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Mascara & Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper
Mascara & Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper is a compilation released by Rhino on 16 January 2001, in the United States only. It gathers material from Cooper's solo career alongside songs from the days when Alice Cooper was a full band. The cover shows Cooper in the mid-1970s peering at his mascara-eyed, monstrous alter ego, which suits the title neatly.
Outside America, the equivalent release was The Definitive Alice Cooper, with a slightly different track listing and different packaging, though the two share the same back cover, tray insert and disc image. As with the 1974 Greatest Hits collection, nothing here comes from Pretties for You or Easy Action, so the story starts after those first two records. It makes a handy way into a long career, from the band years through to the solo albums that followed Welcome to My Nightmare.
Mascara & Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper: tracklist and credits
22 tracks · 1:16:00Tracklist
- 1I’m EighteenBruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith2:58
- 2Is It My BodyBruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith2:39
- 3DesperadoMichael Bruce and Alice Cooper3:29
- 4Under My WheelsBruce, Dunaway, Ezrin2:48
- 5Be My LoverMichael Bruce3:22
- 6School’s OutBruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith3:31
- 7ElectedBruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith3:43
- 8Hello HoorayRolf Kempf3:03
- 9Generation LandslideBruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith4:32
- 10No More Mr. Nice GuyMichael Bruce and Alice Cooper3:07
- 11Billion Dollar BabiesBruce, Cooper, Vincent3:39
- 12Teenage Lament ’74Alice Cooper and Neal Smith3:52
- 13Muscle of LoveMichael Bruce and Alice Cooper3:46
- 14Only Women BleedAlice Cooper and Dick Wagner3:31
- 15Department of YouthCooper, Ezrin, Wagner3:18
- 16Welcome to My NightmareAlice Cooper and Dick Wagner2:48
- 17I Never CryAlice Cooper and Dick Wagner3:43
- 18You and MeAlice Cooper and Dick Wagner3:26
- 19How You Gonna See Me NowCooper, Wagner, Taupin3:52
- 20From the InsideCooper, Foster, Wagner, Taupin3:31
- 21Clones (We’re All)David Carron2:51
- 22PoisonChild, Cooper, McCurry4:27
- Produced by
- Bob Ezrin, Jack Richardson, Jack Douglas, David Walter Foster, Roy Thomas Baker, Desmond Child, Varies
- Executive producer
- Jack Richardson, Shep Gordon
- Recorded at
- RCA Mid-America, RCA Studios, The Record Plant, Sunset Sound, The Cooper Mansion, Cherokee Studios, Bearsville Studios, Blue Jay Recording Studios, Grog Kill Studio, Mediasound Studios, Power Station at BerkleeNYC, Right Track Recording, Sigma Sound Studios, The Complex Studios, The Village
- Recorded
- 1970–1989
- Mixed by
- Michael Barbiero, Steve Thompson
- Engineered by
- Brian Christian, Roy Cicala, Shelly Yakus, Jack Douglas, Phil Ramone, Ian Taylor, Arthur Payson
- Label
- Rhino
- Length
- 1:16:00
Line-up
- Michael Bruce · guitar, keyboard, background vocals, electric guitar
- Glen Buxton · guitar, electric guitar
- Alice Cooper · harmonica, lead vocals
- Dennis Dunaway · bass guitar, background vocals, electric bass guitar
- Bob Ezrin · keyboard, Rhodes piano
- Neal Smith · drums (drum set), background vocals
- Rick Derringer · guitar · guest
- Reggie Vincent · guitar, background vocals · guest
- Steve Hunter · guitar, acoustic guitar · guest
- Donovan · lead vocals · guest
- Sarah Dash · background vocals · guest
- Nona Hendryx · background vocals · guest
- Liza Minnelli · background vocals · guest
- The Pointer Sisters · background vocals · guest
- Ronnie Spector · background vocals · guest
- Jozef Chirowski · clavinet, keyboard, background vocals · guest
- Whitey Glan · drums (drum set) · guest
- Prakash John · bass guitar · guest
- Dick Wagner · guitar, background vocals · guest
- David Ezrin · background vocals · guest
- Michael Sherman · background vocals · guest
- The Summerhill Children’s Choir · background vocals, choir vocals · guest
- Johnny Badanjek · drums (drum set) · guest
- Tony Levin · bass · guest
- Dick Berg · French horn · guest
- Jimmy Maelen · percussion · guest
- Allan Schwartzberg · drums (drum set) · guest
- Paul Chiten · keyboard · guest
- Bobby Chouinard · drums (drum set) · guest
- Gregg Mangiafico · other instruments, keyboard · guest
- John McCurry · guitar · guest
- Hugh McDonald · bass guitar, background vocals · guest
- Alan St. Jon · keyboard, background vocals · guest
- Michael Anthony · background vocals · guest
- Stiv Bators · background vocals · guest
- Desmond Child · background vocals · guest
- Diana Grasselli · background vocals · guest
- Jango · background vocals · guest
- Louis Merlino · background vocals · guest
- Jamie Sever · background vocals · guest
- Bernie Shanahan · background vocals · guest
- Tom Teeley · background vocals · guest
- Joe Turano · background vocals · guest
- Myriam Valle · background vocals · guest
- Maria Vidal · background vocals · guest
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How we know the release date wikipedia + musicbrainz
| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 16 January 2001 | |
| Wikipedia infobox | 16 January 2001 | |
| Wikidata | 2001 | |
| US release | 16 January 2001 | earliest US date |
2 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 January 2001 | US | Rhino | 081227580629 | original |
| — | — | Rhino | 603497949069 | other |
Cover art sources
deezer · upscaled: major: best source 1200x1200, upscaled to 1500 (x1.25)
| Source | Size | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| deezer ✓ | 1200×1200 | upscaled: major: best source 1200x1200, upscaled to 1500 (x1.25) |
| fanarttv | 1000×1000 | upscaled |
| coverartarchive | 600×598 | upscaled |