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The Best Of Alice Cooper: Mascara & Monsters
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
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Tracks| 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 |
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