Mechanical Animals [EXPLICIT LYRICS] [CLEAN]

Marilyn Manson

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.com Sales Rank: #59,630 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
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 old-fashioned melody. When the band tones down, as on the largely acoustic "Speed of Pain" and "Fundamentally Loathsome," Manson even sounds like a candidate for an Unplugged session. Most often, however, as on "Rock Is Dead," "User Friendly," and "The Dope Show," Mechanical Animals is a brash, decadent, and glittery display of self-indulgent hooks and melodramatic vocals that sounds like Aladdin Sane-era David Bowie and T. Rex at their most boisterous crossed with the more modern sounds of today's industrial nation. --Jon Wiederhorn

The Los Angeles Times
Here, songs swagger with lipstick-wearing attitude, have fun with sleazy subject matter and actually convey some (gasp) human emotion. Despite its title, Mechanical Animals drips with the seedy sexuality and plush velvet feel that's been absent from 1990s rock....

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars MM makes a Bowie Tribute piece, December 25, 1998

By	[e-mail] (arkansas) - See all my reviews

I have to say that Antichrist Superstar was a very appealing showcase of just how ugly a person can make themselves and still be beautiful. To paraphrase a bit, it seems Brian Werner came up from Hell, plucked his eyebrows on the way grew some boobs and then he was David Bowie - with boobs. I know that the second Bowie saw that costume he probably hit himself in the head with a copy of NEVER LET ME DOWN several times and screamed, "Why in Bloody Hell didn't I think of that when I was posing for the inside cover of ALADDIN SANE????"

I have decided that MECHANICAL ANIMALS is sort of a joke that Brian is playing on us. It's a tribute album of sorts. It's a jigsaw puzzle of David Bowie and Iggy Pop and a few others...Mainly Bowie. DOPE SHOW? It's a knock of perfume version of the Iggy stomper NIGHT CLUBBING. THE SPEED OF PAIN has the under tones of a Pink Floyd tune until you get to that taffy pull with the flute, then we are talking WIDTH OF A CIRCLE for sure...ROCK IS DEAD? Tastes like a compote of JEAN GENIE and CRACKED ACTOR. I DON'T LIKE THE DRUGS??? I can't be the only person out there that hears FAME getting funky loose on the guitar in that one. I WANT TO DISAPPEAR is a concoction with SUFFRAGETTE CITY as an ingredient. NEW MODEL? I think Ric Ocasek has been here.

MM borrowed visually and melodically from the Master of Borrowing, and that's OK. What he was unable to recreate was the atmosphere of the early Bowie units. Good Bowie has an unsettling quality to it. Mechanical Animals is much easier to listen to right off the bat than most classic Bowie. I like this MM offering. I figure if Bowie isn't going to be Bowie, some one has to be...

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars sick, hideous, and wrong, November 8, 1998

By A Customer

marilyn sells to the stupidity of the american audience. he is merely an act that focuses in on the troubled teens in america and around the globe. just when people begin to catch on, he changes his image so kids will want to discover his newest side, which requires buying his cd. he may be a good buisness man, but the image that he represents is one of disturbing self hatred. he just troubles more and more teens and continues to represent everything that america is not and will never be, that is, a hellish warzone filled with sick images of self hatred and self mutilation. everything that he represents is wrong and the less people that listen to his music the better. remember, at the end of the day, he takes of the makeup and counts the profits that he has made off of al those gullable teens while those same teens go home with thier built up self hatred formed from the angry lyrics of the sick, distorted man by whom we call by the equally sick name, manson.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What???, September 5, 1999

By A Customer

What the f*ck? How is the cover 'explicit', my good, take your heads out of your arses for once. However this is damn good, but not as heavy as Antichrist Superstar. A completely different angle, with some kicking lyrics. I can't wait for the next album.