Life & Crimes Of Alice Cooper (4CD): Alice Cooper: Amazon.ca: Music

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)
5. Nobody Likes Me (Demo Version)
See all 21 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Hello Hooray
2. Elected (Single Version)
3. Billion Dollar Babies
4. No More Mr. Nice Guy
5. I Love The Dead
See all 20 tracks on this disc
Disc: 3
1. It's Hot Tonight
2. You And Me (Single Version)
3. I Miss You
4. No Time For Tears
5. Because
See all 22 tracks on this disc
Disc: 4
1. He's Back (Demo)
2. He's Back (The Man Behind The Mask) (Movie Mix)
3. Teenage Frankenstein
4. Freedom
5. Prince Of Darkness
See all 18 tracks on this disc

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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 LA 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

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3.0 out of 5 stars Great artist, but this set is horribly imbalanced, Jan 30 2004

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Taylor X "Taylor X" (Las Vegas, NV (USA)) - See all my reviews
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For over three decades, Alice Cooper has been one of the world's most beloved rock stars. And when artists become extremely popular, it's not unusual for them to release a box set. Cooper was no exception to this rule. In recent years, he released his first box set, appropriately entitled The Life And Crimes Of Alice Cooper. Read on for my review of this set.

PROS:
-The most obvious good thing about this compilation is that it chronicles Alice Cooper's entire career, from rare, pre-Alice Cooper band stuff right up into the nineties.
-Many rare tracks can be found on this compilation. Among these are single versions of tracks previously unreleased on CD, rare alternative versions of tracks, and even rare stuff from Alice's pre-Alice Cooper bands!
-The packaging and liner notes are a nice touch.

CONS:
-Alice couldn't seem to decide whether or not he wanted to do a box set of rarities, or a box set that covered his entire career in depth. That makes this a very scattershot compilation. If you're going to do a career-spanning box set, put together a box of all your albums to date. If you're doing a box set of rarities, make sure it consists of nothing but rare stuff!
-How many Alice Cooper fans who already own every album (and most of the songs in this set) are going to want to go out and pay another $60 for a few rare tracks? If you really want the rare tracks on here, just download them.

OVERALL:
I LOVE Alice Cooper. He's probably my favorite classic rock artist of all time, but this box set is way too scattershot. If you want to get into Alice, there is no substitute for buying his actual studio albums. As good an idea as this box set was, it just didn't turn out too well.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Box set, Jun 23 2004

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This is the best box set I have ever owned, and it blows the usual sets out of the water. It contains 12 songs that can only be found in this collection, and lots of songs from albums that cannot be found on cd anymore. For example, it has 4 songs from the album Muscle of Love, and now that album cannot be found on cd. Then, there are 3 songs from the first two albums Pretties for You and Easy Action, and even the most hardcore fan will have a hard time finding these songs or records anywhere else.
It also contains a great book that has quotes from Alice Cooper and other members of the band about each song, and why they wrote it, and there are great pictures, and his complete discography up to when the set was made.
I was hessitant on buying this set and instead thought about buying the albums individually, but I ended up buying the box set, and liked everything, and ended up getting the albums too, and don't regret ever getting the box set. It does a great job of mixing rare tracks with classic songs like "I'm Eighteen" and "Billion Dollar Babies". And the rare songs are good too, not like some of those b-sides you're dying to hear, then end up understanding quickly why they didn't make the album.
Some of the cooleset tracks found only on this are: "Lay Down and Die, Goodbye" and "Nobody Likes Me" (the studio version) and He's Back (the Man Behind the Mask).

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5.0 out of 5 stars No Crime To Buy This Boxset!, Feb 8 2004

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This most definatly the best collection ever of Alice Cooper! In my oppinion it's the best boxset ever put together! If u only want one alice cooper for your collection this is the one to get! All The Best songs! The Booklet inside is also a plus! i highly recomend this boxset! It would be a crime not to get this collection of hits!

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