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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Nothing
Salesrank: 19483
Released: May 13, 2003 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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The Golden Age of Grotesque Track Listing:
1. Theater
2. This Is The New Sh*t
3. mOBSCENE
4. Doll-Dagga Buzz-Buzz Ziggety-Zag
5. Use Your Fist And Not Your Mouth
6. The Golden Age Of Grotesque
7. (s)AINT
8. Ka-Boom Ka-Boom
9. Slutgarden
10. Spade
11. Para-noir
12. The Bright Young Things
13. Better Of Two Evils
14. Vodevil
15. 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:
CYBERPUNK/INDUSTRIAL ROCK 
2009-10-26 - Marilyn Manson is the rockstar we all wish we could be. He does and says whatever he wants...whenever he wants. This album is loaded with fantastic and confrontational lyrics and hard hitting industrial beats all put nicely to a pseudo "rap" cyberpunk approach. A fun and outrageous endeavor....awesome album indeed MR. Manson.
3rd Best !! I guess. 
2009-10-26 - Love the Manson man! Got everything but "Portrait." This one has grown on me so that I enjoy it more and more. I liked it on the first go through, and I like it even MORE, now that I've listened a number of times. "New Sh*#" and "Mobscene" are terrific songs, love 'em, but there are a lot of great tracks. Largely, I like all of the songs, with the slow/ballad-type songs not being listened to as much. Manson is a treasure. The Antidote to Pollyanna self-help world. I'd know. I was a once-upon-a-time "think positive," "self-help" junkie! Cheers!
(PS--now going to go give High End of Low some more listens and see if it grows on me.)
(PPS--oh, for me, 1st is Antichrist Superstar, then "Holy Wood".)
A Major Improvement!!!
2009-02-20 - This is my 9th Marilyn Manson CD and it's a lot better than others! My favorite songs are This is the New S**t, Mobscene, Use Your Fist And Not Your Mouth, The Golden Age of Grotesque, The Bright Young Things and Para-noir. Still, my two favorite Manson Cds are Eat Me, Drink Me, and Lest We Forget! If you are a goth and love Marilyn Manson, you'll love THE GOLDEN AGE OF GROTESQUE!!!
This is where the wheels came off. 
2008-04-04 - This album sucks, and the next two albums sucked ever harder....this is the beginning of the end for Manson. The songs on this album are bland, they all sound the same for the most part and are just lame. Buy this only if you want to have all his albums.
Crazy
2007-11-06 - This is the MM that the public hates! Just my taste. It is much more enjoyable than his newest disk.
