18 is kinda hard. His song poison is a little too.
Unless we are comparing it to metal. :)
What do you think he falls under?
Just plain old rock?
It’s so hard because the early Beatles fall under that too.
My first encounter with Alice Cooper was in March, 1972, and I maintain to this day it was the best live rock performance my ears have ever witnessed.
That was the “Under My Wheels” and “Be My Lover” era, and the sound generated by his band back then was enough to take your breath away.
He later “grew” into “Only Women Bleed”, and that kind of crap.
Metal?
As in Metallica, whom Jethro Tull beat out for a best heavy metal Grammy in 1989?
:D
Rock in part is now a musical term denoting the basic anapestic beat and so forth.
Rock ‘n’ Roll was an era: late 50s to early 60s. Rock by itself is a very broad macro-genre.
The Beatles and The Beach Boys are both pop/rock (pop-rock); The Rolling Stones and Alice Cooper are, for the most part, just plain rock - too consistently hard (edgy) to be classified as pop, but not heavy metal, et cetera.
The lines blur, because most artists do softer and harder stuff if they are around long enough and creative enough.
The Beach Boys did what Pete Townsend called power pop in their early years (1961-1965). In their middle period (1966-1973), after they lost popularity but before they became an oldies act (1974 on), they covered many genres (and invented new ones).
That music, seldom played, still influences indie artists to this day. Some of it is minimalist, some of it is baroque, some of it is lo-fi, some of it is rock. Yet it is still generally classified as rock. (It is too experimental and varied to be called AOR or mere pop.)