The original Alice Cooper band was light years ahead of its time. So underrated in Classic Rock circles for the true genius they were. Bob Ezrin too.
I want to second this; at TAC's suggestion, I went back to the early Cooper, and I got lucky that there were two sets on sale: The Original Album Series, Vol. 1 and the TOAS, Vol. 2, which are basically the first five records and the second five records in a set. So I listened to them chronologically through. The first two - which TAC told me sucked, but I didn't listen and checked out, then found out they sucked - had different producers (Frank Zappa and some guy) but the third one - the one TAC said to start with - was the first with Ezrin, and the difference was like night and day. I was familiar with Ezrin through Peter Gabriel (the first album), Floyd (The Wall), Gilmour, and Kiss (Destroyer, The Elder, Revenge) - there are others - and Fr my money, only Mutt Lange has a more recognizable production style. He brings so much to that music and I think it fits Alice's stuff just perfectly.