Marilyn Manson

Editor's Review:

America’s favorite pop-industrial blasphemer is back from the ninth circle of Hell with a brand new album for the kids. Marilyn Manson’s The Golden Age of Grotesque is sure to validate the existence of alienated Middle American youths and frighten their parents into therapy with its cult-like imagery and charming lyrics like “When we fuck / we’re all God’s people.” But really, none of this is new ground for Manson. His misanthropic diatribe is all too familiar, and songs like “This Is the New Shit” sound remarkably like the “old shit.” The sad part is, it’s not all bad — Manson has distilled his pecularly skewed vision into a campy good time. Bouncy bits of defiance like “Better of Two Evils” and the goth-gangsta anthem “Use Your Fist and Not Your Mouth” are perfect mp3 mixdisc fodder, but sitting through a whole album of this stuff can get rather tedious.

– James Barone
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Record Label Nothing / Interscope Released June 2003

Tracks Thaeter This Is the New Shit mOBSCENE Doll-Dagga Buzz-Buzz Ziggety-Zag Use Your Fist and Not Your Mouth The Golden Age of Grotesque (s)AINT Ka-Boom Ka-Boom Slutgarden ? Para-noir The Bright Young Things Better of Two Evils Vodevil Obsequey (The Death of Art)