The Life & Crimes Of Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper - The Life & Crimes Of Alice Cooper

The Life & Crimes Of Alice Cooper
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Artist: Alice Cooper
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set
Published: 1999
CD Release Date: 1999-04-20
Music Label: Rhino
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Don't Blow Your Mind
  2. Hitch Hike
  3. Why Don't You Love Me
  4. Lay Down and Die, Goodbye [Original Version]
  5. Nobody Likes Me [#][Demo Version]
  6. Levity Ball [Studio Version][#]
  7. Reflected
  8. Mr. and Misdemeanor
  9. Refrigerator Heaven
  10. Caught in a Dream [Single Version]
  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 [#][Demo Version]
  20. Gutter Cats Vs. The Jets
  21. School's Out [Single Version]
Music CD 2
  1. Hello, Hooray
  2. Elected [Single Version]
  3. Billion Dollar Babies
  4. No More Mr. Nice Guy
  5. I Love the Dead
  6. Slick Black Limousine
  7. Respect for the Sleepers [#][Demo Version]
  8. Muscle of Love
  9. Teenage Lament '74
  10. Working Up a Sweat
  11. The Man With the Golden Gun
  12. I'm Flash
  13. Space Pirates
  14. Welcome to My Nightmare [Single Version]
  15. Only Women Bleed [Single Version]
  16. Cold Ethyl
  17. Department of Youth
  18. Escape
  19. I Never Cry
  20. Go to Hell
Music CD 3
  1. It's Hot Tonight
  2. You and Me [Single Version]
  3. I Miss You
  4. No Time for Tears [#]
  5. Because
  6. From the Inside [Single Version]
  7. How You Gonna See Me Now
  8. Serious
  9. No Tricks
  10. Road Rats
  11. Clones (We're All)
  12. Pain
  13. Who Do You Think We Are [Single Version]
  14. Look at You over There, Ripping the Sawdust from My Teddybear [#][Demo
  15. For Britain Only
  16. I Am the Future [Single Version]
  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 [#]
Music CD 4
  1. He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask) [#][Demo Version]
  2. He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask) [Movie Mix][#]
  3. Teenage Frankenstein
  4. Freedom
  5. Prince of Darkness
  6. Under My Wheels
  7. I Got a Line on You
  8. Poison
  9. Trash
  10. Only My Heart Talkin'
  11. Hey Stoopid [Single Version]
  12. Feed My Frankenstein
  13. Fire
  14. Lost in America
  15. It's Me
  16. Hands of Death (Burn Baby Burn) [Spookshow 2000 Mix][#]
  17. Is Anyone Home? [Live]
  18. Stolen Prayer

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Free Music Review: Excellent Collection: A Must For Alice Cooper Fans
Hit: 5 Stars

This is a 4 disc set of Alice Cooper which ranges from the early days when they were known as The Spiders then briefly The Nazz to Alice Cooper. Put together by one of Alice Cooper's biggest fan and assistant Brian Nelson who's been w/ Alice since the early '80's. So this box set is filled w/ a lot of unreleased material compared to other artist box sets. This also comes w/ an 80 page booklet which I talk about at the bottom of this review.

Disc 1
Total of 21 tracks this starts off w/ 4 prior Alice Cooper tracks. Known as The Spiders they include 'Don't Blow Your Mind' which is very Rolling Stones influenced. "Hitch Hike' a Marvin Gaye song but they covered it cause they heard The Stones sing it and 'Why Don't You Love Me' has that Beatle sound to it. For a brief time The Spiders changed their name to The Nazz (until Todd Rundgren's band of the same name became popular) and came out w/ 'Lay down And Die Goodbye' which they say is very Yardbird's sounding. Matter of fact they say it's "Over Under Sideways Down" by the Yardbirds. So right then and there you know the top three influences of The Alice Cooper Group were The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and The Yardbirds. These songs are all very well done in showing how the band grew.
Now w/ the Alice Cooper moniker this disc starts off w/ 'Nobody Likes Me' which wasn't officially released until this box set came out. There are other versions of this song most notably in the changeable title bootleg of 'Toronto Rock N' Roll Revival 1969" or other titles such as "Freak Out Song", Slack Alice", Snorting Anthrax, etc...
'Levity Ball' was a studio version which wasn't on their first album "Pretties For You" but they did had a live version of 'Levity Ball'. This song is one of my favorites from their first album "Pretties For You" which was influenced by Pink Floyd.
Another rare track is 'Call It Evil' which was around the "School's Out' recordings noted in the booklet. Michael Bruce says "Luckily, the tape recorder was rolling or it would have never been thought of again." Other tracks on this disc came from their first 5 albums from "Pretties For You" to "School's Out".

