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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Nothing
Salesrank: 195024
Released: May 13, 2003 |
| Our Price: $2.99 |
| Used Price: $1.03 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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The Golden Age Of Grotesque Track Listing:
1. This Is The New Sh*t
2. mOBSCENE
3. Doll-Dagga Buzz-Buzz Ziggety-Zag
4. Use Your Fist And Not Your Mouth
5. The Golden Age Of Grotesque
6. (s)AINT
7. Ka-Boom Ka-Boom
8. Slutgarden
9. Spade
10. Para-noir
11. The Bright Young Things
12. Better Of Two Evils
13. Vodevil
14. Obsequy (The Death Of Art)
Editorial Review:
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
The Golden Age Of Grotesque Reviews:
Aha 
2009-10-13 - This was Manson's second #1 charting album. I saw him live on Oxfest for the tour of this album and couldn't take them seriously anymore. Outside of the New Hit and Spade, they're just all washed up. Visually, the band's photos border on homo eroticism. The controversial days of Manson are over, as he like King Diamond stuck around for too long. While Manson and his band were briefly icons of metal in 1996 and 97, they lost their ability to shock people with their music. Mamson is not gothic, they're an Ozzy Osbourne style shock rock act. New Stryper is better than this supposed Satanist Manson. Satanism is no longer shocking either since the passing of Anton Lavey in 1997. I remember when Manson was not only cool but scary. I gave up on Manson.
my favorite manson album. 
2006-07-01 - the unedited version is better.i just got this one so i can listen to it with my parent and sister around.my favorite song is dolldagga buzzbuzz ziggety zag.
Uh, yeah...
2006-04-22 - For a review of the album, look to the standard version of this album on Amazon. This review is for anyone specifically interested in the 'clean' version; presumably, collectors or people unable, for whatever reason, to get the standard version. If you're a parent considering wether to buy an edited or an explicit version of this album, despite what you've heard about Marilyn Manson, go with the explicit. With the exception of the song 'Para-Noir' -- a song which is completely ruined by the ommitance of the word 'f***' (look up the lyrics to see what i mean)-- cuss words aren't really an issue here, as this has got to be Marilyn Manson's least threatening recording ever.
As a collector of Marilyn Manson's music, i was eager to get this. The differences between this and the standard version are the censorship of some swears throughout the album (cusses are warped with effects, ommitted altogether, or, in the case of 'This Is The New Hit', replaced), and most cuss words in the lyrics artwork have been censored with asterisks (although 'wh**e' and 'b***h' are printed and sung without censorship)
The following songs have been censored:'This Is The New *Hit', 'mOBSCENE', 'The Golden Age of Grotesque', '(s)AINT', 'Sl*tgarden', 'Para-Noir', 'The Bright Young Things', 'Better of Two Evils'.
Get this if you, too, are a collector, or if you want to hear Marilyn Manson's music spoilt and interupted by censorship. God knows why a clean version of this was released. 'This Is The New *Hit' would be the only reason for a fan to buy this, but this version of the song can be heard in the music video (available with the special edition version of 'Lest We Forget' (a 'Best Of' collection with an awesome bonus music video DVD)).
Great album when it's not edited
2005-03-28 - The Golden age of Grotesque is the first Manson album I ever bought, and it remains one of my favorites. The songs are heavy, and full of anger, but the lyrics are not as dark AcS, MA, or Holy Wood. The only swear words that are edited out of this cd are f***, and s***, so you still hear whore and bitch. If you have ever heard an edited album, then you know how annoying it is. I would suggest you buy the explicit version instead, if you can. I only bought this version because I am a minor and I was alone. I would give the unedited version 4 1/2 stars.
