┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │■ ■│ │ .-/ .-. │ │ _.-~ / ___ | ~-._ │ │ \:/ -~| / __/| .\:/ │ │ / || (:/:| \ │ │ / /\/| |:\___\| |\ \ │ │ / /:::|.::/:::/:.|:\ \ │ │ / /:::/ \\/:::/::/:::\ \ │ │ / .::\ \-~~~~-/\/:.. \ │ │ /..:::::\ /:::::..\ │ │ /::::::::- -::::::::\ │ │ \:::::-~ ~-:::::/ │ │ \:-~ ~-:/ │ │ METAL CLASSICS ARCHIVE │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ P R E S E N T S │ │ │ │ │ │ + Alice Cooper - The Beast Of Alice Cooper + │ │ │ │ │ │╔═════════════════════╗ │ │║ Release Information ║ │ │╠═════════════════════╩══════════════════════════════════════════╗ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Release Date.Feb-06-2006 Encoder......LAME 3.90 Modified ║ │ │║ Genre........Hard Rock Graber.......EAC ║ │ │║ Year.........1989 Khz/Bitrate..44,1/ Br ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Ripper.......rainbow Songs........14 ║ │ │║ Covers.......Yes Url... www.alicecooper.com ║ │ │║ ║ │ │╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │╔═════════════════════╗ │ │║ Release Notes ║ │ │╠═════════════════════╩══════════════════════════════════════════╗ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Artist : Alice Cooper Rating : You Decide! ║ │ │║ Album : The Beast Of Alice Cooper Label : Wea ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ ║ │ │╠════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╣ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Description : ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ 1989 WEA International compilation featuring 14 ║ │ │║ of his best for Warner Brothers, 1971-1975. ║ │ │║ Includes 'School's Out', 'I'm Eighteen', 'Only ║ │ │║ Women Bleed', 'Elected', 'No More Mr. Nice Guy', ║ │ │║ 'Teenage Lament '74' and more. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Isn't this like one of THE coolest CD covers ║ │ │║ you've ever seen?As I pen out this review of the ║ │ │║ 'Beast Of Alice Cooper',it's his 58th ║ │ │║ birthday,today and as everyone knows,he's still ║ │ │║ going stronger than ever before.Fourteen of ║ │ │║ Alice's early works here to thoroughly soak in ║ │ │║ and fully experience,like "Billion Dollar ║ │ │║ Babies","Is It My Body",the president's theme ║ │ │║ "Elected","Hello Hooray"(one of my personal ║ │ │║ favorite songs of all time),"Muscle Of Love" and ║ │ │║ "Department Of Youth".An absolute must-have.In ║ │ │║ fact,order it NOW! ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ This is really a great compilation. All of this ║ │ │║ tracks are classics. My favourites include ║ │ │║ almost every single one. ║ │ │║ But If I had to mention some I would say: ║ │ │║ Desperado,Billion Dollar Babies,I'm ║ │ │║ Eighteen,Muscle of Love,Department of Youth and ║ │ │║ Be My Lover. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ This is a terrific gift for a Non alice fan, ║ │ │║ someone you want to introduce to the coop. Its ║ │ │║ superior to the old greatest hits, altough the ║ │ │║ cover to that one was always worth the price of ║ │ │║ admission to me ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ If you already own Greatest Hits you don't need ║ │ │║ this. All it is is that album with a few from ║ │ │║ the excellent Welcome To My Nightmare. If ║ │ │║ however you don't own Greatest Hits you may want ║ │ │║ this one. