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Album Description
Four years since his last studio album, and following up on his highest charting radio single ever ("Personal Jesus", from Lest We Forget), Marilyn Manson returns with "Eat Me, Drink me". Art openings, soundtrack appearances, and personal circumstance have grabbed headlines for Manson in recent months, setting the stage for the release of Eat Me, Drink Me, which is unquestionably the artist's most personal statement yet. Always the provocateur, in what may be the ultimate subversion of the code of aggro-rock, the songs are immediately catchy - all jagged guitar hooks, anthemic choruses, with an overlying glam-rock sheen. Lyrically Manson has never been more riveting, seemingly having enough to draw from in his own life and from society at large to present a fresh, snarling vision.

Album Description
UK pressing of the Gothic Hard Rocker's 2007 album adds a pair of remixes of 'Heart Shaped Glasses (When The Heart Guides The Hand)' as bonus tracks (Inhuman Remix By Jade Puget and Space Cowboy Remix). Marilyn Manson has made his best album to date. Written and recorded in six months, it's also his most confessional record. Always the provocateur, in what may be the ultimate subversion of the code of Aggro-Rock, the songs are immediately catchy - all jagged guitar hooks, anthemic choruses, with an overlying Glam-Rock sheen. Lyrically Manson has never been more riveting, seemingly having enough to draw from in his own life and from society at large to present a fresh, snarling vision. Polydor.

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3 out of 5 stars

Down the rabbit hole... June 6, 2007
61 out of 65 found this review helpful

("Eat Me, Drink Me" by Marilyn Manson)

I've been saying for years that Marilyn Manson is under-rated (though a bit over-rated by his most ardent fans)--beneath, or along with, the theatrics and makeup, he's actually a world-class satirist on a level with H.L. Mencken at his best. Manson's complex stew of guns, god, government and celebrity is expressed with a razor-sharp lyrical palette of punning metaphors and tossed-off references to history and religion. I've found it a bit disappointing that he's eagerly cultivated a fan base of Ozz-festing, beer-bonging, fake-tribal tatooing overgrown adolescents who use the word "fag" without referring to cigarettes. With Eat Me, Drink Me, Manson seems to have abandoned many of his best attitudes and ideas in favor of rote, mid-tempo goth/glam rockers that obsess over the former Antichrist Superstar's lousy love life.

Imagine, if you will, sitting on a bar stool next to an absinthe-swilling vampire endlesssly talking about how, for him, love is death, which caused him to seperate from his ultra-hot burlesque star of a trophy wife in favor of a just as hot but younger actress. Could you possibly feel sorry for this guy? Granted, Manson probably doesn't care if you feel sorry for him--he just enjoys saying woe-is-me in the most florid language he can muster: "It started so tragic as a slaughterhouse/She pressed the knife against your heart/And said 'I love you' so much you must kill me now..." (from "If I Was Your Vampire"). Or how about "She blew me her death-kiss/and the mouth-marks/Bled down my eye,/Like her dying/On my windshield/I can already feel/Her worms eating my spine..." ("Just a Car Crash Away")? It doesn't help matters when much of this is delivered in a raspy croak that, I suppose, is supposed to suggest the grave but instead is more like too much sleep.

There are more than a few, pardon the phrase, "saving graces" to the album, however. The guitar playing and solos are usually excellent and striking, and Manson's penchant for strong melodies withbig choruses and hooks remain undiminished, even if they're often buried in bass-heavy sludge. Breaking away somewhat from the general theme of the album are a pair of songs that clearly evoke his current interest in Lewis Carrol--his debut as a film director, the Carrol biopic "Phantasmagoria", is due to be released sometime this year--"Are You the Rabbit?" and the title track take him outside his self-imposed dungeon somewhat. The song "You and Me and the Devil Makes 3", although still obsessing over love (or the lack thereof), is more up-tempo and industrialized, reminding me of his high-water mark (for me, anyway) Holy Wood (In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death), with lyrics that offer a taste of Manson's lyrical strengths: "hell flavored, I've got mood poisoning/You must be something that I hate..." He continues, "There's not a word for what I want to do to you..." and then offers a couple of suggestions, chanting "Murdercute Happyrape." Hey, we're talking about Marilyn Manson here, not Conor freakin' Oberst.

