School's Out Expanded & Remastered

It's about time for Rhino to release some Alice Cooper reissues since it has been over 20 years since the amazing Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper Boxset, the updated greatest hits CD called Mascara and Monsters, the very cool 2CD reissue of Billion Dollar Babies and a very cool remaster of Welcome To My Nightmare. Prior to those reissues, Metal Blade Records released very cool remastered editions of Muscle Of Love, Lace and Whiskey and From The Inside. I never thought Rhino would put out more Alice Cooper reissues so I thought I would be doomed to the original WB CD issues which all sound horrible! I did get the Japanese mini-sleeve editions that came out about 10 years ago which are all fantastic and the mini album art was done with amazing attention to detail. Both new 2023 Rhino Reissues full of awesome live and studio outtakes are amazing and remastering is as good, if not better than the mini-sleeve editions.I hope Rhino has plans to reissue the rest of the Alice Cooper catalog very soon because I want to hear Love It To Death, Pretties For You and Easy Action get the same care and treatment! A re-reissue of Billion Dollar Babies would be welcome as well since I think the 2 disc version from 2001 is out of print. Hey Rhino? PLEASE REMEMBER THE COOP!

I have loved this album since it came out in 1972. This is one record where all the songs are fun to listen to. The live part of the CD is also when the original group were playing at their best.

May seem kind of expensive at first, but the vinyl version is a quality product. There's a ton of information printed about each song from all the surviving members in the triple-gatefold. The bonus live show could have been released on it's own. The packaging is exceptional. They did justice to the vinyl version - Even sounds great.

Schools out deluxe

The second live disc is great

Classic Alice Cooper. The best. No need to say anything else.

First let me say this has always been an amazing album. The 1 star rating is not related to the music. This has to be the most disappointing packaging Rhino has ever released. Sub par , flimsy cardboard holds the cds. My copy arrived damaged with torn with folded corners and the imprint of both discs through the sleeves. Not much is lost because the booklet is a disappointment as well. All the for the princely sum of $28. I guess the budget went to the vinyl edition to pay for the panties. Rhino could have done better and the Alice team should have asked for more. As usual the fans loose out.

The SCHOOL'S OUT album has never sounded better. Everything Bob Ezrin ever produced resulted in a muddy-sounding recording. This new remaster greatly improves the sound and is recommended. I could not rationalize spending $70 for the vinyl (the economy must be doing quite well if you can afford the jack for the records), so I acquired the 2 CD set for under twenty buckos, shipped. The live disc isn't as good as the live show that came with the re-issued KILLER, which is disappointing. However, the bonus studio tracks are cool. Anyway, pick this up for the remastered sound and one of AC's best releases, slotting just under KILLER.

