A Marilyn Manson Top 10 Playlist
noz
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This is just IMHO and from the first three albums. What are your selections?
noz
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Yes. I played it in the car with my dad once and it was awkward.
Bathe thine self in this knowledge and thus be cleansed of ignorance.
I don't think it's fair to act as if it's his primary calling card anymore than it was, say, Kiss' or anymore than NWA was shock rap or whatever. These are certainly parts of the puzzle, but all of these artists are more complex than that. I fail to see how spectacle in music automatically implicates the artist as a gimmick.
Since when has being a musician been the point of Rock and Roll?
that's true but on the other hand, I pitty those poor kids who identify with this predictable, pretentious teenage angst color-by-numbers alternative pop. musically pretty boring and predictable, poor on substance and awkward in its pedastrian and clich??e-riddled attempts to be somehow shocking. A mouse on the kitchen floor would have more shock value to even the squarest of mothers.
Well, the same was said about Alice Cooper and lots of other stuff that leaned heavily on the showbiz. And with Alice, eventually the showbiz overtook the quality of the tunes. But that doesn't mean it wasn't a thing of beauty when it all gelled. I agree with you that MM's schtick IS obvious to plenty of us, but don't underestimate the ability of American squares to be WILLFULLY shocked and appalled. They live for that, just as those angsty kids live to attempt to shock.
I don't know... i mean especially nowadays with all the information you could ever want at the fingertips of every kid, I just don't get it how kids can fall for something that cheap, fake and pathetic. I mean the music is basically just some uninspired and un-original re-packaging of stuff that's been done better and more exciting some ten years earlier by even such flat and tepid acts as Ministry or what else the indie-rock flavor of the month was at the time. It's just an insult to those who really pioneered this shit and did interesting and relevant work like Clint Ruin / Wiseblood / Foetus, Jesus Lizard or Birthday Party etc. and it goes to show just how completely ignoreworthy current "alternative" music and youth culture has become. Palsy, slightly obese shits with their striped leggins and selfdestructive ways to scratch their arms... what a waste!
hahaha... nothing better than a good rant to clear a hung-over head.
Well, that's why youth is wasted on the young right?
I feel you on the sentiment though...I'll find myself asking some of my students what they listen to and I always have to check myself from being the old man I remember from them days goin'"Music was better in my days, you kids don't get it blah blah blah." If they develop an appreciation for good music then they'll get it eventually, if not, we can always snidely remark about their listening habits on message boards.
Aren't those kids grown up now? Wasn't MM big in the 90s? I don't think any youth see him as relevant anymore.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,103092,00.html
CAM'RON: Columbine. Yes. You feel what I'm saying? I don't think they were listening to rap at all. I think that was more like a Marilyn Manson jump-off, you know, like...
The mp3s of I>Mechanical Animals/I> that I downloaded were apparently ripped by someone named Emmanuel so the folder is titled I>Mechanical Animals By Emmanuel/I>.
It was from The Onion.
Yes "Lunchbox" would've been a strong contender for #11. It's a little too rap rock in retrospect but it definitely gets points for nostalgia and conceptual execution.