Description 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, 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.
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In answer to the question 'do you like Marilyn Manson's music', my answer would be 'generally, no', but this album is an exception that suprises me and would probably surprise my friends if they read my list. This album came out in the same year as Hole's 'celebrity skin', which is another example of an album i quite like by a band i don't usually care for. Interestingly, they were both produced by Michael Beinhorn, who also produced the albums 'hot diggity' by Raw Youth and 'soul martini' by Cavedogs, two much-more-obscure albums that i also really like. So i guess i like his producing touch!
'mechanical animals' was marilyn manson's 'david bowie album' and probably lost him a few metal fans because of it. But for me, it's my favorite manson album, rising above the usual manson-whored metal template to put a glam sheen on depravity. That 'rock is dead' song from the matrix is here, but there are other rockin' highlights as well.
'Posthuman' (where he sings 'god is just a statistic') match 'rock's ferocity. The mood is set with opener 'great big white world' with marilyn singing 'In space the stars are no nearer / They just glitter like a morgue / And I dreamed I was a spaceman / Burned like a moth in a flame' adding synth FX after the first verse (and i like the squealing guitar/synth at the end). 'the dope show' ('cops and queers make good looking models') and 'i don't like the drugs (but the drugs like me)' (ha ha) were the post-'rock is dead' radio hits, but songs 'new model no. 15', 'the speed of pain' and 'user friendly' ('i'm not in love but i'm gonna f.ck you 'til somebody better comes along') are just as wide-audience worthy. As usual with manson, it's a god, drugs & rock'n'roll show. The title track's repeated verse states 'you were.as hollow as the 'o' in 'god') and 'drugs' says 'Our God is white and unforgiving / We're piss tested and we're prayin' On the subject of drugs there's 'There's a hole in our soul / That we're fillin' with dope / And we're feeling fine' I like the backing vox in the spacey, slow-build of 'speed of pain' where 'the crack inside your f@cking heart is me'. But for my money, it's ironic that 'rock is dead' is the best song simply being a pretty straight-forward rock song.
This definitely non-metal style has since been abandoned by Marilyn, and it's a shame.
. Great Big White World. The Dope Show. Mechanical Animals. Rock Is Dead. Disassociative. The Speed Of Pain.
Posthuman. I Want To Disappear. I Don't Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me).
User Friendly. New Model No. 15. Fundamentally Loathsome. The Last Day On Earth. Coma White.
(Untitled) To access the untitled 15th track, you need to play the CD on your computer. A flash file opens, showing two of Manson's paintings and playing music by Pogo and Manson, with Manson narrating. And it loops until you click 'quit'. Mechanical Animals double LP, vinyllimited edition of 5,000?
UK - December 1998. One record is white, one is blue. Mechanical Animals vinyl, 2 LPs. Two lyric sheets, art and photos.
One plain white vinyl and one transparent blue vinyl decoder, as with the CD Mechanical Animals CD and comic book. I have to sort this bit out. There are two different versions of MA with comic books. With both, the comic book artwork by Marcus Wild is based on scenes from the video for 'I Don't Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me)'. I'm assuming that both have the same 15 tracks as listed above but I need to check.
The easier to find version comes with a CD sized comic. It's classed as a regular commercial release but is called the European Festival Tour Edition, or the German Tour Edition, depending on who I'm listening to this week. Released in June 1999? The harder to find one is the promotional Limited number Tour Edition. Limited to 1000 copies, each one is numbered. Released in June 1999?
The comic with this one is larger. The contents are in a blue clear plastic cover. Inside is a gatefold presenter housing the CD and the comic book of artwork. Mechanical Animals CD. 20 page, 8 x 8 inch comic book. all in a 10 x 10 inch blue plastic envelope cover. catalogue number ADV-490394-2 The CD and comic book come in a cardboard cover that has a version of the same drawing on the front as the comic does - that is, the drawing is based on the regular MA front cover photography.
Everything goes into a 10x10 inch clear blue plastic cover with a parental advisory sticker on it saying it is the promo tour edition and giving its limited edition number.
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' Released: February 17, 1999. ' Released: June 14, 1999 Mechanical Animals is the third studio album by American band. It was released on September 15, 1998, by and. The album marked a major shift from the and styles of the band's earlier efforts, into an experimentation with 1970s. As their first release following the success of their breakthrough album, 1996's, Mechanical Animals ' themes primarily deals with the trappings of fame and drug abuse.
