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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Rhino / Wea
Salesrank: 9615
Released: January 16, 2001 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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The Best Of Alice Cooper: Mascara & Monsters 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. Elected
8. Hello Hooray
9. Generation Landslide
10. No More Mr. Nice Guy
11. Billion Dollar Babies
12. Teenage Lament '74
13. Muscle Of Love
14. Only Women Bleed
15. Department Of Youth
16. Welcome To My Nightmare
17. I Never Cry
18. You And Me
19. How You Gonna See Me Now
20. From The Inside
21. Clones (We're All)
22. Poison
Editorial Review:
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
The Best Of Alice Cooper: Mascara & Monsters Reviews:
Mascara and Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper 
2008-09-21 - I have this cd, bought it recently. Most of the main classics are on this cd. But my problem is, where are the 3 classics "Hey Stoopid", "Feed My Frankenstein", and "Lost in America"? If those 3 songs were on the cd, along with all songs already on there, then it would really be the best of Alice Cooper!
Not a true representation 
2008-08-05 - Where are classic tracks such as Raped & Freezin', Halo of Flies, Ballad of Dwight Fry? A greatest hits is just that, the hits. A best of should represent what the artist believes are his best tracks regardless of chart status. I look forward to the apocalypse when maybe, just maybe, a label will get this format right.
A nightmarishly necessary collection
2008-07-30 - It has been suggested by some that this is a good place to start for those who are not completely familiar with Alice Cooper. I've always loved Alice Cooper, their/his music and stage originality, but am almost ashamed to say I've never owned an Alice Cooper album. The very beginning was slightly before my time, but that's no excuse. Alice set the stage for so many that came later, and is truly an original icon. This cd is exactly what my collection needed.
I realize there are some classics lacking in this collection and also that it's light on the early stuff, but all the major hits are here, plus some other lesser known tracks to complete the picture. I know there are those who thought Alice got a little wimpy later on as he tried to sound more "legit," but I don't care. I love the ballads, even though they are far from what the "founding fathers" had in mind, and listening to them is my guilty little pleasure.
I agree that this is a good place to start, or for those more seasoned fans wanting a neat summary of Alice's music. The liner notes are fantastic and contain short blurbs by Alice (and two other band members) detailing what the songs are about and where he was in his life when they were written. A very interesting read.
Summary: Essential for those not wanting to dip into the boxed set.
Come on guys, you can do better than this 
2008-07-05 - Alice Cooper the band is 100% better in every respect than Alice Cooper the solo performer. So why so many solo tracks? And the boxset is even worse! Please Rhino/WEA: a two disc best of Alice Cooper the group. Or maybe a four disc box with live tracks and rarities? Is this too much to ask??
Too many important omissions and too many dated numbers
2008-05-10 - This is a fine compilation of 22 Alice Cooper songs from the 1971-89 era, clocking in at 76 minutes.
But, as my title blurb states, there's too many important omissions. Where's "Devil's Food/The Black Widow," "Dead Babies" and "Go to Hell"? These songs are MANDATORY Alice Cooper tunes and should be on any serious compilation.
Plus there's too much emphasis on forgettable DATED material like "Department of Youth," "Muscle of Love," "How You Gonna See Me Now" and "Generation Landslide." Many older songs like "Billion Dollar Babies," "I'm Eighteen" and the three noted in the previous paragraph are timeless and still sound great, but these others don't have much place on a "Best Of" album.
THE SETLIST: I'm Eighteen, Is it My Body, Desperado, Under My Wheels, Be My Lover, School's Out, Elected, Hello Horray, Generation Landslide, No More Mr. Nice Guy, Billion Dollar Babies, Teenage Lament '74, Muscle of Love, Only Women Bleed, Department of Youth, Welcome to My Nightmare, I Never Cry, You and Me, How You Gonna See Me Now, From the Inside, Clones (We're All) and Poison.
