Reviews (page 7 of 8)
I hate Marilyn Manson and have no interest in listening to this :)
Only listened to half. So not my thing!
At least Kid Rock waited until the end of his album to say the n word.
If anyone wants to know why lead poisoning is a big deal, just play them this record
Pass. Nothing novel or special about this other than show. I do not dislike him for religious reasons (fuvk those self-righteous and judgmental arseholes) because I do not belong to a cult and can think for myself.
So not may style
Fuck Marilyn Manson. I have never liked him or his music despite him being a "formative" figure in my music scene/subculture.
Does making a “concept album” absolve you from whatever you put on the album? When you look at the lyrics, this album is gross and the songs are unlistenable. But once I turned the lyrics off and just listened to the music itself, it was a lot better. But I don’t think the moniker “concept album” gets you absolution because people DO look at the lyrics, or listen to them (if they’re distinguishable in all the screaming), and the lyrics burn a hole through your consciousness. And of course this is all before you get into the person behind the screaming. Listen to Nine Inch Nails instead.
I got about 5 songs in before I had to stop. I don't think anyone will be shocked when I tell you that this album sucks. Nine Inch Nails but replace Trent with a talentless sociopath
I don't care what Marilyn Manson the dude did or didn't do.... This album is gay and retarded and useless regardless.
Like Marilyn Manson the person, everything about this is for shock and not about creating a quality product. Exactly the kind of thing that someone who got a rib surgically removed so he could suck his own dick would make. Also, it’s so…fucking…long.
Really not my kind of thing. Struggled enormously
Horrible to my ears
Whisper-Scream-Whisper-Moan-Scream-Whisper. If he's trying to iritate the ears of the 1001 listener, job well done.
I just listened to Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory for another list and I thought that was really juvenile but entertaining at times. This makes that look like Led Zeppelin. I knew I never liked Marilyn Manson as the person/personality, but I had no idea how much his music deeply sucked. Garbage riffs and vocals for 71 minutes. But that said he really paved the way for incels and edgelordz.
Nope.
Other than the fact that he's a complete pile of dog shit, his whole schtick was based on "shock" factor. It's a sophomoric attempt at upsetting late '90's Republican suburban mom's. Otherwise musically it was and still is annoying.
for anyone who refused to listen to this album because this guy fucking sucks: you're not missing anything. this is mid. I guess torniquet was fine... but personally I don't like edgy white men that use the n word just to make a point (ON THE FIRST TRACK TOO WTF) this guy has absolutely no chill.
Dit album heeft echt heel veel goede tracks. Dat wil zeggen, ik heb eigenlijk alleen genoten van tracks 17 t/m 99, die niet alleen heel kort zijn (vier seconden elk), maar ook helemaal stil. Top! Beetje jammer van die 16 tracks nihilistische grafherrie die eraan voorafgaan. Marilyn Manson, hoe zou het met hem zijn? Het personage verscheen dertig jaar geleden, liep lekker stout iedereen te shockeren, en verdween voor mijn gevoel daarna (gelukkig) weer in het niets. In mijn beleving dan. Jammer dus dat we wel door het 1001-boek nog even getracteerd worden op dit gedrocht van een album. Ik heb het uitgeluisterd, ik weet ook niet hoe ik het voor elkaar gekregen heb. En nu wil ik nooit meer iets van of over dit stuk ongeluk horen.
1 hora y 11 minutos de gritos. 27 añitos tenia la criatura cuando hizo esto. Tantos géneros musicales y me siguen saliendo estos álbumes de gente edgy. Prefiero suicidarme antes que terminar de escucharlo.
71 minutes of the most edgelord bullshit. I can hear the collective mouthbreathing in between the tracks.
Getting shouted at for more than an hour is not my idea of a good time. At least it reminded of the rumour that had a rib removed….
This was awful. Very screamy, extremely long, and mostly just tedious. Squarely aimed at edgy teenagers trying to annoy their parents
Not going to listen to this garbage
Dumb, spoiled clown. 1 rib out of 24 ribs
Music to make your parents put you in therapy.
I had to listen to this album in chunks over a number of hours. The title track scared my dog.
I had been doing so well at separating the art from the artist in this project until now, but fuck you, Marilyn Manson. I saw MM at Leeds Festival in 2001, which ironically means I saw him duet with yesterday's artist, Eminem. I remember nothing about his set at all (it was the same year Rocket From The Crypt made people face the back of the tent "to experience the music differently" so it's not like I blanked out the whole weekend). I like The Beautiful People. Everything is basically summed up as MM ripping off Nine Inch Nails, and I don't even like them very much. This probably should get a 1.5, but, again, fuck you Brian. 1/5
Šiaip patiko, primenė dalimis NIN (aišku, nes jis prisidėjo prie albumo), bet atsisakau jam duoti didesnį įvertinimą.
This Brian guy stinks
I'm far more familiar with Marilyn Manson that I would like to be. I had a roommate in college who loved MM and Korn. Never liked them, or him really. Brian "Marilyn Manson" Warner really has nothing interesting going for him. He's not a talented musician (does he even play an instrument?). It doesn't sound like he's a particularly good person (given the allegations against him) But even with those, he's not the most controversial music, though he'd like to be (for me that'd go to GG Allin). He's not even the WORST human being in music (that'd be that guy from lostprophets - do yourself a favor and don't look it up). Anyway, the album - tries very hard to be shocking for the sake of shock. If you lived through the 90s, you've already heard every variation on these sounds done by far better musicians. A bland album aimed at "edgy" teenagers. Heard it all before, don't want to hear it again.
I think back on a recent Billy Corgan interview with Al Jouregensen of Ministry, where Al was talking about how Trent Reznor was a roadie for Ministry, took some ideas, and went on to form Nine Inch Nails. Billy asked Al how he felt about that. Al said it didn't bother him, because Brian Hugh Warner was a roadie for Nine Inch Nails and took some ideas, to go on an form Marilyn Manson. So that is really how I feel about this. Its just a copy of a copy of copy.
