Love It To Death - Alice Cooper

Love It To Death, according to Alice himself was the first 'real' Alice Cooper album, which would not only define the legendary sound and style of the band, but would go on to change the face of the rock n' roll world forever. It was the first of five albums (up to Muscle of Love) to be on the Warner Brothers label, and propelled Alice Cooper into mainstream success with their dark, rebellious and taboo style - every parent's worst nightmare! Their elaborate and flamboyant stage shows further helped to ram home this image, and showed that there were no gimmicks involved, and the quality of the album spoke volumes itself. As the sleeve proudly ...  Read the complete review

Love It To Death is the 3rd album by Alice Cooper, an album which was released in 1971 and caused controversy even before we start with the songs due to Alice Cooper sticking his thumb in tight leather trousers to appear as a penis. This was airbrushed out by Warner Bros at the time. Now on to the music - the album was put into the rock n roll hall of fame top 500. The producer Bob Ezrin had quite an effect on this album, helping the band perfect their sound and most notably shortening "I'm Eighteen" from what was a psychedelic longer song to what would become their first big hit. Other classic tracks for me on this album included "Caught in A ...  Read the complete review