Marilyn Manson - Smells Like Children

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Release date: 16 October 2006

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Marilyn Manson - Smells Like Children: Wikipedia Album Entry

Personnel: Reverend Marilyn Manson (vocals); Daisy Berkowitz (guitar); Twiggy Ramirez (bass); Ginger Fish (drums); Madonna Wayne Gacy, Tony F. Wiggins.
A year on from Portrait of an American Family, Marilyn Manson released the stopgap EP Smells Like Children. Where the full-length debut showed sparks of character and invention beneath industrial metal sludge, Smells Like Children is a smartly crafted horror show, filled with vulgarity, ugliness, goth freaks, and sideshow scares. Manson wisely chose to heighten his cartoonish personality with the EP. Most of the record is devoted to spoken words and samples, all designed to push to the outrage buttons of middle America. Between those sonic collages arrives one new song, retitled remixes of Portrait songs -- "Kiddie Grinder," "Everlasting C*********," "Dance of the Dope Hats," "White Trash" -- and three covers ("Sweet Dreams," "I Put a Spell on You," "Rock 'n' Roll Nigger"), all given a trademark spooky makeover. Musically, it may not amount to much -- it's goth-metal-industrial, as good as the "Dope Hat," "Lunch Box," and "Cake and Sodomy" trilogy that distinguished the debut -- but as a sonic sculpture, as an objet d'art, it's effective and wickedly fascinating. It's exactly what Brian Warner needed to do to establish Marilyn Manson as America's bogeyman for the late '90s. [And it also helped enhance his myth for his fans. Smells Like Children originally was released promotionally, complete with unauthorized Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory samples and other unapproved sound bites. It was pulled, censored, and re-edited ("Abuse, Pt. 1" and "Abuse, Pt. 2" were removed from the EP) before it was officially released in October 1995, and the original promo copies became valuable collectibles and the most bootlegged item in the Manson catalog

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Marilyn Manson - Smells Like Children Lyrics

Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams Lyrics

Sweet dreams are made of these
Who am I to disagree?
Travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something

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Marilyn Manson - I Put A Spell On You Lyrics

I put a spell on you
Because you're mine
I can't stand the things that you do
No, no, no, I ain't lyin' no

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Marilyn Manson - Rock'n'roll Nigger Lyrics

And the world spreads its legs
And the world spreads its legs
For another fuckin' star
'Cause I am the All American Antichrist

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Marilyn Manson - White Trash (Remixed By Tony Wiggins) Lyrics

Virgins sold in quantity
"African" American heredity
I'm playin' my guitar and I'm feelin' fine
Why are all the "niggers" in the unemployment line?

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