marilyn manson 1994 - 2011
so after a near decade of being teased by my best NY friend Marisa, for being a devoted Marilyn Manson fan , something in the last few months made her curious to give his music a chance, and between my and her fiances ipods she is going through a 2011 Manson obsession and I love it.
she has me currently making her a manson mix CD of what I believe to be his best music, she also has me telling all of my stories that span from 1994 - 1999 what was basically the beginning to the end of what was both the greatest period of time of Manson's music as well as the period of time which I was most actively following the band.
i am sure everyone above the age of 14 (especially in this new internet age) can think of a band, musician or act which they got into when the artist or group was not very popular at all, then before your eyes you see them become pretty famous.
for me , Manson kinda takes the cake as far as having watched them go from a completely underground band from Miami, to the fame and stardom which he and the various bandmates achieved or lost over a period of what is now going on 2 decades.
it is always neat to see a local act, or an opening act get big. . I have watched lots of small bands play in the New Brunswick NJ Basement shows, which , everyone should know are just that, shows that are played in somebodies unfinished musky basement. I remember seeing someone in Nashville, and also in Oakland wearing a t shirt for "The Ergs!", and also when flipping through MTV randomly caught the Screaming Females performing live for some summer rock festival live for MTV. what was intriguing about this to me was that not only had i seen both of these bands play in many basement show performances, but my old roommate in Jersey City was engaged to this dude Joe, who is the founder and president of both of these bands record label Don Giovanni Records.
now the ergs and Screaming female are not nearly as popular as Manson, and though they both would be categorized as punk rock, which I generally prefer over pop-industrial rock, which Marilyn Manson would be considered, but watching them get big kind of ignites the same intrigue which I felt back in the nineties as I watched Manson quickly become a world known superstar.
Nowadays he is not a very active musician, he is getting cocaine-bloat in his face which also comes with age, and though he is still followed by the papparazi, he is not as big as he was like 10 years ago.
Regardless of that, many friends and acquaintances of mine like Gary Amy, Lynzee, Alyx, Ery, my cousin Joe, , XA, Justin, and ALOt of other people have a very unique , and silent understanding between eachother. between 1994 and 1996 , with help of the very new America Online, Marilyn Manson was this very new, very different kind of music from Florida. we signed up for the zine and fanclub and recived porn , bootleg tapes, and tshirts in the mail. It was a filthy, shocking, and for the time explosively cathartic style of music, that for me personally helped me to start standing up to bullies and begin to define a true sense of individuality, for the first time, and so eccentrically for the last time of my life.
i dont even really like that type of music much anymore, except for the first few albums, which i get tired of quickly, but for nostalgic reasons, those songs will always be extremely important , and i come back to them and can always rock out to them. again after enjoying them as this secret thing form florida that no one except me and my friends knew about, to now Marilyn Mandon having his signature , labeled in his wiki page, was definitely fascinating to watch with open eyes this guy go from nothing to stardom.
maybe you all have a similar artist, who you were very fond of before they blew up and found success?
all i know is i have enjoyed creating this CD for Marisa.
so far I have chosen Suicide Snowman, Reflecting God, Dont Like the Drugs, and dope Hat
will be about 18 tracks, any suggestions?
she has me currently making her a manson mix CD of what I believe to be his best music, she also has me telling all of my stories that span from 1994 - 1999 what was basically the beginning to the end of what was both the greatest period of time of Manson's music as well as the period of time which I was most actively following the band.
i am sure everyone above the age of 14 (especially in this new internet age) can think of a band, musician or act which they got into when the artist or group was not very popular at all, then before your eyes you see them become pretty famous.
for me , Manson kinda takes the cake as far as having watched them go from a completely underground band from Miami, to the fame and stardom which he and the various bandmates achieved or lost over a period of what is now going on 2 decades.
it is always neat to see a local act, or an opening act get big. . I have watched lots of small bands play in the New Brunswick NJ Basement shows, which , everyone should know are just that, shows that are played in somebodies unfinished musky basement. I remember seeing someone in Nashville, and also in Oakland wearing a t shirt for "The Ergs!", and also when flipping through MTV randomly caught the Screaming Females performing live for some summer rock festival live for MTV. what was intriguing about this to me was that not only had i seen both of these bands play in many basement show performances, but my old roommate in Jersey City was engaged to this dude Joe, who is the founder and president of both of these bands record label Don Giovanni Records.
now the ergs and Screaming female are not nearly as popular as Manson, and though they both would be categorized as punk rock, which I generally prefer over pop-industrial rock, which Marilyn Manson would be considered, but watching them get big kind of ignites the same intrigue which I felt back in the nineties as I watched Manson quickly become a world known superstar.
Nowadays he is not a very active musician, he is getting cocaine-bloat in his face which also comes with age, and though he is still followed by the papparazi, he is not as big as he was like 10 years ago.
Regardless of that, many friends and acquaintances of mine like Gary Amy, Lynzee, Alyx, Ery, my cousin Joe, , XA, Justin, and ALOt of other people have a very unique , and silent understanding between eachother. between 1994 and 1996 , with help of the very new America Online, Marilyn Manson was this very new, very different kind of music from Florida. we signed up for the zine and fanclub and recived porn , bootleg tapes, and tshirts in the mail. It was a filthy, shocking, and for the time explosively cathartic style of music, that for me personally helped me to start standing up to bullies and begin to define a true sense of individuality, for the first time, and so eccentrically for the last time of my life.
i dont even really like that type of music much anymore, except for the first few albums, which i get tired of quickly, but for nostalgic reasons, those songs will always be extremely important , and i come back to them and can always rock out to them. again after enjoying them as this secret thing form florida that no one except me and my friends knew about, to now Marilyn Mandon having his signature , labeled in his wiki page, was definitely fascinating to watch with open eyes this guy go from nothing to stardom.
maybe you all have a similar artist, who you were very fond of before they blew up and found success?
all i know is i have enjoyed creating this CD for Marisa.
so far I have chosen Suicide Snowman, Reflecting God, Dont Like the Drugs, and dope Hat
will be about 18 tracks, any suggestions?