Talk:Greatest Hits (Alice Cooper album)

What is the cover parodying? Drutt 05:15, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

That's a good question, Drutt. I would like to see an explication of the cover. I came here to make a correction about the note that this is an album "without cover art."

Cover illustrations
I don't understand the reason for the massacre theme, but I am interested in the artwork:


 * CD front cover (left to right)
 * Jean Harlow
 * Peter Lorre
 * St. Valentine's Day Massacre scene (top)
 * 5 band members (bottom)
 * Groucho Marx


 * CD back cover (left to right)
 * Humphrey Bogart
 * maybe John Barrymore ?
 * Clark Gable
 * Edward G. Robinson
 * unknown (with moustache)


 * CD booklet centrefold (left to right)
 * unknown (with bowtie)
 * maybe Edward G. Robinson ? (not a great likeness)
 * unknown (woman)
 * Marilyn Monroe, who is a 1950s anachronism here — the other stars are from the 1930s and '40s
 * Gary Cooper
 * unknown (dark dress)
 * unknown (open collar)
 * maybe Basil Rathbone ? (not a great likeness)
 * maybe Greta Garbo ?
 * maybe Humphrey Bogart ? (not a great likeness)
 * Boris Karloff
 * band
 * unknown (staple in face)
 * unknown (reminds me of Ralph Fiennes)
 * band
 * Veronica Lake
 * band (Alice Cooper)
 * Clark Gable
 * band
 * band
 * unknown (tall hair)
 * maybe Marlene Dietrich ? (not a great likeness)
 * Dick Powell
 * unknown (hair ribbon)
 * Tyrone Power

Varlaam (talk) 00:24, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Guesswork
If we assume that the centrefold likenesses are all a little bit off, then here are some proposals for the unknowns:

Bette Davis Mae West Nelson Eddy Pat O'Brien Betty Grable Alice Faye
 * unknown (woman to left of Marilyn)
 * unknown (dark dress)
 * unknown (open collar)
 * unknown (Ralph Fiennes)
 * unknown (tall hair)
 * unknown (hair ribbon)

Varlaam (talk) 01:05, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

I would say that the reason for the massacre theme is that it is a "Greatest HITS" album, "HIT" being mob slang for murder for hire. FiggazWithAttitude (talk) 18:56, 27 November 2018 (UTC)