A and, Mechanical Animals is the second installment in a trilogy which included Antichrist Superstar and 2000's. After the release of Holy Wood, Manson said that the overarching story within the trilogy is presented in reverse chronological order; Mechanical Animals, therefore, acts as the bridge connecting the two narratives and remains constant whether the trilogy is viewed in reverse or not. The album has been certified platinum in the United States, Canada, and New Zealand. It spawned the singles ', ', and ' as well as the promotional single, '. The album debuted at number one on the, making it the first Marilyn Manson album to do so.
'Most people, by the standard dictionary definition, are androids. There's no reason to envision a sci-fi world of people with metal inside of them — already, people that walk around look like human beings, but they don't act like it. They don't express any kind of creativity, they don't show any emotions — they've dumbed themselves down with drugs, with television, with religion.'
—Marilyn Manson Following the conclusion of their year-long in September 1997, the band relocated from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Hollywood, California. Work on Mechanical Animals began soon after. By early December of that year, the singer began opening up on the then new and unnamed record's development, sitting down with 's 'Year In Rock' special on December 12.
Early on, it was reported the new album would be produced by the Los Angeles-based production team, the. According to, 'They have completed work on a few tracks on the next effort from Marilyn Manson.'
During this early development stage, the band recorded in Manson's home recording studio in the which the group had taken to calling 'The White Room' after Manson painted it all-white. Manson explained that the studio 'looked out over, which kind of represented space to us.'
Manson also intoned, 'the theme of whiteness comes up a lot on the album, representing a void empty of color and feelings and emotions. We were trying to fill that void with the songs.' Manson's friend frontman, served as an unofficial music consultant for the band. After playing a few of the early songs for him, Corgan advised that 'This is definitely the right direction' but to 'go all the way with it. Don't hint at it.'
Sessions with Michael Beinhorn and Sean Beavan The band subsequently employed as principal producer, co-producing the record with. Was also brought in to supply additional production work. According to Manson, the bulk of the material was written and recorded at that house before Beinhorn came on board. 'For the most part, I had a very specific vision of what I wanted to do and how to do it.' By May of that year, having completed his obligations for 's then-new album, Beinhorn confirmed that the nascent Manson project was halfway complete and on course for a late summer or early fall release. Manson, for his part, spent the early part of the year on break from the studio to promote his autobiography,. During his February 24, 1998 interview on 's to promote the book, he divulged that having exhausted the topic of organized religion in the previous record, Mechanical Animals will see a major shift in focus: 'Both sonically and lyrically it's about the depression of alienation, rather than the aggressiveness of it.
It's about the emptiness.' Guitarist divulged that in one instance the band recorded a song a day for two weeks straight during a particular spree of creativity. Final mixing and post-production took place in a studio in Burbank, California. In July 1998, after having contributed guitar work to 12 of the album's 14 tracks, Zim Zum left the band under amicable terms to pursue his own solo project.
He was replaced by the former guitarist of English industrial metal band, John Lowery (rechristened by the band as ). 'If 'Antichrist Superstar' was sort of my comparative fall from grace, Lucifer being kicked from heaven, this next record is about what happens on Earth now, (It's about) sort of trying to fit into a society that thinks it's full of emotions and that you're a callous person, when in fact you're the one that actually has all these feelings and it's the world that's kind of numb to them. It's almost the antithesis of what I just did.'
—Marilyn Manson discussing the then unnamed album's principal motif with MTV News. In the album, Manson takes on the role of a glam rocking, substance-addicted, gender ambiguous 'alien messiah' called Omēga.
Much like 's, falls down to earth, is captured, placed with a band called The Mechanical Animals and turned into a rock star product. He has become numb to the world, either lost or high in or the, through excessive drug use as a coping mechanism with his life as a product of his corporate masters. Manson's other role is that of Alpha who is based on himself and his experiences around the conclusion of the Antichrist Superstar tour/era. Acting as Omēga's foil, Alpha's emotions have only begun seeping back.
Vulnerable and trying to relearn how to use them properly, he despairs about how little emotion other people feel, observing them to be 'mechanical animals'. 'There is a bit of a love story that exists on this record,' Manson admits. 'The name I gave to the thing I was in love with was Coma White.