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Originally, there was a band called Alice Cooper ║ │ │║ led by a singer named Vincent Damon Furnier. ║ │ │║ Under his direction, Alice Cooper pioneered a ║ │ │║ grandly theatrical and violent brand of heavy ║ │ │║ metal that was designed to shock. Drawing ║ │ │║ equally from horror movies, vaudeville, heavy ║ │ │║ metal, and garage rock, the group created a ║ │ │║ stage show that featured electric chairs, ║ │ │║ guillotines, fake blood, and huge boa ║ │ │║ constrictors, all coordinated by the heavily ║ │ │║ made-up Furnier. By that time, Furnier had ║ │ │║ adopted the name for his androgynous on-stage ║ │ │║ personality. While the visuals were extremely ║ │ │║ important to the group's impact, the band's ║ │ │║ music was nearly as distinctive. Driven by raw, ║ │ │║ simple riffs and melodies that derived from '60s ║ │ │║ guitar pop as well as show tunes, it was rock & ║ │ │║ roll at its most basic and catchy, even when the ║ │ │║ band ventured into psychedelia and art rock. ║ │ │║ After the original group broke up and Furnier ║ │ │║ began a solo career as Alice Cooper, his actual ║ │ │║ music lost most of its theatrical flourishes, ║ │ │║ becoming straightforward heavy metal, yet his ║ │ │║ stage show retained all of the trademark props ║ │ │║ that made him the king of shock rock. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Furnier formed his first group, the Earwigs, as ║ │ │║ an Arizona teenager in the early '60s. Changing ║ │ │║ the band's name to the Spiders in 1965, the ║ │ │║ group was eventually called the Nazz (not to be ║ │ │║ confused with Todd Rundgren's band of the same ║ │ │║ name). The Spiders and the Nazz both released ║ │ │║ local singles that were moderately popular. In ║ │ │║ 1968, after discovering there was another band ║ │ │║ called with the same name, the group changed its ║ │ │║ name to Alice Cooper. According to band legend, ║ │ │║ the name came to Furnier during a ouija board ║ │ │║ session, where he was told he was the ║ │ │║ reincarnation of a 17th-century witch of the ║ │ │║ same name. Comprised of vocalist Furnier -- who ║ │ │║ would soon begin calling himself Alice Cooper -- ║ │ │║ guitarist Mike Bruce, guitarist Glen Buxton, ║ │ │║ bassist Dennis Dunaway, and drummer Neal Smith, ║ │ │║ the group moved to California in 1968. In ║ │ │║ California, the group met Shep Gordon, who ║ │ │║ became their manager, and Frank Zappa, who ║ │ │║ signed Alice Cooper to his Straight Records ║ │ │║ imprint. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Alice Cooper released their first album, ║ │ │║ Pretties for You, in 1969. Easy Action followed ║ │ │║ early in 1970, yet it failed to chart. The ║ │ │║ group's reputation in Los Angeles was slowly ║ │ │║ shrinking, so the band moved to Furnier's ║ │ │║ hometown of Detroit. For the next year, the ║ │ │║ group refined their bizarre stage show. Late in ║ │ │║ 1970, the group's contract was transferred to ║ │ │║ Straight's distributor Warner Bros., and they ║ │ │║ began recording their third album with producer ║ │ │║ Bob Ezrin. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ With Ezrin's assistance, Alice Cooper developed ║ │ │║ their classic heavy metal crunch on 1971's Love ║ │ │║ It to Death, which featured the number 21 hit ║ │ │║ single "Eighteen"; the album peaked at number 35 ║ │ │║ and went gold. The success enabled the group to ║ │ │║ develop a more impressive, elaborate live show, ║ │ │║ which made them highly popular concert ║ │ │║ attractions across the U.S. and eventually the ║ │ │║ U.K. Killer, released late in 1971, was another ║ │ │║ gold album. Released in the summer of 1972, ║ │ │║ School's Out was Alice Cooper's breakthrough ║ │ │║ record, peaking at number two and selling over a ║ │ │║ million copies. The title song became a Top Ten ║ │ │║ hit in the U.S. and a number one single in the ║ │ │║ U.K. Billion Dollar Babies, released the ║ │ │║ following year, was the group's biggest hit, ║ │ │║ reaching number one in both America and Britain; ║ │ │║ the album's first single, "No More Mr. Nice ║ │ │║ Guy," became a Top Ten hit in Britain, peaking ║ │ │║ at number 25 in the U.S. Muscle of Love appeared ║ │ │║ late in 1973, yet it failed to capitalize on the ║ │ │║ success of Billion Dollar Babies. After Muscle ║ │ │║ of Love, Furnier and the rest of Alice Cooper ║ │ │║ parted ways to pursue other projects. Having ║ │ │║ officially changed his name to Alice Cooper, ║ │ │║ Furnier embarked on a similarly theatrical solo ║ │ │║ career; the rest of the band released one ║ │ │║ unsuccessful album under the name Billion Dollar ║ │ │║ Babies, while Mike Bruce and Neal Smith both ║ │ │║ recorded solo albums that were never issued. In ║ │ │║ the fall of 1974, a compilation of Alice ║ │ │║ Cooper's five Warner albums, entitled Alice ║ │ │║ Cooper's Greatest Hits, became a Top Ten hit. