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| 3.0 good | Britch2tiger | January 14th 16 |
Does anyone out there find it strange how I actually like this album a bit more than Nine Inch Nail's first album? This album has songs that start off pretty well but then suddenly lose their luster w/ too much repetition (mostly in the lyrical department). Cake and Sodomy is one such example: we get it, the name of the song, but you had your first 2 stanzas well-versed and didn't even attempt a third. I know Manson can do better, at least compared to NIN.
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| 3.0 good | medonthaveusername | February 11th 12 |
I thought this album was intresting, sounds the was every artists first album should sound.
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| 3.5 great | Brabiz | June 10th 20 |
Greatly underrated, but not particularly spectacular. This is more grunge-y, and borderline alice in chains sounding than anything else this band did, and it?s a lot of fun.
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| 2.0 poor | Hanusko | May 14th 17 |
Light 2.0
Perfect Soundtrack to 90s trashy B-Horror movie.
It's very obvious, what sound did Manson go for. He just didn't really pull it off that well.
,,Portrait Of An American Family'' suffers from poor songwriting, inconsistency and lackluster instrumentation/production.
Some of these songs sound almost like they were supposed to be just 2 or 3 minutes long, but somebody decided to add another 2 minutes of repetitive/uninteresting/boring stuff. The great example of this is ,,Lunchbox'', ,,Organ Grinder'' ,,Wrapped In Plastic'' ,,Sweet Tooth'' ...But even if the songs don't have this problem they are mostly just not good, most of them miss any memorable element, or any sort of real cohesion. Although there are some good elements going for this album: Manson's freaky appeareance works well with the sound of this record and there are some catchy and well written choruses...and in the end I can enjoy some songs from this...Just not the full HOUR.
Highlights: ,,Cake and Sodomy'', ,,Lunchbox'', ,,Dope hat''and ,,Misery Machine''
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| 4.0 excellent | KevinKC | October 9th 10 |
Marilyn Manson's most underrated album. Oh sorry, there is also Eat me, drink me and Mechanical Animals, Ah Yeah and Holy wood is totally Overrated and...
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| 3.0 good | sharksinyamouth | October 3rd 08 |
When I bought Marilyn Manson?s Lest We Forget album, I loved it. It was such a good greatest hits album, it had me singing along for ages. I think greatest hits albums are great as they show you how the band has changed during their albums. You get a feel of how all the albums have a different sound to each other. The songs on the greatest hits from his debut album, Portrait Of An American Family are, Lunchbox and Get Your Gunn. They are the ones on the Lest We Forget album. They are really good songs, so I thought this debut would be really good. Unfortunately I was disappointed with this album. There is nothing too wrong with it. It is just a bit boring. It?s still a good release but compared to the others, it is the worst MM album up to date. The standout tracks besides the two from Lest We Forget would have to be: Cake And Sodomy and Dope Hat.
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