Love It to Death

album by Alice Cooper

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Love It to Death is the third album by the American rock band Alice Cooper, released in 1971. It marked a significant turning point for the band, featuring their first major hit single, "I'm Eighteen." The album, produced by Bob Ezrin, showcased a more focused and powerful guitar-driven sound that would become characteristic of Alice Cooper's music.

The album explored themes of decadence and psychosis, blending horror film elements with a raw, dynamic sound. Love It to Death helped establish Alice Cooper as a prominent act in the hard rock and heavy metal genres, paving the way for subsequent successful albums like Killer and Billion Dollar Babies.12

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…Ezrin, and their third album, Love It to Death (1971), found an audience and yielded the hit single “I’m Eighteen.” The follow-up, Killer (1971), was another success. The title track of School’s Out (1972) was a Top Ten hit in the United States and reached the top of the British…
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…Ezrin, and their third album, Love It to Death (1971), found an audience and yielded the hit single “I’m Eighteen.” The follow-up, Killer (1971), was another success. The title track of School’s Out (1972) was a Top Ten hit in the United States and reached the top of the British…
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