Love It to Death

Love It to Death (1971) is Alice Cooper's album that moves the band toward a harder, guitar-driven sound blending hard rock, acid rock, glam and garage rock. Produced by Bob Ezrin and featuring the song "I'm Eighteen", the record pairs raw, riff-based arrangements and snarling vocals with a theatrical, often dark lyrical sensibility that helped define the group's shock-rock persona. Its relatively stripped production emphasizes punchy guitar and piano interplay and a direct, confrontational energy.