"Department of Youth" is a song by rock musician Alice Cooper featured on his Welcome to My Nightmare album.
Creem said the song, "is a second cousin to "School's Out" with a chorus of child-things sounding like Cooper's dead babies resurrected to sing back-up vocals.
"[3] NME agreed it was, "School's Out" all over again, complete with demented kiddie choir and watered-down Clockwork Orange braggadoccio.
It's gritty and gruesome, but underneath the yells and screaming arrangement, it's really just a simple, catchy pop song.
"[5] Record World said that "the supreme spokesman for angry young men everywhere is even more vital and exciting here.