January 26, 2001
THE BEST OF
By DARRYL STERDAN

MASCARA & MONSTERS: THE BEST OF
Alice Cooper
Rhino/Warner

Not enough of an Alice Cooper fan to shell out the big bucks for his mammoth four-disc Life and Crimes box set? Here's a cheaper, less time-consuming option. Mascara & Monsters is basically a scaled-down single-disc version of the box, featuring 22 digitally remastered Coop classics -- from I'm Eighteen, School's Out and Elected to You and Me, I Never Cry and Poison -- including the mandatory Extra Song That Wasn't In The Box Set (Generation Landslide). Like all retrospectives, fans can quibble about which classic has been overlooked -- Dead Babies and I Love the Dead are conspicuous by their absence. But no matter how you slice it, this is still the most complete Cooper hits set for the money.

Track Listing 1. I'm Eighteen
2. Is It My Body
3. Desperado
4. Under My Wheels
5. Be My Lover
6. School's Out
7. Elected
8. Hello Hooray
9. Generation Landslide
10. No More Mr. Nice Guy
11. Billion Dollar Babies
12. Teenage Lament `74
13. Muscle Of Love
14. Only Women Bleed
15. Department Of Youth
16. Welcome To My Nightmare
17. I Never Cry
18. You And Me
19. How You Gonna See Me Now
20. From The Inside
21. Clones (We're All)
22. Poison