The hard rocker’s confessional concept album from the ’70s

Alice Cooper Goes to Hell picks up where the darkly theatrical Welcome to My Nightmare leaves off, but this concept album turns into a confessional. The hit “I Never Cry” is a plush soft-rock ballad in which Cooper weepily reveals his alcohol addiction, while “I’m the Coolest” is a wah-wah lurcher that mocks his own rock-star fame. Stylistically, he drops a variety of eccentric hybrids: “You Gotta Dance” smashes together hard-rock axes and disco beats.