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 ( Read more... )
she has me currently making her a manson mix CD of what I believe ( Read more... )
ive posted your response to Marisa's facebook you should read and comment!
i literally feel more connected to you Nicole, like incredibly so, because our lives are weirdly similar regarding this.
basically you understand how profound and important Marilyn Manson was for us during the peak of our teenage times. the rebellion, the curiosity, the obsession. Manson was soo new during a time that the radio waves were full of what I believed to be utter garbage.
doesnt it just blow your mind that in that tiny tidbit of time (late 1993 - early 1996) it basically molded who we are today, ingrained extensive into our minds and hearts , and became a gateway into so many other types of music
for me (and this is what i want to know about you) it began with Nirvana and Black Sabbath. before Kurt died I loved Nirvana for being new, rebellious, hard and I wanted to be Kurt. I loved Ozzy Osbourne because they played the Iron Man video on Beevis and Butthead constantly. thats all it took.
and those were my bands for the entire early nineties, and when Kurt died, it was like all i listened to. but all things get old with time, and a highschool year feels like a century, i was searching.
however in the summer at the end of 7th grade. i first listened to and watched Nine Inch Nails on TV, , the song and video for Closer, as well as the pay-per-view (on my friends blackbox) performance of them at Woodstock 2. I was fucking stunned
I give credit to "Closer" as being the true gateway, which led to what would literally become the core of my unending music taste. I remember when my final report card for 7th grade had an A, I reminded my mom that she promised for every A i could get a CD from Bradlees. I bought the downward Spiral sometime in June 1994, and would listen to it in complete secrecy.
my mind was blown. it was a new vulgarity in music that I had never before experienced. me and my friends (including some of the girls you used to go to Rocky Horror with)would purchase more cds and shirts from soundarama, or the wall, or Izzies in Linden, and I still get chills remembering the first days I listened to songs like Closer, Big Man with a Big Gun and Mr Self Destruct. I remember feeling badass in the car ride to red lobster after completing my holy confirmation, and on the walkman listening to heresy.
im sorry i have ranted like this , but the rest is very easy to sum up.
From Nine Inch Nails going to their concert in late 1994, Marilyn Manson opened up, and if it were possible, I was even more intrigued. caught them on Donahue, and the thrill of it all, it was the first itme in my life that a teacher forced me to turn my shirt inside out because it had the Charles Manson quote "this is your world in which we grow, and we will grow to hate you"
it was during this golden era of 1995 that my music taste took dramatic turns. Manson was my favoritenew band but with having acquired my first part time shitty job and learning to starve and save lunch money, i began buying tapes and cds and trading with my friends like crazy., from microsoft relay chat and my first fake aol accounts i met people and bought all kinds of CDS like Ministry, Skinny Puppy, The Cure, bauhaus, Switchblade Symphony, The Legendary Pink Dots, Dead Can Dance, etc etc etc etc.by the time I reached 10th grade i was full on goth nerd. dressed only in black, made out with goth girls from AOL, and would get lipstick on both of our faces, smokes cloves, worse fishnets, etc etc etc
but through it in the peak of it all, it was all about Marilyn Manson, all leading up to the Antichrist superstar album.
after that, inevitably, my favorite bands would change and evolve. Discovering Morrissey and the Smiths in that time was probably the next greatest milestone. seind Bauhaus in 1998 also was at the time one of the most incredible points in my life.
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