Alice Cooper’s debut album arrived in 1969 as a surreal, psychedelic, progressive‑leaning experiment from the Los Angeles underground. Released on Frank Zappa’s Straight label, the record captured the band’s earliest incarnation — chaotic, theatrical, and far removed from the hard‑rock shock style they would later pioneer. Its jagged time signatures, avant‑garde structures, and art‑rock sensibilities positioned the group as outsiders in the emerging American rock landscape. R