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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Don't Blow Your Mind - (with The Spiders)
2. Hitch Hike - (with The Spiders)
3. Why Don't You Love Me - (with The Spiders)
4. Lay Down and Die, Goodbye - (original version, with Nazz)
5. Nobody Likes Me - (previously unreleased, demo version)
6. Levity Ball - (previously unreleased, 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 - (previously unreleased, demo)
20. Gutter Cat 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 - (previously unreleased, demo)
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
20. Go to Hell
DISC 3:
1. It's Hot Tonight
2. You and Me - (single version)
3. I Miss You - (with Billion Dollar Babies)
4. No Time For Tears - (previously unreleased)
5. Because - (from "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", with The Bee Gees)
6. From the Inside - (single version)
7. How You Gonna See Me Now
8. Serious
9. No Tricks - (with Betty Wright)
10. Road Rats - (from "Roadie")
11. Clones (We're All)
12. Pain - ("Flush The Fashion" version)
13. Who Do You Think We Are - (single version)
14. Look at You Over There, Ripping the Sawdust From My Teddybear - (previously unreleased, demo)
15. For Britain Only
16. I Am the Future - (single version, from "Class Of '84")
17. Tag, You're It
18. Former Lee Warmer
19. I Love America
20. Identity Crisis - (from "Monster Dog")
21. See Me in the Mirror - (previously unreleased, from "Monster Dog")
22. Hard Rock Summer - (previously unreleased, from "Friday The 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives")
DISC 4:
1. He's Back - (previously unreleased, demo version)
2. He's Back (Man Behind the Mask) - (from "Friday The 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives")
3. Teenage Frankenstein
4. Freedom
5. Prince of Darkness
6. Under My Wheels - (from "The Decline Of Western Civilization, Part II: The Metal Years", with Axl Rose/Slash/Izzy of Guns N' Roses)
7. I Got a Line on You - (from "Iron Eagle II")
8. Poison
9. Trash
10. Only My Heart Talkin'
11. Hey Stoopid - (single version)
12. Feed My Frankenstein
13. Fire - (B-side of "Love's A Loaded Gun")
14. Lost in America
15. It's Me
16. Hands of Death - (Spookshow 2000 mix, with Rob Zombie)
17. Is Anyone Home?
18. Stolen Prayer
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Alice Cooper (vocals, harmonica); Rob Zombie (vocals, guitar, bass); Chris Cornell, Axl Rose, Betty Wright (vocals); Justin Hayward (acoustic guitar); Michael Bruce (guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Joe Satriani, Dick Wagner, Reggie Vincent (guitar, background vocals); Rick Derringer, Steve Vai, Slash, Izzy Stradlin, Steve Hunter, Mick Mashbir, Rick Nielsen, Glen Buxton (guitar); Bob Ezrin (keyboards); Dennis Dunaway (bass, background vocals); Nikki Sixx, John Entwistle (bass); Neal Smith (drums, background vocals); Bill Bruford (drums); Sarah Dash, Nona Hendryx, Todd Rundgren, The Bee Gees, Ozzy Osbourne, Liza Minnelli, The Pointer Sisters, Flo & Eddie, Ronnie Spector (background vocals).
Producers include: Foster S. Cayce, Todd Rundgren, Bob Ezrin, Alice Cooper, David Foster.
Compilation producer: Brian Nelson.
Engineers include: Dave Oxman, Loy Clingman, Dick Kune.
Includes an 80-page booklet with liner notes by Alice Cooper, Michael Bruce, John Lydon, Elton John, Dick Clark, Bono, Penn Jillette, Mike Myers, David Johansen, Joey Ramone and Burt Bacharach.
Shock rock legend Alice Cooper has been making audiences squirm for over 30 years and his wealth of material unquestionably befits a box set. Nearly a decade in the making, this 4 CD package is everything an Alicephile could want. Demos, unreleased tracks, alternate takes, live material, and pre-Alice are all here. All the artist's eras are covered in depth. Cooper completists will marvel at the 1965-1967 tunes (pre-Alice groups The Spiders and The Nazz).
This is followed by mandatory classics such as "Eighteen," "School's Out," "Billion Dollar Babies" and "Under My Wheels" (another version also appears with Axl, Slash and Izzy from Guns n' Roses). "I Love The Dead," and "Cold Ethyl" also flesh out the 70's era material. The glam metal explosion in the 80's helped resurge Alice's career, as "He's Back (The Man Behind The Mask)" and "Poison" introduced Cooper to a new generation. Guest appearances by Ozzy Osbourne, Nicki Sixx, Rob Zombie and Chris Cornell round out the 90's. THE LIFE is a must for Cooper diehards, and is recommended for everyone else.
Industry Reviews
...thoroughly represents Alice's career from the early days to his most recent recordings....if you can't get a celebratory springtime headbang going listening to School's Out, you're dangerously close to turning into your parents.
CMJ (05/17/1999)
...The first two discs are especially revelatory, tracing the band's metamorphosis from naive Yardbirds copyists to sicko psychedelicists to the definitely tough, tuneful hard-rock unity they became in the '70s. Hey, kids: Skip those Marilyn Manson tickets and invest in this instead. - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly (04/23/1999)
...The first two discs are especially revelatory, tracing the band's metamorphosis from naive Yardbirds copyists to sicko psychedelicists to the definitely tough, tuneful hard-rock unity they became in the '70s. Hey, kids: Skip those Marilyn Manson tickets and invest in this instead. - Rating: B+CMJ (5/17/99, p.29) - ...thoroughly represents Alice's career from the early days to his most recent recordings....if you can't get a celebratory springtime headbang going listening to School's Out, you're dangerously close to turning into your parents.
Entertainment Weekly (04/23/1999)
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