Annoyed me more and more as it went on. Not interested in ever listening to this again.
Yucky - did not finish. Saved a song: N RYM: N
This guy is a rapist oof
0/5 I didn't listen. I don't listen to predators.
Álbum bem "FUCK!!!" né. It is like Nine Inch Nails, but bad.
Fuck this guy
No Thank You
Drasl
Hab ich mir nicht angehört, werd ich mir nicht anhören, mag ein Klassiker sein, aber ist mir in dem Fall egal
I didn't expect to dig this as much as I did. I'll admit, I had preconceived notions about what this would sound like based on my knowledge of Marilyn Manson, as well as from the album cover, but when I put it on I was blown away. Through a wall of distorted guitar that soon dissipated, I hear the frentic upstroke of clean, treble-soaked guitar. A tortured howl soon gives way to a gentle, but enthusiastic "pick it up" repeated three times, and the horns come in to bring the song up a notch in energy. I'm not too into labels, but I guess you would call this 3rd wave(?) ska. But whatever you want to call it, by the third song (the one about hitting the mall with your friends on a Sunday morning) I was a full convert. Not sure what all the controversy is about, this album was a good, fun time - perfect for uplifting your mood on a dreary day.
nai nöd giuet
Pretty awful. All it made me feel is the desire for me to remove a few ribs
I don't like the sound of a gravel processor. This is an album of that sound, but less rhythmic.
terrible music, terrible person
Boo hiss
Heavy Mince
No thank you
Listened to about half of this. Loud, heavy, angry industrial hard rock with vocals that are mostly controlled screaming. No thank you. I can appreciate that there's craft in how these tracks are assembled, but I can't listen to more of it. Also don't want to support a guy with a trail of sexual assault allegations.
Crap
I'm torn on this one because I listened to him a lot when I was younger but obviously he's a terrible person, so I just can't enjoy his music anymore.
I barely liked his music, then I found out he's a disgusting piece of shit.
Actually couldn’t wait for it to be over. The entire thing sounds the same, it gave me a headache and he’s proper rapey. Not really what you want when listening to music👍
Maybe music for angry, horny children is my least favourite genre.
did a 5 minute skim through the tracks, that was enough.
I blame the Mama's and the Papa's that kicked off this horrible weird stint of separating art from the artist. I never liked him, don't like him now and won't give him my Spotify stream. Protest vote here.
I'm sure this album helped sell black Jnco jeans, eye makeup, and chain wallets back in the day, but this edgelord, mall-metal sh*t sucks. The artist is a sexual predator, too. Take this off the list. 1 star.
De la musique pour ado dépressif pseudo-edgy. A chier. -1 pour les agressions sexuelles du bonhomme.
Hate the album cover. Didn’t like the music. Marilyn Manson is also not a good person. If I could give it a zero I would.
My first time listening to a full Marilyn Manson Album. It didn't do very much for me.
Solo he podido salvar "The Beautiful People", el resto es demasiado para mí.
I just dont like this at all.
Lock this abuser up!
Literally can't listen to it
Yeah, can't give him more than a 1
DNF, not for me
Too cartoonish to be taken seriously, like NiN, but not fun enough to be enjoyed as dark camp, like White Zombie. This is either a 2 star album that I'm knocking a star off because Manson is a garbage person, or a 3 star album that I'm knocking 2 stars off because Manson is a garbage person. I can't decide.
Bakfull idag ...det här va inte albumet jag behövde
Inte bara tråkigt utan långtråkigt. 17 högst mediokra låtar som bara pågår. Manson vill gärna vara en provokatör och möjligen provocerade han den kristna högern en gång i tiden. Idag är han bara provocerande tråkig.
Would have been 2- for what it was at the time, but knocking down to 1 star because of the shit person he is.
Too much screaming and way too angry for my taste
Some decent stuff here it's just extremely heavy and too much screaming for me. 1.4 outta 5
So insanely long and drawn out. The Beautiful People was as childishly fun as I remember... and then the album goes on monotonously for another hour. Plus he's a bad person.
ugh. this takes me back to a time I was really unhappy with music.
Dear god, this weirdo is on the list? Gave up listening halfway through because this is literally just music for people who desperately want to be edgy but they're not edgy in a genuine way. His covers of Tainted Love and Sweet Dreams (thankfully not on the album) are the worst thing in the world and have always pissed me off, turns out his original music is no better 1/5
No, nope, no way, nu uh, absolutely not ... Even the album cover is scary!
No me gusta que me griten, mal empezamos. Despues de 6 canciones no aguanto mas.
0/10. Not my tempo at all😔🕊️🥺
god, no. Ugh.
# 580 : Antichrist Superstar Antichrist Superstar – Shock Rock Fatigue Ungh. This can’t be good… and it isn’t. The album kicks off with a refreshing sonic blast, but quickly devolves into an hour and a quarter of being yelled at by a guy who really wants you to know he’s edgy. It’s screamy, shouty, and creepy—but not in a fun Halloween way. More like “your neighbour’s goth teenager started a band” creepy. Some of the riffs are actually solid, but they’re buried under layers of vocal theatrics and lyrical content that feels like it was written to make your grandma clutch her pearls. It’s overlong, lacking in variety, and exhausting to sit through. I don’t understand how people enjoy this. Maybe they’re in it for the shock value, but after 75 minutes of this, the only thing I felt was regret. Verdict: ★ for the riffs. File under “albums that scream at you until you leave.”
I really didn't jive with this one. More abrasive than what I'd enjoy and yeesh some of these lyrics. Reading the Wikipedia page about it, sure I don't disagree with the themes but did they really have to write it like that? Also jfc, the whole concept of the album and how it fits in the trilogy of albums sounds exhausting.
