) – 3:29
- Original version on Killer
"Under My Wheels" (Bruce, Dunaway, Bob Ezrin) – 2:46
- *Original version on Killer
"Be My Lover" (Bruce) – 3:22
- *Original version on Killer
"School's Out" (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) – 3:30 For this track, Cooper collaborated with Split Second, a short lived band from Southern California.
- Original version on School's Out
"Hello, Hooray" (Rolf Kempf) – 4:18
- Original version on Billion Dollar Babies
"Elected" (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) – 4:08
- Original version on Billion Dollar Babies
"No More Mr. Nice Guy" (Cooper, Bruce) – 3:07
- Original version on Billion Dollar Babies
"Billion Dollar Babies" (Cooper, Bruce, Smith) – 3:43
- Original version on Billion Dollar Babies
"Teenage Lament '74" (Cooper, Smith) – 3:54
- Original version on Muscle of Love
"Muscle of Love" (Cooper, Bruce) – 3:45
- 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

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1974	US Billboard 200	8

External links

Greatest Hits at AllMusic

Alice Cooper

Original band Alice Cooper Glen Buxton Michael Bruce Dennis Dunaway Neal Smith Other personnel

Studio albums	Pretties for You Easy Action Love It to Death Killer School's Out Billion Dollar Babies Muscle of Love Welcome to My Nightmare Alice Cooper Goes to Hell Lace and Whiskey From the Inside Flush the Fashion Special Forces Zipper Catches Skin DaDa Constrictor Raise Your Fist and Yell Trash Hey Stoopid The Last Temptation Brutal Planet Dragontown The Eyes of Alice Cooper Dirty Diamonds Along Came a Spider Welcome 2 My Nightmare

Live albums	The Alice Cooper Show A Fistful of Alice Brutally Live Live at Montreux 2005 Raise the Dead: Live from Wacken

Singles	"Reflected" "Shoe Salesman" "I'm Eighteen" "Caught in a Dream" "Under My Wheels" "Be My Lover" "School's Out" "Elected" "Hello Hooray" "No More Mr. Nice Guy" "Billion Dollar Babies" "Halo of Flies" "Teenage Lament '74" "Only Women Bleed" "Department of Youth" "Welcome to My Nightmare" "I Never Cry" "You and Me" "How You Gonna See Me Now" "Clones (We're All)" "7 and 7 Is" "I Am the Future" "He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)" "Teenage Frankenstein" "Freedom" "Poison" "Bed of Nails" "House of Fire" "Only My Heart Talkin'" "Hey Stoopid" "Love's a Loaded Gun" "Feed My Frankenstein" "Lost in America" "It's Me" "Brutal Planet" "Gimme" "Keepin' Halloween Alive" "I'll Bite Your Face Off"

Compilations and box sets	School Days: The Early Recordings Greatest Hits Prince of Darkness The Beast of Alice Cooper Science Fiction Classicks The Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper Super Hits Mascara and Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper The Definitive Alice Cooper The Essentials: Alice Cooper Hell Is School's Out and Other Hits

Videography	Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper The Nightmare Welcome to My Nightmare Alice Cooper and Friends The Strange Case of Alice Cooper The Nightmare Returns Alice Cooper Trashes the World Brutally Live Live at Montreux 2005 Theatre of Death: Live at Hammersmith 2009 Super Duper Alice Cooper Raise the Dead: Live from Wacken

Tours	Welcome to My Nightmare Tour Theatre of Death Tour No More Mr. Nice Guy Tour Masters of Madness Tour

Related articles	Discography Filmography Steven Nights with Alice Cooper Solid Rock Foundation The Hollywood Vampires Hollywood Vampires (band)

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