2020 unofficial import reissue - Antichrist Superstar performed its intended purpose -- it made Marilyn Manson internationally famous, a living realization of his fictional "antichrist superstar." He had gained the attention of not only rock fans, but the public at large; however, many critics bestowed their praise not on the former Brian Warner, but on Trent Reznor, Manson's mentor and producer. Surely angered by the attention being focused elsewhere, he decided to break from Reznor and industrial metal with his third album, Mechanical Animals. Taking his image and musical cues from Bowie, Warner reworked Marilyn Manson into a sleek, androgynous space alien named Omega, à la Ziggy Stardust, and constructed a glammy variation of his trademark goth metal. With pal Billy Corgan as an unofficial consultant and Soundgarden producer Michael Beinhorn manning the boards, Manson turns Mechanical Animals into a big, clean rock record -- the kind that stands in direct opposition to the dark, twisted industrial nightmares he painted with his first two albums. It can make for a welcome change of pace, since his glammed-up goth is more tuneful than his clattering industrial cacophony, but it lacks the cartoonish menace that distinguished his prior music.
NOTE: The running order is unique to this format, reflecting the division of the tracks into distinct albums: 'Mechanical Animals' by Marilyn Manson, and 'Omega and the Mechanical Animals', which is presented as a production by Manson's alter ego Omega.
| A1 | Great Big White World |
| A2 | Posthuman |
| A3 | The Speed Of Pain |
| A4 | The Last Day On Earth |
| B5 | Disassociative |
| B6 | Mechanical Animals |
| B7 | Coma White |
| C1 | The Dope Show |
| C2 | Rock Is Dead |
| C3 | I Want To Disappear |
| C4 | Fundamentally Loathsome |
| D5 | I Don't Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me) |
| D6 | New Model No. 15 |
| D7 | User Friendly |
