Mascara & Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper (CD)

Alice Cooper, AKA Vincent Furnier, became famous with a mixture of hard rock and sideshow horror. With his outrageous image and stage show, entertainer extraordinaire Cooper (who eventually adopted the band's name as his own) almost single-handedly invented the genre of shock rock--spawning a legion of famous imitators (Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson) along the way. By the end of the 1970s, Cooper had racked up a number of hits and become a bona fide celebrity, even appearing in films. His musical and cinematic activities continued into the 2000s, his iconic status firmly cemented.

• Category:  Music  »  Rock & Pop  »  Hard Rock
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: January 16, 2001
• Label: Rhino Records (USA)
• UPC: 081227580629
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106074655
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #20578 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #7335 in Rock & Pop (See Top 100 Rock & Pop Bestsellers)
• #392 in Hard Rock (See Top 100 Hard Rock Bestsellers)

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The Alice Cooper Group: Alice Cooper (vocals); Michael Bruce (guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Glen Buxton (guitar); Dennis Dunaway (bass, background vocals); Neal Smith (drums, background vocals).

Producers include: Bob Ezrin, David Foster, Michael Wagener, Desmond Child, Jack Douglas.

Compilation producers: David McLees, Brian Nelson.

Includes liner notes by Jeffrey Morgan and Alice Cooper.

This is a one-disc distillation of the four-disc box set THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF ALICE COOPER, and as such represents the cream of the shock-rock legend's output. The earlier songs (1970 to 1974), featuring the original lineup, are classic rock & roll.

Managing the difficult feat of being both clever and commercially accessible, these songs were of course a huge influence on the late-'70s punk rock that followed (Johnny Rotten auditioned for the Sex Pistols by singing along with Cooper's generational anthem "I'm Eighteen"). The later material here, from "Only Women Bleed" to "Poison," is just as well crafted--Cooper performs with a combination of irony and malevolence that a certain Marilyn Manson no doubt studied long and hard.

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