I was a huge Marilyn Manson fan as a young goth kid. Something about his music spoke to me for what I was going through at the time and living through rebellion.
Mechanical Animals has a special place in my heart due to where I was at when I had the album in my teen years.
Holy Wood is a terrifying album in retrospect. It came out in 2000 and was the last album he really put an effort into before making some mediocre rock albums. Most of the songs and the artwork seem to mirror the growing fascism in American culture. When I seen Kid Rock a few years ago selling shirts that said "Guns, God and Trump" it reminded me of the "Guns, God and Government" line from The Love Song and the cross made of guns that Manson used on that tour. There's also this song called The Fall of Adam which sounds like a fascist rally with a big speech, not unlike something you'd hear from a Trump rally. So many songs from that album relate to American culture and especially the era we live in now and it's so hard to believe Manson was writing all that before 9/11. You can see a lot of Trump stuff and Blue Lives Matter bootlicking from the lyrics and artwork to this album.
Unfortunately Manson became a huge joke later on and even revealed to be a true piece of shit.
Absolutely and then The High End of Low was where I gave up on Manson forever. That album sounded so lazy, it's hard to believe the same guy who wrote witty lyrics like on Antichrist Superstar would go on to write lines in 'I Want To Kill You Like They Do In The Movies'.
Honestly Mechanical Animals is (or maybe was? I'm not sure what the current opinion on it is tbh) a really underrated album, I think a lot of fans at the time didn't like the shift in style from Antichrist Superstar but I loved it, and I think it holds up better than most if not all of their later albums
True, I agree. It's my favorite album of his cause it shows him thinking outside of the box and leaves you to wonder what he could've become as an artist by trying different things and not going back to the full Antichrist Superstar type look and sound for Holy Wood and what followed after.
Mechanical Animals was also well produced. People talk about Trent Reznor's production on Antichrist, but MA had a unique sound to it. It almost sounds like it's half human and half machine. The way the acoustic guitars are mixed in with all the electronics, it has it's own uniqueness to it that can't be found on any of his other albums. Manson became a lazy artist in the 2000s settling for a sorta generic guitar driven rock sound that don't mesh well with his older albums.
I was a huge Marilyn Manson fan as a young goth kid. Something about his music spoke to me for what I was going through at the time and living through rebellion.
Mechanical Animals has a special place in my heart due to where I was at when I had the album in my teen years.
Holy Wood is a terrifying album in retrospect. It came out in 2000 and was the last album he really put an effort into before making some mediocre rock albums. Most of the songs and the artwork seem to mirror the growing fascism in American culture. When I seen Kid Rock a few years ago selling shirts that said "Guns, God and Trump" it reminded me of the "Guns, God and Government" line from The Love Song and the cross made of guns that Manson used on that tour. There's also this song called The Fall of Adam which sounds like a fascist rally with a big speech, not unlike something you'd hear from a Trump rally. So many songs from that album relate to American culture and especially the era we live in now and it's so hard to believe Manson was writing all that before 9/11. You can see a lot of Trump stuff and Blue Lives Matter bootlicking from the lyrics and artwork to this album.
Unfortunately Manson became a huge joke later on and even revealed to be a true piece of shit.
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Absolutely and then The High End of Low was where I gave up on Manson forever. That album sounded so lazy, it's hard to believe the same guy who wrote witty lyrics like on Antichrist Superstar would go on to write lines in 'I Want To Kill You Like They Do In The Movies'.
Honestly Mechanical Animals is (or maybe was? I'm not sure what the current opinion on it is tbh) a really underrated album, I think a lot of fans at the time didn't like the shift in style from Antichrist Superstar but I loved it, and I think it holds up better than most if not all of their later albums
True, I agree. It's my favorite album of his cause it shows him thinking outside of the box and leaves you to wonder what he could've become as an artist by trying different things and not going back to the full Antichrist Superstar type look and sound for Holy Wood and what followed after.
Mechanical Animals was also well produced. People talk about Trent Reznor's production on Antichrist, but MA had a unique sound to it. It almost sounds like it's half human and half machine. The way the acoustic guitars are mixed in with all the electronics, it has it's own uniqueness to it that can't be found on any of his other albums. Manson became a lazy artist in the 2000s settling for a sorta generic guitar driven rock sound that don't mesh well with his older albums.