It starts as the name of a girl I'm in love with, then ends up to really be a drug I've been taking. So I'm not really sure what I'm in love with.' Subsequently, seven of the 14 songs are from the perspective, lyrically and musically, of Omēga and his fictional band The Mechanical Animals, while the other seven are by Alpha (Marilyn Manson). The Omēga songs are typically those most nihilistic and superficial lyrically, such as ', 'User Friendly' and 'New Model No.
The album artwork features a dual liner note book, in which one half has lyrics for the Omēga songs, and when flipped over, has those for the Alpha songs. Marilyn Manson later noted in an interview with magazine that ' Mechanical Animals was to represent the point where the revolution got sold out, a hollow shell of what the essence of Marilyn Manson was. It was a satire, and a lot of people interpreted it as 'This is what he really is.' I was making a mockery of what I was, taking a shot at myself.' After the release of, revealed that his concept album trilogy is an autobiographical story told in a reverse timeline (chronologically reverse from their actual release dates).
That means Holy Wood opens the storyline followed by Mechanical Animals and concluded with Antichrist Superstar. Further, though Antichrist Superstar and Mechanical Animals made sense as individual concept albums on their own, there was a hidden overarching story running through the three releases.
In transitioning from Mechanical Animals to Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) Manson admitted that the character of Omēga, '. was a ruse to lure commercial mall-goers into the web of destruction – I’ve always planned that from the beginning.' Composition. 'The album is like feeling for the first time', Manson said. 'Everything is oversensitized, pain is more extreme and love is more extreme – hence the change in the music, which is more in the bombastic tradition of and.
Some bands are afraid of not sounding hard all the time – I'm not. In a lot of ways it is more mainstream, but I'm more mainstream. I don't think I've sold myself out – I've adapted to my surroundings.'
—Marilyn Manson Mechanical Animals marked a major shift away from the abrasive and aggressive industrial and alternative metal styles of the band's previous work. Manson explained that he had grown 'bored' with that musical aesthetic adding that, 'Everything you hear nowadays is an offshoot of, Marilyn Manson,. There's just no great rock albums anymore.
There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable. A lot of people may say this record is over the top, pretentious and theatrical, but that's what rock music is supposed to be about.' Mechanical Animals also marked the first time NIN frontman provided no production input. In both music and imagery, Mechanical Animals draws heavily from the glam rock genre that dominated the UK Charts in the early 1970s. Rolling Stone noted the songs are marked by shimmering, flamboyant guitar grooves and strong melodic hooks while the lyrics 'trade the topic of teen satanism for drug-addled space themes and sci-fi love stories', reflecting 'Manson's self-proclaimed new 'glitterati' lifestyle.' Rolling Stone described Manson's crooning as evocative of 'the sultry vibe of 's '. However, both Rolling Stone and noted that while the album drew from glam rock, it did not revel in the 'naughty-boy insouciance' and playful hedonism of the genre despite numerous references to drugs, decadence and lurid sexual escapades.
Rather, it was 'glum and pessimistic' and more preoccupied with the themes of alienation, insincerity and longing (through sci-fi allusions) only hinted at by the genre. 'I just wanted to approach this album from a different point of view.
I'd assumed the role of destroyer on the last record. This role is more a savior. I wanted to write songs that were more personal and dealt with specific emotions.
The music had to really compliment that, but there wasn't a conscious effort to make more accessible songs. There was simply an effort to write songs that would make people feel differently to the songs on the last album. In a sense that makes it more accessible, but it's not just for the sake of pop.
Even if it was, that's okay too. I can appreciate the Spice Girls and Garth Brooks in the Andy Warhol sense of it - pop art.' Its ultimate sources are the goths:, and early. 'The Speed of Pain', meanwhile, is redolent of 's '. The song 'Great Big White World' raised concerns, among some groups, of possibly being a racially motivated reference until Manson himself cleared up the rumors by stating that it was about.
