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- Mechanical Animals, Manson’s attempt to transform shock into mainstream rock, suggests that he might. The album, co-produced by Michael Beinhorn, has a radio-ready clarity reminiscent of his work on Soundgarden’s Superunknown and Hole’s Celebrity Skin. It also bears a blade-bright shine that may have been inspired by Manson’s pal Billy Corgan.
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Mechanical Animals is the third studio album by American rock band Marilyn Manson. It was released on September 15, 1998, by Interscope Records. The album marked a major shift from the industrial metal and alternative metal styles of the band's earlier efforts, into an experimentation with 1970s glam rock [2][3][4] with industrial rock [5] and ...
Unlike Marilyn Manson's previous work, Antichrist Superstar, Mechanical Animals is, on an aesthetic level, far less dark. In both image and music, Mechanical Animals is inspired by 1970s style, Bowie-esque glam rock (Manson has often cited David Bowie as his biggest influence).
- Jon Wiederhorn
- One of Marilyn Manson's biggest inspiration for Mechanical Animals was moving to Hollywood. After Antichrist Superstarcame out, Marilyn Manson and his then–creative partner, bassist and guitarist Twiggy Ramirez, moved to Hollywood, where they marveled at the surreal parade that marched by their apartment.
- With Mechanical Animals, Manson wanted to prove that Trent Reznor hadn't puppet-mastered his vision and success. When Manson started getting recognized, Nine Inch Nails main man Trent Reznor took the young rocker under his wing, signed him to his label Nothing Records and produced Antichrist Superstar.
- The band wrote a lot of songs for the album. Manson may have been coming off the success of Antichrist Superstar, but they never suffered writers block and were never at a loss for words or melodies.
- Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan encouraged Manson to pursue the creative left turn he took with Mechanical Animals. Before Manson chose Beinhorn and Beavan to co-produce Mechanical Animals, he had initially worked on some tracks with the Dust Brothers, and Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan visited the studio to check in on their progress.
- A New Direction
- “It Kind of Represents The Numbness That I Had”
- “I’ve Adapted to My Surroundings”
The success of Antichrist Superstarprovoked a cultural movement. Teenagers across the US appropriated Manson’s style as their own, claiming it as an expression of their true self. The album brimmed with hate-fuelled bombast that dared the mainstream to censor him. It elevated Manson to the brink of megastardom and afforded him a glitzy Hollywood li...
Manson drew influence from rock icons Queen and David Bowie to create an alternative rock opera concept album whose themes centred on the trappings of fame. Two characters were born: Omega, a gender-neutral, glam-rock-loving alien messiah who fell to Earth and was captured and selected to front the manufactured band The Mechanical Animals. Omega be...
It’s a flamboyant take on the alt.rock of the era, wrapped up in the glam of Manson’s new lifestyle. And there was a new sleek image to match – shocking red hair and space-age glam best described in his own clever wordplay as “pheno Barbie doll”. But, as Manson told Q, “In a lot of ways it is more mainstream, but I’m more mainstream. I don’t think ...
- Caren Gibson
Sep 14, 2018 · Why Marilyn Manson's 'Mechanical Animals' Is the Greatest Album of All Time. These were songs I didn’t know I needed and ended up needing more than anything in the world. Marilyn Manson, 1999. photograph by Martin Philbey/Redferns. text Sara Taylor. September 14, 2018.
Jul 9, 2018 · In the Hollywood Hills, Mechanical Animals was coming to life, a dystopian rock opera about an alien superstar who grows sick of success and drifts into chemically induced oblivion.
Sep 15, 2020 · With his Mechanical Animals album, which arrived on Sept. 15, 1998, Manson began to assert himself as a creative force to be reckoned with by evolving to a sound we hadn't previously heard from...
