Alice Cooper-School´s Out (1972)

It's curious how a single song can overshadow much of the rest of the tracks on an album, despite their immense quality. This is evident in Alice Cooper's fifth album, "School's Out", released in early 1973, which simultaneously became one of his most successful works and a peak moment alongside "Billion Dollar Babies" and "Killer". Recorded at the Record Plant studios in New York, Cooper enlisted the help of guitarist Dick Wagner and the esteemed production of Bob Ezrin, in addition to his regular band comprised of Dennis Dunaway, drummer Neal Smith, and keyboardist Michael Bruce. “School’s Out” was created as a concept album and contains certain progressive elements, at least in concept, and where the irresistible title track stands out, a classic of youth rock, the cabaret “Gutter Cat vs. The Jets”, the gritty and punk “Luney Tune”, the jazz-influenced “Blue Turk”, with a sound very close to The Doors, the Stones-esque “Public Animal #9” or the opulent “Grande Finale”, all of which make up a superb work, but which in a way unfairly unbalances the final result, due to the tremendous hit that was the single “School’s Out” and which to some extent buried a repertoire of great songs.