Artist: MARILYN MANSON
Album: MECHANICAL ANIMALS (CD O-CARD)

Release date: 1998
EAN/UPS: 0606949027322
Media type: CD

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.

TRACKLIST CD:

  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