' features guitar work. Promotion Five days before the album's release, the band performed 'The Dope Show' at the. The 'Ziggy-in-Vegas' performance saw Manson strut into the stage in a blue vinyl coat with a faux-fur collar before stripping down, mid-way into the song, to a blue skin-tight costume with cut-outs that revealed the prosthetic breasts and androgynous genitalia of his Omēga character. The performance also included a trio of 'besequined' back-up singers that harmonized with the frontman as he sang along. Rolling Stone remarked that 'incontrovertibly, Marilyn Manson stole the show.' Singles The album's most successful song is ', which fared well on both video and single charts in the United States and abroad.
'The Dope Show' was written by Manson (lyrics) and (music). It continues to reign as the band's most commercially successful song. The music video debuted the band's controversial new, androgynous sound and image to the world. It is inspired by 's as well as the film,. Again, Bowie's influence has been enormous on this album, with both influences noted publicly by Manson himself.
The third single, ', was featured in the of the film —the song is played during the end credits. Release At a time before the ubiquity of, the first singles from both Beinhorn-produced albums were leaked three weeks before their intended release dates and played 'nearly a dozen times' on New York radio station (92.3 FM) and its Los Angeles-based sister station, (106.7 FM), on the weekend of July 31 to August 2, 1998. Interscope neither confirmed nor denied that the leak originated from them but joined Hole's label, in issuing a cease and desist order to WXRK on August 3. In spite of this the Manson single, 'The Dope Show', was subsequently recorded and converted by a fan into an MP3 and made available on an unofficial fan site for download soon after.
The following weekend, San Francisco radio station (105.3 FM) played both singles again. Artwork and packaging. 'The shock of the image was increased because it looked like a real photograph.' The Greatest Album Covers of All Time The controversial has won critical acclaim and numerous awards.
The infamous photo depicts Manson as an androgynous naked figure with breasts, six fingers and airbrushed genitalia. It is the brainchild of New York City-based photographer.
Designer Paul Brown has said of the cover, 'I'm extremely proud of it. I said more in one of his covers than any novel could. It made people think and cringe.' In 2003, declared that Mechanical Animals had the twenty-ninth greatest album cover of all time. It is also featured in Grant Scott's book The Greatest Album Covers of All Time. Alternate cover for the fictitious band Omēga and the Mechanical Animals Contrary to popular internet rumors, the band leader, Manson, did not undergo any plastic surgery for this androgynous, alien look.
The breasts are prosthetic, manufactured specially by Screaming Mad George's SMG Effects (now out of business). Manson is, in reality, naked and covered head to toe in latex paint, provided by the same movie make-up company. His genitalia are covered by a foam latex appliance to create the androgynous appearance of the alien figure he calls Omēga, which, the singer explained, represents 'sexlessness and vulnerability,' in addition to his own 'affection for prosthetic limbs.' Originally the make up consisted of six breasts with nipples. Manson has stated in interviews that his friend, actor, is the current owner of these prosthetic breasts, which Manson traded for Depp's strawberry-blonde wig worn in the film. Noted that the cover art text forms an.
The album also features an alternate, less 'obscene' cover which is contained on the reverse side of the album liner notes. It is incidentally the cover for an album of the same name by Omēga and the Mechanical Animals, a fictitious band composed of characters played by the members of Marilyn Manson. The photo featured on this alternative cover art includes more of the symbolism surrounding the numeral 15. The liner notes also contain hidden messages in yellow text, which become viewable when seen through the blue CD packaging or the transparent blue LP. The reader of the liner notes is shown how to read these messages in the booklet: there is a diagram showing a CD case over the booklet, and a message which reads: 'Yellow and blue = green.'
A limited tour edition of Mechanical Animals was released in the UK (including other locations like and, where only 100 copies of this edition arrived) with an illustrated hardcover sleeve by Marcus Wild. Though limited edition, the album is easily attainable in certain regions. The packaging is identical to the original version except for the bonus eight-page comic book by Wild, illustrating scenes from the ' music video. Retailer ban As early as August 14, 1998, a month before the release, the three largest retailers in the United States—, and —refused to stock the album citing the offensive cover and the expectation that it will carry a for violating their policy of not selling material with explicit lyrics or content. In an attempt to appease some of the retailers Nothing and Interscope discussed plans to cover the 'breasts' with a sticker and enclose the entire package in blue cellophane—similar to the brown paper bag tactic employed exactly 30 years before by distributors on the explicitly nude cover of and 's. Wal-Mart still refused to sell the album, and consequently pulled all previous albums by Manson in light of the on April 20, 1999. In the intervening two decades since the release of this album, all three retailers have had a change of heart: 2003 saw the mass sale of Manson's fifth LP, in nearly all Wal-Marts; representatives claimed they chose to sell the album because it was 'commercially viable' and was 'on the Top Ten charts.'
