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This article is about the album For the song see For the tour see Mechanical Animals Studio album by Released September 14, 1998 (Australia) September 15, 1998 (France, Germany and the United States) Recorded 1997–1998 at the White Room, Westlake Recording Studios in West Hollywood, California and Conway Studios Genre Glam rock, post-industrial rock, electronic rock, space rock Length 62:38 Label, Producer Michael Beinhorn,, Discogs Media chronology (1997) Mechanical Animals (1998) (1999) Mechanical Animals is the third full-length studio album. It was released on September 14, 1998, in Australia and on September 15, 1998, in the US, Germany and France through and and marked the beginning of the band's brief foray into glam rock, a sharp contrast to the harsh and abrasive Industrial rock and metal sound of their earlier and succeeding efforts. It is a rock opera concept album and the second instalment in a that includes and. After the release of Holy Wood, Manson revealed that the over-arching story within the trilogy is divulged in reverse chronological order. Holy Wood, therefore, begins the story, followed by Mechanical Animals, and concluding with Antichrist Superstar. It debuted at № 1 in its first week of sale, making it the first Marilyn Manson album to do so.
It spawned four singles (', ', ' and '). Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Recording and production [ ] “ '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.' ” — discussing the then unnamed album's principal motif with MTV News. Aborted sessions with the Dust Brothers [ ] Following the conclusion of their year-long tour in September 1997, the band relocated from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Hollywood, California. Work on Mechanical Animals initiated soon after. By early December of that year, their frontman began opening up on the then new and unnamed record's development, sitting down with MTV's 'Year In Rock' special (which aired on Friday, December 12 at 7:30 pm).
Early on, there were also reports that the new album would be produced by the Los Angeles-based production team, the Dust Brothers. According to MTV News, '[They] have completed work on a few tracks on the next effort from Marilyn Manson.' However, nothing came of this reported collaboration and none of the reported completed tracks have surfaced.
Manson's friend, frontman, also served as an unofficial music consultant to the band during these early development stages. After playing a few of the early songs for Corgan, he advised the band that 'This is definitely the right direction, but if you're gonna do this, go all the way with it. Don't just hint at it.' Sessions with Michael Beinhorn and Sean Beavan [ ] The band subsequently employed Michael Beinhorn as principal producer, co-producing the record with. Was also brought in to supply additional production work.
Mechanical Animals is Marilyn Manson's third full-length album, released on September 15, 1998. It was the #1 selling album on its first week of release, the first of Marilyn Manson's career. '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.
By May of that year, having just completed his obligations for 's then-new album, Celebrity Skin, Beinhorn's camp 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,. Zim Zum in Mechanical Animals During his February 24, 1998 interview on National Public Radio's Fresh Air radio talk show to promote the book he divulged that, having exhausted the topic of organized religion in the previous album, the upcoming release will see a major shift in thematic focus: 'After going through what I just did in the past two years, it's almost like Edward Scissorhands or E.T.—someone who feels like they're in a place where they're not accepted or don't belong [.] It's more from that perspective. It's much more vulnerable music that I'm making on this new album. 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 2wo, John Lowery (rechristened by the band as ). Concept [ ] for a complete overview of the Trilogy see. In the album, takes on two roles, being a substance addicted glam rocker and a gender ambiguous Alien called Omēga (pronounced oh-mee-gah) who, much like 's Ziggy Stardust, falls down to earth, is captured and then turned into a rock star product with a band called The Mechanical Animals.
He has become numb to the world, either lost or high in outer space or the Hollywood Hills, 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 this time. Acting as Omēga's foil, Alpha is only just beginning to feel emotion for the first time and trying to learn how to use them properly. He begins to despair about how little emotion most humans feel, observing them to be 'mechanical animals'. Both are looking to come back into the world - looking among the mechanical animals for the thing they need to make themselves whole. They call it, unsure if she is real or simply a drug induced hallucination.
Subsequently, seven of the fourteen 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 Rolling Stone 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.'
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Manson on the concept of the album [ ]. Composition [ ] Unlike Marilyn Manson's previous work,, 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 as his biggest influence). Most songs contain lighter melodies, however, this 'lightness' does not necessarily extend to the lyrics. The music is also far more complicated than most of his work.
The song ' 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 cocaine. Rolling Stone described Manson's crooning on the title track, ', as evocative of 'the sultry vibe of T. Rex's Marc Bolan'. ' features guitar work. Promotion [ ] Unlike its, Mechanical Animals featured more promotional techniques to raise sales. 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 '[i]ncontrovertibly, Marilyn Manson stole the show.' Sound of confusion spacemen 3 rar.
Several adverts were also used to promote the album, including. Mechanical Animals Billboard featured in Times Square In New York City (courtesy of ). Release [ ] At a time before the ubiquity of peer-to-peer file sharing, 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 WXRK (92.3 FM) and its Los Angeles-based sister station, KROQ (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, DGC Records, 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 a near CD-quality MP3 and made available on an unofficial fan site for download soon after. The following weekend, San Francisco radio station Live 105 (105.3 FM) played both singles again. Singles [ ] Arguably, this album's most successful song is ', which fared extremely well on both video and single charts in the United States and abroad.
It continues to reign as the band's most commercially successful song. The music video debuted the band's controversial new, androgynous glam rock sound and image to the world. It is inspired by Alejandro Jodorowsky's controversial art film The Holy Mountain as well as the David Bowie film, The Man Who Fell to Earth. Again, Bowie's influence has been enormous on this album, with both influences noted publicly by Manson himself.
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The third single, ', was featured in The Matrix: Music from the Motion Picture, soundtrack album for the film The Matrix—the song is played during the end credits. Cover 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 album cover, believed to rank among the greatest cover art ever, has won critical acclaim and numerous awards. The infamous photo depicts Manson as an androgynous naked figure with breasts, six fingers and airbrushed genitalia.