ALICE COOPER — Love It To Death (review)

ALICE COOPER — Love It To Death album cover Album · 1971 · Hard Rock Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Warthur
It's not glam metal - that style hadn't yet come about - but the third Alice Cooper album has a good claim to being one of the founding documents of glam *rock*. Marc Bolan had gone electric and was still doing fairytale folk, so the album precedes T.Rex's seminal Electric Warrior, whilst David Bowie was still putting together Hunky Dory at this point in time, so the album came out well before the British side of glam really coalesced.

And it's certainly the first manifestation of a particularly American brand of glam rock which Kiss would also make important contributions to - trashy and self-consciously so, controversial in the way it marketed songs with highly sexualised or violent content to teens (even though really all the songs were doing were acknowledging the drives and desires of the teen audience itself), and above all playing some down and dirty rock and roll. Album highlights include the teen angst anthem I'm Eighteen and the concert staple The Ballad of Dwight Fry. It wouldn't be the band's best, but it's the album that put them on their map, and is regarded by many fans as their "true" debut, the two previous albums containing decidedly inferior material.

Cooper still plays a lot of material from this album in concert today - most of his gigs will at least include I'm Eighteen and The Ballad of Dwight Fry - and given his expansive back catalogue that's probably the best recommendation for it.
Share this review
more

Review Comments

Post a public comment below | Send private message to the reviewer
Please login to post a shout
No shouts posted yet. Be the first member to do so above!

Review Index

Member Zone

Username:
Password:
Stay signed in

Metal Subgenres

Artists Alpha-index

MMA TOP 5 Metal ALBUMS

Rating by members, ranked by custom algorithm
Albums with 30 ratings and more
Master of Puppets Thrash Metal
METALLICA
Buy this album from our partners
Paranoid Heavy Metal
BLACK SABBATH
Buy this album from our partners
Moving Pictures Hard Rock
RUSH
Buy this album from our partners
Powerslave NWoBHM
IRON MAIDEN
Buy this album from our partners
Rising Heavy Metal
RAINBOW
Buy this album from our partners

New Metal Artists

New Metal Releases

Le bannissement Atmospheric Black Metal
CANTIQUE LÉPREUX
Buy this album from MMA partners
Tarantula Heart Sludge Metal
MELVINS
Buy this album from MMA partners
God Damned You To Hell Traditional Doom Metal
FRIENDS OF HELL
Buy this album from MMA partners
The Absence Melodic Death Metal
THE ABSENCE
Buy this album from MMA partners
Unextinct Technical Death Metal
HIDEOUS DIVINITY
Buy this album from MMA partners
More new releases

New Metal Online Videos

Fallen Ashes - Wage War (Official Lyric Video)
FALLEN ASHES
Bosh66· 7 days ago
EXISTENTIAL DEAD - Unreality (Single) 2024
EXISTENTIAL DEAD
Bosh66· 7 days ago
EXISTENTIAL DEAD - Cold Hands
EXISTENTIAL DEAD
Bosh66· 7 days ago
IRON MONKEY - Misanthropizer (Official Music Video)
IRON MONKEY
Bosh66· 10 days ago
??? (Losing ART) - "????" (Official Music Video) [HD]
漂浮者樂團
Bosh66· 10 days ago
More videos

New MMA Metal Forum Topics

More in the forums

New Site interactions

More...

Latest Metal News

members-submitted

More in the forums

Social Media

Follow us
Follow us on Twitter Become a Facebook fan RSS Feed