Smells Like Bloggers
I’m going to lay off the new stuff for a bit and go back a few years for Marilyn Manson’s
Smells Like Children album.
Manson released his Trent Reznor co-produced sophomore effort in October 1995. He also found his first mainstream success with a cover of the Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).”
Smells Like Children was originally intended to be a remix EP, according to the album’s
Wiki page. Ultimately, the project turned into a full-length release, with an eclectic combination of covers, remixes, and new material.
Like everything Marilyn Manson,
Smells Like Children was not without controversy. The final version was somewhat different from the initial pressings. Quoting liberally from Wikipedia:
Early promotional copies of Smells Like Children featured unauthorized samples from “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory,” as well as other sound bites considered too extreme; the album was re-edited into the proper release. The removed songs were the original opening track, “Abuse part 1,” featuring Manson and Danzig / Pantera tour driver Tony Wiggins speaking to a masochistic girl, attempting to calm her down when things get really out of hand, and “Abuse part 2,” featuring an interview with a teenage girl who confesses to molesting her 6-year-old cousin.
In the interest of good taste, I’m not posting “Abuse Pt. 2.” I’m no prude, but the subject matter isn’t really fit for a family blog. If you feel like you need to hear it, drop me a note, along with the reason you think you need to hear it, and I’ll send you the link.
Continuing from the Wiki, info about the other tracks:
* “Everlasting Cocksucker” is the track containing the aforementioned sample from “Willy Wonka.” On another Willy Wonka note, the printing on the cover of
Smells Like Children was designed to resemble the printing of the title to the 1971 film version of the novel.
*“I Put a Spell on You” is a relatively harmless cover of the 1956 Screamin’ Jay Hawkins song. I included it because I like it. The song was also featured on the soundtrack for the David Lynch film “Lost Highway.”
*“My Monkey” is a demo of a song originally on Marilyn Manson’s debut,
Portrait of an American Family. The track borrows lyrics from a Charles Manson song called “Mechanical Man”; the lyrics of “My Monkey” are credited simply to “Manson.”
Abuse Pt. 1.mp3 Everlasting Cocksucker.mp3 I Put a Spell on You (Screamin’ Jay Hawkins cover).mp3 My Monkey (demo).mp3Labels: covers, demos, marilyn manson, rock
Eat Me, Drink Me - Part Deux
Apparently word – and the album – has leaked, so I’ll try to beat the Monday rush and make my Marilyn Manson contribution today.
According to
Wiki,
Eat Me, Drink Me was leaked onto some P2P networks a few days ago. In response, Manson commissioned DJ Ryan Manno on Q101 in Chicago to play the entire album on their radio station. The album’s official release date was to have been June 5. No news on whether that will be pushed up as a result of the leak.
In January, Manson’s Web site formally disclosed the album's title as
Eat Me, Drink Me, a title that may be interpreted to hold several meanings, including references to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and the Eucharist. Manson says the album’s title was also inspired by “that story several years back of the German man who put out an ad that he wanted to be eaten, and the man who ate him,” according to an article in
Revolver.
“Although I can’t relate to the relationship those two had,” Manson said, “I found the story very compelling in a romantic way. I think a lot of people wouldn’t look at it as romantic, but it was to them in some sick way, and it is to me in some sick way, too.”
“[The songs] are clearly written to seduce somebody. . . I don't want people to think that the record is some kind of exploitation of my personal life,” Manson told
Rolling Stone in a March interview. “At the same time, it also represents exactly who I am and what I feel. . . I really wanted to be a singer on this album. This is very earnest and uncalculated and raw, in the sense that I know I'm fucked up, and I'm really not ashamed of it.”
My earlier post, featuring “If I Was Your Vampire,” the first leaked song, as well as the entire track list for
Eat Me, Drink Me is
here.
To round things out, here’s the title track; roughly six-and-a-half minutes of madness.
Eat Me, Drink Me.mp3Labels: marilyn manson, rock
Eat Me, Drink Me, Blog Me
I was browsing around the Interwebs tonight and found that Marilyn Manson is streaming a track from his his upcoming disk on his
MySpace space. The track, “If I Was Your Vampire,” is very Manson-esque. If it’s any indication of how the album will sound, expect classic Manson. The album, by-the-by, is called
Eat Me, Drink Me. Its scheduled release date is June 5.
A little additional searching also found me the track list, as posted on Marilyn Manson’s
Web site.
1. If I Was Your Vampire
2. Putting Holes In Happiness
3. The Red Carpet Grave
4. They Said That Hell’s Not Hot
5. Just a Car Crash Away
6. Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)
7. Evidence
8. Are You the Rabbit?
9. Mutilation is the Most Sincere Form of Flattery
10. You and Me and the Devil Makes 3
11. Eat Me, Drink Me
The site also has upcoming European tour dates. The tour kicks off May 26 in Holland. There are no US dates listed yet.
If I Was Your Vampire.mp3Labels: marilyn manson, rock
I’m going to lay off the new stuff for a bit and go back a few years for Marilyn Manson’s Smells Like Children album. 
Continuing from the Wiki, info about the other tracks: 
Abuse Pt. 1.mp3 
