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The Golden Age of the Grotesque

The Golden Age of the Grotesque Manufacturer : Interscope
Release date : 12 May 2003
EAN : 0602498000939
UPC : 602498000939

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Marilyn Manson's The Golden Age of Grotesque was inspired, in part at least, 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."

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Unlike Cooper, however, this is no comic nightmare. "This isn't a show / This is my fucking 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 absinthe-drinking revellers in pre-Nazi Germany. The album possesses a dark, accessible beauty rather than the twisted industrial dissonance that pervades much of his earlier stuff. "mOBSCENE" is a thumping rocker that features a deranged cheerleading squad. "Ka-Boom Ka-Boom" is a rousing stomper that Manson penned in response to an exec's complaint that the new songs didn't rock. Its simple yet seditious chorus decries, "I like a big car, 'cause I'm a big star / I'll make a big rock & roll hit." Since 1998's Mechanical Animals, Manson's albums have become progressively more tuneful, and Grotesque continues the trend. --Jaan Uhelszki (Review copyright Amazon.co.uk)

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Look at me be the pasty-skinned spawn of Ziggy Stardust and Gene "The Demon" Simmons! Look at me as I scare the Bible Belt of America senseless with my one white eye, face make-up and S&M gear from hell! Look at my ooky and oh-so-freaky ant...Read more

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