Disc 2
20 tracks total which starts off w/ five songs from "Billion Dollar Babies" album and 'Slick Black Limousine' which came out on a flexy disc in Britain's 'New Musical Express' magazine. The was originally titled 'Coal Black Model T' which had that 50's feel to it sort of Elvis sounding. The next five tracks come from 'Muscle Of Love' album which was the end of the original Alice Cooper Group. One of the songs 'Respect For The Sleepers' was a demo from "Muscle of Love" lp which is where 'Muscle of Love' track developed.
The next two tracks are from "Fearless Flash versus The Zorg Women" a compilation of artist including the first solo performance by Alice.
Now starts Alice's solo career which leads off w/ 'Welcome To My Nightmare' album of the same title and ends w/ 'Go To Hell' from "Alice Cooper Goes To Hell" album.

Disc 3
22 tracks from "Lace And Whiskey" to "Dada" albums. This also includes 'I Miss You' which is from the remaining original band (sans Glen Buxton) as The Billion Dollar Babies off their debut album "Battle Axe" a very good album which didn't get any good air play. Some other songs are from soundtracks such as 'No Time For Tears' was a song that didn't make it on "Sextette" Alice did w/ Mae West. She decided on the other song 'Next Next' which isn't on this box set.
'Because' the Beatle cover from "Sgt Pepper" movie. 'Road Rats' from the movie "Roadies" which didn't included "Pain" which both songs are w/ Utopia and produced by Todd Rundgren.
Two songs from Alice's "Monster Dog" movie which have that new wave sound to it. Then the track Alice fans have been asking about ever since they saw "Friday the 13th Part VI Jason Lives" the song "Hard Rock Summer". Another rarity is the missing track that was listed on "Special Forces" album 'Look At You Over There, Ripping Sawdust From My Teddybear' when you hear it you know why it never made it to the album.

Disc 4
18 tracks from "Constrictor" to "The Last Temptation" albums. You have 2 versions of 'He's Back' one is a demo the other the movie mix, both outstanding versions. Also includes 'Under My Wheels' w/ Guns n Roses from "Decline of Western Civilization Part II". 'I Got A Line On You' a Spirit cover song done w/ the Alice touch from the movie "Iron Eagle II".
T he B-side of 'How You Gonna See Me Now' titled 'No Tricks' w/ Betty Wright an R&B singer. This is the first time Alice ever did anything like this. I thought it was one of the most beautiful songs w/ such soul in it. I always thought this was an amazing song I wish they gave it air play I think no one really knows how versatile Alice can be.
Then you have Alice's mix of 'Hands Of Death (Spookshow 2000 Mix)' w/ Rob Zombie which is different than the version on w/out the "Rosemary Baby" sound bites that Rob spliced into his version on "Songs In The Key of X: The X Files" CD.
Plus you have the 'Is Anyone Home?' from Alice's "Fistful of Alice" which was the only studio song from that live recording CD.

Includes an 80 page book that gives you insight to each track. You have comments not only by Alice but by the original band members as well as other musicians who worked on the songs. The introduction is written by John Lydon which also contains quotes from many artists such as Slash, Lemmy, Joey Ramone to name a few. Also this book includes tons of pictures that show all stages of Alice Cooper. Each disc sleeve has the Alice of that time and on the opposite side features a 45 sleeve of that era. Again this a must for any Alice Cooper fan.

This is one awesome collection of Alice tunes you can have in your collection. Of course people may complain not enough of this and to much of that. I think Brian Nelson did a an outstanding job of picking and selecting the material. I bet it took plenty of time sifting through all the material which we'll be hearing more of during other CD re-releases in the future.
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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 L.A. 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

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