Love it to Death is the perfect brew of the Alice Cooper band's mixture of hard rock, juvenile delinquency and shock rock theatrics. A lot of its strength relies in its diversity and the band always manages to sound convincing and original. Just look at the final three songs: the dark "Second Coming" plays out with a grand, stirring piano section into the unnerving lunacy of "The Ballad of Dwight Fry" before ending with the folky sing-a-long "Sun Arise". "Caught in a Dream" and "Long Way To Go" are effective, short garage rockers that contrast with the extended, intense psychedelic trip of "Black Juju". "I'm Eighteen" has simple lyrics that perfectly capture the confusion and disarray of adolescence and "Is It My Body" is a short, lusty rocker with a great guitar tone. "Hallowed be thy Name" is the weaker of the bunch, but it doesn't really detract from the album as a whole and "Love it to Death" is a first rate seventies hard rock album. –Ben
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