The Best Of Alice Cooper: Mascara & Monsters

Alceu ValenÃ§a
Label: Rhino / Wea
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Audio CD
Release date:16th January 2001

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Track Listing

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

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An essential figure in any history of the American grotesque, son-of-a-preacher-man Vincent Furnier served as a missing link between Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Marilyn Manson. As Alice Cooper, he helped make the pop world safe for morbidity and makeup, scoring a bunch of hits and misses along the way. Mascara & Monsters serves up a fairly rote chronology of Cooper's '70s singles, with the occasional B-side and 1989's "Poison" (cowritten by mainstream hitmeister Desmond Child!) thrown in for good measure. As such, the album doesn't live up to its best-of billing. "Dead Babies," arguably the best track on Killer, loses out to "Under My Wheels," while the garage-rock glories of the band's first two albums are also conspicuously absent. On the plus side, "School's Out," "Elected," and "No More Mr. Nice Guy" still sound great. If you're looking for easy access to those and numerous lesser singles, this collection will do the trick. --Bill Forman