by ALICE COOPER
Release Date: 03 October 2025
Format: Boxed Set CD Large
Label: Sony Classical
£49.99
Alice Cooper The Life And Crimes Of Alice Cooper 4CD Box Set
Overview:
This tribute has most of the right ingredients: fancy packaging, excellent liner notes by Sex Pistol John Lydon), and 84 tracks licensed from 21 albums spanning 1965 to 1998. The opening disc begins with four rare Yardbirds-influenced garage-band singles from the Spiders and the Nazz--the bands that geeky Vince Furnier and his pals Michael Bruce, Glen Buxton, and Dennis Dunaway formed in Phoenix, Arizona. The band's subsequent LA years are chronicled via nine tracks from their first three albums. Suddenly, in the tracks from Killer such as "Under My Wheels" and "Dead Babies", the grandiose Cooper sound is there in all its mock macabre glory. The downside to this set is that the group's 1971-74 heyday gets short shrift. Surely there's a slew of unreleased outtakes and alternates from Killer, School's Out, and Billion Dollar Babies? By 1974's Muscle of Love, the creative juices had run dry. When he sacked his original band following that album's release, his fate was sealed. While his first solo album, Welcome to My Nightmare, has a number of high points, the band chemistry was missed. The last two discs chronicle his slide into self-referential hell. Connect-the-dots hard-rock workouts such as "Hey Stoopid" and "Feed My Frankenstein" couldn't hold the panties that came wrapped around the original School's Out record. A decently complete career survey--albeit one that's light on the classic period--this box is ideal for newcomers to the Cooper legacy or for those who want just a taste of shock rock in their collection. --Robert Baird
Featured Tracks:
Disc: 1
1 It's Hot Tonight
2 You and Me
3 I Miss You
4 No Time for Tears
5 Because
6 From the Inside
7 How You Gonna See Me Now
8 Serious
9 No Tricks - Betty Wright
10 Road Rats
11 Clones
12 Pain
13 Who Do You Think We Are
14 Look at You Over There, Ripping the Sawdust from My Teddybear
15 For Britain Only
16 I Am the Future
17 Tag, You're It
18 Former Lee Warmer
19 I Love America
20 Identity Crisises
21 See Me in the Mirror
22 Hard Rock Summer
Disc: 2
1 Don't Blow Your Mind
2 Hitch Hike
3 Why Don't You Love Me
4 Lay Down and Die, Goodbye
5 Nobody Likes Me
6 Levity Ball
7 Reflected
8 Mr. And Misdemeanor
9 Refrigeration Heaven
10 Caught in a Dream
11 I'm Eighteen
12 Is It My Body
13 Ballad of Dwight Fry
14 Under My Wheels
15 Be My Lover
16 Desperado
17 Dead Babies
18 Killer
19 Call It Evil
20 Gutter Cat Vs. The Jets
21 School's Out
Disc: 3
1 Hello Hooray
2 Elected
3 Billion Dollar Babies
4 No More Mr. Nice Guy
5 I Love the Dead
6 Slick Black Limousine
7 Respect for the Sleepers
8 Muscle of Love
9 Teenage Lament '74
10 Working Up a Sweat
11 Man With the Golden Gun
12 I'm Flash
13 Space Pirates
14 Welcome to My Nightmare
15 Only Women Bleed
16 Cold Ethyl
17 Department of Youth
18 Escape
19 I Never Cry
20 Go to Hell
Disc: 4
1 He's Back
2 He's Back
3 Teenage Frankenstein
4 Freedom
5 Prince of Darkness
6 Under My Wheels - Izzy
7 I Got a Line On You
8 Poison
9 Trash
10 Only My Heart Talkin'
11 Hey Stoopid
12 Feed My Frankenstein
13 Fire
14 Lost in America
15 It's Me
16 Hands Of Death - Rob Zombie
17 Is Anyone Home?
18 Stolen Prayer
Release Date: 25 July 2025
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: earMUSIC
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Format: LP Vinyl
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