At long last with this and the Killer reissue, long time fans get some well overdue further deluxe issues of classic Alice Cooper Group albums. Let's hope Love it to Death and Muscle of Love follow soon as die-hard fans have been waiting long enough for what are still, with Welcome to my Nightmare and it's follow up 2, the cream of the crop of Alice Cooper's back catalogue. The vinyl reissue is a must have for fans of the original group as not only does it have the open up desk and while not the same as on the original, has reinstated the paper knickers but goes even further by opening up like a book to have further thick pages to house the text and photos but more of that later.As others have said it is an excellent remaster of the original album making it the definitive version, as while all the Bob Ezrin Cooper Group productions were very well produced in the first place, Schools Out was probably the one that always needed a remaster job as it always seemed both muddier and over trebly in its original release format compared to the others.The second and third vinyl and second cd version house the bonus tracks. What we get is an excellent for its age live 1972 Killer concert one of the last ones before the Schools Out tour proper itself and marks the transition between the two tours with a very long extended in the middle version of Schools Out itself, being the only change from the Killer set replacing Under my Wheels that was recorded six weeks earlier and is included on the Killer deluxe edition. That earlier concert has a short instrumental take of Schools Out as part of the encore. Both the live sets are great examples of Glen Buxton at his fiery best with his unique stinging guitar and before substance abuse finally caught up with him and made him a passenger with little input on the last two Cooper Group albums and tours. The only question is now will we ever get a cleaned up Schools Out tour live official release, Hollywood Bowl and Toronto being two known recordings, even if on the former, Alice himself is extremely inebriated. They are the only AC Group tour where they play Public Animal number 9 and the extended Gutter Cat verses the Jets tracks live. We are now very well served by live Killer shows with three in total if you include St Louis from the Old School multi cd set. What I do appreciate is that both on this and the Killer deluxe the studio demos and outtakes do not reproduce any of the tracks from the Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper and the Old School multi disc sets. I am glad they have included the single version of Schools Out so you can compare the different mixes and at long last the edit of the b side Gutter Cat which is quite different in places with Dennis Dunaway's bass intro loud and clear from the first note rather then how it is faded in on the album version. Also the West Side story instrumental theme in the middle has a radically different mix on what sounds like an organ not being half as trebly or hysterical sounding as the album version and of course as it is an edit without the second half of the album version the shout at the end of the full album version ends the single version while the l.p. version goes into the Jets part of the song. Well worth finally having in digital form, as is the demo version of Elected which clearly still has at this early stage some of the origins of the Pretties for you track 'Reflected'and as far as I know has never been available even on bootleg. It is a fascinating listen in much the same way as 'Respect for the Sleepers' was as the early version of 'Muscle of Love' A real gem. Agree with those that say the single denser mix version of Elected should also have been included as times wise it was recorded very soon after the album. Alma Mater has some different lyrics but all in all what is included makes it and the Killer deluxe an essential purchase. Buy the cds for easy playability and if you can stretch financially both the vinyl deluxe releases, as they are things of great beauty that will amass in value with all the extras and deluxe packaging they come with and are already getting scarce. Why four stars and not five? I would have ditched the Creem editor fan pieces for more outtake photos from the album cover sessions and live period photos. The fan piece could still have been accommodated as part of a booklet in both, whileBand photos, especially colour ones would have enhanced even further the packaging. Schools Out is better in that respect as we get a couple of period outtakes and individual group member live shots while Killer only gives us two outtake from the hanging photo session while we know there are various greatcolour outtakes from the Killer album cover session, best of which adorned the very first edition of Michael Bruce's and Dennis Dunaway's autobiographies.

J'ai fait des bonds, enfin réédités ces 2 foutus albums de la période dorée du groupe Alice Cooper. Gros son loin des cd réédités et saturés, des bonus live, des raretés qui n'étaient pas dans le beau coffret cd Life and Crimes.Replica pour School's out? oui et non le pupitre ne se déplie pas au dos, la culotte est là du moins elle ressemble à l'originale. J'ai donc acheté Killer et School's out en cd également, ah ces vieux nostalgiques! Pour le vinyle de killer le poster est là mais n'est pas attaché à la pochette, impression sur une feuille de papier épais et non sur un carton comme l'original. L'impression de School's Out est un peu sombre. C'est quand même bien avec un beau travail et des commentaires sur la genèse de chaque chanson par tous les musiciens sauf Glen Buxton parti trop vite.Le principal c'est la musique et ça sonne dur et fort, les concerts sont géniaux et ce groupe est à jamais une légende, un de mes 3 groupes préférés et j'en ai des centaines en référence. A quand Love it to death, Billion et Muscle le dernier un peu fade en réédition. Billion fut réédité en double cd avec un live énorme, il reste à sortir le vinyle en respectant la pochette la plus complexe du groupe avec ses reliefs, le billet et le panneau photos à découpe.Miam!

Ottimo prodotto do 3 stelle, perché la cover spacciata per essere uguale all'originale , di fatto non lo è, a parte gli slip

Alice Cooper in Mar Y Sol, Puerto Rico 1972 - das waren bislang die besten Liveaufnahmen die ich von der Original-Band gehört habe.Die hier erstmals veröffentlichten Aufnahmen vom 27.05.1972 in Miami sind noch einmal um Welten besser.Noch nie gehörte Studioversionen von Alma Mater und Elected sind so faszinierend dass ich schon für diese zwei Stücke die CD gekauft hätte.Fazit: Unbedingt kaufen - diese CD ist ein Juwel

excellent