Laulajan ääni ei ole kovin miellyttävä, oli sitten huutamista tai laulamisen yrittämistä. Muutenkin levyn äänimaailma vähän raastaa korvia. Ei lisää tällaista..
No ei toimi sitten edes vähää alusta. Ei millään tasolla. Joissain biiseissä oli kyllä ihan oivaltavia koukkuja, mutta kun kaikki hukkuu sen valtavan massan alle. En myöskään voi sietää tuota huutolaulua. Levy myös ainakin tunnin liian pitkä.
I'm not listening to this. Dude is a poser and an abuser. In no world would I be moved positively by his music.
1/2
Not listening to this abuser
When Marilyn knocked on my door trying to shock me I pretended I wasn’t home. He persisted, and to get rid of him I gave him one piece of Halloween candy and told him to scram. He kicked over my Ridwell box and left in a huff.
Couldn’t make it through
Beyond awful.
This album is painful to listen to. No, I am not a fan of Marilyn Manson (or Charles, for that matter), and it is hard to accept that there are audience cheers incorporated into the opening song; a song that inspires nothing close to cheers - unless played in the underworld. Horrible, painful, and excruciatingly gratuitous, I couldn't listen to the whole thing. Criticize me if you want to, but being unlistenable is at least partly the fault of the artist at some point.
Fun fact: I didn't realize this before, but everyone in Manson's band has their pseudonym following the same theme. Daisy Berkowitz, Twiggy Ramirez, Madonna Wayne Gacy. It's such funny dumb edgelord shit.
Здесь оценка чисто моих предпочтений. Было очень тяжко слушать, так как это не мое
Good grief. NO!
Music great. Lyrics suck.
Even casting morals aside, this was just an enjoyable listen. Beautiful People is a good song but other than that it was just a bit of chore to get through.
To me, the music is not or has any redeemed value
i'm sorry I genuinely don't care for MM, find someone else
Awful!
This would be cool if I was an edgy 14 year old in 1996. But alas, I'm not. I also had my edge dudes I listened to in middle school and then I grew up. Dude's a creep too. 2/10
Went in with a preconceived notion of what this would be and I was 100% right, only much longer than expected, about halfway through, don't think I'll make it much longer.
This album permanently convinced me to live a holy life of sexual abstinence.
horrible music horrible horrible human being
Couldn't finish it - not my type of music of all. Metal / screamo. And a horrible person.
This is perfect music for a teen boy of a certain type. It has cartoonish lyrics, grinding non-melodic guitars, and enough make-up to make Manson look like an alien on a box of Quisp and Quake. I don’t care about him one way or another and I wonder about an adult listening to it for the first time and finding this enjoyable.
ugh.
Yuck
Less than one star, wanted to stop listening
No.
It was silly when it came out and it's only grown sillier over time.
Hope this guy rots.
The lyrics are all just for shock value, the vocal performance is one note, the instrumentals are like if you took all the interesting bits out of Nine Inch Nails. The only challenging thing about their music was challenging me to make it through to the end. 1 Star.
Did not make it through this one - On top of Brian seeming like a piece of shit, he drops the N-word on the first track? The music is derivative to me, and the sources they are pulling from are not my favorite vibe anyway. Back in the day, the 'i'm so edgy and spooky' schtick did not connect with me and by today's standards seems tacky and threadbare.
Yeah not particularly enjoyable or good. Why is this here? Did not finish
yeah, not a fan!
boycotting abusers
Fuck abusers. Musically: dull and repetitive. If you know the music of the time, you'll hear nothing original.
Absolute trash, terrible.
An edgy piece of shit who makes edgy piece of shit music. I didn't think there was anything to this guy aside from his shock factor, and I was sort of right. I mean, this thing is far too long, for one, and lyrically it clearly draws from troubled ideas of guys like NIN, but with absolutely no nuance or finesse, and it's all presented through a 4th-grader-edge filter. Vocally, this guy's boring at best, and annoying at worst. 'Wormboy' is genuinely awful, and the fucking mess that is 'Cryptorchid' should not exist and cease to exist. 'Angel With The Scabbed Wings' presents itself as this noisy head-banger, but its appeal runs so thin it's not even funny. Credit where credit is due, you do get the occasional catchy little riff or drumming sequence here and there, but they feel like little hits of enjoyment that wane faster than they appeared. And that's only in the first few songs; by the time the second half hits, there are absolutely no redeeming qualities left to salvage this mess - it becomes grating. To me, this is music that tries its absolute best to take the sounds of much better artists, blends them together, and then adds this very ugly filter and aesthetic that is "Manson the performer" on top of it. I was so tempted to turn this shit off halfway through. I hate what this music is.
Not for me
No thanks
Not very good.
I remember giving Antichrist Superstar a listen when it first came out—I was curious, even though it was far outside my usual tastes. I gave it a fair shot, but honestly, I think it’s a terrible album. The music feels chaotic and abrasive, with constant shouting and little sense of structure or storytelling. It just doesn’t work for me. Admittedly, my perception of Marilyn Manson himself—given his well-documented controversies—also casts a shadow over the experience. Favourite track: The Beautiful People is a solid song and easily the highlight. Least favourite: Pretty much the rest of the album. Album artwork: Dark and unsettling—not really my style.
Day 14 sigh! ew ew ew Brian Hugh Warner but I convinced myself to listen to it cause yk separating the art from the artist and also for the other band member's talents. This is exactly the type of music I grew out of and I am glad I did. I just can't vibe with these types of lyrics anymore. Some guitar riffs were catchy though but I couldn't listen to the whole thing. (0/5) but I have to give it at least a star so it logs my review.
Not to my taste
My apologies to slipknot. They’re aren’t the *actual* worst act in the history of humans making sound.
nope
I didn't want anything to do with it then, and I want less to do with it now. I have no time for an abuser cosplaying as the evil incarnate.