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ For his first solo album, Cooper hired Lou ║ │ │║ Reed's backing band from Rock 'N' Roll Animal -- ║ │ │║ guitarists Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter, bassist ║ │ │║ Prakash John, keyboardist Joseph Chrowski, and ║ │ │║ drummer Penti Glan -- as his supporting group. ║ │ │║ Welcome to My Nightmare, Alice Cooper's first ║ │ │║ solo album, was released in the spring of 1975. ║ │ │║ The record wasn't a great departure from his ║ │ │║ previous work, and it became a Top Ten hit in ║ │ │║ America, launching the hit acoustic ballad "Only ║ │ │║ Women Bleed"; its success put an end to any idea ║ │ │║ of reconvening Alice Cooper the band. Its ║ │ │║ follow-up, 1976's Alice Cooper Goes to Hell, was ║ │ │║ another hit, going gold in the U.S. After Alice ║ │ │║ Cooper Goes to Hell, Cooper's career began to ║ │ │║ slip, partially due to changing trends and ║ │ │║ partially due to his alcoholism. Cooper entered ║ │ │║ rehabilitation in 1978, writing an album about ║ │ │║ his treatment called From the Inside (1978) with ║ │ │║ Bernie Taupin, Elton John's lyricist. During the ║ │ │║ early '80s, Cooper continued to release albums ║ │ │║ and tour, yet he was no longer as popular as he ║ │ │║ was during his early-'70s heyday. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Cooper made a successful comeback in the late ║ │ │║ '80s, sparked by his appearances in horror films ║ │ │║ and a series of pop-metal bands that paid ║ │ │║ musical homage to his classic early records and ║ │ │║ concerts. Constrictor, released in 1986, began ║ │ │║ his comeback, but it was 1989's Trash that ║ │ │║ returned Cooper to the spotlight. Produced by ║ │ │║ the proven hitmaker Desmond Child, Trash ║ │ │║ featured guest appearances by Jon Bon Jovi, ║ │ │║ Richie Sambora, and most of Aerosmith; the ║ │ │║ record became a Top Ten hit in Britain and ║ │ │║ peaked at number 20 in the U.S., going platinum. ║ │ │║ "Poison," a mid-tempo rocker featured on the ║ │ │║ album, became Cooper's first Top Ten single ║ │ │║ since 1977. After the release of Trash, he ║ │ │║ continued to star in the occasional film, tour, ║ │ │║ and record, although he wasn't able to retain ║ │ │║ the audience recaptured with Trash. Still, ║ │ │║ 1991's Hey Stoopid and 1994's The Last ║ │ │║ Temptation were generally solid, professional ║ │ │║ efforts which helped Cooper settle into a ║ │ │║ comfortable cult status without damaging the ║ │ │║ critical goodwill surrounding his '70s output. ║ │ │║ After a live album, 1997's Fistful of Alice, ║ │ │║ Cooper returned on the smaller Spitfire label in ║ │ │║ 2000 with Brutal Planet and Dragontown a year ║ │ │║ later. The Eyes of Alice Cooper appeared in 2003 ║ │ │║ and found Alice and company playing a more ║ │ │║ stripped-down brand of near-garage rock. Dirty ║ │ │║ Diamonds from 2005 was nearly as raw and hit the ║ │ │║ streets around the same time Alice premiered his ║ │ │║ syndicated radio show, Nights with Alice Cooper. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Cooper in his official eye makeupAlice Cooper ║ │ │║ (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948), ║ │ │║ is a rock singer and musician. Alice Cooper was ║ │ │║ originally just the name of Furnier's band. ║ │ │║ Furnier officially changed his own name to Alice ║ │ │║ Cooper for a successful solo career. