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44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Th Eyeshadow Returns!, 14 Jul 2001
By A Customer
What can I say? Alice Cooper the father of shock and hard rock rekindles the flames of his past glories with this tremendous CD. It is packed with great songs. some hard, some moving and even tear-inducing, especially "How you gonna see me now" a song he based on an actual letter he wrote to his wife after he had dried out. She had never known him sober and he did not know what she would think of the "dried out Alice". 20 years later and they are still married. "Poison" and "Hey Stoopid" are also great songs in their own right. But two songs are missing...The cheesy "House of fire" and the rockin' "Feed my Frankenstein". However, this does not flaw the CD at all. It is the best Alice Cooper CD you could ever buy and I'd recommend it to someone who only has a passing fascination with the mascara monster.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Definitive?, 10 Mar 2006
For those in the know, Alice Cooper is one of the most influential figures in rock history. His early 70's albums played a vital part in inspiring the punk, goth and metal genres that followed in his wake - KISS, The Sex Pistols, The Misfits, Iron Maiden and Marilyn Manson are only a few of the diverse and iconic acts that owe a debt to this man.
Since his commercial heyday in the early 70's, Alice has amassed a huge catalogue of classic albums, continuing right up to the present day (2008's Along Came A Spider being his latest release). Over the last four decades, Billion Dollar Babies (1973), Trash (1989), The Last Temptation (1994) and The Eyes Of Alice Cooper (2003) have all set the benchmark for the very best in rock 'n' roll, each album representing a very different style and period, and yet all of them being instantly identifiable to this uniquely complex and charismatic artist.
It is for this reason, however, that The Definitive Alice Cooper fails to live up to its title. 95% of the tracks included chart his career from 1971 to 1978, and many of his classic songs from this period are featured. However, the following chapters of his career, spanning nearly 25 years when this compilation was released, are accounted for by a grand total of two tracks (the smash hit Poison, and 1991's title track Hey Stoopid). This does not even begin to account for a huge wealth of great material from the 80's, 90's and beyond, and as such this album is anything but "definitive".
With that being said, at 21 tracks you get value for money, and with so many poor Alice Cooper compilations on the racks, this is probably the best one currently available. As an alternative, I would also recommend 'Classicks', which features 9 tracks from 1989-1994 (including killer cuts like 'Feed My Frankenstein' and 'Lost In America'), and 6 live versions of the 70's hits.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Concentrated Cooper, 10 Dec 2004
Until recently I'd only had a couple of Coop albums from the 70's then I took a chance on this one ('cos it had POISON (brilliant!) on it) and now I'm gonna have to backtrack 35 years to collect all the stuff he's done...Simply on the strength of this compilation...
It's not all blood and guts, there are two or three really "personal" tracks...(I Never Cry, Only Women Bleed...)Great stuff...Buy it or die unenlightened.
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