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Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
: :Not only is The Nightmare Before Christmas one of the best musicals of the past two decades; it may well be Danny Elfman's masterpiece, successfully integrating his main influences (from Cab Calloway to Nino Rota) into a fantastic whole. The first disc of this reissue features the original soundtrack, its songs still teetering between dark humor and poetic flights of fancy; this so-called kids' music is at least as sophisticated and skilled as anything you're likely to hear on Broadway. The second disc includes demo versions of four songs on which Elfman plays ...
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Lest We Forget: The Best Of
: :Culled from the band’s ten year, six album career, Lest we Forget: The Best of Marilyn Manson features some of the greatest rock anthems of the last decade. Opening with 'The Love Song' from Holy Wood, it proceeds to the first of a handful of cover songs which have made it as singles. The decadent, beefed up version of Depeche Mode’s 'Personal Jesus' may not vary much from the original but the band do it the appropriate Goth justice; 'Tainted Love' adds a menacing, industrial-glam to the electric northern soul of Soft Cell’s ...
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Antichrist Superstar
: :Marilyn Manson started out as a depraved, marginally talented group of freaks that played a caustic but undeveloped brand of metallic industrial noise. Then Trent Reznor stepped into the studio for seven months with the band, and Manson emerged with the most intense, visceral, mechanical metal album since The Downward Spiral. Antichrist Superstar is a horror-house of grisly atrocities that stains as indelibly as a bathful of warm blood. Brooding rhythms collide with corrosive samples and buzzsaw guitar riffs, while vocalist Marilyn croons irresistible melodies in the voice of a vagrant regurgitating broken ...
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Eat Me, Drink Me
:Album Description:Four years since his last studio album, and following up on his highest charting radio single ever ('Personal Jesus', from Lest We Forget), Marilyn Manson returns with 'Eat Me, Drink me'. Art openings, soundtrack appearances, and personal circumstance have grabbed headlines for Manson in recent months, setting the stage for the release of Eat Me, Drink Me, which is unquestionably the artist's most personal statement yet. Always the provocateur, in what may be the ultimate subversion of the code of aggro-rock, the songs are immediately catchy - all jagged guitar hooks, anthemic ...
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Mechanical Animals
:Album Details:Limited Edition with Bonus CD-ROM Tracks 'Dope Show'(Banned Version) and 'Sweet Dreams'. :There's no question that Marilyn Manson's 1995 album Antichrist Superstar was a great-sounding record. It brooded, ripped, and clattered in all the right places, mixing industrial beats and samples with roaring heavy-metal riffs, echoing Goth keys, and the occasional tuneful pop vocal. But for all the sonic appeal, some of the songwriting wasn't too strong. No such problem on Manson's new record, Mechanical Animals, which forsakes some of the band's former grind in favor of dynamic glam rhythms and good ...
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The Golden Age of Grotesque
: :The Golden Age of Grotesque was inspired by the seamy underside of Weimar Berlin, circa 1930. The album is constructed along the lines of Alice Cooper's 1975 gem, Welcome to My Nightmare, dipping in to the same cabaret of Cooper's 'Some Folks.' Unlike Cooper, however, this is no comic nightmare. 'This isn't a show / This is my f*cking life / I'm not ashamed / You're entertained,' Manson snarls in 'Vodevil,' making it abundantly clear that the singer was born in the wrong time and place and is more at home among the ...
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Portrait of an American Family
: :Every parent's nightmare and every teenager's dream band, Marilyn Manson take no prisoners on their blistering and brutal Trent Reznor-produced debut. Aiming to shock and rock simultaneously, Portrait scores high marks in both arenas. Manson and his grand grimoire take Alice Cooper's tongue-in-cheek mix of glam and death rock to the nth degree with their vision of youth gone wild, personified on cuts like 'Cake and Sodomy' and 'Lunchbox,' a schoolyard revenge fantasy gone horribly awry. One of the most original, hardest rocking albums recorded in the '90s, Portrait of an American Family ...
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Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)
: :The impact of Marilyn Manson's subversive musical agenda has waned, and what's left is a provocative, talented artist writing affecting, powerful, and yes, controversial songs. Although Holy Wood is the third title of a trilogy that began with 1996's Antichrist Superstar, the album stands on its own. Rife with references to the Beatles and the Kennedys, and full of pop-culture barbs, Holy Wood is a musically diverse and powerful statement. The memorable sing-along 'Disposable Teens' boasts the same kind of staccato, Teutonic, first-thrusting power introduced with 'Beautiful People,' while 'Fight Song' is the ...
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Smells Like Children
: :Mostly a collection of remixed tracks from Portrait of an American Family and samples swiped from talk-radio dialogue, Smells Like Children is how Marilyn Manson passed the time prior to beginning work on Antichrist Superstar. Of note among the remixes is Tony Wiggins's acoustic country 'White Trash' version of 'Cake and Sodomy.' This is really a keeper, though, for Manson's clever choice of covers, including an authentically creepy interpretation of Eurythmics' 'Sweet Dreams' and the shot-in-the-arm he gives to Patti Smith's 'outside of society' anthem, 'Rock 'N' Roll Nigger.' (Attention trivia buffs: Manson's ...
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The Last Tour on Earth
:Album Description:Limited edition pressing (20,000 copies only) of the group's hit alternative shock rock group's 1999 live album with a four track bonus CD featuring 'Coma White' (LP Version), 'Get My Rocks Off', 'Coma White' (Acoustic Version) and 'A Rose And A Baby Ruth'. A combined total of 18 tracks. Double slimline jewel case. 1999 release. :Is a Marilyn Manson studio album like thunder without lightning? The name Manson is synonymous with stage theatrics, and studio albums aren't designed to capture such flashing, ephemeral excitement. That being the case, a live Marilyn Manson ...
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