Mechanical Animals [Explicit Lyrics, Clean]

Marilyn Manson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 15, 1998)
• Original Release Date: September 15, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics, Clean
• Label: Nothing
• ASIN: B00000AGAY
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (98 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #39,686 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Great Big White World

2. The Dope Show

3. Mechanical Animals

4. Rock Is Dead

5. Disassociative

6. The 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. The Last Day on Earth

14. Coma White

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The ultimate in shock-rock, August 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Mechanical Animals (Audio CD)

Whereas "Smells Like Children" and "Antichrist Superstar" got Marilyn Manson and friends lableled "Shockrock," Animals is the most shocking of all- it is brilliant. Previous releases had promise, like the sing-songy "Dope Hat," insanely catchy "The Beautiful People" and anguished "Tourniquet." All of those tunes were masterfully produced by maestro Trent Reznor, and showed. Those tunes were surrounded by dreck, especially on the first album, but Superstar was good and showed promise.

Here, Manson proves he has kept his ears open and left the Nails' nest. He is still standing on the shoulders of giants, musically, as this is easily a Bowie tribute album, atmospheres that could be sampled from Brian Eno show up, and he uses Trent's tendency to throw a strange piano or noise line into the scathing rockers. Like NIN, He also buries the most honest and naked lines under static or effects.

"The Speed of Pain," "Disassociative," and "Fundamentally Loathsome" are tuneful, melodic numbers that show real anguish and yearning. Little Mary has been under a deluge of sex, drugs, and God for so long, he can't tell them apart. All the lyrics could be about a drug, a girl, but when it the last line has been snorted, are probably the same. "When you hate it, you know its real, but when you love you know you can't feel." Manson wants to love, but is so lost in this "Great White World, (the opener, which sets the 'space oddity' theme) he haphazardly abuses sex and dope to numb the pain of not being able to find love. If that isn't universal, I don't know what is.

Incredibly sarcastic views of America and Christianity are thrown in the mix with enough deft humor to keep this from being a Rage Against the Machine album. Influences abound, but they aren't deprecative. Manson shows he was ready to take Trent's much needed training wheels off. While Reznor created an alien genre of music with "The Downward Spiral," Manson takes existing genres (funk, cock-rock, glam and goth) and makes them alien. Stunning.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!, February 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Mechanical Animals (Audio CD)

I haven't heard much of Manson's earlier production, so I can't say if he has "sold out" or "gone mainstream". But whocares? Shouldn't it be the music that matters? Some people seem to care only about Manson's former image and dis his new record because it perhaps isn't as dark and aggressive as the earlier ones. Those attitudes can, in some cases, blind some people from seeing the good sides of this awesome record. The songs on this CD are really versatile and offer something new everytime I listen through it. This is also one of very few CD's that don't have any ****** songs on it (usually there's at least one or two). My personal favorites are "Mechanical Animals" with the really great acoustic parts in it along with Mansons melancholic singing, "I Don't Like The Drugs" with the funky-sort-of-beat and the in-your-face lyrics, "Fundamentally Loathsome" with it's spooky keyboards and the awesome ending and "Coma White", which is perhaps THE best song on this record. I just LOVE the lyrics in that song, not to mention the fantastic guitar playing as well. Lyrically I think this album is great. All the songs contain something about drugs though, but it doesn't bother me. It's really hard, I think, to categorize this record, but I think it rocks and therefore I also call it rock (hard rock, that is). Last, but not least, a message to all you prejudgmental people out there! You're so busy judging Manson's looks that you don't even give his music a chance! I feel sorry for you all if you can't accept people's differences. When I tell people that I listen to Marilyn Manson, their first reaction is often : "What...? Are you outta your mind? That guy's a .... psycho! Crossdressin'...quot; My advice: If you get hit - don't turn the other cheek. Hit back, and as hard as you can. Freedom of thought and speech is something worth fighting for.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the record shows great musical talent and imagnation., November 25, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Mechanical Animals (Audio CD)

Marily Manson!!! He is one of this decades greats musicans, weather you enjoy his music or not you must addmit this simple fact. Although he is one of the most contraversial band that is in the music secne. I recently went to the Detorit concert and I must say that he has a great prefromance and he sounds get live. People dis his ways because they don't understand them, some times I don't either. Some people think he is a fake, some don't. I have all his CDs, imports too, and every CD has a different sound to it. MECHINICAL ANIMALS is just another on of his many sounds. Some think that he is a sell-out because this CD is total different than the previous CD. I enjoy both of them, it just depends on what mood I'am in. Overall a really like this CD; it shows imagination and creativeness.

MARILYN MANSON FAN FELIX DETORIT MICHIGAN