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List Price: $51.49 | | Label: Universal
Salesrank: 1223248
Released: July 1, 2002 |
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| Used Price: $25.74 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Editorial Review:
UK special edition of the shock rocker's eagerly anticipated 2003 album includes two bonus tracks, 'Tainted Love' & 'Baboon Rape Party'. 17 tracks. Nothing/Interscope.
Description of Golden Age of Grotesque:
The Golden Age of Grotesque was inspired by the seamy underside of Weimar Berlin, circa 1930. The album is constructed along the lines of Alice Cooper's 1975 gem, Welcome to My Nightmare, dipping in to the same cabaret of Cooper's "Some Folks." Unlike Cooper, however, this is no comic nightmare. "This isn't a show / This is my f*cking life / I'm not ashamed / You're entertained," Manson snarls in "Vodevil," making it abundantly clear that the singer was born in the wrong time and place and is more at home among the absinthe-drinking revelers in pre-Nazi Germany. The album possesses a dark, accessible beauty rather than the twisted industrial dissonance that pervades much of his earlier stuff. "mOBSCENE" is a thumping rocker that features a deranged cheerleading squad. "Ka-Boom Ka-Boom" is a rousing stomper that Manson penned in response to an exec's complaint that the new songs didn't rock. Its simple yet seditious chorus decries, "I like a big car, 'cause I'm a big star / I'll make a big rock & roll hit." Since 1998's Mechanical Animals, Manson's albums have become progressively more tuneful, and Grotesque continues the trend. --Jaan Uhelszki
Golden Age of Grotesque Reviews:
GREAT ALBUM 
2005-11-08 - Marilyn Manson is a genius and this album proves it. It is a must have for any Marilyn Manson cd, the explict sexual lyrics are great as well as the politics
Golden Age Of Disapointment 
2004-06-22 - I don't know what Manson was thinking! He fires Twiggy, Hires Tim Skold, and you get this? When you think of Manson you think of shocking lyrics, and music that makes you feel like youre in hell, but you like it. GOAG is not as harsh sounding as Manson claimed, saying: "it's like being kicked in the balls with a brick tied to a shoe". In my opinion it's like when my little sister throws a grape at me. Not saying it's a bad album, but as a Manson album it sucks.
This is the new Sh*t and it rocks
2003-08-18 - Marilyn Mansons brand new album and what an album it is its very different to AcS, Hollywood and mechaimal animals(the albums of marilyns i have so far)it is a hevay rock album mixed with cabaret and is a brand new sound to his music. its one of his best albums Along with AcS it has more of a "cabaret" point of view to his songs but it works really well they also have a new heavy pounding bass player tim skold who fits the band perfectly! i suggest you buy this album now. Marilyns still got more albums to come!