They now carry the band's entire discography, including this record, in both their online and brick and mortar stores. Critical reception Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating A− 7/10 C+ The album received acclaim from most music critics.
Analyzing the album's intentions, Barry Walters of noted, ' Mechanical Animals celebrates sexy celebrity in a typically Mansonian bacchanalia of contradictions. He's said all along that dirty media dominance is the cleanest and closest thing to divinity in a world that crucified the god in itself and replaced it with blind faith. Now he understands first-hand that stardom sucks, yet while he lifts a platform boot against its phony fat ass he still can't help reveling in the excess. Critiqued fame in order to make him famous. Having been there/done that, Manson wants more because more is the American way he's hell-bent on subverting—even as he's soaking in it.' Of the record's musical direction Walters noted, 'Flexing far more range than rage, Manson's feminization shifts his vocal power center from a diseased gut to a broken heart.
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Guitars roar and whine, bass booms, drums race, and synths twitter with a tweeness that's gonna turn Durannie grannie 's gray roots green.' Praised that 'Manson and producer have rediscovered the adrenalin in '70s glam-rock, sprinkling and over Gothic theatrics.'
Jon Wiederhorn of observed that 'Mechanical Animals is a brash, decadent, and glittery display of self-indulgent hooks and melodramatic vocals that sounds like -era and at their most boisterous crossed with the more modern sounds of today's.' According to of, ' Mechanical Animals gets its cavelike spaciousness from goth influences and tweaks them with an industrial crunch. He and his band approach its terrain the way a 1960s rocker like approaches the blues, with respect and a sense of entitlement.' Of noted the band's shift from a 'dour preoccupation with and toward space-age chic. The creamy synth sound and drugged-out lyrics that dominate Manson's latest CD prove that two antithetical '80s musical genres—heavy metal and new wave—can indeed be fruitfully combined.' Of wrote, 'Looking back in mascara'd anger, Manson and producer Michael Beinhorn have fashioned music steeped in glam rock and concept-album bombast but updated with a crunching intensity.
He layers the songs with cooing backup singers, electronica burbles, skulking guitars, and synths at their most decadently new wavy. The effect is often spectacular.' Of the commented 'songs swagger with lipstick-wearing attitude, have fun with sleazy subject matter and actually convey some (gasp) human emotion. This album is the first time we actually experience Manson as a band, not a phenomenon filtered through Reznor's mixing board wizardry or a freak show accompanied by a soundtrack. An album that's powerful from start to finish is far more surprising than any controversial Manson high jinks.
this record ensures his further infiltration of teenage America and earns him a new spot in the annals of great, big, pompous pop albums.' David Browne describes that the sound of the album 'is often spectacular: a lurid cabaret-rock revue for the post-global-economy meltdown.'
According to, Mechanical Animals 'marks a total shift in Manson's assault. Where the Antichrist Superstar game plan was about gaining notoriety through outrage, rather than winning souls over on musical grounds, Mechanical Animals aims straight for the singalong heart of stadium-land. And rips it out, and holds it aloft in triumph.
Of the 14 tracks here, ten could be singles. On this evidence alone, 'Mechanical Animals' is an unashamedly crass bid for total world domination. they already have the goth kids. Now, their sights have turned on everyone else.' However, not everyone gave the album a positive review.
Music critic criticized 'the feebleness of La Manson's vocal affect' and dismissed the album as a whole as 'one more depersonalizing production device with which to flatten willing cerebella sic whilst confronting humankind's alienation, amorality, and failure to have a good time on Saturday night.' He concluded that 'not every icon deserves a think piece.'
Magazine noted the record is 'essentially mining the same agitprop territory and 'premillenial' confusion that hipster, highbrow heroes such as and take for granted. Manson shares with Empire a preference for destroying the master's house with the master's tools. Like Tricky, Manson uses gender confusion as a, less than identity evasion.' Joshua Klein of was unconvinced with the sudden musical shift by the band and pointed out that neither will longtime fans. However, he conceded that the album is 'more musical than anything Manson has done.
