Marilyn Manson - The Golden Age Of Grotesque
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Music Reviews of The Golden Age Of Grotesque
Music Review: Mansons second worst
Rating: 3 Stars
ok i am a huge manson fan. i love portrait, antichrist superstar, and mechanical animals. i hated holy wood. i liked this. heres my problem with this album. it just seems so poppy. we all know goths are not about makeup, goths are about the person inside. self loathing albums like prtrait, antichrist, and mechanical animals really portrays a true gothic mind. this album however portays the stereotypical goths mind, which is very dissapointing.
i cant stand to listen to people who claim to be goth but dont even know what mental anguish is really like. this album supports the teeny bopper, makeup overdosing, dollfaces that run around today. this album has cheesy lyrics..but i know that they were intentional. so i will not count lyrics against the album.
the whole sound screams "radio-friendly" and "teen-friendly" and i cannot stand the way manson is going with the music. i do indeed hope manson makes another album and i hope it is going to haul ass like portrait and antichrist did. or maybe an ode to the world like mechanical animals. one good thing this album does do however, is be a better album than holy wood. and holy wood is simply one of the biggest dissapointments in music ive ever seen.
is it worth your money? yes. but i say yes with no enthusiasm. i am just saying yes.
Music Review: Much better than I expected!
Rating: 4 Stars
Marilyn Manson never fails to entertain, but I was afraid of what his next album would sound like without Twiggy Ramirez. None of the other reviewers seem to mention or even be aware of this, so I am wondering if anyone else reviewing this album knows much about Marilyn Manson. Marilyn Manson writes all of the lyrics, but the songs are written by the whole band. Twiggy had been there since their first album and had written much of their best material. Who's replaced Twiggy? Tim Skold, formerly of KMFDM (another of my favorite bands) took over his position...and I couldn't have thought of anyone better!
It's true that this album has a different style than his other albums, but ALL of his albums are different. Antichrist Superstar sounded totally different from Portrait of an American Family. Mechanical Animals sounded totally different from Antichrist Superstar. The trend continues. I guess this album is best described as Swing-Metal or something of the like. He always reinvents himself creatively to keep from wearing out his welcome. I'm glad he has the courage to keep evolving his style. My personal favorite Manson album is Holy Wood. After hearing that album, this one seemed too short and too shallow, but it's still better than most of the other stuff on the market.
Keep up the good work guys!
Music Review: The king is dead, long live the king.
Rating: 2 Stars
I have been a Manson fan since 1996, the release of Antichrist Superstar. I have studied Manson's works and have a profound love for his art. From his social political Potrait of an American family to the audio novella Holywood, Manson has never ceased to amaze me with his witty and poetic lyrics. The music has continuesly evolved from a sort of gritty industrial punk to a tidal wave of sound. The Golden Age of Grotesque is however a disappointment. I continue to listen open minded because when he took a sharp turn with Mechanical Animals, I admit at first I hated it. However Mechanical Animals is an album that grows on you like cancer. Infecting you to the deepest parts of your soul. All of his works have this infectionous quality. The Golden Age is Grotesque. I enjoy listening to it, but if I want any substance I turn to his previous masterpieces. This album is nothing more than (...)rock, an eighties flashback of big hair, sex, and drugs. The only track I truly enjoy is The New Sh*t, and that is nothing like the rest of the album. Maybe I am missing the art but I'm convinced the recording of Count to Six and Die was cut short,(...). So what's the verdict, if you want to rock out with your (...)out, crank it up, but if you want to appreciate a project with endless depth, try Antichrist Superstar or Holywood or Mechanical Animals.Music Review: Manson, plain and tall
Rating: 1 Stars
To be genuinly straightforward, this is not an impressive effort from the Manson camp, but a singular vision lacking in testement to a greater purpose. The music has acrid bite, but no delightfully subversive toungue-in-cheek musical personality. Instead it is a vastly over-produced to death mess that is all in all a weak effort in just about everything. I won't even bother to break into the symbiotic relationship of music and execution except to say that this is, perhaps, one of their most boring and tepid releases, hampered by a lack of a fresh purpose and novel invention. Not their worst, but certainly a failing effort.The only Marilyn Manson I can reccomend is "Mechanical Animals", which, although a turnabout departure from their familiar black/goth stylings, had a host of sonic equity to spare through the entire record. Not one track on "Golden" comes close to matching that record's glam-rock swagger.Perhaps they need Michael Beinhorn back at the producing console. Also, Manson, I reccomend you look deep inside, instead of at the universal exterior, to come up with personal meaning for your next musical objective.This dross just sounds like a lot of circus, over the top, hocus-pocus that doesn't have one heart-felt or genuinelly impassioned song.Better luck on the next outing, mr. superstar.Music Review: Ever noticed how...
Rating: 4 Stars
... Manson has patterns in his CD's? American Family ... Great! Smells Like Children ... Sh*t! Antichrist Superstar ... Excellent! Mechanical Animals ... What the F*ck?! (I liked it, though. Not true for others...) Holy Wood ... Sublime! And now The Golden Age of Grotesque ... Trash! GAOG is a lot better than most stuff out there that passes for rock (disturbed, blink 182, nickelback, coldplay, creed, etc), but it's not as good as other stuff. But noticing the pattern, since every other disc is crap, we're looking forward to something good. Plus, Manson constantly gets new musicians and fires the old on most discs. Not only that, he also goes in different directions on each one. (social commentary, industrial, swing, and glam to date) I gave it a 4 because I somewhat liked it and because Manson is a multi talented man (also an author, artist, and screenwriter) who deserves some slack. Which other musician today can give you a different experience on every album? Marilyn Manson is basically a heavy metal survey course. Plus, there were some good songs on the album too. (Vodevil, Ka-Boom Ka-Boom, Use Your Fist and Not Your Mouth, and the Golden Age of Grotesque to name a few.) So I'm looking forward to his next disc. And if he finds some distributors with balls, the Holy Wood movie and novel, too.