Unnecessary. Absolute rubbish. The time spent listening to the album will never be retrieved. Made by an idiot for idiots. About as much depth as a puddle of piss
hockey puck... ear bleeding, horrific cacophony of a cow patty... one star... for the sheer cojones...
I had Throbbing Gristle about 10 albums ago, and I thought Genesis P Orridge might be the biggest attention whore who ever lived. I stand corrected.
Well this is a load of shit. It’s just trashy screaming and saying controversial things for the sake of being “shocking!” The concept - mad rockstar demagogue starts the apocalypse - is not just a cliché, it’s laughably banal. The album is over 71 minutes long, and comprises that tired 90s trope of “the hidden track.” His look is Alice Cooper with a blue contact lens and no eyebrows. And if he wasn’t such a rapey creep, he would be a pure joke. Nothing on here wasn’t done ten times better by NIN and Trent Reznor. It’s contrived, unoriginal and tired shite.
Awful. Always hated him and his music and his whole vibe / theme.
I gave it a go. I don't like the man or his image, so we were not off to a good start. But the whispery vocals can f*ck right off. This is just not my bag and it never will be, so apart from the opening track, it was a skip from me.
Didn’t listen. Fuck Marilyn Manson
Monotonous industrial rock that's trying very hard to shock me. I'm not shocked, but I did start nodding off at my desk. I guess given the state of the world that I shouldn't be surprised that this album made everyone lose their minds back in the day, but I just find it anodyne and exhausting and not provocative at all. Had to be there, I suppose.
I couldn't stand this guy as he rose to fame during my early teens and I still can't stand him today. He's a trash human being with a trash creative output which holds absolutely no place in my life. This album is a piece of shit.
Not for me DNF
It's a no
Hardrock, Satanismus, damit kann ich nichts anfangen
No. Listened to the whole thing, and no. There were some decent tracks, of course, but they were just because of Reznor. No.
Very cool music if you're twelve years old
I would rather listen to Coldplay
If the list was 100,001 albums I should listen to before I die, this still shouldn’t be on it.
I had a feeling it wouldn't hold up for me even though I felt nostalgic seeing it pop up. I was right. Meh.
This is the most played album at Guantanamo bay
So edgy.
I listened to this while driving to work and I thought that the bad audio was just my car being loud, but no. The production was made to make this album sound like it was recorded with a white noise machine in the background. Also fuck Marilyn Manson.
Pretty wrenched. I can see the appeal if you were super freaky like that.
This album is shit, surrounded by shit, wrapped in shit, fried in shit and then dipped in shit. With a side of shit.
I understand why this is on the list. It was a cultural phenomenon of a sort, or at least Marilyn Manson was. I’d never actually listened to any of their music before, so for the sake of education, sure. But, despite loving Halloween and heavy metal, there simply wasn’t much for me to grab onto here. The hour of fuzz and screaming eventually just made me feel nauseated. I guess that was the point? Well, that sucks. Big no from me.
absolute shit
Not listening to this piece of shit, wish I could vote 0/5
I refuse to separate art from artist for this one
Its a no from me, Jim
There is no way to “separate the art from the artist”. Manson is a rapist and a creep who won’t be getting money from my streams 👍
This music goes pretty hard, but I just can't get over how dumb, angry, and angsty the lyrics and themes are on this album. It's pretty cringy id you take a step back and actually listen instead of handbanging, but maybe it's a tone and vibe that's more important. Still not enough to win me over though, and I blame the Irresponsible Hate Anthem for leading off the album that way. Angel with Scabbed Wings is pretty sick though.
Unable to write a review. Sorry had a hard time with this one. Wolf
Pass
Não gosto deste artista nem da musica que interpreta. Nem me dei ao trabalho de ouvir este álbum!
I will not listen to this piece of shit rapist and no one should 👍 would give a zero if i could
It's hard to separate the creator from the music on this one (purposefully not using art and artist here) because he became such a blown out media phase, but this is not for the faint of heart. This album wasn't as bad as I expected it to be, but it was still a bag of shit, much like Brian/Marilyn himself. It's very clear that Trent Reznor did a ton of work on this and it fully reveals that MM is just a cheap imitation of actual talent. He's doing this for shock value and I never fell for his schtick. He's a creepy, goth, POS trying too hard to be weirder than you. 1 full point for heavy guitar front and center, some thick beat lines, and blending of styles (punk, rock, goth, metal, industrial). I'd be interested in an instrumental-only version of this because the lyrics and delivery are vile and really bring it down (please no more vocal fry). Another .25 for track title "Cryptorchid" but that's as high as I can go, all things considered. 1.25
Here's one to scare the parents. There are maybe a few listenable tracks like "Mister Superstar" and "1996" but the rest is tough to manage. The project idea and subject matter ain't bad but way too much wailing. Can hear some Trent Reznor production which brings the music up a bit but nothing close to his NIN work. I was never into Marilyn Manson and still very much am not after this listen. The guy is just too out there. With the rumors of removing ribs, androgenous body sculpting and the creepy eye ball shit...I'm out. How'd he ever score Dita Von Teese? I'll give credit for taking on the Christian right and not backing down and I get that Ohio blows but good God man...take pill (or less of them). 0.88 anti-stars.
