10 Perfect Hard Rock Albums Everyone Tried To Copy

10. Love it To Death - Alice Cooper

Everyone who's been around the block in rock and roll understands the concept of the rock and roll superhero. For all of the great riffs that they churn out day after day and the wild situations they find themselves in, people like Keith Richards and Jimmy Page practically felt like gods among men, always living the rock star lifestyle and not breathing the same air as most other laymen. Those were the age of superheroes though, and Alice Cooper's first smash gave us a look at what a rock and roll supervillain was going to look like.

From the first notes of Love it To Death, Alice Cooper set out to be one of the most grotesque bands you would ever see, talking about more macabre subjects like someone trapped in an insane asylum on Ballad of Dwight Fry or the dangers that come with involving yourself in witchcraft on Black Juju. Even if mothers around the world were appalled, the music was too good to pass up, like the classic single I'm Eighteen or the bluesy sounds of the opener Caught in a Dream.

From Alice onward though, hard rock would start having a much greater flirtation with the controversial side of the tracks, with everyone from Marilyn Manson to Rammstein being cut from the same cloth that Alice was back in the day. You can call him a freak and think that he's one of the most evil men in the music industry, but for someone like Alice, that's one of the best compliments imaginable.