''Classicks'' is a compilation album by
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer whose career spans over five decades. With a raspy voice and a stage show that features numerous props and stage illusions, including pyrotechnics, guilloti ...
, released by
Epic Records in September, 1995. This release was to mark the end of Cooper's record contract with Epic Records, which had spanned three studio albums. Alice suggested its title.
As of 2005, ''Classicks'' is available as a CD / DVD set comprising ''Classicks'' and "
Trashes The World", respectively. This set is also notable for the inclusion of Fire, only available as a B-side.
Track listing
# "
Poison
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"
(Desmond Child
John Charles Barrett (born October 28, 1953), known professionally as Desmond Child, is an American songwriter and producer. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2008.
His hits as a songwriter include Kiss's " I Was Made for L ...
, Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer whose career spans over five decades. With a raspy voice and a stage show that features numerous props and stage illusions, including pyrotechnics, guilloti ...
, John McCurry) – 4:30
# "
Hey Stoopid"
(Cooper, Vic Pepe, Bob Pfeifer, Jack Ponti) – 4:33
# "
Feed My Frankenstein
"Feed My Frankenstein" is a song originally written and originally by British hard rock band Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction for their album ''Hoodlum Thunder''. American singer Alice Cooper covered it on his 19th solo studio album, '' H ...
"
(Nick Coler
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, Cooper, Ian Richardson) – 4:44
# "
Love's a Loaded Gun
"Love's a Loaded Gun" is a song by American rock singer Alice Cooper, taken from the 1991 album '' Hey Stoopid''. The single managed to peak at No. 38 in the UK and No. 31 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. It was one of three singles released f ...
"
(Cooper, Pepe, Ponti) – 4:11
# "Stolen Prayer"
(Cooper, Chris Cornell) – 5:35
# "
House of Fire
"House of Fire" is a 1989 single by American rock musician Alice Cooper from his 1989 album ''Trash''. It was co-written by rock guitarist and vocalist Joan Jett alongside songwriter Desmond Child, the latter of which who had previously compos ...
"
(Child, Cooper, Joan Jett
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) – 3:46
# "Lost in America"
(Cooper, Dan Wexler
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**Dan language, a Mande language spoken primarily in Côte d'Ivoir ...
) – 3:52
# "It's Me"
(Jack Blades
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, Cooper, Tommy Shaw) – 4:37
# "
Under My Wheels
“Under My Wheels” is a rock song by Alice Cooper. It was originally released on the group's '' Killer'' album in 1971, and was also that album's first single release. The song was written by Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway and Bob Ezrin. The ...
" (Live)
( Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway
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He co-wrote some of the ...
, Bob Ezrin
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) – 3:41
# "
Billion Dollar Babies
''Billion Dollar Babies'' is the sixth studio album by American rock band Alice Cooper, released on February 25, 1973, by Warner Bros. Records. The album became the best selling Alice Cooper record at the time of its release, hit number one on t ...
" (Live)
(Bruce, Cooper, Neal Smith) – 3:36
# "
I'm Eighteen
"I'm Eighteen" is a song by rock band Alice Cooper, first released as a single in November 1970 backed with "Is It My Body". It was the band's first top-forty success—peaking at number 21—and convinced Warner Bros. that Alice Cooper had th ...
" (Live)
(Bruce, Glen Buxton
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, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith) – 4:34
# "
No More Mr. Nice Guy" (Live)
(Bruce, Cooper) – 3:11
# "
Only Women Bleed
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Background
It is a ballad a ...
" (Live)
(Cooper, Wagner) – 4:06
# "
School's Out" (Live)
(Bruce, Buxton, Cooper, Dunaway, Smith) – 3:46
# "
Fire
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At a certain point in the combustion reaction, called the ignition ...
"
( Jimi Hendrix) – 3:02
*Tracks 1, 6 from
Trash
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*Tracks 2-4 from
Hey Stoopid
*Tracks 5, 7-8 from
The Last Temptation
*Tracks 9-14 were previously released on the "
Trashes the World" video.
*Track 15 was a 1991 B-side from "
Love's a Loaded Gun
"Love's a Loaded Gun" is a song by American rock singer Alice Cooper, taken from the 1991 album '' Hey Stoopid''. The single managed to peak at No. 38 in the UK and No. 31 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. It was one of three singles released f ...
", previously unreleased in the U.S.
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Alice Cooper compilation albums
1995 compilation albums
Epic Records compilation albums