Greatest Hits (Alice Cooper album)

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Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by
ReleasedAugust 1974
Recorded1970–73
GenreHard rock[1]
Length41:41
LabelWarner Bros.
ProducerJack Richardson, Jack Douglas, Bob Ezrin
Alice Cooper chronology
Muscle of Love
(1973)
Greatest Hits
(1974)
Welcome to My Nightmare
(1975)
Singles from Greatest Hits
  1. "I'm Eighteen"
    Released: August 1974[2]

Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits is the only

greatest hits album by American rock band Alice Cooper, and their last release as a band. Released in 1974, it features hit songs from five of the band's seven studio albums. It does not include any material from their first two albums, Pretties for You and Easy Action
.

This compilation's song versions were remixed by Jack Richardson at the time, with the remix of "I'm Eighteen" being released as a single in the US. The reason behind remixing the songs was perhaps to boost its appeal as "new" versions because no new tracks were available for inclusion by the group as they were on hiatus at the time.

This compilation was expanded upon when, in 2001,

Mascara & Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper
, which includes the original single versions of the songs in addition to a number of Cooper's post-1974 hits as a solo artist, filling up the entire CD.

Artwork

The album's cover art was designed by

St. Valentine's Day Massacre is in the upper middle. The album was released by Friday Music records on vinyl in 2013 with a Gatefold cover, mimicking the 1974 Australian release of the album,[3]
which was the only territory where it was originally released with a Gatefold sleeve.

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic
[4]
Christgau's Record GuideA−[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[6]

Track listing

Side one
  1. ") – 2:58
  2. "Is It My Body" (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) – 2:41
    • Original version on Love It to Death
  3. "Desperado" (Cooper, Bruce) – 3:29
  4. "Under My Wheels" (Bruce, Dunaway, Bob Ezrin) – 2:46
    • *Original version on Killer
  5. "Be My Lover" (Bruce) – 3:22
    • *Original version on Killer
  6. "School's Out" (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) – 3:30
Side two
  1. "Hello Hooray" (Rolf Kempf) – 4:18
  2. "Elected" (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) – 4:08
    • Original version on Billion Dollar Babies
  3. "No More Mr. Nice Guy" (Cooper, Bruce) – 3:07
    • Original version on Billion Dollar Babies
  4. "Billion Dollar Babies" (Cooper, Bruce, Smith) – 3:43
    • Original version on Billion Dollar Babies
  5. "Teenage Lament '74" (Cooper, Smith) – 3:54
  6. "Muscle of Love" (Cooper, Bruce) – 3:45
    • Original version on Muscle of Love

Personnel

Alice Cooper Band

with:

  • Steve Hunter – guitar solos on "Billion Dollar Babies" and "Hello Hooray"

Charts

Chart (1974) Peak
position
Australian (Kent Music Report)[7] 71
US Billboard 200 8

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[8] Gold 500,000^
United States (RIAA)[8] Platinum 1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

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