This is one is really tough to review. I tried to go in with an open mind but expected this to be an hour of drivel that I would struggle to get through. While it's overall not something I want to listen to again I'll admit I was surprised that there are actually a few segments of listenable music buried within the 71 minute ridiculous antichrist opera. The main issue is that it is loaded with the expected overdone goth/horrorcore lyrics and bullshit that only seem to serve an angsty teenage audience. As soon as you realize that Marilyn Manson is a blowhard shitbag only trying to upset the norm you realize how obnoxious and stupid the whole thing is. In a post-internet world where shock value is such a normal selling point and the content comes and goes so quickly its easy to see how its/his cultural relevancy is minimal at this point, but would have rocked the world upon release. It's easy to see how some of the rumors were exaggerated and percolated for Marilyn Manson and everything surrounding his act. Even if it's not my cup of tea I guess I would say that Antichrist Superstar is effective as I think it did exactly what Marilyn Manson was going for. I was too young or uninterested in any of this at the time, but I recall some of the cultural zeitgeist and uproar against Marilyn Manson. It seems like an act almost entirely built on shock value and pushing the envelope from name(s) to subject matter to the ensuing act played out on stage. Antichrist Superstar appears to have played it pretty perfectly. The fact that MM and his tour had church protests and state-wide bans seems like it only fulfilled his goal fed the bullshit machine that Marilyn Manson curated. I'm am able to easily ignore nonsense like this and know that its staying power is limited once people realize the entire point of this is to troll or get a rise out of an audience. Marilyn Manson had no choice but to continue to double down on his antics throughout his career which only has so long of a leash. People eventually lost patience and over time he was exposed as a douche which surprised almost nobody. Marilyn Manson will remain as something I ignore and chalk up as stupid bullshit outside of this list. In the long run Antichrist Superstar was about what I expected. 1.36 stars
Not a Marilyn Manson!
Listened Before? Y Edgelord on display. This one didn't age well. Nobody cares anymore. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: None
Nope. Industrial wannabe stuff which Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails does so much better.
Everything I have read about this lot indicated that I would not like the music. So I have never taken much notice of them or their music. So been ‘forced’ to listen to this was not pleasant. As unpleasant as what the concept behind this album and the underlying distasteful nature of Marilyn Manson as a whole. Totally at odds with how I feel today due to Leeds United winning the Championship Trophy. Because of that I feel all fuzzy and warm if also a little drunk. So I refuse to let stuff like this dampen that mood. An album I gladly relegate. 1/5 3/5/25
Nope, just couldn't do it. Garbage
I like lots of extreme and heavy music. This was the first album on this list I skipped parts of (granted I probably listened to 90% but I had enough on a few songs). There were a songs which were quite alright but, but that it's that extreme (most of it is shock for shocks sake) most of it felt like being mildly assaulted audibly. Glad i was justified in never getting into MM as a teenager.
I don’t even know what I’m listening to, this is so bad
Temu nine inch nails. Marilyn Manson wishes he was Trent Reznor
Sorry, maar dit kan echt niet. Ik begin een beetje te twijfelen aan de validiteit van deze hele lijst zo. Niet te harden, dit.
Rapist scum
Yuck. I can't stand Marilyn Manson. He's just starving for attention. Dude wishes he was Trent Reznor so bad, but doesn't have the talent to pull off what NIN did, so he has to resort to shock value and theatrics....and making everything so layered in fuzzy distortion that some people may not notice how shitty of an artist he really is. Fuck Marilyn Manson. Imagine what he smells like?!? My money is on stagnant piss and rotten potatoes. He looks like if a disease (like syphallis) became sentient and grew a body.... Favorite songs: The Beautiful People, Deformography, Tourniquet, Little Horn, The Reflecting God Least favorite songs: Wormboy, Antichrist Superstar, Kinderfeld, Man That You Fear, Untitled 1/5
Didn’t bother because he’s a grim rapist
not listening ew
one unexpected perk of being a zoomer is that i only know about marilyn manson from self-sucking rib removal rumours and sex pest allegations. i’m happy to report, after listening to this album, that i don’t seem to have missed out on anything of value. also….hard r is crazy.
No thank you. Didnt like it then, didnt like it now.
Awful, just bloody awful. What a dick.
I’m neither shocked nor offended, which seems the point of the enterprise. So all that's left is the profound displeasure of the listening experience.
One decent song does not an album make. Manson has always struck me as a person who just desperately wants attention rather than artist with something meaningful to say. Despite my policy of deducting stars for lecherous fucks with credible allegations of sexual assault and emotional abuse against them, I am not allowed to give this album zero stars.
NO!
Pointlessly long and aggressive, and tries way too hard to be edgy. This is exactly what metal sounds like to people who don't like metal, it takes away all of the many things that make it such a great genre, and leaves you with this empty husk of metal that's just loud, fast, and aggressive, but not actually meaningful in any way.
Antigood Supercrap
Yuck…I am not a prude, and even setting all moral turpitude aside (and that is a LOT to set aside), I found this just really hard to listen to. It’s the kind of thing that is used to mentally torture prisoners of war, played at 3 AM in the morning at full volume in order to get them to break down. Giving full disclosure, I only listened to parts of the first few songs, and just couldn’t take it anymore. This was just too much work, and listening to music shouldn’t be work…life is too short to endure needless torture. This even made me yearn for yesterday’s ABBA album that was forced upon me by the authors of this list. I just don’t understand how anyone could actually like this. If I could rate it zero stars, I would.
Missed me on the Nword
I was hoping to die without listening to a whole Marilyn Manson album but life if full of little disappointments. Plus, I feel MM wants you to die listening to his music. Like the photoshop cover and word-burrito song titles, this feels like a pastiche meant to evoke a mood it doesn't quite deliver. He seems to be a horrible person, so maybe he should have dug into that. This is all strobe light and no chainsaw. I do see why guitarist John 5's picture is on the wall at my local Guitar Center, for what that's worth.
77 minutes. Geezus. At least most of the records on this list that originated as vinyl releases are over in 45 minutes (except for the rare double lp). I'd somehow forgotten that MM was Trent reznors first signing/protege on his Nothing label. You can definitely hear the NIN influence, but NIN is a much better band. I can see how this appeals to a brooding high school mall goth who reads Camus more than say, Slipknot, but I haven't lived with my parents for 30 years, so I am not the market for this. There are moments where the music interests me but on the whole I'm ambivalent. While a concept album/rock opera about the antichrist is appealing on paper, I'm afraid the prog rock LP 666 by Vangelis/aphrodite's child ( a double LP as long as this one, btw) is my goto in this category.
I decided to pass on this one.
