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:

• unknown (woman to left of Marilyn)

Bette Davis

• unknown (dark dress)

Mae West

• unknown (open collar)

Nelson Eddy

• unknown (Ralph Fiennes)

Pat O'Brien

• unknown (tall hair)

Betty Grable

• unknown (hair ribbon)

Alice Faye

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)