Mechanical Animals

Marilyn Manson

Genre: music4me > Alternative > Alternative

Format: CD Album

Released: Mon 14 Sep 1998

Catalogue Number: INTD90273

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Description:
Approaching the new millennium, Marilyn Manson shows himself to be standing squarely at the crossroads of the past and future of popular music. MECHANICAL ANIMALS takes the crunch and shock of '70s glam rock and mates it with the automated pings and electronic sheen of artists such as the Dust Brothers and Danny Saber (who both appear on this album). Manson's knack for going light years beyond Alice Cooper's brand of shock rock starts with the packaging itself. On it, the freaky Floridian appears as an asexual being with flaming red eyes and hair (whose appearance is not unlike a cross between David Bowie's Aladdin Sane and Diamond Dogs characters). The music itself not only assaults the senses but a variety of targets as well. Naturally enough, the Religious Right is a convenient whipping boy ("Rock Is Dead"), as are back-stabbers ("Speed Of Pain") and the beast that is the media ("New Model No. 15," "The Dope Show"). When Manson isn't smashing you in the mouth with a crashing wall of guitars and new wavey synths, his instincts lead him into late-Floydian nihilism ("The Speed Of Pain") and hi-NRG ditties tailor-made for an imaginary sci-fi disco ("Posthuman," "I Want To Disappear").

Track Listing:

1.	Great Big White World
2.	Dope Show
3.	Mechanical Animals
4.	Rock Is Dead
5.	Disassociative
6.	Speed of Pain
7.	Posthuman
8.	I Want to Disappear
9.	I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)
10.	New Model, No. 15
11.	User Friendly
12.	Fundamentally Loathsome
13.	Last Day On Earth
14.	Coma White