You don't understand, Mom, this is who I really am! It's the late 1990s. You hang out with the misfits at school, buy some pants that are mostly rips and pockets, go home, have a shouting argument with your parents, go to your room, slam the door, and play this album way too loud. It's twenty years later. One of these songs comes up on your shuffle and you cringe. I think the word I was looking for while listening to this album was "edgy". Goshdarnit but this guy is really trying his best to provoke us, but it's all style and very little substance, Marilyn trying hard to emulate the performance personas of David Bowie, but it's all pretension and surface level. Grow up, man. Final thought: halfway through this album it did the worst thing that a shock rock album could do: it bored me. I had to give up and listen to a podcast before I could come back and finish. Actively waiting for an album to be over is a bad sign. One star.
Fuck this album. I hate the music on it's own merits, MM being a predator is immaterial.
1 star for being a piece of shit
Just did not like this and feel kind of icky for having listened in the first place.
I'm normally one who believes in separating the art from the artist, but I didn't have to do that in this case because they both suck! I've never actually listened to a whole Marilyn Manson album all the way through, and I was actually surprised that I didn't hate this more. Granted, I was waffling between a 1 and 2 rating while listening to this, but I expected to hate every single part of it, and I didn't. But at the same time, there's only so much unintelligible screaming I can listen to in one sitting. "The Beautiful People" is objectively a great song, but that's really the only standout here. There were parts of songs that I liked, but then they'd take a weird turn at the end that I didn't care for. Manson really let his ego run wild here, but I think brevity might have helped on this record. I totally understand why this is on here, and Manson did really change the game in a lot of ways, but I just can't get into it. I didn't like his music much when I was younger, and I still don't like it now. I do think, from the songs I've heard, that Mechanical Animals is a better album and if it were here instead, I probably would have rated it a bit higher. And while I didn't hate this, I still didn't like it.
This music is not good for one’s heart and soul. It makes me feel bad. I can’t imagine listening to it and then treating people with love and kindness.
Marilyn Manson and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad album. The Beautiful People is good for about 15 seconds and the UWAAAAH part but everything that follows is just pretty lame and tepid, considering the image Manson tries to project you'd think it'd be interesting. Oh also he's a weird sex creep on top of it. Lame!
Yeesh that album sucked
Better than I expected. Creep gets no more than 1 star
A grotesquely vile human being. The music isn't any good either.
This sounds like mad noise. I'm simply not giving this 1 hour and 11 minutes.
Noise. Utterly unappealing in every way. Its like they took the worst elements of metal and fused it all together.
Well, I guess it could’ve been worse. Still, an unpleasant and creepy listen by a bad guy. High 1.
not a fan
sex pest
This one went right by me when it was released. I never really had a desire to listen to it.
Couldn't listen. Felt queasy.
Got halfway through before reading up on the abuse allegations and getting the ick, but this probably would've gotten this score anyway tbh. Very "look at how edgy I am" kinda shit.
In light of (a) all the recent and not so recent revelations about Brian Warner and (b) the knowledge that all of his songs have no musical, cultural or literary value, I decided not to give him my 0.0001p via a Spotify stream. I listened to In The Aeroplane Over The Sea instead, which gets 5.0 at a bare minimum. It's the greatest album of all time, and my concern that it is not going to be on this project when Marylin Manson is has reached an all time high.
Wish I could give this a zero.
No, just no. 0 if i could.
I'm not going to listen to music by someone who imprisons and tortures women
I’ve never listened to Marilyn Manson before. It took me 1 and a half songs to discover I never wanted to again. I left the album there and will not come back to it.
I am not going to look at this cover any longer then needed.
Ah, não vou escutar mais de uma hora dele não. CPF cancelado. Ainda escuto Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" em playlist já montadas.
Third DNF. Way too long, way too repetitive.
no
Marilyn Manson sucks!
We don't listen to abusers, also the music is BAD
This ain’t it.
Grating and awful. Should have been called ‘Music To Put You In A Bad Mood’.
Why, why, why do I need to listen to this period, much less before I die. Marilyn clearly has some issues and needs some help. Only positive is his percussionist.
Abhorrent, disgraceful, and bad representation of music in general. At one point, the screaming just turned into nothingness because of how bad it was. It made me realize that some artists are bad and should never had their music published. It wasn’t enjoyable and I wouldn’t force this on anyone to listen at all
Wow congratulations you hate Christians aren’t you cool. I liked the instrumentation and how different each song kinda was. Thought that was really cool and sounded really good. Otherwise there were about two songs that had decent lyrics that weren’t just hatred and vitriol. So much hate in this album. Also his voice is really whiny. Also the album is over an hour long. Also he kinda looks like Nicolas Cage.
between the super long run time, shrill/screaming vocals, anger-fueled lyrics, I felt like I needed to sit in a quiet room for a long time after listening. only positive was that the drummer can play.
Not my type of music.
Pure s*ite. But on even pure.
1/10 No thanks Favourite Song= Least Favourite Song=
Just NO. NEVER. MM's sound is consistently nasty and hateful and makes me cringe - pure torture getting through even one song. Can I give a big fat zero
I only listened because of Trent Reznor. Tawdry. Cheap. Nope.
Is Marilyn Manson the ultimate edgelord? Jesus Christ this was bad. It’s like Nine Inch Nails without the talent or nuance. This is edgy to be edgy bullshit. I did not listen to the whole thing, I gave it a few songs and skipped through the rest. All the songs sound the same so I don’t think I missed anything important.
Hard for me to listen since I know the type of person he is
Listening to Marilyn Manson feels like scratching my own ear drums.
Couldn’t handle this
Some of the music in this isn't bad. I hated the lyrics, both the sound of them and the content. Ultimately, a very negative listening experience for me, even if I can see its merits and how other people might be into it.
No
Pas pour moi , du bruit , que du bruit et vocifération. Désolé
Didn’t really listen bc it’s so not my thing
Didn't care for this one
Nope. Not going to listen. I’m open minded, open to all music but this creep can fuck off.
