This was actually at a point in his career when he had relapsed so badly into alcoholism that he didn't remember making this album, the album after it or any of the tours to promote either one.
When I was seventeen, I was into Alice Cooper the way some people are into Justin Bieber. Decades later, he's like an old friend. This is both a guilty pleasure and an embarrassing grab at staying relevent. Still better than the appropriately titled "Alice Cooper goes to Hell", which was when I gave up on the solo Alice, and moved on to the Sex Pistols and the Ramones.
The original Alice (with his original high school band) was indeed the best, but he's done at least one great album more recently. I refer to 2001's Dragontown. Well worth a listen.