Marilyn Manson Portrait of an American Family
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DrGonzo1937
Staff Reviewer
October 11th 2017


18338 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Really never understood the fuss with this one

TVC15
October 11th 2017


11372 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

The guitar tone on Cake and Sodomy and Lunchbox is so good.

DarkSideOfLucca
October 11th 2017


18159 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

@DrGonzo- Were you paying attention when this first came out or did you listen to this recently?



Shit was bonkers back in the day

TVC15
October 11th 2017


11372 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Looking back it's nothing spectacular but it's just a really great industrial rock album

DarkSideOfLucca
October 11th 2017


18159 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

The album itself is nothing too wild but Manson's persona at the time plus the music videos plus the reaction made this super memorable imo



Antichrist Superstar is where he really gets going, though

DominionMM1
October 11th 2017


21153 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

best manson by far

DarkSideOfLucca
October 11th 2017


18159 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

...what???



Every album in the trilogy destroys this in every conceivable way, but this is a fun time

DominionMM1
October 11th 2017


21153 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

nah this is relatively raw with a punk rock feel to it. pretty much everything after is sterile, plastic trash.

DarkSideOfLucca
October 11th 2017


18159 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

I respect your opinion but that is a garbage opinion

DominionMM1
October 11th 2017


21153 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

cool man

DarkSideOfLucca
October 11th 2017


18159 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

If I knew how to type a "heart" I would

DominionMM1
October 12th 2017


21153 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

aw sug

DrGonzo1937
Staff Reviewer
October 12th 2017


18338 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

"@DrGonzo- Were you paying attention when this first came out or did you listen to this recently?"



I didn't get into Manson until Antichrist came out, so I came to this one quite late on. And it just lacks any identity to me. I don't want to seem like some edgy cunt or tell people what they are feeling or anything, but a lot of people I've spoken to about this album seem to look at this record with their nostalgia goggles on. Not that I'm diminishing anyone's enjoyment of the album, it's just I can see people latching onto this for the "memories" than for great song-writing. Either that or they like it for its lack of what we're used to hearing from Manson these days.



Edit: Dominion is gonna tear me a new one for saying that. haha

DarkSideOfLucca
October 12th 2017


18159 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Fair, I mostly like this for nostalgia purposes

DrGonzo1937
Staff Reviewer
October 12th 2017


18338 Comments

Album Rating: 3.0

Not a bad record by any means, just nowhere near the same levels he reaches after this.

artiswar
October 12th 2017


13671 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

I remember running around the playground trying to kiss girls with this in my CD player. Nowhere near as good as what came after but it's a fun saucy record.

cold
October 12th 2017


6726 Comments


I'm a fan of the lyrics on this album. "Cake And Sodomy" has some of the best lyrics he's written.

DominionMM1
October 13th 2017


21153 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

a fair amount of my appreciation for this is nostalgia but like i said i enjoy the more punk rock attitude of this compared to the more mechanical stuff that came after. this was the only record he had when i started listening so this is the one i latched on to first. then we did all we could to track down the old demos which we also dug. I mean I really dug acs when it came out but my appreciation wore off pretty quickly.

TVC15
December 2nd 2017


11372 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

The classic rock radio has started playing songs from the early 90s, and as weird as hearing some songs on that airwave is, it was very strange hearing Lunchbox on the classic rock station today

TVC15
August 31st 2018


11372 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

This uhhhhh just became my second fav Manson album, just behind Holy Wood. His second most consistent album (edges out Antichrist Superstar just because the second cycle songs have really grown off me with time); I think the samples make the songs darker and creepier rather than making the songs sound silly, it's like turning on an old tv and watching Manson-ified public access television and low budget B-horror movies made by a gang of satanic hippies. Cake and Sodomy, Lunchbox, Dogma, and My Monkey are all top tier Manson songs too



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