Aaaaaggghhhh - 1
I tried. I honestly gave it a shot.
Didn’t like him when I was a teenager and he was super popular. Certainly don’t like him now. 1/5
too much shocking for me. Verry special in the 90ies, maybe necessary, but definitively not to hear before I die.
Just no.
This was a chore to listen to. Edgelordiness for edgelord sake. Feels like a mad lib of charged words like ‘orgy’ ‘blood’ ‘abortion’ ‘god’ and ‘death’. Shitty guy mid music.
Sorry on principle not gonna listen to this absuer
I'm not going to give my thoughts on the actual album because being a horrible person overshadows all of Marilyn Manson's contributions to music. This is not a case where we need to figure out how to separate the art from the artist - at this point, there are plenty of musicians that can make stuff that's just as good or better, so as the first step we need to just stop giving him attention.
Hard pass.
yikies.
Just garbage
No, Marilyn Mason is a garbage human
Remember when Bowling for Columbine came out, and everyone was like "oh Marilyn Manson is actually a normal and thoughtful dude". But now we know that he's actually a psycho violent abuser. So this time I guess our parents were right to clutch their pearls.
I hated the album cover. I hated the singing. I hated the lyric content, with abuse-coded gems such as "I lift you up like the sweetest angel/I'll tear you down like a whore". And none of this is helped by the awfulness that has come to light about Manson himself and his disgusting abusive tendencies because the violent lyrics feel way too on the nose. I'm glad I've finally heard music from a household name, but am also glad to never ever listen to it again.
Что меня больше всего удивляет в этом челе - так это то, как вот эта легенда про ребра разошлась по всему свету? Как? Я слышал эту байку во времена, когда у нас тупо не было интернета. По музыке. Мне никогда не нравился чел просто поведением, и те песни, что я слышал, всегда находились для меня в этом лимбе между популярным/принимаемым и экспериментальным/авангардным, то есть уважать не получается ни за что. И вот я послушал этот альбом от начала и до конца, устал к четвертой песне, прочитал ВЕСЬ лор альбома еще до его окончания, заценил песню-другую в финальной его части и даже подумывал: бля, похоже это всё-таки 2? Но альбом из 17 треков с 3 приличными вещами? Которые еще и удивительным образом вышли из-под крыла Трента Резнора?.. Лучшая песня - The Reflecting God.
an evil creep with some admittedly catchy/hooky stuff here buried under a ton of mediocre shit, in addition to being way way too fucking long (do you really expect me to buy this as some kind of 'masterpiece,' marilyn?) and as always his shtick is just so performative and lame. considered in a vacuum it's probably actually a 2 but I'm feeling particularly ungenerous towards it
Another person who wont get clicks from me, because separating art from the artists is stupid.
It was a struggle to get through it, because musically it's mediocre/boring, lyrically it's abusive and nothing I can get into it and his voice is also annoying. It gets a 1 also because it is a 72-minute long album that seemed even longer than it actually was.
It's depressing how many albums come up on here where your first thought is - how exactly should we approach rating work by this [abuser/misogynist/homophobe/racist- insert as appropriate] work?
This was a struggle.
NIN if they sucked musically and as people. I love a lot of industrial stuff but god damn this guy SUCKS. Trent Reznor’s skills can’t even save him here - Trent is just the better musician and MUCH better human being.
On one hand it’s important to include challenging albums on the list. On the other hand this album is shit and Marilyn Manson is a bit of a tool
Trash just like this trash human being
yikes, not what I want
Bad man, bad music.
I dislike how much I liked this album, but also Brian Warner is a creep so it gets a 1
I tried but I hate it so much
Nope.
Sometimes you just know when to say no
No comment. Just gonna say that this didn’t age well after all the allegations came out, and I’m not gonna listen to it.
🤡🤡🤡
I never liked this when it came out, didn’t care for anything he did later, and absolutely despise abusers and rapists. Won’t listen now and get him any royalties. I remember this as being really cheesy and over the top edgelord crap anyway.
This just bad music.
Music is bad and Marilyn Manson is a creep.
Oh, shit!
No
2 stars for the music, -1 star for being a shit human being.
The Beautiful People Never been a huge fan of Marilyn Manson. Not into screaming music. I didn’t find anything inherently wrong with the album tho and can understand why people like it. But just not for me.
in the this album sucks so much i wont even finish the poem
See under Slipknot, below.
Booo tomato tomato
Alltof löng plata. 90s gítardistortion og öskursöngur draga mann hressilega niður, sem og seinni tíma ásakanir gegn Manson. Það er helst að þetta nær rytmískt áhugavert á köflum, Beautiful people hefur ákveðinn sjarma og Man that you fear, en svo er þetta eintóm læti. Feginn að þetta er búið.
The only positive thing I can say is that it’s better than Korn? The attempt at badassery falls flat with me. Some of the songs have great baselines and rock pretty hard. It’s not as bad I I thought it would be. But it’s bad.
Listened to enough of it to realize some parts are alright musically, but he still sucks. Creeps don’t get stars.
Sinnloses Rumgebrülle! 0/5
Tedious, overblown, edgelord nonsense from someone that unsurprisingly turned out to be a massive wrong’un.
Talk about a fad. He's aged about as well as Kid Rock.
