Mechanical Animals

by Marilyn Manson

Overview

Antichrist Superstar performed its intended purpose -- it made Marilyn Manson internationally famous, a living realization of his fictional "antichrist superstar." He had gained the attention of not only rock fans, but the public at large; however, many critics bestowed their praise not on the former Brian Warner, but on Trent Reznor, Manson's mentor and producer. Surely angered by the attention being focused elsewhere, he decided to break from Reznor and industrial metal with his third album, Mechanical Animals. Taking his image and musical cues from Bowie, Warner reworked Marilyn Manson into a sleek, androgynous space alien named Omega, a la Ziggy Stardust, and constructed a glammy variation of his trademark goth metal. With pal Billy Corgan as an unofficial consultant and Soundgarden producer Michael Beinhorn manning the boards, Manson turns Mechanical Animals into a big, clean rock record -- the kind that stands in direct opposition to the dark, twisted industrial nightmares he painted with his first two albums. It can make for a welcome change of pace, since his glammed-up goth is more tuneful than his clattering industrial cacophony, but it lacks the cartoonish menace that distinguished his prior music. And without that, Marilyn Manson seems a little ordinary, believe it or not -- more like a '90s version of Alice Cooper than ever before. True, Mechanical Animals is the group's most accessible effort, but Manson should have remembered one thing -- demons are never that scary in the light. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	09/15/1998
Label:	Interscope / Nothing / Polydor
UPC:	0606949027322

Tracks

1. Great Big White World
2. The Dope Show
3. Mechanical Animals
4. Rock Is Dead
5. Disassociative
6. The Speed of Pain
7. Posthuman
8. I Want to Disappear
9. I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)
10. New Model No.15
11. User Friendly
12. Fundamentally Loathsome
13. The Last Day on Earth
14. Coma White

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Marilyn Manson   Primary Artist,Bass,Piano,Vocals,Vocoder,Synthesizer,ARP Synthesizer,Guitar (Rhythm),Drums (Electric),Vocals (Background)
Dave Navarro   Guest Artist
Danny Saber   Guest Artist,Keyboards
The Dust Brothers   Guest Artist
Billy Corgan   Guest Artist
Madonna Wayne Gacy   Drums,Piano,Shaker,Sampling,Keyboards,Mellotron,Synthesizer,Drums (Electric)
Lynn Davis   Vocals (Background)
John 5   Guitar
John West   Vocals (Background)
Rose McGowan   Vocals
Alexandra Brown   Vocals (Background)
Twiggy Ramirez   Bass,Noise,Guitar,Bass (Electric),Guitar (Rhythm),Guitar (Acoustic)
Zim Zum   Guitar,Keyboards,Guitar (Rhythm),Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Synthesizer)
Nikki Harris   Vocals (Background)
Kobi Tai   Vocals (Background)
Ginger Fish   Vocoder,Vocals,Drums

Technical Credits

Angela Garcia   Make-Up
Madonna Wayne Gacy   Composer
Sean Beavan   Editing,Engineer,Producer,Programming
Michael Beinhorn   Producer
Tom Lord-Alge   Mixing
Twiggy Ramirez   Composer
Marilyn Manson   Composer,Producer,Photography
Joseph Cultice   Photography
Alex Dizon   Hair Stylist
Zim Zum   Composer
Devra Kinery   Make-Up
Ted Jensen   Mastering
Barry Goldberg   Engineer
Rob Brill   Assistant Engineer