Mascara and Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper

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Mascara and Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper
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ReleasedJanuary 16, 2001 [1]
Recorded1970–1989
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Length76:44
Label Rhino
Producer Varies
Alice Cooper chronology
Brutal Planet
(2000)
Mascara and Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper
(2001)
Dragontown
(2001)
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Mascara and Monsters: The Best of Alice Cooper is a compilation album by rock singer Alice Cooper, released by Warner Archives/Rhino in 2001 in the United States only. Its worldwide companion release is The Definitive Alice Cooper compilation album, which has a slightly different track listing and different packaging, though both compilations feature the same back cover, tray insert and disc image. The album features material from his solo career and from his tenure with the Alice Cooper band; however, like the 1974 Greatest Hits compilation, material from Pretties for You and Easy Action is not present on Mascara and Monsters.

The album cover features Cooper in the mid-1970s looking at his mascara-eyed monstrous alter-ego.

Track listing

No.TitleOriginal album (year)Length
1."I'm Eighteen" Love It to Death (1971)3:00
2."Is It My Body"Love It to Death2:39
3."Desperado" Killer (1971)3:26
4."Under My Wheels"Killer2:48
5."Be My Lover"Killer3:22
6."School's Out" (single version) School's Out (1972)3:29
7."Elected" (single version) Billion Dollar Babies (1973)4:08
8."Hello Hooray" (single version)Billion Dollar Babies3:01
9."Generation Landslide"Billion Dollar Babies4:31
10."No More Mr. Nice Guy"Billion Dollar Babies3:07
11."Billion Dollar Babies"Billion Dollar Babies3:42
12."Teenage Lament '74" Muscle of Love (1973)3:52
13."Muscle of Love"Muscle of Love3:45
14."Only Women Bleed" (single version) Welcome to My Nightmare (1975)3:30
15."Department of Youth"Welcome to My Nightmare3:20
16."Welcome to My Nightmare" (single version)Welcome to My Nightmare2:48
17."I Never Cry" Alice Cooper Goes to Hell (1976)3:44
18."You and Me" (single version) Lace and Whiskey (1977)3:25
19."How You Gonna See Me Now" From the Inside (1978)3:55
20."From the Inside" (single version)From the Inside3:31
21."Clones (We're All)" (single version) Flush the Fashion (1980)2:53
22."Poison" Trash (1989)4:30

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References

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  2. Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). New York: Fireside Books. pp. 11–13. ISBN   0-7432-0169-8.