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List Price: $21.98 | | Label: Interscope Records
Salesrank: 38386
Released: May 26, 2009 |
| Our Price: $6.99 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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The High End of Low (Deluxe Edition) Track Listing:
1. Devour
2. Pretty as a ($)
3. Leave a Scar
4. Four Rusted Horses
5. Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon
6. Blank and White
7. Running to the Edge of the World
8. I Want to Kill You Like They Do In the Movies
9. WOW
10. Wight Spider
11. Unkillable Monster
12. We're From America
13. I Have to Look Up Just to See Hell
14. Into the Fire
15. 15
16. Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon (Teddy Bears remix)
17. Leave a Scar (Alternate Version)
18. Running to the Edge of the World (Alternate Version)
19. Wight Spider (Alternate Version)
20. Four Rusted Horses (Opening Titles Version)
21. I Have to Look Up Just to See Hell (Alternate Version)
Editorial Review:
DELUXE EDITION - CONTAINS SIX BONUS TRACKS!
Marilyn Manson's anticipated reunion with longtime friend and foil Twiggy Ramirez inches closer with the release of "We're From America," the first listen from the forthcoming The High End of Low. The album's official first single "Arma... geddon" will arrive at radio Spring 2009. Manson's new lineup including Ramirez (for the first time in close to a decade), plus keyboardist Chris Vrenna, and dummer Ginger Fish, will close the main stage at the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, this July through August. Manson will also kick off his world tour with a headline festival run this June in Europe
Produced by Manson, Vrenna,and Twiggy, The High End of Low was recorded in his Hollywood Hills studio and also features the track, "I Want to Kill You Like They Do In The Movies." Manson says of the new album, "I think my life definitely ended and began. The record sounds very final, but it's almost optimistic - though that feels like a strange word to use. It's a phoenix from the fire and a redemption resurrection."
Since emerging from South Florida (in the early 1990s), Marilyn Manson has continued to upend the mainstream with each new release. The tumultuous relationship Manson has cultivated with the public worldwide has resulted in multi-million records sales, sold-out tours, protests, legal battles, hate, adoration, award-winning distilled spirits (Mansinthe) and most importantly, a long list of some of the most enduring and genre-defying music in the rock era ("Lunchbox," "Sweet Dreams," "The Beautiful People," "Tourniquet," "The Dope Show," "This Is The New Shit," "Mobscene," "Heart-Shaped Glasses,"etc.) The new era of Marilyn Manson and The High End of Low begins now.
The High End of Low (Deluxe Edition) Reviews:
A big step up from the last album, but still below par 
2009-11-04 - I've been a longtime fan of Manson's. I think his "trilogy" of Antichrist Superstar, Mechanical Animals and Holy Wood are some of the smartest, most intense and awesome albums I've ever owned. Manson was often accused of being all image with no substance, but anyone who had actually sat down and soaked in one of those three albums knew better. However, it seems the once false accusation has slowly become more true over the years. From 1994 to 2001, Manson had more substance than most artists out at the time, but since 2003 it seems he's slowly become less inspired. The Golden Age Of Grotesque was a solid album, but fell short of the magic Manson had once captured, and his "solo" effort in 2007, Eat Me Drink Me, was a borderline disaster. But I still had high hopes for Manson after he reunited with drummer Ginger Fish and longtime co-writer Twiggy Ramirez (who left the band 7 years earlier). Even more exciting, on several occasions Manson claimed that this upcoming album was much closer to Antichrist Superstar and had some of the best songs he'd ever written. That's a pretty big statement, but I thought it had to be better than the last album. I was right, but not as right as I'd like to have been...
First off, this album DOES NOT sound anything like Antichrist Superstar. That album was brilliant...this album is decent. While I didn't expect Manson to put out the same album again, I was hoping he would be inspired enough to come up with a solid theme for the album, and fill it with mean guitar riffs, creepy melodies, and poetic lyrics. Instead Manson is still blah-blah-blahing about drugs and bored sex. Ok Manson, you get laid a lot, good for you. Even the album cover is far less interesting than his past attempts, it looks like a random photo session for Spin magazine or something. Like Manson's last couple albums, the booklet is filled with about 500 pictures of him and 1 picture of Twiggy, which tells me that Manson is probably too in love with himself to really focus on having something to say.
