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Greatest Hits (Alice Cooper album)

{{Infobox album

| name = Greatest Hits

| type = Greatest Hits

| artist = Alice Cooper

| cover = Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits.jpg

| alt =

| released = 9 August 1974Page 14 of the "Mascara & Monsters" (CD, Compilation, 2001) liner notes states: "Warner Bros. #BS-2803 (8/9/74)"

| recorded = 1970–73

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Hard rock{{cite book |editor-first1= Nathan |editor-last1= Brackett |editor-first2= Christian |editor-last2= Hoard |year= 2004 |title= The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |edition= 4th |publisher= Fireside |page= [https://archive.org/details/newrollingstoner00mars/page/12 12] |isbn= 0-394-72107-1 }}

| length = 41:41

| label = Warner Bros.

| producer = Jack Richardson, Jack Douglas, Bob Ezrin

| prev_title = Muscle of Love

| prev_year = 1973

| next_title = Welcome to My Nightmare

| next_year = 1975

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Greatest Hits

| type = compilation

| single1 = I'm Eighteen

| single1date = August 1974{{cite web|url=https://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Alice+Cooper&titel=Eighteen&cat=s|title=Alice Cooper singles}}

}}

}}

Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits is the only greatest hits album by American rock band Alice Cooper, and their last release as a band. Released 9 August 1974,"Mascara & Monsters" CD liner notes, page 14 states release date is "(8/9/74)" it features hit songs from five of the band's seven studio albums. It does not include any material from their first two albums, Pretties for You and Easy Action.

This compilation's song versions were remixed by Jack Richardson at the time, with the remix of "I'm Eighteen" being released as a single in the US. The reason behind remixing the songs was perhaps to boost its appeal as "new" versions because no new tracks were available for inclusion by the group as they were on hiatus at the time.

This compilation was expanded upon when, in 2001, Rhino released Mascara & Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper, which includes the original single versions of the songs in addition to a number of Cooper's post-1974 hits as a solo artist, filling up the entire CD. The liner notes of this compilation also include a then-complete album discography spanning from 1969 to 2000.

Artwork

The album's cover art was designed by Ernie Cefalu and features a sepia-toned Drew Struzan illustration of the band members in front of a 1930s garage, accompanied by such period movie stars as Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, Edward G. Robinson, Jean Harlow, Peter Lorre, and Groucho Marx. The inner sleeve features a similar illustration of the band surrounded by these and other stars of Hollywood's golden age such as Marilyn Monroe, Gary Cooper, Judy Garland, Errol Flynn, Clara Bow, Boris Karloff, Zasu Pitts, Tyrone Power, Bela Lugosi, Marlene Dietrich, Tallulah Bankhead, Betty Grable, Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd. A depiction of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre is in the upper middle. The album was released by Friday Music records on vinyl in 2013 with a Gatefold cover, mimicking the 1974 Australian release of the album,{{Cite web|url=https://fridaymusic.com/products/alice-cooper-alice-coopers-greatest-hits-lp-180-gram-audiophile-vinyl|title=ALICE COOPER'S GREATEST HITS LP (180 GRAM AUDIOPHILE VINYL)|website=Friday Music|language=en|access-date=2017-11-04}} which was the only territory where it was originally released with a Gatefold sleeve.

{{Album reviews

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{Cite web |last=Prato |first=Greg |title=Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits - Alice Cooper |website=AllMusic |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r4527/review|pure_url=yes}} |access-date=2024-03-07}}

|rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide

|rev2Score = A−{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: C|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=C&bk=70|access-date=February 23, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}

|rev3 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

|rev3score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{Cite book |editor-last1=Brackett |editor-first1=Nathan |editor-link1=Nathan Brackett |editor-last2=Hoard |editor-first2=Christian |editor-link2=Christian Hoard |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |year=2004 |location=New York |publisher=Fireside Books |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |edition=4th |page=11–13}}

}}

Track listing

;Side one

  1. "I'm Eighteen" (Alice Cooper, Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith) – 2:58
  2. * Original version on Love It to Death
  3. "Is It My Body" (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) – 2:41
  4. * Original version on Love It to Death
  5. "Desperado" (Cooper, Bruce) – 3:29
  6. * Original version on Killer
  7. "Under My Wheels" (Bruce, Dunaway, Bob Ezrin) – 2:46
  8. * *Original version on Killer
  9. "Be My Lover" (Bruce) – 3:22
  10. * *Original version on Killer
  11. "School's Out" (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) – 3:30
  12. * Original version on School's Out

;Side two

  1. "Hello Hooray" (Rolf Kempf) – 4:18
  2. * Original version on Billion Dollar Babies
  3. "Elected" (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) – 4:08
  4. * Original version on Billion Dollar Babies
  5. "No More Mr. Nice Guy" (Cooper, Bruce) – 3:07
  6. * Original version on Billion Dollar Babies
  7. "Billion Dollar Babies" (Cooper, Bruce, Smith) – 3:43
  8. * Original version on Billion Dollar Babies
  9. "Teenage Lament '74" (Cooper, Smith) – 3:54
  10. * Original version on Muscle of Love
  11. "Muscle of Love" (Cooper, Bruce) – 3:45
  12. * Original version on Muscle of Love

Personnel

;Alice Cooper Band

with:

  • Steve Hunter – guitar solos on "Billion Dollar Babies" and "Hello Hooray"

Charts & certifications

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=Weekly charts=

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!Chart (1974)

!Peak
position

scope="row"|Australian (Kent Music Report){{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=92}}

|align="center"|71

{{album chart|Canada|8|chartid=3866a|rowheader=true|access-date=12 February 2025}}
{{album chart|Billboard200|8|artist=Alice Cooper|album=Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits|rowheader=true|access-date=12 February 2025}}

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=Year-end charts=

class="wikitable plainrowheaders"

!Chart (1974)

!Position

{{album chart|Canada|57|chartid=3891|rowheader=true|access-date=12 February 2025|refname=CA_YE}}

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= Certifications =

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{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|artist=Alice Cooper|title=Greatest Hits|relyear=1974|award=Gold|certyear=1974|region=United States}}

{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|artist=Alice Cooper|title=Greatest Hits|relyear=1974|award=Platinum|certyear=1986|region=United States}}

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References

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Category:1974 greatest hits albums

Category:Alice Cooper compilation albums

Category:Albums produced by Bob Ezrin

Category:Albums produced by Jack Douglas (record producer)

Category:Albums produced by Jack Richardson (record producer)

Category:Albums with cover art by Drew Struzan