His music packs both industrial muscle and anthemic conviction, even as it playfully steals from the Bowie songbook' while lamenting that thematically the album played it safe, with lyrics lacking, 'any sense of wit, as songs doggedly hammer at safe taboos like drugs, sex, drugs, stardom, drugs, and death. Like NME, Klein concluded the record will, nevertheless, help the band pick up new fans. Of described the record as 'a big, clean rock record' and praised it as a 'welcome change of pace' and 'more tuneful than his clattering industrial cacophony.' However, he also noted that devoid of 'the cartoonish menace that distinguished his prior music. Marilyn Manson seems a little ordinary. Manson should have remembered—demons are never that scary in the light.'
Despite this, Greg Burk of went on to call Mechanical Animals 'one of the greatest albums of its decade.' Accolades According to Acclaimedmusic.net Mechanical Animals is the 44th best reviewed album of 1998, the 426th greatest record released during the 1990s and the 2209th greatest of all-time. Ranked Mechanical Animals the seventh best album on their 1998 End of Year List. Online music magazine ranked Mechanical Animals 25th in their 1998 list of Albums of the Year. Ranked Mechanical Animals 40th in their 1998 list of Albums of the Year. Ranked Mechanical Animals second on their 1998 list of the Albums of the Year.
Magazine listed Mechanical Animals among their picks for their 1998 Recordings of the Year list. Dutch magazine ranked Mechanical Animals 18th in their 1998 Albums of the Year list. The record ranked second in the Critics Top 50 and 10th in the Popular Poll of German magazine Musik Express/Sounds in their 1998 Albums of the Year. In 1999, American music journalist Ned Raggett listed Mechanical Animals 78th in his The Top 136 Albums of the Nineties. Also in 1999, Australian magazine JUICE ranked Mechanical Animals 84th in their 100 Greatest Albums of the '90s. In 2006, sister British magazines and included Mechanical Animals in The 200 Greatest Albums of the 90s.
Also in 2006, Dutch public radio broadcaster included Mechanical Animals in their 299 Nominations of the Best Album of All Time. The French edition of the British magazine ranked Mechanical Animals 56th in their Top 150 Albums of Our Lifetime (1992–2006) and second in their 1998 Albums of the Year. In the November 2003 issue of Blender magazine, author included the album in a list of his favourites, and said: 'I met Marilyn Manson on a magazine assignment, and he wanted my advice on a novel he's writing. We drank absinthe once.
I'll probably go to his show when he's in town next week. It's so fascinating to see somebody exorcise his demons in such a public way.'
Commercial performance In the United States, Mechanical Animals debuted at number one on the with first-week sales of 223,000 units, becoming the band's first number-one album on the chart. Propelled by both the first single's heavy rotation on the radio and on MTV as well as the band's main show performance at the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards, the record briefly displaced for the number-one position on the. The following week, the album dropped to number five with 98,200 copies sold. Although critically acclaimed, Mechanical Animals was initially not too well received by longtime fans who complained about the wilfully radio-friendly sound of the album and surmised that Marilyn Manson had '. The album was the lowest-selling number-one album of 1998. Nevertheless, the album was certified platinum by the (RIAA) on February 25, 1999.
Mechanical Animals and Rock Is Dead Tour. Main article: After declining a headlining slot at the failing summer music festival (along with numerous other bands) in early 1998 due to delays in Mechanical Animals ' release, the band launched the first of their own headlining tours in support of the album. It was originally intended to start on June 25, 1998, with a series of six festival dates in Europe lasting until July 12, 1998. However the planned summer European leg was scrapped and the tour's launch date was rescheduled to October 25, 1998 after drummer Ginger Fish became ill with. Beginning on October 25, 1998 and lasting until January 31, 1999, the Mechanical Animals Tour included two legs spanning a Fall to Winter World Tour in Europe, Japan, and North America and a 6 show headlining stint at the tour in Australia.
In total, the band completed 46 shows out of the 52 originally planned. Beautiful Monsters Tour and Rock Is Dead Tour.
