Freedom for Frankenstein - Hits & Pieces 1984-91

Alice Cooper | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 18, 1997)
• Original Release Date: May 19, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Raven [Australia]
• ASIN: B00000654H
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #80,422 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. He's Back (The Man Behind The Mask)

2. Teenage Frankenstein

3. Give It Up

4. Freedom

5. Lock Me Up

6. I Got A Line On You

7. Poison

8. House Of Fire

9. Bed Of Nails

10. Go To Hell (Live)

11. Ballad Of Dwight Fry (Live)

12. Hey Stoopid

13. It Rained All Night

14. Feed My Frankenstein

15. Fire

16. Side Show

17. Sick Things

18. Only Women Bleed/Wind Up Toy (Live)

Editorial Reviews

18 track overview of essential & rare tracks he cut for Epic& MCA, 1984-1991. 78 minutes long, it features cuts from 'Constrictor', 'Raise Your Fist & Yell', 'Trash', 'Hey Stoopid' & 'The Last Temptation' albums, plus covers of Spirit's 'I Got A Line On You' & Hendrix's 'Fire' and four live tracks that had previously only been available as B-sides and Japanese bonus tracks: 'Go To Hell', 'Ballad Of Dwight Fry', 'Sick Things' & 'Only Women Bleed/ Wind Up Toy'. Ozzy, Slash, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai & Joe Perry all guest. 1998 Raven Records release.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More Than a Best Of Album, September 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Freedom for Frankenstein - Hits & Pieces 1984-91 (Audio CD)

Freedom For Frankenstein at first sight would appear to be only a best of/greatest hits kind of album and there are tracks like Poison and Wayne's World favorite Feed My Frankenstein on this album. However there is much more. There are several live tracks like an awesome version of Ballad of Dwight Frye among others. Many fans think of Alice as more of a 70's icon but this album also proves that he has made some pretty good music in the 80's and 90's. This album could easily be overlooked at first sight, but the live tracks alone are worth listening too.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Album, April 12, 2004

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Micheal Hunt (Hellbourne) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Freedom for Frankenstein - Hits & Pieces 1984-91 (Audio CD)

Ignore any reveiws you see from the die hard Alice Cooper fans who have a hard time coming to terms with the Alice Cooper band breaking up and Alice going solo.

This album is a terrific blend of a few of the great hits from his come back album of the late 80's to early 90's material from the albums "Contrictor" "Raise Your Fist" "Trash" "Hey Stoopid" and "The Last Temptation"

Even tho i'd recomend any of those albums over this one. This is an album that is defintly worth purchasing. It has a selected amount of the best from the albums i mentioned, plus it comes with some rarer tracks like "Rained All night" which is a great hard rock song, and was previously only available on the japanese version of Hey Stoopid. Another song is a cover of "got a lien on you" from an old 60's band called Phyche. Alice does a terrific job covering the song and also a great job on Jime Hendrix "Fire" which has been released on random albums from A.C

But what makes this album better then just another collection of greats from Alice's recent years (around the time of this) is the live tracks. A freind of mine had this album, and i bought it recenlty mearly for the fact that it contains great rarer songs, and some of the best live versions of songs ive ever heard from Alice!

Some people might not share my opinion , but I have never heard "Balled Of Dwight Fry" sound so fantastic! Espechelly a live version! The sound is excellent and the backing vocals breath new life into the song. This album is great. Dont be put off by the old Alice Cooper band fanatics who dissmiss this stuff because they cant get over the fact Alice went solo. This is a great album and a must have for any fans of all eras of Alice and who love to hear great LIVE songs.

And yes, I would recomend it as a starter if your thinking about buying any of those albums i mentioned before,which are all great and worthy of buying, if you want to sample what those terrific album had on them, then this is only a taste of the great tunes from those master peices from Alice!

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best 'best of' out there !, March 28, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Freedom for Frankenstein - Hits & Pieces 1984-91 (Audio CD)

This CD was put together by some Alice fan in Australia, and you can tell. This isn't just a collection of singles and commerciality. This is a collection of great Alice Cooper songs.

Any true Alice fan knows his most intelligent stuff came later on in his life. Last Temptation and Brutal Planet are far more conceptual and fluent than any of his 70's pieces (except Welcome To My Nightmare), and this collection of his 80's and 90's work reflects that Alice did not 'sell out' during the eighties, in fact he matured. People who accuse him of producing simple radio rock in the eighties are either hypocrits or too blind too overlook that Alice has always been radio. I mean, 'Under My Wheels' from 1972 might as well have been performed by Aerosmith !

Okay, some of this does sound 80's influenced, but most of the stuff here is timeless. There are so many rare gems here; Bed Of Nails is one of his dirtiest, heaviest and most overlooked masterpieces (witha real cool goth intro to boot!). Great b-sides like I Got A Line On You are also included. In terms of Heaviness ? This ain't thrash, but in terms of hard rock, it don't come much harder. Okay so some might say it doesn't include Snakebite and there's not much stuff here from The Last Temptation which is a shame, but there is so much great stuff here, it's much harder to pick faults with than his studio picked 'Greatest Hits' of the 70's. Plus the fact The Last Temptation is such a conceptual album, few songs would feel right without the whole album on there as well !

The live cuts must be heard to be believed. Alice always sounds better live, Go To Hell and Ballad Of Dwight Fry reflect this. Pure metal, start to finish, thats what Alice has always been about. Ballad Of Dwight Fry is a really insane song (literally) and this live version is probably the best around. This is without a doubt the best representation of what Cooper is about.

Okay there's no Schools Out, but this album doesn't need it. This album was designed to prove he did equally as good, if not better stuff in the 80's than when in his original band. Poison eclipses anythin he did in the 70's in terms of pure rock. So called Alice purists can just, as Alice would say, 'Go To Hell'. But this CD if you wanna know what Alice is about, you will NOT regret! I never give 5 stars to any CD unless it truly rocks, this does not dissapoint...