Track Listing

1. I'm Eighteen
2. Desperado
3. Under My Wheels
4. Halo Of Flies
5. School's Out
6. Elected
7. Hello Hooray
8. Generation Landslide
9. No More Mr Nice Guy
10. Billion Dollar Babies
11. Teenage Lament '74
12. Muscle Of Love
13. Only Women Bleed
14. Welcome To My Nightmare
15. Department Of Love
16. I Never Cry
17. You And Me
18. How You Gonna See Me Now
19. From The Inside
20. Poison
21. Hey Stoopid

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3799 in Music
• Released on: 2001-02-26
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Amazing Album!!!
If you're looking for a good overview of Alice Cooper's incrediable music, this is the perfect CD.
Here you will find the legendary hits, "Poison", "Schools Out" etc, cult classics and a generous selection of album tracks.
This is a great album which lives up to it's name, it's suitable for hardcore Alice fans, newbies and those people who just like decent rock music.

Rather good.
For any new Alice Cooper fan this is essential. It seems like a mix of Marilyn Manson and his own stuff which is amazing but should include some more of his later stuff. I haven't listened to it all yet but I love most of them dispite I mainly got it for Poison and Schools out there are several highlights I've heard so far. This is overall a fantastic album.

Definitive?
For those in the know, Alice Cooper is one of the most influential figures in rock history. His early 70's albums played a vital part in inspiring the punk, goth and metal genres that followed in his wake - KISS, The Sex Pistols, The Misfits, Iron Maiden and Marilyn Manson are only a few of the diverse and iconic acts that owe a debt to this man.

Since his commercial heyday in the early 70's, Alice has amassed a huge catalogue of classic albums, continuing right up to the present day (2005's Dirty Diamonds being his latest release). Over the last four decades, Billion Dollar Babies (1973), Trash (1989), The Last Temptation (1994) and The Eyes Of Alice Cooper (2003) have all set the benchmark for the very best in rock 'n' roll, each album representing a very different style and period, and yet all of them being instantly identifiable to this uniquely complex and charismatic artist.

It is for this reason, however, that The Definitive Alice Cooper fails to live up to its title. 95% of the tracks included chart his career from 1971 to 1978, and many of his classic songs from this period are featured. However, the following chapters of his career, spanning nearly 25 years when this compilation was released, are accounted for by a grand total of two tracks (the smash hit Poison, and 1991's title track Hey Stoopid). This does not even begin to account for a huge wealth of great material from the 80's, 90's and beyond, and as such this album is anything but "definitive".

With that being said, at 21 tracks you get value for money, and with so many poor Alice Cooper compilations on the racks, this is probably the best one currently available. As an alternative, I would also recommend 'Classicks', which features 9 tracks from 1989-1994 (including killer cuts like 'Feed My Frankenstein' and 'Lost In America'), and 6 live versions of the 70's hits.