Marilyn Manson

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Love or hate?

Marilyn Manson holds the title of being the artist whom I've listened to for the longest. Almost ten years I've been listening to him. Even his new , which is .

SO, do you like him?

I liked a few of his really popular songs, but I had never really listened to any of his actual albums until last year or so. Then I actually listened to some of them...first Smells Like Children and then Mechanical Animals. Then finally Antichrist Superstar. Then I listened to Holy Wood. Then I began watching recordings of his performances on YouTube...and I really am into his music now, though I haven't listened to his two latest albums.

The only thing I've heard by him so far that I really don't care for is the two or three songs off of The Golden Age of Grotesque. That "mOBSCENE" song was annoying as hell.

EDIT: OH, and his cover of "This Is Halloween"...eck.

Nah. I've never really sought out his work. Occasionally his songs are on the radio, but on stations to which I don't listen.

He is the epitome of androgyny, though.

Used to be a pretty big fan. Still listen to his stuff every now and then. Holy Wood has always been my favourite of his albums.

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I liked a few of his really popular songs, but I had never really listened to any of his actual albums until last year or so. Then I actually listened to some of them...first Smells Like Children and then Mechanical Animals. Then finally Antichrist Superstar. Then I listened to Holy Wood. Then I began watching recordings of his performances on YouTube...and I really am into his music now, though I haven't listened to his two latest albums.

The only thing I've heard by him so far that I really don't care for is the two or three songs off of The Golden Age of Grotesque. That "mOBSCENE" song was annoying as hell.

EDIT: OH, and his cover of "This Is Halloween"...eck.

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Smells Like Children is the weirdest compilation like ... ever. Especially smurf Frankie. That 'song' worries me o.o;

His stuff on GAoG is okay, but not really any where near the caliber of say, Antichrist Superstar. Eat Me, Drink Me is just awful.

I think his trilogy of concept albums (Antichrist Superstar, Mechanical Animals, and Holywood) have amazingly smart lyrics and ideas behind them. Mechanical Animals is mos defs my favorite era.

Wordfilters on smurf Frankie are lame as all hell. ty Chicken Gang Bang sounds like theme music for if/when you were ever captured by goblins in a 1970's drugged out cartoon. Rock and Roll Nigger was the only song on the album that really stood out for me, the other remixes and covers were mediocre. Portrait of an American Family and Mechanical Animals are the two in my opinion that don't have a track worth skipping, and Antichrist Superstar's got a few weak spots, but it makes up for it overall with The Reflecting God.

Also it's just neat as all hell when you put the CD inserts through the blue jewel case to read the decoded messages. I wish more artists included easter eggs like that.

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Wordfilters on smurf Frankie are lame as all hell. ty Chicken Gang Bang sounds like theme music for if/when you were ever captured by goblins in a 1970's drugged out cartoon. Rock and Roll Nigger was the only song on the album that really stood out for me, the other remixes and covers were mediocre. Portrait of an American Family and Mechanical Animals are the two in my opinion that don't have a track worth skipping, and Antichrist Superstar's got a few weak spots, but it makes up for it overall with The Reflecting God.

Also it's just neat as all hell when you put the CD inserts through the blue jewel case to read the decoded messages. I wish more artists included easter eggs like that.

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Rock'n'Roll Nigger is a great cover of a great song. I really like Portrait, but I do think it is weaker overall than Antichrist Superstar. Wrapped in Plastic is the best song ever made, though.

The Reflecting God is one of my least favorite songs off of AS ... but I still love it because I love that album like nobody's business. Wormboy, Angel With the Scabbed Wings, Irresponsible Hate Anthem, Dried Up, Tied Up, and Dead to the World, and Tourniquet are all rock masterpieces, yo. Man That You Fear is godddddddly.

The video for Man That You Fear mesmerized me at the impressionable young age of 10.

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The video for Man That You Fear mesmerized me at the impressionable young age of 10.

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I love that video. It's so sad ; - ;

The first Marilyn Manson video I ever saw was for the Dope Show when I was reaaaaaally young. I think this explains a lot about me at my current age.

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The first Marilyn Manson video I ever saw was for the Dope Show...

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Me too. The scene with the midget scared the crap out of me.

Much of his earlier work is something that I found to be quite interesting, clever, and even now, I still enjoy it. However, his more recent works (Golden Age of Grotesque and Eat Me, Drink Me) are, musically speaking, terrible.

This saddens me in a manner, for found some meaning and revelry in the background behind much of the Golden Age of Grotesque's lyrics and motives. The music, however, was, simply put, a smurfing disappointment.

I just like how it sounds in my ears. :bigsmile:

I don't even own a single one of his albums, know the name of any of this songs let alone the name of his albums xD

I like "If I was your vampire" for obvious reasons.


HAH!

Never really liked or disliked him.

inb4 Leeza

I just recently got his greatest hits album. I really quite like a lot of it :jess: I left Eat Me, Drink Me in the background once and it was all just one continuous song of nonsense as far as I was concerned.