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Furnier was born in Detroit, but moved to ║ │ │║ Phoenix, Arizona in his youth. His grandfather, ║ │ │║ Thurman Furnier, was an ordained Apostle of the ║ │ │║ Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite). Cooper's ║ │ │║ father, Ether Furnier, was an ordained Elder. ║ │ │║ Cooper had some distant French Huguenot ║ │ │║ ancestry; the remainder of his ancestry was ║ │ │║ English. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Cooper, influenced by British Bands such as The ║ │ │║ Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks ║ │ │║ and in particular The Yardbirds, formed a number ║ │ │║ of rock bands in the 1960s, including the ║ │ │║ Earwigs, The Spiders, and The Nazz. Furnier, ║ │ │║ upon learning that Todd Rundgren also had a band ║ │ │║ called the Nazz, changed the band's name to ║ │ │║ Alice Cooper (the name Alice Cooper is said to ║ │ │║ have been agreed upon after one of Furnier's ║ │ │║ Ouija sessions, and learning that he was a ║ │ │║ reincarnation of a 17th century "witch" of the ║ │ │║ same name, according to band legend, although ║ │ │║ Cooper in interviews has said the name actually ║ │ │║ came out of thin air conjuring an image of "a ║ │ │║ cute little girl with an axe behind her back"). ║ │ │║ The classic Alice Cooper group line up consisted ║ │ │║ of guitarists Michael Bruce and Glen Buxton, ║ │ │║ bassist Dennis Dunaway, and drummer Neal Smith. ║ │ │║ After moving to California in 1968, the band ║ │ │║ enlisted Shep Gordon and Joe Greenberg as their ║ │ │║ managers, and the band was soon signed to Frank ║ │ │║ Zappa's label, Straight Records - releasing two ║ │ │║ competent but outlandish albums, Pretties For ║ │ │║ You and Easy Action, to a frosty public and ║ │ │║ critical reception. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Although the band incorporated theatrics in ║ │ │║ their stage act from the outset, a chance case ║ │ │║ of press misreporting an unfortunate, ║ │ │║ unrehearsed stage routine involving Alice and a ║ │ │║ live chicken led to the band changing tack - ║ │ │║ capitalizing on tabloid sensationalism and ║ │ │║ creating a new sub-genre, shock rock. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ 1970s ║ │ │║ In 1970, the band teamed up with fledgling ║ │ │║ producer Bob Ezrin on their album entitled Love ║ │ │║ It to Death. This was the first of more than 10 ║ │ │║ Alice Cooper group and solo albums done with ║ │ │║ Ezrin who is credited with having helped to ║ │ │║ create their definitive sound. A hit single soon ║ │ │║ followed in 1971's 'I'm Eighteen'. The band's ║ │ │║ trailblazing mix of shock and glam theatrics ║ │ │║ stood out amongst bearded, denim-clad hippy ║ │ │║ bands by sporting sequined costumes by the ║ │ │║ prominent rock fashion designer Cindy Dunaway ║ │ │║ (Pink Floyd, The Who) and stage shows that ║ │ │║ involved Gothic torture modes imposed on the ║ │ │║ lead singer. The follow up Killer included ║ │ │║ further singles in 'Under My Wheels' and 'Be My ║ │ │║ Lover' and also one of the most critically ║ │ │║ acclaimed Cooper songs in the epic 'Halo Of ║ │ │║ Flies', which was a Top 10 hit in Holland. In ║ │ │║ the summer of 1972, Alice Cooper served up ║ │ │║ School's Out to their hungry audience. The album ║ │ │║ reached number two on the charts and sold over a ║ │ │║ million copies. The title song went Top 10 in ║ │ │║ the US and was a number one single in the UK. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Album cover for Billion Dollar Babies.Billion ║ │ │║ Dollar Babies, released in 1973, was the band's ║ │ │║ most commercially successful album, reaching no. ║ │ │║ 1 in both the US and Britain. 