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List Price: $3.98 | | Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Salesrank: 443683
Released: October 17, 1990 |
| Our Price: $8.06 |
| Used Price: $1.49 |
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| Media: Audio Cassette |
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Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits [Audio Cassette] Track Listing:
1. I'm Eighteen
2. Is It My Body
3. Desperado
4. Under My Wheels
5. Be My Lover
6. School's Out
7. Hello Hooray
8. Elected
9. No More Mr. Nice Guy
10. Billion Dollar Babies
11. Teenage Lament '74
12. Muscle of Love
Editorial Review:
If it weren't for Alice Cooper's onstage antics, Kiss, Marilyn Manson and Glen Danzig might have evolved into summery pop artists suitable for family picnics. Yet as Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits record attests, the grandfather of shock rock brought much more to the rock arena than boa constrictors and simulated decapitations. In addition to classic hard rock anthems like "I'm Eighteen," "No More Mr. Nice Guy," and "School's Out," Cooper unleashed rollicking barroom rockers like "Under My Wheels" and tugged at the heartstrings with cuts like "Desperado" and "Hello Hooray." In retrospect, his songs have more in common with the Who and the Faces than with Black Sabbath or Judas Priest. But his songs were filled with soaring choruses and grandiose horn embellishes that proved he could be larger than life both on and off the stage. --Jon Wiederhorn
Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits [Audio Cassette] Reviews:
Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits-Cassette Tape-.Great compilation! 
2009-07-20 - My favorites like "Desperado" , Eighteen, and Best Of All : "No More Mr. Nice Guy, This Alice Cooper's Best In my humble Opinion. This little cassette tape of mine(yes I still have cassettes as well as vinyl and CDS!)
is A Gem!
5 stars and one asterisk
2008-03-11 - Can't argue with the greatness of what's here. Only thing I wish is that they'd remaster this greatest hits collection because it's the only place to find this mix of "I'm Eighteen". The difference? more guitar, less harmonica in the intro. Being that this is the album that introduced me to Alice, I never thought the harmonica sounded right on the other version--it's just not an instrument that fits well with this band's sound.
Sometimes the remix made for the hits compilation is just the superior version: For instance, the version of The Grass Roots' "Where Were You When I Needed You" from Their 16 Greatest Hits vinyl LP, never again to appear in the U.S. It's not the hit version, but Rob Grille's vocal clearly outdoes that of the previous lead vocalist. Or "Question" by The Moody Blues as remixed for their This Is The Moody Blues compilation, also (at least arguably) superior to the version played on radio. While that compilation remains neglected in terms of remastering, the song in retooled form was included as a bonus track on the latest remaster of A Question Of Balance. Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights" was given a second go with a vocal most consider far more appealing than that of the original version. And so it is with this Greatest Hits version of "I'm Eighteen." It's not the version played on radio, but it should be. It sounds to my ears more like classic Alice Cooper. Wish I could hear it in all its remastered glory.
NOT ORIGINAL RECORDING MIX! SINKS THIS OK HITS SET! 
2007-09-05 - It's hard to trash this CD, but the original mix of these songs is so much better I can not recommend it! Just listen to "I'm Eighteen" on the album CD and then listen to this version on the hits and it says it all! The Harmonica is buried on the hits disc and it destroys the dynamics of the entire track! The whole album sounds like it is one flat level with no dynamic range what so ever! It is also missing too many great songs. Do yourself a favor and save your bucks and buy a few of his albums instead.....it will be well worth it!
Godfather Of Shock Rock And The Bizarre Stage Act 
2007-08-07 - This Warner Brothers CD release of a 1974 vinyl LP purports to present the greatest hits of the band known as Alice Cooper, from their first for Warner in 1971, Eighteen [# 21 in April 1971], to their last in January 1974, Teenage Lament '74 [# 48].
And, for the most part, they do just that in a compilation with flawless sound reproduction and, a rarity for major label releases at that time, one page of liner notes. But where is Caught In A Dream [# 94 in July 1971]. Granted, it barely made the definition of "hit" - but at least it charted. You can't say the same for Is It My Body [the uncharted B-side to Eighteen], Desperado [which backed Under My Wheels], and Muscle Of Love - which wasn't even the flipside of any hit, although it did appear on the charted album of the same name in 1973.
In putting together the CD they might have added a few "bonus tracks" to bring it up to 14 or 16 selections by including the omitted hit, and maybe some of the missing B-sides like Gutter Cat [b/o School's Out], Luney Tune [b/o Elected], and Hard Hearted Alice [b/o Teenage Lament '74]. That would have brought it to 5 stars in my estimation.
Vincent Furnier [born February 2, 1948 in Detroit was the real name of the lead vocalist who, after the band split up in 1974, assumed the "Alice Cooper" personae, based upon a 17th Century witch. He would go on to register three more hits on the Atlantic label in 1975, return to Warner in 1976 and add four more to 1980, and then finish off his chart career with Epic from 1989 to 1991 where he chalked up another four.
The best in that period were Only Women [# 12 with Atlantic in 1975], I Never Cry [# 12 with Warner in 1976], You And Me [# 9 with Warner in 1977], How You Gonna See Me Now [# 12 with Warner in 1978], and Poison [# 7 with Epic in 1989].
Other band members up to 1973 were guitarist Glen Buxton [who passed away on October 19, 1997 at age 49], keyboardist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis Dunaway, and drummer Neal Smith.
A very good CD, but ... 
2007-05-01 - This CD would otherwise rate five stars. I own it, I love it, but it just wasn't what it could have been. It's missing at least a second CD, and arguably, a third.
Although Alice Cooper had their hits, including the #1 "School's Out," their great success had a lot more to with their excellent album work, and a stage show like no other in its time. A career based on this type of success leads to Alice Cooper tracks falling into two distinct categories: (a) the hit singles, and (b) the deeper cut tracks helping complete albums which, although did not become US hits, either became hits in other places in the world, or became fan favorites that lived forever.
This CD does well enough covering the hit singles. It falls painfully short on selecting those tracks which helped make their album success as great as it was, as well as tracks that live on in Alice Cooper concerts to this very day.
Purchasing this CD will leave you wishing you purchased the individual albums instead. Therefore, pass on this one, and pick up "Love It To Death," "Killer," "School's Out" and "Billion Dollar Babies" instead. Strongly consider adding "Muscle of Love" as well.
