School Days: The Early Recordings
School Days: The Early Recordings gathers the first two albums by Alice Cooper, Pretties for You and Easy Action, into one package. It came out in 1973 on Warner Bros. Records, with a UK and European release the same year, though it was never issued in the United States.
The reissue exists because the band's early records first appeared on Straight Records. Once Warner signed them, the label held the rights and could bring that earlier material back. For anyone who knows the band from the bigger albums that followed, it's a chance to hear where they began, in a garage rock and psychedelic rock mould. It makes a handy way to hear both of those first records side by side, and to trace how far the group travelled in just a few years.
School Days: The Early Recordings: tracklist and credits
22 tracks · 1:11:12Tracklist
- Disc 1
- 1Titanic OvertureBruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith1:12
- 2Ten Minutes Before the WormBruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith1:36
- 3Swing Low Sweet CheerioBruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith5:36
- 4Today MuellerBruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith1:43
- 5LivingBruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith3:06
- 6Fields of RegretBruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith5:41
- 7No Longer UmpireBruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith1:56
- 8Levity BallBruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith4:40
- 9B.B. on MarsBruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith1:10
- 10ReflectedBruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith3:13
- 11Apple BushBruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith3:03
- 12Earwings to EternityBruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith1:16
- 13Changing ArrangingBruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith3:00
- Disc 2
- 1Mr. and MisdemeanorBruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith2:59
- 2Shoe SalesmanBruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith2:33
- 3Still No AirBruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith2:29
- 4Below Your MeansBruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith6:51
- 5Return of the SpidersBruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith4:28
- 6Laughing at MeBruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith2:11
- 7Refrigerator HeavenBruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith1:52
- 8Beautiful FlyawayBruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith3:01
- 9Lay Down and Die, GoodbyeBruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith7:36
- Produced by
- Alice Cooper, David Briggs, Alice Cooper/David Briggs
- Recorded at
- Whitney Recording Studios
- Recorded
- 1968–1970
- Engineered by
- Dick Kunc, Barry Keene
- Labels
- Warner Bros. Records, originally: Straight, Enigma Retro, this compilation: Warner Brothers
- Length
- 1:11:12
Line-up
- Michael Bruce · guitar, background vocals, lead vocals
- Glen Buxton · guitar
- Dennis Dunaway · bass, background vocals, bass guitar
- Neal Smith · drums (drum set), background vocals
- Alice Cooper · lead vocals, vocals
- David Briggs · piano · guest
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How we know the release date only year precision available
| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 1973 | |
| Wikipedia infobox | 1973 | |
| Wikidata | 1973 | |
| UK / Europe release | 1973 | earliest UK or European date |
1 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | GB | Warner Bros. Records | original |
Cover art sources
fanarttv · upscaled: major: best source 1000x1000, upscaled to 1500 (x1.50)
| Source | Size | Verdict |
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| fanarttv ✓ | 1000×1000 | upscaled: major: best source 1000x1000, upscaled to 1500 (x1.50) |
| coverartarchive | 220×214 | upscaled |