'Elected' a 1972 ║ │ │║ top 10 UK hit included on the album (featuring ║ │ │║ one of the first creative promo films 3 years ║ │ │║ before Queen's promo video to 'Bohemian ║ │ │║ Rhapsody'), was followed by 2 more UK top 10 ║ │ │║ singles in 'Hello Hooray' and 'No More Mister ║ │ │║ Nice Guy' which was the last UK single from the ║ │ │║ album and also reached number 25 in the U.S. The ║ │ │║ title track was also a US hit single. With a ║ │ │║ string of successful concept albums in the bag ║ │ │║ and several hit singles, the band toured the ║ │ │║ world - attempts to ban their shocking act by ║ │ │║ politicians and pressure groups only serving to ║ │ │║ fuel the myth of Alice Cooper and generate more ║ │ │║ audience interest. The 1973 US Tour broke box ║ │ │║ office records set by The Rolling Stones. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ A film 'Good To See You Again Alice' (recently ║ │ │║ re-released on DVD) was released and saw the ║ │ │║ band as the biggest act in the world at that ║ │ │║ time. Muscle of Love the last album from the ║ │ │║ classic line up marked Alice Cooper's last UK ║ │ │║ top 20 single in the 1970's, with 'Teenage ║ │ │║ Lament 74'. Even a James Bond theme song was ║ │ │║ recorded for 'The Man With The Golden Gun', but ║ │ │║ a different song of the same name by LuLu, was ║ │ │║ chosen instead. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ In 1974, the band split - Cooper himself wanting ║ │ │║ to retain the theatrics that had brought them so ║ │ │║ much attention, the rest of the group wanting to ║ │ │║ concentrate on the music which had given them ║ │ │║ credibility. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ His first solo album was Welcome to My ║ │ │║ Nightmare. He was backed by Lou Reed's band, ║ │ │║ guitarist Dick Wagner, guitarist Steve Hunter, ║ │ │║ bassist Prakash John, keyboardist Joseph ║ │ │║ Chrowski, and drummer Penti Glan. The album was ║ │ │║ another top 10 hit for Cooper and is regarded ║ │ │║ along with the stage show as ground breaking ║ │ │║ moments in rock history. In addition the 1975 US ║ │ │║ TV special 'The Nightmare' was the first video ║ │ │║ album and as with the album featured horror ║ │ │║ movie film star Vincent Price, several years ║ │ │║ before he guested on Michael Jackson's Thriller. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ Following two less acclaimed studio albums Alice ║ │ │║ Cooper Goes To Hell and Lace And Whiskey along ║ │ │║ with the 1977 live album The Alice Cooper Show ║ │ │║ (recorded in Las Vegas) it was clear that Alice ║ │ │║ Cooper lacked some of the cutting edge of the ║ │ │║ creative 1971-1975 period, and in 1977 Cooper ║ │ │║ was hospitalized in a New York sanitarium for ║ │ │║ alcoholism. This may be responsible for a ║ │ │║ surprise return to form on the hard-rocking, ║ │ │║ semi-autobiographical album From The Inside. ║ │ │║ Around this time Cooper led celebrities in ║ │ │║ raising money to remodel the famous Hollywood ║ │ │║ Sign in California. Cooper himself chipped in ║ │ │║ over $27,000 for the project, doing it in memory ║ │ │║ of friend and comedian Groucho Marx. ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ ║ │ │║ ║ │ │╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │╔═════════════════════╗ │ │║ Release Tracklist ║ │ │╚═════════════════════╩══════════════════════════════════════════ │ │ │ │ 01 - School's Out [03:30] │ │ 02 - Under My Wheels [02:44] │ │ 03 - Billion Dollar Babies [03:39] │ │ 04 - Be My Lover [03:23] │ │ 05 - Desperado [03:28] │ │ 06 - Is It My body [02:40] │ │ 07 - Only Women Bleed [05:49] │ │ 08 - Elected [04:06] │ │ 09 - I'm Eighteen [02:57] │ │ 10 - Hello, Hooray [04:16] │ │ 11 - No More Mr. Nice Guy [03:07] │ │ 12 - Teenage Lament '74 [03:54] │ │ 13 - Muscle Of Love [03:46] │ │ 14 - Department Of Youth [03:20] │ │ │ │ Total Length : [50:39 minn │ │ │ │ │ │ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ╔═════════════════════╗ │ │ ║ Greetings To: ║ │ │ ╚═════════════════════╝ │ │ │ │ Too all people who contributes to make this │ │ archive of good music in a exceptional conditions │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │■ ■│ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