I like Rock Is Dead =) Since that song I've been praying to my TV!

I'll quote this, Brittish spelling and all:

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Used to be a pretty big fan. Still listen to his stuff every now and then. Holy Wood has always been my favourite of his albums.

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Antichrist Superstar was the first CD I ever bought.

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I like "If I was your vampire" for obvious reasons.


HAH!

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lulz worst song title evar.

I like him pretty well. I actually quite respect him, and I think he's very smart. I've thought about buying some of his stuff from time to time, but have actually never done it. Maybe I will someday, but then I think I'll go with some of his older stuff.

He's not bad.

Though he has a few tracks I find amazing. like Heart Shaped Glasses, and his covers of "Sweet Dream" and my personal favorite, "Personal Jesus".

Marilyn manson was the first band I liked when growing up. I still am a big fan. I like putting holes in happiness, man that you fear, coma white, coma black, and snake eyes for sissys. He did turn into another direction with gaog that he shouldn't do but I think he's just going with how he feels now and days.

I still swear Last Tour on Earth is the greatest live album ever. They're a band that you can easily hate on preconceived notions, but they're a lot deeper than you might immediately see. Still though, it's worth noting that as Marilyn Manson has become less shocking, the sales have also dropped, though considering the quality of the last two albums, that's not too surprising.

His cover of Personal Jesus was pretty good. I also really like Redeemer, which I think he did for Queen of the Damned, and the Resident Evil Theme song, which plays in the beginning of the first movie. I'm pretty sure he did the last two, but I'm not positive, so preemptive apologies if I'm mistaken:D

I like some of his songs but I haven't listened much to him.

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I'm pretty sure he did the last two, but I'm not positive, so preemptive apologies if I'm mistaken:D

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To be specific, Marilyn Manson did a couple of tracks for the Resident Evil film, including the theme song. It should be noted though, that it was Marilyn Manson the person, not Marilyn Manson the band. It's a pet peeve of mine, that people can't separate the two. ¬_¬

Originally it was only the band that was Marilyn Manson, was it not? Then he legally changed his name so now it does get a bit confusing. Although I never think of the band as Marilyn Manson. They're just the band as far as I'm concerned. I love the work he did on Resident Evil and I really would like to see him do more work on movies.

MM is my favourite of all artists. He's smart. I like his views on the world. I have all of his works and I do agree that Eat Me, Drink Me was not his best work, but I still like it. I like all of his CDs for different reasons because they all have a different thing going on in them. Whatever he does next I will still be buying it and listening to it.

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Originally Posted by Leeza

Originally it was only the band that was Marilyn Manson, was it not? Then he legally changed his name so now it does get a bit confusing. Although I never think of the band as Marilyn Manson. They're just the band as far as I'm concerned. I love the work he did on Resident Evil and I really would like to see him do more work on movies.

MM is my favourite of all artists. He's smart. I like his views on the world. I have all of his works and I do agree that Eat Me, Drink Me was not his best work, but I still like it. I like all of his CDs for different reasons because they all have a different thing going on in them. Whatever he does next I will still be buying it and listening to it.

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I agree with all this (minus the RE stuff cuz I haven't heard it). Manson is still one of my favorite artists of all time just based on the stuff he had going on pre GAoG. Eat Me, Drink Me had it's moments (ie. Just a Car Crash Away, Are You the Rabbit?), but overall I think he's still lost his touch.

Although, like you said, that doesn't mean I won't be going to his concert next time he's in Toronto, or buying his next album. I just can't give up on him ; - ;

And maybe because Twiggy Ramirez is back in the band the next album will be a little more "old skoolz"

Is Twiggy back? I haven't been keeping up with MM news lately. Are they actually working on something new right now? That would be good news.

Yup. Twiggy's back, Skold's out (thankfully, since he's quite probably largely to blame for GAoG and EMDM's suckiness) and Wes Borland is also in, though may not have had much at all to do with writing material for the new album.

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Originally Posted by Akaria

I'm pretty sure he did the last two, but I'm not positive, so preemptive apologies if I'm mistaken:D

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To be specific, Marilyn Manson did a couple of tracks for the Resident Evil film, including the theme song. It should be noted though, that it was Marilyn Manson the person, not Marilyn Manson the band. It's a pet peeve of mine, that people can't separate the two. ¬_¬

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I rarely ever think of Marilyn Manson as the entire band. I'd imagine that RE would be a solo adventure for him, maybe Redeemer could be the entire band...I have no idea though, just going off the sound of the songs.

I was impressed with his appearance in Bowling for Columbine. He was the most sensible person in the movie.

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I was impressed with his appearance in Bowling for Columbine. He was the most sensible person in the movie.

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Yup, that's one of my favorite interviews with him.

whenever someone tempts me to listen to marilyn manson I just turn to the big book