While this, for me, is Manson's weakest effort since the under-baked Bowie-isms of Mechanical Animals, I still haven't given up on the ghoul. While this new album is largely an excercise in leaden, lovelorn goth, there are glimpses of the "Man That You Fear" that prove he's also still someone to admire, as well.

4 out of 5 stars

DISTURBINGLY Good... June 10, 2007
17 out of 24 found this review helpful

I have to admit Manson has impressed me. At one point I thought he was a flash in the pan, shock jock. I felt AntiChrist Superstar was his ace in the hole and that he was on a rapid decline ever since. But "Golden Age of Grotesque" was a pleasant surprise. Heavy, original and chock full of hooks. Then he follows that solid effort with "Eat Me Drink Me, a somewhat more subdued, dour affair dealing with the sudden end of a personal relationship. "Eat Me Drink Me" is good, though it requires a couple listens and is quite depressing. But the songwriting is excellent, the lyrics, riffs and melodies are very cool and the guitars sound wicked. Manson is one of the few artists in rock that has gotten better with age and experience even if those experiences are not always pleasant for him...

1 out of 5 stars

Garbage June 5, 2007
15 out of 20 found this review helpful

"Eat Me, Drink Me", the new album from Marilyn Manson is nothing short of a complete trainwreck. Anything and everything that once made this band special is now gone. And it was a BAND ot one time, Mr. Warner. Try and remember that. With all of the core songwriters now fired from the line-up, Manson and former KMFDM member Tim Skold are left to pursue their every ill concieved "creative" notion. The end result is bland, boring, pathetic and a huge let down for long time fans.

Try to imagine Marilyn Manson walking into the vocal both, half drunk and just winging his vocals... sound scary? Well guess what? That's basically what he did. The majority of the vocals and lyrics were written on the fly and then immediately recorded. In interviews, Manson has indicated that he "experimented" vocally and was "really singing" on this record. The fact is, his approach and tonality are exactly the same as they always were, but hurried and haphazard due to the lack of planning. Certainly, there have been many great musicians throughout history who could operate on this level. Manson is NOT one of them. His (and the band's) best work always felt very calculated, but still had enough of a raw edge to make it work. The songs on "Eat Me, Drink Me" are just plain raw. As in raw meat that shouldn't be consumed or it will make you vomit.

The entire recording is sub-par. Ginger Fish doesn't appear on the album, so all of the drum sounds are programmed and sound like patches that Al Jorgenson would have rejected in 1988. There really aren't many keyboard sounds as compared to past Manson albums and the ones that are there don't come anywhere close to the imaginative and unique style that Madonna Wayne Gacy brought to the table. Tim Skold must really think he is a jack of all trades in a rock band. Producer, guitarist, bassist and programmer? Sounds like alot to consider without outiside opinion to help examine your work. And Skold really could have used a better pair of ears than his friend Marilyn's. All of the bass playing comes off like some kind of impotent attempt to mimic Twiggy's old style, but just falls short; sounding sloppy and uninspired. As for the guitar playing... wow. There are few CDs you are going to here in 2007 with more misplaced and ill advised guitar solos. Usually, when a lead guitarist goes wanking about, it's because they can play there instrument very well and want to make sure everybody knows just how good they are. The problem here is, Tim Skold isn't good enough to solo for measure after measure and retain your attention! And when you can't even write a decent song, why worry about a solo section!?

Nothing about this recording stands up to the previous work released by Marilyn Manson. Nor does it stand up to the current heavy music scene, which is even sadder to say. "Eat Me, Drink Me" is just a by the numbers rock and roll album that could have been recorded by any two goth guys in any basement in America. Too bad.

2 out of 5 stars

Disappointing June 6, 2007
13 out of 31 found this review helpful

It's been a bit of a while since we heard anything substancial out of Marilyn Manson (musicly or otherwise), which makes the anticipation of "Eat Me, Drink Me" all the higher. "The Golden Age of Grotesque" was nothing compared to his best albums, "Antichrist Superstar" and "Holy Wood", and "Eat Me, Drink Me" marks somewhat of another departure from the sound that garnered him so much fame in the first place, yet retains the same kind of flaws that were so prevelant with "Golden Age...". Opening track "If I Was Your Vampire" is just plain annoying, while "They Said That Hell's Not Hot", "Mutilation is the Sincere Form of Flattery", and "You and Me and the Devil Makes 3" are more cliche and parody than anything else. Manson's vocals are tired sounding and his lyrics are more inane now than ever before, while the music itself is downtuned and uninspired. "Eat Me, Drink Me" does offer some redeeming qualities in the form of the closing title track, but there's nothing here that you haven't heard before, and haven't heard better either. Very disappointing.

