Marilyn Manson Portrait of an American Family Vinyl
| Portrait of an American Family | |||||
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| Studio album past Marilyn Manson | |||||
| Released | July 19, 1994 (27 years ago) | ||||
| Recorded | August–December 1993 at Criteria Studios in Miami, Florida, Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles, California, The Village Recorder and Pig | ||||
| Genre | Alternative metal, heavy metal, hard rock | ||||
| Length | 61:05 | ||||
| Characterization | Nothing, Interscope | ||||
| Producer | Marilyn Manson, Trent Reznor | ||||
| Discogs | View at Discogs | ||||
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Portrait of an American Family is the debut full-length studio album by American rock band Marilyn Manson. It was released on July 19, 1994 in the US through Nothing and Interscope Records. It was produced by the ring'due south frontman and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. The album was initially known as The Manson Family unit Album—a straight reference to serial killer Charles Manson'due south own band—but was retitled prior to release.
Information technology is the starting time and merely Marilyn Manson studio album that bassist Gidget Gein plays on. Gein was fired from the band after its production following a very public and destructive heroin addiction and Twiggy Ramirez, the ring's groupie and friend of Gein and Manson, was put as a temporary replacement while Gein got clean and sober. He eventually took over Gein'southward place, becoming a Gein clone. Contrary to popular belief, Ramirez did non play bass on the album. Though Sara Lee Lucas was the featured drummer on the album, Ix Inch Nails live keyboardist Charlie Clouser used a drum auto to replace the work Lucas did. Daisy Berkowitz helped compose music for all of the songs except "Prelude (The Family Trip)" and "Sweet Molar."
The album has sold over ii.5 million copies worldwide and was certified Gold on May 29, 2003 by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipments of over 500,000 copies in the United states.[1] It spawned three singles ("Get Your Gunn", "Lunchbox" and "Dope Chapeau").
In late 2009, it was re-released by Interscope and sold through Hot Topic stores as a special edition box set up combination of a T-shirt bearing the album artwork and a mint-green vinyl LP record of the album. The color of the disc is calorie-free green, nearly matching the coloration of most of the bands fonts at the fourth dimension of the album'south original 1994 release; however, this reissue featured some imagery from The High End of Depression on its label, much to the dismay of fans.[two]
Contents
- ane Groundwork
- 1.1 The Manson Family unit Album
- 2 Themes
- 3 Music
- iii.1 Songs
- 3.2 Samples
- 4 Promotion
- five Release
- 5.ane Singles
- 5.2 Cover and packaging
- vi Reception
- 6.i Critical reception
- seven Portrait of an American Family Tour
- 8 Track listing
- 8.1 Argentinian Bonus tracks
- 9 Album credits
- 10 Cover gallery
- 11 Charts and certifications
- eleven.1 Album charts
- 11.ii Singles
- 12 Trivia
- thirteen Credits and personnel
- 14 References
Groundwork [edit]
The Manson Family Album [edit]
| " | When nosotros were finally finished, Roli had done the opposite of what I'd expected. I thought he was going to bring out some sort of darker element. Only he was trying to polish all the crude edges and brand us more of a stone band, a pop band, which at the time I wasn't interested in at all. I thought the tape we did with him came out bland and lifeless. Trent thought the same matter and then he volunteered to help us repair what had been damaged.[3] | " |
| —Marilyn Manson discussing the aftermath of the album's initial recording sessions. | ||
Recording sessions for its national debut, Portrait of an American Family, began in July 1993. Working with producer Roli Mosimann at Criteria Stundios in Miami, Florida,[3] the ring recorded a selection of new songs along with reworked textile from their Spooky Kids repertoire and, by the end of Autumn 1993, had completed the first version of their debut, a full anthology's worth of material collectively known as The Manson Family Album.[4] At the time, "Snake Eyes and Sissies" was on track to be the band's first single, with a unmarried edit having already been made. Still the ring was simply not satisfied with the output of these recording sessions and shelved the album for a short time.[5]
Within a few months, the band would convince ascent star Trent Reznor to produce the album instead.[half-dozen] The abrasive sonic "rawness" that Mosimann'southward product had brought to such groups as Swans had failed to materialize on The Manson Family Album; Reznor and all the band'due south members idea it "sucked", and was poorly representative of Marilyn Manson's dynamic live performances.[3] [vii] In October 1993, Reznor agreed to fully commit to the project, taking them and their tapes to various studios in Los Angeles. With the help of Reznor and numerous alive members of his ring, 9 Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson re-recorded and reworked their old material until they were satisfied and released it under the proper name Portrait of an American Family.[eight] "Snake Optics and Sissies" would never run across a single release and in the anthology'due south credits Mosimann is credited as an engineer with no mention of his production piece of work.
Years later, sometime guitarist Daisy Berkowitz was asked about these original recordings in an interview and gave the interviewer a cassette tape featuring the unused recordings. The interviewer then released them to the Internet where they are at present widely bachelor, commonly labeled equally Portrait of an American Family (Pre-Reznor Mix) or Portrait of an American Family Demos.
