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List Price: $59.98 | | Label: Rhino / Wea
Salesrank: 66230
Released: April 20, 1999 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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The Life & Crimes of Alice Cooper Track Listing:
Disc 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] - The Nazz
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]
Disc 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. 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 - Alice Cooper, Alice Cooper,
20. Go to Hell - Alice Cooper, Alice Cooper,
Disc 3:
1. It's Hot Tonight
2. You and Me [Single Version]
3. I Miss You - The Billion Dollar Babies
4. No Time for Tears [#]
5. Because - Bee Gees, Alice Cooper, Alice Cooper
6. From the Inside [Single Version]
7. How You Gonna See Me Now
8. Serious
9. No Tricks - Alice Cooper, Alice Cooper, Betty Wright
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 [#]
Editorial Review:
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
The Life & Crimes of Alice Cooper Reviews:
Lots of filler 
2009-09-13 - Alice Cooper has had a long and fruitful career but this box set easily could have been condensed to two discs. Way too much filler on discs three and four.
The Best of Both Worlds 
2008-09-26 - I am in agreement with those who conclude that this is more for the fans of Alice solo than the fans of the original band. The track list reads more like a best of collection than a comprehensive set containing everything he ever did. The majority of AC fans at least as I know them are more concerned with the early AC years when ACG was a major concert draw. This is the period from Love it To Death, Killer, School's Out, Billion Dollar Babies and Muscle of Love. The first 2 albums produced for Frank Zappa's label are rarely mentioned amongst orignal ACG fans because there are no hits from either of those and also, truth be knownst, they are really bad albums that border on being unlistenable, sloppy, recordings of second rate Pink Floyd imitations that are just plain boring and directionless. Not until Love it To Death does ACG find a hit as well as their distinctive sound largely thanks to Bob Ezrin. The first 2 albums have their moments of what you might call curious interest, like playing your guitar out of tune might give you an interesting sound, but are largely unworthy of time, money or comment. Alice's solo career presents the idea that the Coop grew up and out of whatever possessed him in the first place, settled down, married and now views the onstage and offstage Alice as 2 entirely different people, and has a sense of humor about his image as it were, including his age. All very well and good but the most interesting part of ACG was the original band which is summarized here as well as the solo albums. For fans of the original band who don't want to spend money on the number of god awful solo albums he's produced, but rather prefer a comprehensive overview of the solo albums best moments and the best known cuts from the originals, this is for you. What would be nice would be 2 seperate box sets, one from each era.
awesome alice!
2008-08-01 - this collection contains both old n modern releases. i've been a mild fan o alice cooper since the late 90's n have no regrets o ever purchasin his tracks. my personal fave is the 4th disc with rockin tracks like the man behind the mask, feed my frankenstein, teenage frankenstein n more hot picks. i would highly recommend this material for all the hair metal rockin fans out there.
Awesome
2008-02-10 - Life And Crimes Of Alice Cooper is Awesome 4 discs of Legendary Tracks By A True Rock Legend Alice Cooper Buy It People from Bruce
You must own this box set!
2007-12-21 - This box set is so amazing! I own all of his albums on both vinyl and Cd and this box set still gets played more often!
Great mix of songs on each CD.
How is Alice not in the Rock'n'Roll hall of fame (or rather shame)?
The man has put out so much great music!!!
I am a Diehard fan, you can trust me ;)