Ok, ok, I've been hard enough on the album. It's still a decent release, so let's talk about the music. It opens with Devour, which has an interesting guitar melody that isn't what you would expect, but the song is a bit slow and kinda drags. Pretty As A Swastika is the heaviest song Manson has done since 2003, and it's definitely one of the album's stronger tracks. Leave A Scar seems very radio friendly, not bad but not that great either. Four Rusted Horses is very different, almost like a Johnny Cash tune. While this is not your standard Manson song, it makes it unique and gives it some appeal, and it has a nice chorus. Arma...geddon really bored me on the first couple listens because it sounds like something Manson has done at least a dozen times before. However it grows on you and it's nearly impossible to get it out of your head once it gets in there. Blank And White is somewhat heavier, but it's forgettable. Running To The Edge Of The World is a very mellow tune, but is one of the few tracks on here that offers some emotion and seems like Manson was feeling creative when it was written. I Want To Kill You Like They Do In The Movies is very dark, but it's boring and drags on for 9 minutes while rarely changing direction. WOW is another standout song, it doesn't offer much lyrically but it's a very twisted and catchy tune. Wight Spider is kinda repetitive, but I like it and it probably sounds good live. Unkillable Monster is pretty boring, kinda like something from the last album. We're From America is a bit more like the Manson from several years ago, and it's another standout on the album. It's fairly heavy and it'll get stuck in your head, however I am pretty burnt out on rockstars whining about how evil America is. Things get boring again with I Have To Look Up Just To See Hell, probably another left-over from the last album. Into The Fire is unique but seems over-dramatic somehow, it doesn't do much for me. The album closes with 15, and it offers up a lot of new sounds. It's a pretty interesting song but I'm not sure it'll leave a lasting impression. So there you go, about 9 decent songs out of 15. Obviously the album is a redemption from the last, but Manson still has a lot of climbing to do before he gets back to what he once was.
Not the MANSON we might have been expecting...
2009-10-26 - (3 1/2 start) Maybe "Manson Lite" but a marked improvement over, in my opinion, the dreadful Eat Me, Drink Me. I have not listened to this since my first listen a couple weeks after its release in May/2009. Taking advice from another reviewer, and after listening thoroughly to Golden Age of Grotesque (see review), I am giving this repeated listening, and am finding it grow on me, and enjoying it for what it is: Marilyn getting his Manson back.
Yet, after statements from Manson like: "I just feel like there is a big change happening now. It's going to be the one. Eat Me, Drink Me is opening the window and this is going to be the Hurricane Katrina." and "I've got my fire back," and this album "really wipes the floor with everything we've done before." I feel they do not deliver on what they promised, but they are on their way back. Definitely. Maybe lay off the Absinthe, Marilyn (making you sluggish?).
Still, I support him as an artist and what he brings to the World, if you will. Have everything by him, except "Portrait of an American Family" (which, worry not, I WILL be obtaining.)
Give it, at least, 3 revolutions, then see what you think of this one.
Looking forward to the next Manson (sans any girlfriends tempering his nihilistic drive!)
cheers!
the geezer still gots it 
2009-10-19 - I enjoyed this album quite alot. Its not as agressively psychotic as earlier efforts, but its still decent music and I for one appreciate that. Ill just point out that 40 is not actualy that old. MM has half his life left probably. Why should a supremely talented and highly skilled musician be considered washed up at such a young age? What if Beethoven quit at 40? No ninth symphony. MM is still capable of tremendous work and should be considered a national treasure along the lines of a hemingway or walt whitman.
Okay little girls, enjoy your spooky soft rock. 
2009-10-08 - Marilyn Manson music should be, with few exceptions, heavy industrial shock rock with witty, satirical lyrics, not some washed up 40 year old man in dopey clown makeup whining about his ex girlfriend.
Another lame album made by the king of cross dressers
2009-09-25 - Marilyn Manson is a greedy capitalist, dont be fooled. Listen to real metal if you've heard of such a thing.
