May 25, 2004
i just crush a lot.
marilyn manson "i put a spell on you [screamin' jay hawkins cover]"
i was a little too young for nirvana to have a profound effect on me when i discovered music was THE THING for me. by the time i was in 7th grade (and thus starting to think my own thoughts), nirvana was already all over the radio and mtv, they were big when i found them, and they were already being copied. this meant that unlike kids a few years older than me, i couldn't be affected by that "OH MAN WHAT'S THIS?" of people who'd never heard anything like that before. i did get that with marilyn manson however, and though i'm sure a lot of you are shaking your head right now, i'll defend his music, intelligence, and skill endlessly. antichrist superstar didn't leave my stereo for months, and is to this day one of my favorite albums by anyone, ever. i connected with its anger in a way i still never have with cobain or reznor or others that my friends did/have. or maybe i just connected with his voice, because i'm not that angry, never have and never will be. but before i laid in my room for hours listening to manson screaming "I WASN'T BORN WITH ENOUGH MIDDLE FINGERS," i saw his video for "sweet dreams (are made of this)", his eurythmics cover, on mtv. this hideous scarred up man in a shredded pink tutu, with a voice made for rock. it made me uncomfortable, but in that good way that still motivates my listening habits to this day. there was a dark theatrical quality to it, that he borrowed from alice cooper (among others). i loved it, and i immediately ran out and bought smells like children, which i didn't know what to make of since it's not really an album so much as a collection of random things they'd been messing with. but besides the famous song i already knew, the song that really struck me was "i put a spell on you".. see when i was growing up my dad was a huge screamin' jay hawkins fan, so i'd heard the song hundreds of times. and here it was again but it was something different, it was still lunacy but it was morbid rather than unrestrained. this was the depressive to hawkin's manic original. i listened to it again and again and again, but forgot about it eventually once i found "beautiful people" and the rest of antichrist superstar, but i later rediscovered it when trent reznor put it on the soundtrack to david lynch's.. uhh.. movie.. lost highway, which sports one of my favorite soundtracks. the drums dance and crunch, manson moans and shrieks, the guitar croaks and croons, and the whole song churns with lust. unrequited love? this song will requite you whether you like it or not, bitch.
--from lost highway OST [1997] // lyrics
incubus "still not a player"
i have no idea what to call this. a cover mashup? a mashup cover? i've had it forever, back in high school at school dances i was friends with the dj, so i'd get him to play this at every dance. i never liked the original, but this one scratches and screams along, with a perfect chorus from incubus and the (i'm pretty sure) original vocals from big pun. the scratching and "hah hah hah" in the chorus kills me. this version is just so so so funky. funny, interesting, listenable... everything it should be. more akin to earlier incubus albums that had more funk, but with the scratching and acrobatic vocals of their later fare. wherever this came from and whoever made it and why... i'm so so glad. "you nasty brock, I DON'T CARE!" a must hear.
--from ??? (if anyone knows, please help me out!)
update: it seems this came from v/a: loud rocks [2000], might have to pick it up to see if any of the rest of it reaches these heights.
Posted by justin whye at May 25, 2004 11:53 PMI adore Marilyn Manson and as a thirtysomething female this has gotten me some incredulous shakings of heads. More power to MM!
Posted by: Emel on May 26, 2004 10:19 AMEverything I've ever heard by Marilyn Manson has been absolute trash. You're obviously an intelligent guy, but how anyone could take a line like "I WASN'T BORN WITH ENOUGH MIDDLE FINGERS" seriously is beyond me. Dude, we get it, he's angry. Has he ever heard of subtlety? Derivative doesn't even begin to describe not just this guy's music, but his whole schtick. The difference between MM and Alice Cooper is that at least Cooper had a few good songs. So did Al Jourgenson and Trent Reznor. Manson stole the attitude but not the skills.
Posted by: Robert on May 26, 2004 02:36 PMwell robert i hardly believe i'm going to able to convince you. i mean obviously your opinion that manson doesn't have any good songs won't change just because i tell you he's a smart guy, so i don't really know what to say. i would argue that most lyrics from the best songs ever are hard to take seriously on their own, or under any major scrutiny. but that doesn't really get either of us anywhere does it? as for the line itself, i don't take it seriously so much as finding it an amusing/different way of stating a classic sentiment. i dunno, i guess i don't think anything about 'antichrist superstar' was supposed to be subtle. it was about being a character, a rock star. each of his albums (since AS) he's donned a persona for the album. it's culture art as much as the music is art itself. now obviously it didn't work for you. but i do think you should give it a second chance (or first chance). or not, obviously it's up to you. thanks for reading anyways.
Posted by: justin why on May 26, 2004 08:24 PMMM.-The Man that you Fear
the ants are in the sugar
the muscles atrophied
we're on the other side, the screen is us and we're t.v.
spread me open,
sticking to my pointy ribs
are all your infants in abortion cribs
I was born into this
everything turns to shit
the boy that you loved is the man that you fear
pray until your number,
asleep from all your pain,
your apple has been rotting
tomorrow's turned up dead
i have it all and i have no choice but to
i'll make everyone pay and you will see
you can kill yourself now
because you're dead
in my mind
the boy that you loved is the monster you fear
peel off all those eyes and crawl into the dark,
you've poisoned all of your children to camouflage your scars
pray unto the splinters, pray unto your fear
pray your life was just a dream
the cut that never heals
pray now baby, pray your life was just a dream
(I am so tangled in my sins that I cannot escape)
pinch the head off, collapse me like a weed
someone had to go this far
I was born into this
everything turns to shit
the boy that you loved is the man that you fear
peel off all those eyes and crawl into the dark,
you've poisoned all of your children to camouflage your scars
pray unto the splinters, pray unto your fear
pray your life was just a dream
the cut that never heals
pray now baby, pray your life was just a dream
the world in my hands, there's no one left to hear you scream
there's no one left for you
when all your wishes are granted many of your dreams will be destroyed
Now that's what I call lyrics. (Sorry for the semi-spam)
I think everything you have said on this website is correct, i relate to manson unlike anyother musican. His songs have a very powerful impact on me and i hope that he keeps producing stuff that i will be able to relate to, it is horrible the way that some people take one look at him and say he is a freak when they haven't even listened to him, if they want to judge him i would love to see him judge them, i hope you never change the way you see manson and i hope the view of many others will change!
Posted by: Kiara on June 23, 2004 02:39 PM