I bought a Low Pop Suicide CD once because it had Jeff Ward and Dave Ogilvie on it. “This is gonna be awesome!,” I thought.
I hated it and sold it back.
HAHA!!! Almost the same experience here, only I stretched out the denial part a bit longer too. “Jeff Ward! Yes, this is gonna be awesome! Huh, it kind of sounds lame . . . I’m sure it’s awesome, though. I’ll just keep listening to it anyway, and tell all my friends I got it.”
I bought the “Disengaged EP”. Got one decent track and one sort of almost decent track.
I think their full LP (“On The Cross of Commerce”) had less than that.
That’s the name of Voidhead’s next project. It is a supergroup of sorts which will be a tribute to Marilyn Manson . . . of course. It’s kind of like all his other projects, only instead of being 1-3 guys being edgy, there will be 20 of them.
Also, if you do the math, theres actually 50 homo DJ’s for every gay ass Manson, so getting some air play for this faggitry really shouldn’t be that hard. It’ll be the opposite of hard, actually. It’ll be limp. As limp as a biscuit, even.
I learned my lesson a long time ago to listen past singles, but this really is just a rehash of the same old shit. I this I said similar when “No Reflection” came out, but Born Villain ending up being a pretty good album. I wouldn’t call it his comeback album like he had hyped it up to be, but it was a step in the right direction. Him and Trent need to let bygones be bygones and team up one last time, since Trent is taking another break from NIN.
This will be the first MM album I won’t be purchasing without listening to the entire thing first. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me three or four times…
This will be the first MM album I won’t be purchasing without listening to the entire thing first. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me three or four times…
Props to you. I stopped buying them since 2003… Better man than I.
Based on “Third Day of a Seven Day Binge” and snippets of other songs (“Cupid Carries a Gun” is used in the credits of Salem, and a preview of “Deep Six” is also available if you search on YouTube), this seems like it’s going in a more “mature” and goth rock direction. Production will definitely be improved this time around. Seems like more of a concept album, if that’s your bag, based on the song titles and such.
I don’t expect to be blown away fully because I detect some elements of nu Manson still at play, specifically the lyrical repetition, the over the top moaning/howling vocal style, and the not very dynamic songwriting. But even those are held in check more by the producer Tyler Bates it seems. He’s making those things work better than they did on the last 2 records.
I do know what this won’t be: Marilyn Manson trying to cater to youngsters by being a crappier version of who he was 10 years ago, and falling flat in the process.
He’s trying something new here, clearly, and I think it’s him being who he wants to be rather than who he thinks other people want him to be, and that is an important step forward I feel.
I kind of dig it. It’s got an 80’s / 90’s grittiness to it that feels good. It’s not that silly overly forced edginess but just raw dark rock and roll.
I don’t really come to the table with any point of reference for MM, though. I’ve never been a fan. But I kind of dig what’s been posted recently.