1. hate anthem - 1 2. beautiful people - 1.5 3. dead to the uuorld - 1.5 4. tourniquet - 1 5. little horn - 1 6. orchid - 1 7. deform - 1 8. uuormboy - 1 9. zuperztar - 1 1. angel - 1 12. kinderfeld - 1 13. antichrizt - 1 14. 1996 - 1 15. decay - 1.5 16. god - 1 17. fear - 1.5 18. untitled - 0
Let's get the "artist is a garbage human being" portion out of the way first. I do not follow Marilyn Manson's intimate details, but I know enough to know that the creepy guy persona wasn't a persona. Gross. On to the "separating the art from the artist" portion. I like the overall sound, but I hate the lyrical delivery. I just don't dig the theatrical-melocidal thing going on here. Thankfully, Nine Inch Nails has me covered. Then there's the lyrical content. I can't get past the "edgy kid trying to be edgy", and the N-word dropped in the first song didn't help (I grasp the context, I just don't care). I'm sure this was groundbreaking at the time, but now I can only think of THE EDGINESS. The worst thing about the edginess is that it's dull. I'm not offended, I'm bored, which is worse. I followed this up with The Downward Spiral to get the bad taste of this album out. Liked Tracks: - The Beautiful People - Tourniquet
bad
not even interested in listening due to him being a pos
I dont enjoy this. it serves as distrubing art, bit when life imitated art, its too disturbing, aspecially when its influential on the impressionable. Its just soundtrack stuff really. Stright onto the NO pile, and back to other albums for me.
When Marilyn Manson was first big (around the time of this record), I had a friend whose teenage daughter was rally into the band. My friend, somewhat concerned, asked if Marilyn Manson really was as bad as the press were making out. "No," I replied "it's shock value. It's really just the Alice Cooper schtick, updated for the 90s." And, on that level, they did a pretty good job. Brian Warner was smart enough to identify issues that would really trigger parents and other squares, and seem like a proper rock and roll rebellion for alienated youth market. If you want to see how uncomfortable it made the mainstream, watch their performance of "Beautiful People" at the 1997 MTV Awards. The audience is NOT digging it; this was genuinely the complaint of the outsider. And they had a powerful look and a stomping sound (largely courtesy of various members of Nine Inch Nails and Dave Ogilvey from Skinny Puppy) and a charismatic frontman and a bunch of free media based on controversy. I'm sure they ran a pretty compelling live show. But it's teenage alienation all packaged up to sell. Your parents will hate it, but they still want to sell you the CDs and tickets and t-shirts. Marilyn Manson are not as genuinely dangerous or outside the mainstream as, say, Skinny Puppy or any one of the myriad of industrial rock bands that came before this. But this album was massively influential, not necessarily musically, but in terms of fashion, the look, and the playing the media for column inches. Personally, I think the following album "Mechanical Animals" was a much more interesting record than this, both musically and thematically, but "Antichrist Superstar" was the record that made the big cultural impact. Now, here's the problem. As the Beastie Boys point out in their excellent retrospective documentary, if you play a part long enough (even in satire), you become that person. And I'm pretty sure that's what happened to Marilyn Manson. Too many drugs, too much bad sex, too much violent rebellion and debauchery, and now it seems that the insightful and intelligent Brian Warner has devolved into full-time power-freak rapist and fascist Marilyn Manson. He even says in his own autobiography "Antichrist Superstar was about using your power, not your misery, and watching that power destroy you and everyone else around you." Is he still play-acting on this record? Can't quite tell. The horrible truth is that Brian followed his thematic interests down a very dark hole, that led to some disgusting and appalling behavior, particularly towards women. This is not just an artistic statement about destruction, but a statement of intent, which he followed up. And he got away with it for a very long time. I was wrong. Marilyn Manson is not Alcie Cooper. He isn't play acting shock and rebellion. He _is_ that thing, and I can't listen to this any more. And I _like_ industrial metal. There is an ongoing debate I have about when the moral deficiencies of the artist means we can't enjoy the art any more. Marilyn Manson crosses the line for me, because the art is all about his terrible behavior. it is celebration and mission statement of his cruelty and destructive behavior. He was hiding in plain sight. Maybe he hadn't fully crossed over right at this point, but this was him telling us all what he was going to do. And I can't be complicit in it.
Actively despise this arsehole and everything he represents. The horrible music is an irrelevance at this point. I listened to it but I didn't wanna. ☠️ People talk a lot about separating art from the artist, often to justify continued enjoyment of the things they like while becoming more aware of the personal failings of some creators. With this guy there's no need for that though, it's a singularity of degenerate, provocative crap and the sick scumbag hiding in plain sight who led its creation. No amount of slick production can mask that. It doesn't give me much pleasure to note that time has proved me right on this one.
Not for me.
Nope. Hated it back in the day. Not listening.
I don't really like this genre. Favourites: the beautiful people, dried up tied and dead to the world. I understand it's art and everything but it's not that deep Brian. How are you gonna be edgy and be named Brian. Also apparently they did drugs almost constantly to make this album because they needed a ""violent and hostile environment suited to the album's content"" it's never that deep bro you didn't need to do all of that. There are also mega controversies connecting Mr. Brian to murders (done by other people) and assaults (done by him) which cannot be a good sign even if he's innocent. I hate the album cover and I hate the ending of antichrist superstar. Music itself isn't as bad but I don't like the lyrics or Mr. Brian. I was also just informed by my wife that Mr. Brian (white man) over here has said the n word hard r multiple times (3 times just in the first song). Brian makes me nauseous. 1/5
1/5. I would rather shit my pants at convocation than listen to this again.
A total of sixteen people have made various allegations against Manson,[3][310] including five accusations of sexual assault.[311]
I listened to the first 2 tracks, wanting to make an effort to complete this challenge and listen to all the albums from beginning to end in full - but it was so awful I gave up for most of the day deciding I just didn’t need this trash in my ears and brain. I did end up going back and skimming the rest - and I’m now annoyed at myself for giving this any extra thought, reading about the band and about the lead singer, and in the end giving it more of my headspace than it deserves. Putting aside Warner being an abusive disgusting creep, the lyrics are just awful (as in both content and also just lame - ‘oh look at me look at me, I’m so scary, and weird, and random, and spooky’) and I just don’t think the music is a good example of the genre either. I sometimes enjoy a bit of industrial. This is just hype. So it’s just gross to me on multiple levels and I have no desire to ever hear it again.