I don't follow Manson's career anymore but Portrait of an American Family will always have a special place on my musical journey. I graduated high school the year it came out. I played the hell out of that tape, lent it to a friend, bought another copy one because I missed it, and then bought the CD when I got a CD player for my car.
The album was raw in the way that the deep cuts on Guns n' Roses' Appetite for Destruction were raw years before. Kind of like an industrial rock version of that album. Great samples used throughout, it's a fun and trashy trip.
Antichrist Superstar was pretty good but took itself too seriously in comparison. Mechanical Animals had some decent songs but wasn't very engaging. I never listened to anything beyond that.
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