10 Greatest Concept Albums In Rock Music History

10. Welcome to My Nightmare - Alice Cooper

After being the villain of rock and roll for the first decade of his career, Alice Cooper was actually in a lot more danger than the kind he sang about. Once Muscle of Love didn't really register with the public, every band member except Alice decided it was time to quit the band, leaving lonely Vincent Furnier as the last man standing. Instead of just fading into obscurity though, our favorite madman took the gamble and gave us an album ripped straight out of a horror show.

For anyone even remotely interested in shock rock, Welcome to My Nightmare is pretty much ground zero, showing all of the main hallmarks for the genre. Though the actual music is still the traditional hard rock sounds that most people know, there's a lot more theatricality in the arrangements here, with the title track sounding like a Vegas show and even bringing in horror icon Vincent Price for Devil's Food.

Though there's no lyrical connection in every one of these songs, the back half of the record captures you in a certain vibe, especially when the song Stephen kicks in and we see this vision of a little boy get taken over by a demon from the inside out. Because if there's one thing we've learned from Alice's music, it's that we have to get a nice look at the dark to appreciate the light.