Main articles: and Beginning on February 28, 1999, and lasting until August 8, 1999, the tour included three legs spanning Europe, Japan and North America with a total of 9 completed shows for the Beautiful Monsters Tour and 43 completed shows (out of 46 planned) for the Rock Is Dead Tour. The tour is particularly notable for a number of incidents that plagued its progress. Following the conclusion of the Mechanical Animals Tour in January 1999, the band was once again offered a headlining slot by the organizers of the Lollapalooza festival for the 1999 summer season (this time as part of an attempt to resurrect the by-then-defunct festival) which they declined. Instead, the band struck a deal with to co-headline the latter's. Immediately, the joint venture began experiencing problems due to disputes between both groups' leaders. After nine shows (spanning a total of two weeks) the tour imploded, resulting in Hole's departure on March 14, 1999, and the tour being renamed Rock Is Dead., who were already opening for Manson, assumed Hole's place on the tour's playbill.
A minor dispute erupted surrounding the tour's revised nomenclature as and were already in the middle of another tour with the same name. The first two performances of the were canceled after Manson suffered a hairline fracture on one of his ankles during the final show with Hole at in Los Angeles.
The tour was resumed on March 17, 1999. The tour, however, would stagger yet again following the on April 20, 1999.
In the ensuing aftermath, the band was accused of being a cause of the tragedy in Littleton, prompting the group to cancel their remaining North American engagements out of respect for the victims, explaining, 'It's not a great atmosphere to be out playing rock 'n' roll shows, for us or the fans.' Track listing CD version All lyrics written. Title Music Length 1. 'Great Big White World'. Ramirez. Gacy. Zum 5:38 15.
Untitled (hidden multimedia track) Gacy 1:22 Notes. Australian and Korean releases of the album come with an additional DVD that contains the music videos for ', 'The Dope Show' and 'Sweet Dreams'. This album features a hidden, 15th track, playable only on a computer; it is untitled and experimental, further playing on the album's theme of the character Omēga and conformity.
Upon entering the album into a computer, an file starts a program that displays two of Manson's paintings while the song plays in the background. It is thought to be an experiment in. Vinyl version When released on vinyl, the record was split into two separately sleeved albums; the first credited to the character of Alpha (portrayed by Manson himself), pressed on opaque white vinyl, and the latter to Omēga and the Mechanical Animals on transparent blue vinyl. The Manson album dealt with songs of love and alienation, while the Mechanical Animals disc contained anthems of sex and drug use.
The vinyl edition was reissued in 2012, but on black vinyl instead of white and blue. The track listing, however, remains the same. Marilyn Manson: Side one No. Title Length 1. 'Great Big White World' 5:01 2. 'Posthuman' 4:04 3.
'The Speed of Pain' 5:30 4. 'The Last Day on Earth' 5:05 Marilyn Manson: Side two No. Title Length 1. 'Disassociative' 4:50 2.
'Mechanical Animals' 4:39 3. ' 5:38 Omēga and the Mechanical Animals: Side one No. Title Length 1. 'I Want to Disappear' 3:09 4. 'Fundamentally Loathsome' 4:49 Omēga and the Mechanical Animals: Side two No.
Title Length 1. 'New Model No. 'User Friendly' 4:18 Note. Song length differs from CD version as tracks are not cross faded and appear in full length form with one- to two-second gaps between songs. Additionally, the intro to 'I Want to Disappear' is tracked as the final 15 seconds of 'Posthuman' on the CD while it appears as part of 'I Want to Disappear' on the vinyl version. Personnel Credits adapted from the liner notes of Mechanical Animals.
The album's liner notes actually credit Zim Zum with only eight songs. The anagram, when rearranged, reads 'Marilyn Manson Is An Alchemical Man'.
The hidden messages include: 1.) www.comawhite.com (sidenote: this website is no longer available). 2.) I no longer knew if Coma White was real or just a side effect. 3.) Now children it's time for recess, please roll up your sleeves. 3.) A sun with no planets, burning in circles. 4.) Even machines can see that we are dead. 5.) In the end I became them and I led them/ After all none of us really qualified as humans/ We were hardworn, automatic and as hollow as the 'o' in God/ I reattached my emotions cellular and narcotic/ From the top of Hollywood it looked like space/ Millions of capsules and Mechanical Animals/ A city filled with dead stars and a girl I called Comawhite/ This is my Omēga.
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