What do you listen to?

[Luke]

Listened to BSSM by the RHCP track by track over the weekend. The shit holds up. Great album.

Other than that, just a lot of stand up shows via pandora.

[REPO Man]

I know this is really off topic but anyone else think marilyn manson is washed up?

Eh, I like Beautiful People and the video was cool though it borrowed heavily from Brothers Quay, who in turn were very influenced by Jan Svankmajer. I never was big on Brian Warner's music though. Not paying attention to radio/MTV/wahtever, didn't even know he'd really done anything since that terrible Tainted Love cover.

I actually got into his music a couple of years ago.

My two fave albums are Golden Age of Grotesque and Holywood.

He's also got a new album coming out. The title was recently confirmed as being "Born Villain", and there's a short film out that Manson did as a collabo with actor-turned-director-apparently Shia LaBeouf.


Also like HorrorPops (did I mention that already), and have two of their albums. And their lead singer is hawt.

And Creature Feature.

[KillerJuan77]

I actually got into his music a couple of years ago.

My two fave albums are Golden Age of Grotesque and Holywood.

He's also got a new album coming out. The title was recently confirmed as being "Born Villain", and there's a short film out that Manson did as a collabo with actor-turned-director-apparently Shia LaBeouf..

The Born Villain video is kind of awesome, everything innapropiate is there, including vagina-like wounds with eyes. Shia or Manson have problems.

And yes, MM haves some great albums, the best ones IMO are The Golden Age Of Grotesque and Antichrist Superstar (Classy ).

[REPO Man]

I actually got into his music a couple of years ago.

My two fave albums are Golden Age of Grotesque and Holywood.

He's also got a new album coming out. The title was recently confirmed as being "Born Villain", and there's a short film out that Manson did as a collabo with actor-turned-director-apparently Shia LaBeouf..

The Born Villain video is kind of awesome, everything innapropiate is there, including vagina-like wounds with eyes. Shia or Manson have problems.

And yes, MM haves some great albums, the best ones IMO are The Golden Age Of Grotesque and Antichrist Superstar (Classy ).

BV will be epic!

I also like Mechanical Animals and Eat Me, Drink Me.

I'm also working on two stage musicals based on his work. The first is an adaptation of the Tryptich(sic?), and the second is a pseudo-biographical work based around the music of his last three albums. They both use a similar format, three acts, each centered around a different album.

[J T]

I know this is really off topic but anyone else think marilyn manson is washed up?

Marilyn Manson is just one of many musicians that delivered such amazing stuff in his early years that he will always struggle to again reach the bar that he set so high. Portrait of an American Family was something that was gritty and dark and felt like something secret that you shouldn't be listening to, which is just something that can't be recreated once you've heard it once. Antichrist Superstar represented his rise to power as a rock star and was incredibly prophetic for his climb to fame and infamy. Mechanical Animals was Manson grabbing his celebrity by the horn and strutting around in all his gender ambiguous glory. Each of those albums were perfect in their own way. Everything after that was never quite as good, but that's not to say it was bad. They all had something where it felt like he was almost a parody of himself and other tracks where he was just as brilliant as ever. I'm looking forward to the Born Villain full length.

[Luke]

Il Trovatore.

I like opera. So sue me.

Also, I've been listening to more wtf with marc maron podcasts. Always good stuff.

[KillerJuan77]

I know this is really off topic but anyone else think marilyn manson is washed up?

Marilyn Manson is just one of many musicians that delivered such amazing stuff in his early years that he will always struggle to again reach the bar that he set so high. Portrait of an American Family was something that was gritty and dark and felt like something secret that you shouldn't be listening to, which is just something that can't be recreated once you've heard it once. Antichrist Superstar represented his rise to power as a rock star and was incredibly prophetic for his climb to fame and infamy. Mechanical Animals was Manson grabbing his celebrity by the horn and strutting around in all his gender ambiguous glory. Each of those albums were perfect in their own way. Everything after that was never quite as good, but that's not to say it was bad. They all had something where it felt like he was almost a parody of himself and other tracks where he was just as brilliant as ever. I'm looking forward to the Born Villain full length.

Finally, someone that agrees with me, most fans despise anything that isn't Portrait Of An American Family or The Golden Age Of Grotesque. By the way, did you hear about Phantasmagoria: The Visions Of Lewis Carrol still being made? I'm really hyped.

[Metal Militia]

I loved Marilyn Manson in Junior High. Mechanical Animals is by far my favorite Manson album with Holywood and Antichrist Superstar not far behind. I really haven't listened to him since the release of Golden Age of Grotesque. Now I'm curious to find out how his last two albums are.

[REPO Man]

I loved Marilyn Manson in Junior High. Mechanical Animals is by far my favorite Manson album with Holywood and Antichrist Superstar not far behind. I really haven't listened to him since the release of Golden Age of Grotesque. Now I'm curious to find out how his last two albums are.

Eat Me, Drink Me is much different, both mood- and sound-wise. It was his return to music after GAoG, and was a collabo between himself and Tim Skold. It's also a bit more emotional, dealing with both is divorce from Dita Von Teese and his burgeoning relationship with Evan Rachel Wood, as well as other themes. And check out "Red Carpet Grave", which I've likened to being like a hedonistic party for upscale socialites which turns out to be a funeral, like someone died and they're throwing a party where they all just get drunk and stoned and just fuck their brains out in the back room, in a vein similar to Bret Easton Ellis. In fact, the whole album kinda has the Bret Easton Ellis meets Anne Rice vibe (vampiric erotica by way of hedonistic nihilism's lovechild with Godless disregard for human life).

And I make no sense, do I? I know what I wanna say, I know it's supposed to be a compliment and yet all I say is complete nonsensical bullshit-flavored illogic.

[REPO Man]

Oh, and Heart-Shaped Glasses totally reminds me of Joker and Harley Quinn.

ERW is Harley, natch. Manson's the Joker, natch again.

And watch the video with that in mind. But only watch the director's cut version, if only for the dialog in the car.