TGAOG reviewed on PLAYLOUDER.com
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The Golden Age Of Grotesque － Marilyn Manson
Poor Marilyn Manson. He spent years building himself up as the enemy
of rational parenting, only for that bloody Eminem to turn up and piss on
his chips. Since 'The Real Slim Shady' Manson has looked faintly ridiculous,
and increasingly desperate. So it is no surprise that album number 15
(that's right. FIFTEEN, including self-released early works) attempts to
push the taste boundaries further away from the path of the moral.
The shtick this time? Hitler! Wheee! Hitler is evil. Grr.
So the band are bleached and dressed in Nazi outfits, and Manson himself
shaves his back and sides and wears a silly hat on the inside sleeve,
and rambles on about "goose step girlies". Ha! Hitler is funny. Oops!
Therein lies the truth. Manson is not supposed to be scary, and never was.
He's like Evil Dead II - all fake blood and slapstick and ludicrous
expressions, with a killer soundtrack and a strange truth deep at the heart.
The truth being that stuff is bit rough, but it is Fucking Funny.
And this is the funniest thing Manson has ever done,
and he's been a one man Channel 4 for a decade.
This is funnier than 'Portrait Of An American Family',
one of the funniest LPs of the nineties.
"I am a big star! I am a big star! I make big rock 'n Roll Hits!"
he barks massively on 'Ka-Boom Ka-Boom'. Geddit?
Earlier we caught him rumbling, "babble babble babble bitch!
Rebel rebel party party! Sex sex sex and don't forget the violence!
Stick your fuckin' slogan in! Are you ready for the NEW SHIT?!".
See? FUNNY HA HA. Most of the album is prime satire, which we like,
but a lot of it is goth bullshit,
like 'Better Of Two Evils' ("haters call me bitch/ haters call me faggot
/ but I am something you'll never be/ your scapegoat your saviour")
and 'Para-Noir' ("fuck you because I loved you/
I don't need a reason to hate you the way I do." Yawn.).
And musically, the thing is identical to everything the ugly swine has
ever done. Tinny vocal effect, chanty verse, shouty chorus, big ass guitars
go VUMMM VUMMM VUMMMMM! Drums go BABABABABABA!
Lyrics don't really fit. And there's nothing that catchy here -
Manson seems to have used all his best hooks already.
But it's not terrible, and it sounds good LOUD.
But really, Manson is more fun to look at than listen to,
and more interesting to read than hear.
He should give up the music and go into stand up or something.
Actually, television might be the right way - the back of the sleeve finds
him looking identical to The League Of Gentlemen's Papa Lazarou,
amazingly enough, and surely, that kind of show would be the perfect avenue
for Manson's weird talents.
Actually, the more we think about it, the better an idea it seems.
Someone call his agent...
Adam Alphabet
reviewed on 16 May 2003
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喵的，這個人真是寫來搞笑的嗎？
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