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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Interscope Records
Salesrank: 545778
Released: September 15, 1998 |
| Our Price: $18.99 |
| Used Price: $3.99 |
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| Media: Audio Cassette |
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Mechanical Animals Track Listing:
1. Great Big White World
2. Dope Show
3. Mechanical Animals
4. Rock Is Dead
5. Disassociative
6. 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. Last Day on Earth
14. Coma White
Editorial Review:
Limited Edition with Bonus CD-ROM Tracks 'Dope Show'(Banned Version) and 'Sweet Dreams'.
Description of Mechanical Animals:
There's no question that Marilyn Manson's 1995 album Antichrist Superstar was a great-sounding record. It brooded, ripped, and clattered in all the right places, mixing industrial beats and samples with roaring heavy-metal riffs, echoing Goth keys, and the occasional tuneful pop vocal. But for all the sonic appeal, some of the songwriting wasn't too strong. No such problem on Manson's new record, Mechanical Animals, which forsakes some of the band's former grind in favor of dynamic glam rhythms and good old-fashioned melody. When the band tones down, as on the largely acoustic "Speed of Pain" and "Fundamentally Loathsome," Manson even sounds like a candidate for an Unplugged session. Most often, however, as on "Rock Is Dead," "User Friendly," and "The Dope Show," Mechanical Animals is a brash, decadent, and glittery display of self-indulgent hooks and melodramatic vocals that sounds like Aladdin Sane-era David Bowie and T. Rex at their most boisterous crossed with the more modern sounds of today's industrial nation. --Jon Wiederhorn
Mechanical Animals Reviews:
GLAM ROCK CLASSIC! 
2009-10-25 - This is an awesome production. Marilyn Manson pays homage to his musical heroes by creating his own Glam themened album. Simply put, David Bowie himself is a huge fan of this incredible album via Marilyn Manson and Twiggy Ramirez. The music is slightly "electro-rock", Glitterpop, spacerock, and of course Glam. Glam babie! A must have for fans of Gary Numan, Iggy Pop, and David Bowie.
Hey everybody 
2009-09-27 - This is just to let all you folks know that I hate Marilyn Manson. That is all.
Marilyn Manson's best album 
2009-06-20 - I wouldn't call myself a big fan of Marilyn Manson, but I listen to them relatively often, and this is the band's best album.
As rollingstone put it, it's an album that even well adjusted adults might appreciate. It contains the bands most complex music, as well as Manson's best, most personal lyrics.
It contains several classic Manson songs, including Great Big White World, The Dope Show, The Speed of Pain, I don't like the drugs (but the drugs like me) and my favorite Manson song, Coma White.
I played a lot of these songs for my friend who's very against Marilyn Manson, without telling him who it was, and he asked me to burn the album for him, and when he found out it was Marilyn Manson he said "well, now I'm a fan." It deserves to be listened to.
Marilyn Manson at his best!
2009-05-27 - I have been listening to all of Marilyn Manson's albums in the weeks awaiting his newest release "The High End of Low" which was just released May 26th, 2009. I spent much of my teen years listening to Marilyn Manson and consider myself a big fan of his work. But this does not make me biased in any way towards the high and lows (no pun intended) of his career. So this is my review series of all his albums. Hope you get to check them all out.
First of all this album came out in 1998. It is hard for me to believe that this album is over 10 years old already! I was 14 just becoming a freshman in highschool the first time I heard this album. I remember listening to every track on this album with awe. It was like listening to everything I loved about Rock music all in one album. It was different than his previous releases and alot of fans thought he lost his edge. Well for me, that couldn't be any farther from the truth. I remember listening to it and thinking it had a shiny new sound to it... But with a good old fashioned vintage feel to it. I heard influences of David Bowie, Kiss, Alice Cooper, and many more greats. It wasn't like the other music that was big at the time like boy bands, pop punk, or even nu metal. It was a gem in a world where music was just getting worse and all sounded the same and generic.
As far as the track listing goes this is in my opinion the most solid album by Marilyn Manson. It didn't have as many filler songs as Anti-christ superstar had and it was something that while coming very close, he may never have quite nailed again with his subsequent releases. This IS my favorite Marilyn Manson album. Every single song on it is great in my opinion. From the opening riff of "Great big white world" to the fading echo of "Coma White" this album has it all! I don't care what type of rock you like, this has it all. Rock, Hard Rock, Glam, Industrial, punk, Classic, Acoustic, and more.
To make the album even cooler it had a blue tinted packaging that could be used as a decoder to decode hidden messages inside the album. Which today might not be as cool to me since I am much older, but to a 14 year old kid this was like the coolest thing ever. I could imagine it being alot like one of the classic Led Zeppelin album covers like "Physical Graffiti" where you had interchangable pictures in the windows on the album cover. But we all know that gimmicks don't make a great album, so what makes this such a great album? Well its the content of the record itself! The Music!
The album itself is consists of 14 tracks. While the album is solid, it does have a split feel to it. While there is really no specific pattern, it does seem that the earlier songs are the heavier songs, and the last half is more of the darker songs. But overall this album is not as dark as say "Holywood". In many ways it is his least dark album and in other ways it is the most dark. But the darkness portrayed in this album is like a very bright colored darkness. Like being in the underworld of a very bright and populated city. It is by no means a "gothic" album. It is an album about modern day addictions and depressions. About the things in our life that we think make us happy but can never understand why we are so sad all the time. Even though this album came out in 1998, I would say it is more relevant in today's society with all of our addictions to technology and painkillers.
Here is the track list:
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"
I am not going to go into detail on each song because I believe this is an album that needs to be listened to as a whole without any predetermined thoughts or ideas as to which songs are better than others. I think that might ruin the experience. But this is my review of Marilyn Manson's Mechanical Animals album.
best
2009-05-05 - I grew up int the hay day of Manson. The first time I heard ANTICHRIST I was blown away by the lyrics and music collaboration. On this album he stepped it up a notch, the music is tamer than on ANTICHRIST. I feel personally that this is Manson's led zeppelin 3! I have had this album on cassette since it came out, thought it was time to upgrade. The tape was wearing out. Almost every song is amazing on it, lyrically and musically. I put it at the top of MANSON'S albums. A must have for any Manson fan!!