4 out of 5 stars

Manson offers another solid album June 6, 2007
10 out of 17 found this review helpful

Marilyn Manson's sixth studio album "Eat Me Drink Me" (2007) marks Brian Warner's (Marilyn Manson) second collaboration with KMFDM/Shotgun Messiah singer/guitarist Tim Skold (who played bass on '03s "The Golden Age of Grotesque.") The album also marks Manson's first release without founding member Madonna Wayne Gacy (keyboards). Absent from the album are current drummer Ginger Fish (who's been with the band since 1996's "Antichrist Superstar") and John 5 (who first appeared on 2000s "HolyWood") who was let go from the lineup a few years ago. As Manson and Skold wrote every song and play every instrument (although the liner notes don't actually indicate who else could have played on the album) "Eat Me, Drink Me" can be seen as strictly a Skold/Warner collaboration.

"Eat Me, Drink Me" is not a radical departure from Manson's previous work, but as with each and every Manson album, Warner mixes it up a bit giving "Eat Me, Drink Me" its own unique flavor. Compared to Manson's past work, "Eat Me, Drink Me" is more stripped-down, more meat-and-potatoes and less bombastic, and maybe a little heavier on melody. The album has a more immediate, organic live feel. While Skold may not be the technically proficient guitar wiz that John 5 is, his work on "Eat Me, Drink Me" is still pretty impressive, as his solos and playing sound great.

While the album is certainly dark and ghoulish, the shock element is toned down a tad. While past Manson album's dealt with more universal themes concerning God, religion, society's obsession with celebrities, etc, "Eat Me, Drink Me" is less concerned with heavy-handed issues. "Eat Me, Drink Me" reads more like a dairy from Warner himself. In Manson's own words, the album has a "total human element." For that reason I think it's more of an honest, personal reflective album. In its own way the album is almost romantic, as Manson has noted that "Eat Me, Drink Me" is an album to "seduce somebody."

"Eat Me, Drink Me" opens with the brooding "If I was your Vampire" which took me a few listens to really dig. Right away you know that "Eat Me, Drink Me" is going to be more raw and personal than what Manson usually offers. The album picks up the pace with the rocking "Putting Holes in Happiness." The outstanding "The Red Carpet Grave," follows next, which wouldn't have sounded out of place on Black Sabbath's "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" or "Sabotage." While the song has a good groove, the underlying keyboards interspersed throughout make it really work. "They Said that Hell's Not Hot" is one of Manson's most personal songs to date. Likely inspired by his recent divorce, Manson/Warner lets his guard down and discusses the broken heartedness that relationships create. Another song about relationships gone-wrong, in the sluggish melancholy "Just a Car Crash Away," Manson offers one of the most heart-felt vocal performances of his career. Easily one of Manson's best songs to-date, "Heart Shaped Glasses" is hauntingly romantic and just kind of gets under your skin. The brooding "Evidence" is effective and gets the album moving along. The bland "Are you the Rabbit," while not bad, is just sort of filler, by-the-numbers Manson. The rocking "Mutilation is the Most Sincere form of Flattery" gets the album back on track. The songs' industrial backbone is quite infectious as is its catchy lyrics. "You and Me and the Devil Makes 3" is another one of the albums' best tracks. It's just really bizarre and kind of "out-there," but also really infectious. The albums' off-beat title-track "Eat Me, Drink Me" is rather abstract with its meaning open to interpretation. A cool song, it's a good way to round out the album.

Brian Warner may get a lot of heat for leaving behind some of the people that helped him along the way (Zim Zum, John 5, Twiggy, Madonna Wayne Gacy, etc) but where credit is due, he, along with Skold, made a pretty cool CD. While "Eat Me, Drink Me" may not propel Manson to the status that he enjoyed ten years ago, it's still a great CD that proves that Manson is still a viable artist. In fact, I would argue that Manson is one of the few remaining "rock-stars" around of any interest. While I'd in all honesty rank "Eat Me, Drink Me" below Manson's brilliant trilogy, (AS/MA/HW) I'd definitely still recommend this CD.

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