Muscle of Love is an album by Alice Cooper, released in 1973. It is the last studio album recorded by the original Alice Cooper band, and is a concept album about teenage angst, life on the streets of New York City, and implied male prostitution.

In place of the usual jacket, the original LP was packaged in a shallow corrugated cardboard carton, as if the carton contained something other than a record, with a "stain" intentionally printed along the bottom.

The track "Man with the Golden Gun" was going to be to be the title song to the James Bond film of the same name, until the producers decided against this. "Teenage Lament '74" features Liza Minnelli on background vocals.

Track listing

1. "Big Apple Dreamin' (Hippo)" (Alice Cooper, Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith) - 5:10
2. "Never Been Sold Before" (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) - 4:28
3. "Hard Hearted Alice" (Cooper, Bruce) - 4:53
4. "Crazy Little Child" (Cooper, Bruce) - 5:03
5. "Working Up a Sweat" (Cooper, Bruce) - 3:32
6. "Muscle of Love" (Cooper, Bruce) - 3:45
7. "Man With the Golden Gun" (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) - 4:12
8. "Teenage Lament '74" (Cooper, Smith) - 3:53
9. "Woman Machine" (Cooper, Buxton, Bruce, Dunaway, Smith) - 4:31

Personnel

• Alice Cooper – vocals
• Glen Buxton – lead guitar
• Michael Bruce – rhythm guitar
• Dennis Dunaway – bass guitar
• Neal Smith – drums
• Mick Mashbir – guitar
• Steve "Deacon" Hunter – guitar
• Dick Wagner – guitar
• Bob Dolan – keyboards

Charts

Singles - Billboard (North America)