This is pretty good

This is pretty good

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His albums from Portrait of an American Family to Holy Wood are good shit.

yeah i like it

Growing up in the era when this came out was awesome. The actual country wide controversy he was eliciting was something we haven’t really seen since. This would be my desert island album, it’s my personal 10/10.

I was just old enough at the time to pick up its controversy, but now I see how sonically interesting it is. I've liked later Manson for the shtick, but musically this album is all over the place.

>The actual country wide controversy he was eliciting was something we haven’t really seen since
Trump

Its concept is messy. Sonically only picked songs are interesting. Pretty overrated like entirety of Manson's early career

7/10

Yeah you’re right. To clarify I meant coming from an artist, particularly a musician. I doubt we’ll see Christian protesters and bomb threats at every stop of a tour again. It was weird too because at the time he was very far from the most extreme act out there, he just really rubbed those people the wrong way.

Manson was a reaction to the then powerful right wing moralists, but his self insert it a dead ringer for the modern left. He was ahead of his time without realizing it.

Mechanical Animals is all about how a "deviant" can still be part of the system.
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>ahead of his time without realizing it.
Pretty sure no one realizes that they're ahead of their time.

>Capitalism has made it this way
>Old-fashioned fascism will take it away

;^)

The album is full of embarrassing lyrics
>You can kill yourself now, cuz you're dead in my mind
>ANTICHRIST SUHPERSTAAR
>Anti people now you've gone TOO FAAAR
>I've goot abortions in my eeyees
>I h8 the h8tur I raep the raeper
>we love hate, we hate love

I don’t find them that embarrassing. Especially in context of their songs. I’ve seen much worse.

>tfw no deluxe edition remaster with a second disc containing demos and outtakes, not just b-sides and soundtrack songs like "Apple of Sodom" and "Long Hard Road Out Of Hell"

really need those for Mechanical Animals and Holywood too.

Manson is mostly stupid lyrics, but he has some gems.

God is in the TV, ya know

some of those are very tongue-in-cheek especially in the first third of the album

it's a rock opera anyway, how can you not expect it to sound over-the-top?

No, you're thinking of Trent. Manson always has pretty good lyrics, at least in terms of wordplay, and ACSS has some of the best.

There’s a AS demo tape out there that is fun to listen to. You can really hear Scott’s influence on it. RIP

His wordplay has gotten really pathetic the past few albums.

Trent's lyricism has been improving ever since Post-Fragile. While Manson has been on a decline, bringing you gems like "Say-ten"

As a teen hearing Portrait for the first time, the lyrics and wordplay made an enormous impression on me. They were so imaginative and unique. I love his lyrics up through MA. After that he seemed to just lose the magic completely. Holy Wood had a good line here or there but I haven’t been awed by anything since then. Strange how that happened.

Trent's lyricism is still mostly limited to short, vague everyday sentences without any context, that don't mean anything specific and aren't worded in a poetic way.

Manson is getting sillier and less meaningful but he still has some fun wordplay and inventive turns of phrases

I’ve always felt that way about Trent. He’s a production genius but when it comes to lyrics and imagery he’s always good but not great, something always seems to be just holding him back imo.

Trent's lyrics are not meant in a poetic sense, they always were meant to be a raw personal lyricism. They're often simple, but that is usually what gives them the strenght when he's basically saying how shitty he feels.

Manson's lyrics now sometimes make no sense even in context. There is probably only one good lyric on Heaven Upside Down.

>always good
oh no
he's usually just barely decent, sometimes pretty good. Many of his lyrics sound like placeholders

manson's lyrics make sense, most of heaven upside down is straightforward rockstar bragging and S&M imagery

Trent's lyrics are usually pretty weak. They're raw but worded in a very dull and witless manner, and most importantly they're usually very very vague. It's easy to project yourself into them but mostly because they're so vague (he uses a ton of pronouns instead of nouns) that you're forced to fill in the blanks with your personal experience to make sense of them.

yeah, the studio version of "Smells Like Children" alone probably makes that worth the download.

I like how vague Trent's lyrics are. If he was too cleat or straight forward they probably would be less impactful. He actually tried to be less vague. Look up "That's What I Get" and see how well that one turned out

It's good but he never made something better than a 6/10 album.

oh yeah that one sucks
but the point is that if he at least made more efforts to create a narrative or some vivid imagery it would work better. TDS has some of his best lyrics in my opinion because he actually tries to build some symbolism and to describe things. Reptile, for example. It's a bit weird, you still don't really know what it's actually referring to, but at least you can easily picture it and it sounds cool.

that is wrong

shit opinion

I think Trent's best lyrical effort is "I'm Looking Forward Joining You, Finally" from The Fragile

Is it still summer?

You wanna know what Zeus said to Narcissus?