Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
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Free Music Review: By far, the ULTIMATE M.M. Compact-Disc you'll ever want!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
It's a damn good thing there are such perfections as Marilyn Manson--I don't know what we'd do without thier genius. Since thier release of 'Portrait,' Marilyn Manson has explored virtually every sound and style of hard-rock on earth. I have every CD, and although it runs fairly close with 'Antichrist Supertar,' the 'Mechanical Animals' album is the Greatest (notice that I capitalized? It's not a typo, guys...).
From the stamping "Dope Show," to the though-provoking voices of "Coma White," (a personal favorite) the CD is chock full of insight, emotion, and of course beats that stick in your head like a parasite. "Rock is Dead," possibly the most popular of the album, was even used in the "Matrix" soundtrack.
'Mechanical Animals,' like 'Holywood,' is a hard look at the presures and agony of being a celebrity, drugs, and apathy, and Manson belts it out the way it should be heard; without censor, an unbridled depiction of what life as we know it, truly is.
For those who actually have the decency to look, if you place a trancparency of royal blue over the faded-yellow words under faded blue words on the CD slip-cover, many of the subliminal messages in M.M.'s music are spelled out underneath. Don't try to read these hidden messages with the naked eye. It's virtually impossible, especially the 'My Omega,' on the second page. Photos on the slip-cover are of Manson's glam rock spree, and some of the last of our beloved Twiggy Raimerez, who now resides in "A Perfect Circle" (another mind-blowing band).
M.M. fans will adore "Mechanical Animals'" depth, hard-roch fans looking for a good vibe will find it quite User Friendly, as well. Plug it up, Posthumans, this is the New Model. LOVE IT ALL.
Heard it, had to have it, now we own it,
--Miss GIGI
Free Music Review: it came on 1998, divide that number with 3 and what you got?
Hit: 5 Stars
First Manson song I ever heard & saw was TheDopeShow and I was like "what a F**K is this? Really relly strange song and image, but it was rock`n`roll on MTV at 17.00 p.m.??! After that I went to buy that album, what I discovered was something I could`t believe, there was a new rock band that really blows my mind to somewhere in space and further than ever before. I thougt the age of great rock bands was over and all that there was going to be is that mediocore crap/"happy-punk"/limbsbiskit and blaablaa music without any deeper meaning to it... (I love bands like; TheDoors,Jimi Hendrix, Queen, Pink Floyd, Danzig, Bob Marley) ..and when I heard Marilyn Manson`s Mechanical Animals I was stunned and emotionally shaken. There`s such intelligence to lyrics too and visual things and all kind of strange sounds and messages. And I think the band is very talented musically & artistically too. Some people will never discover the strange-beaty of this album,but that`s the way it has always been in the cases of real art, big masses accept and understand it much more later. I`m not a teenager anymore, but I keep my mind&heart open to new things... Oh sorry, I was talking about the band before that little emotional outburst... so..
Maybe they`re not so awesome players technically but they really are soundwise and "melodically" gifted. To me it will always be an important album, it`s such a experience. Mechanical Animals is that midle part of manson`s holy trilogy, starting with HOLY WOOD and ending with ANTICHRIST SUPERSTAR. M.A. is my favorite, maybe because it`s my first Manson album, or maybe because that almost everytime I listen to it it still moves me somehow. But ofcourse it`s not for everyone and that`s normal, we are all unique with a different tastes, but I love it.
Free Music Review: Change Is Good
Hit: 5 Stars
*Gasp*, you mean... Marilyn Manson... Changed? He sounds different? No! Stop the presses! That can't be good, can it? After the popularity he gained from Antichrist Superstar, he didn't make a carbon copy like everyone else? Wait, what are you talking about, he switched guitarists AGAIN? Dear non-existant Lord, what are we to do?
What are you to do? You're to go out and BUY the damn CD!
Yes, Mechanical Animals is vastly different from AC Star, but is that really so bad? How many bands do you know that have a great album and then follow it up with a horrible one that is almost exactly the same as the old one? Marilyn Manson knew that sticking with the same ol', same ol' wouldn't cut it, so he decided to shake things up.
The result is a remarkable masterpiece that is arguably his best CD to date (For me, it's a toss-up between this and AC Star. Sorry, Holy Wood fans...). there are so many different styles on this CD that it is completely unbelievable. He does have a little bit of the same ol', but he mixes industrial rock with 80s new wave seamlessly, with beautiful lyrics bursting with spite and truth.
And of course, you can't write a review about this album without noting Coma White, a truly beautiful song (And an amazing and controversial video that gave Conservatives a collective aneurism) that is by far his best. Not only are the lyrics perfectly worded and perfectly sung, but the music behind Manson is not unlike an orchestra born of hatred and animosity. When I heard this song, I heard peace poisoned by enmity's venom. I've always said that Marilyn Manson really knows how to finish an album.
So, to summarize what I've said, go buy this album. Thou shalt not regret it.
Free Music Review: the evolution of the pope
Hit: 5 Stars
marilyn mAnSoN whether you love him or loathe him[i was the second one for years] till i decide to pick up a greatest hits "lest we forget" and i was introduced to the warped beautiful world of brian warner aka Marilyn manson
i bought holywood a couple of weeks ago and i was besotted with the songwriting and metal brutality and acoustic deliverence
and i thought he wouldn't be able to top that album i was wrong
this album caused a stir when it came out with the P.C parade
of conservitive parents in the U.S.A branding M.M as obscene and a torch burning for all that is wrong with their society just because he wore a feminine bodysuit and
slaughtered god in his lyrics[i'm a christian and i don't find what he says to be offensive..it's his opipion and we live in a liberal world of free speech don't we? well..]
this album has two of the best opening a closing tracks ever
"great big white world" and "coma white"
this also features the single "the dope show" where he wears the feminine body suit and bashes "cops and queers"
it also features the super charged "rock is dead"
a observance on the state of rock music in 1998 after the demise of grunge four years before.
other top notch songs were "mechinical animals"[title track duh"]
"i want to disappear" "user friendly" "i don't like the drugs[but the drugs like me]
in a final summary
a classic album that some might be put of if their expecting the barnishing metal of it's predecessor..
but if you like david bowie and T.rex with a hint of adam ant then you'll lap this up as i have.
Free Music Review: Incredibly immaculate!
Hit: 5 Stars
First of all, I would like to commend Rev. Manson on this album, which I found to be his best yet. If you take a look at the album (really close), you will notice all of the messages hidden behind the blue ink (like, "A SUN WITH NO PLANETS, BURNING IN CIRCLES"). If one reads more closely, they will notice that if the songs are put into the order given on the page with the credits, they seem to tell the story of Manson's life (as it is read in his autobiography, "Long Hard Road Out Of Hell"), from his beginnings as Marilyn Manson (Disassociative) to a cataclysmic ending (The Last Day On Earth) that seems to symbolize an event Manson sees happening in the future. Manson's use of symbolism ads a little bit of a theme to the album (a "girl" named Coma White; unfeeling people being seen as "mechanical animals"; space; and television, movie, and rock stars as "drugs"), as it also did with Antichrist Superstar (the cycle of the worm turning into an angel). The most interesting thing about this album is that, even though he speaks badly of "machines" and the like, his cd is enhanced, so that you can hear the fifteenth song on your CD ROM. The fifteen also has some sort of symbolism (the album came out on September 15; on his last birthday, he turned 30, which is twice 15; etc.), but is unclear as to what it means. There might be an explanation in the lyrics of the album, but I have yet to find it. All in all, I must say that this album is superb, and I could rant and rave all day about it, but there is a one-thousand word limit. Just go buy the album, and see what you think.