Description: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." Unlike Cooper, however, this is no comic nighMarilyn 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."
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
"Marilyn Manson is a very hard individual to really understand. You have to really dig into his work before calling him an untalented hack. At one point I thought this man was a genius for his message he was sending in Antichrist Superstar, Mechanical Animals and Holy Wood. There is a lot of great lyrical material on all 3 of those albums.
Some how some way, Manson hit a brick wall in creativity in the mid 2000's. The Golden Age of Grotesque was widely hailed as a great record, I know a lot of p"
"This album is essentially why I gave up on Marilyn Manson.
Whatever unique gimmick he had to grab your attention, whatever juice he had that made you want to punch someone as a teenager, whatever musicians he had around him, here is where he completely lost it for me. This is also where Manson finally started to lose his vocal chords. All that screaming he did on Antichrist Superstar, he still has it here, but you can hear where they are diminishing. Now when he screams it sound so fucking horr"
“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 antics on stage and video!
Look at me, damn it!
Yes, we're looking at you (kinda hard not to you albino drama queen!), that's never been the problem...no, our problem has always been the same: what about your music?
Yes, Marilyn Manson has no doubt mastered the art shocking the lemmings with his appearance and goth schtick but when it comes down to his music he's anything but shocking. Seriously, take away the outside crap and reduce him to just being a recording artist and all you've really got is a guy who” read more
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