Themes [edit]
The band'southward frontman has discussed his thoughts in hindsight on Portrait of an American Family with Empyrean Mag, circa May/June 1995:
| " | Well, the whole point of [Portrait of an American Family unit] was that I wanted to say a lot of the things I've said in interviews [...] Simply I wanted to address the hypocrisy of talk show America, how morals are worn as a badge to make you look skilful and how it's then much easier to talk virtually your beliefs than to live up to them. I was very much wrapped upwards in the concept that as kids growing upwardly, a lot of the things that nosotros're presented with have deeper meanings than our parents would like u.s.a. to meet, like Willy Wonka and the Brothers Grimm. So what I was trying to indicate out was that when our parents hibernate the truth from u.s., information technology's more than damaging than if they were to expose us to things similar Marilyn Manson in the first place." | " |
| —Marilyn Manson Manson & Strauss 1998, p. 151 | ||
Music [edit]
Songs [edit]
"Cake and Sodomy" is the second runway on the album. In 1990, Manson met a adult female at a McDonald's eatery in Fort Lauderdale who invited him to spend a weekend with her in New York City. Upon discovering that the girl was using her sister's ID because she was also immature to work, Manson abandoned her, shortly after which he ran into 2 clubbers from South Florida. Manson spent the residual of his stay in New York at the clubbers' hotel room, where he stumbled on Public-access television cable TV channels, which were "a completely new miracle" to him. Manson "spent hours flipping through the station, watching Pat Robertson preach virtually society's evils and then enquire people to telephone call him with their credit card number," while "on the other channel, a guy was greasing up his erect with Vaseline and request people to call and give him their credit menu number." This inspired Manson to grab the hotel notepad and begin penning the song'southward lyrics. Manson explains in his autobiography The Long Hard Road Out of Hell that "I had written other songs I idea were proficient, simply "Block and Sodomy" was more than just a good song. As an anthem for the hypocritical America slobbering on the tit of Christianity, it was a pattern for our future bulletin."[ix]
"Lunchbox" is the second single and the tertiary rail of the anthology. Information technology was inspired past a piece of legislation dating back to 1972, which makes information technology illegal to accept metal lunchboxes in schools. The song tells the story of a school age child who is bullied and uses his own lunchbox equally a weapon in retaliation, waiting for the day he can "grow up to be a large stone and whorl star" who is never intimidated by others. The earliest recording of this song dates back to the band's After School Special cassette tape, released in January 1991. The album version of "Lunchbox" samples The Crazy World of Arthur Dark-brown song "Fire".
"Dope Lid" is the third and last unmarried and the sixth track of the anthology. The primeval recording of this vocal dates back to the band's The Family Jams cassette, released in 1992. Whilst the band's keyboardist Madonna Wayne Gacy was given a music credit for the song on Portrait of an American Family, curiously his name is absent from the credits of The Family Jams and Refrigerator, two cassettes a demo of "Dope Chapeau" had appeared on beforehand. The unmarried's release was accompanied by a music video which featured Manson in the office of Willy Wonka in a shock-horror version of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Manufactory.
"Get Your Gunn" is the kickoff single and the seventh rail of the anthology. The vocal was inspired by the murder of OB/GYN doctor David Gunn who was killed in Florida by an anti-selection activist. The frontman later described his murder as "the ultimate hypocrisy I witnessed growing up: that these people killed someone in the name of being 'pro-life'".[10]
"Wrapped in Plastic" is the eighth rails on the album. The earliest recording of this song dates dorsum to the band's Refrigerator cassette record, released in 1993. Information technology recycles lyrics from an earlier Spooky Kids vocal, "I.V.-T.Five.". The frontman has stated that "Wrapped in Plastic" is about his past at his grandfather's basement. The version on Fridge cassette gives the listener meliorate detail of this fact.
"Sweet Molar" is the 10th song on the album, and the just song that one-time bassist Gidget Gein wrote both guitar and bass parts for. Even so, of all the album tracks, "Sweet Tooth" was the only 1 not regularly played alive.
"Serpent Eyes and Sissies" is the eleventh runway on the album. Though "Snake Eyes and Sissies" was one time considered of import enough to be a potential single, it was never given a proper release and has non been played past the band since the Smells Like Children tour in 1995/1996.
"My Monkey" is the twelfth track on the album. Several verses were taken from "Mechanical Man" written and performed by Charles Manson in 1968; the lyrics of "My Monkey" are credited simply to "Manson". The primeval recording of this song dates back to the band'due south The Beaver Meat Cleaver Trounce cassette tape, released in 1990.
"Misery Car" is the thirteenth and last track on the album, and is a direct reference to the Mystery Machine from the blithe boob tube series Scooby-Doo. Imagery from the cartoon was prevalent in the early years of the band, having been used in various flyers amidst other similar drawing characters.
Samples [edit]
| " | "1 strange thing that happened was we were mixing the song "Wrapped in Plastic". [...] Nosotros were using a estimator because we had a lot of samples and sequencing. While we were working on that song the Charles Manson samples from "My Monkey" started appearing in the mix. Of a sudden we'd hear in the vocal, 'Why does a child reach up and kill his mom and dad?' And we couldn't figure what was going on. The chorus of "Wrapped in Plastic" is, 'Come up into our home/Won't y'all stay?' And nosotros're in the Sharon Tate house, just me and Sean Beavan [the record's assistant producer]. We totally got scared and we're like, 'We are done for the nighttime.' Nosotros came back the adjacent solar day and information technology was fine. The Charles Manson samples weren't even on the record anymore. At that place's no real logical or technological explanation for why they appeared. Information technology was a truly supernatural moment that freaked me out.[viii] | " |
| —Marilyn Manson discussing paranormal behavior during the anthology'south product. | ||
The album has an particularly wide array of American cultural references. The words "Continue and smile, yous cunt" at the beginning of "Cake and Sodomy" are spoken by Marlon Brando in the film Terminal Tango in Paris. In the song "Dogma", there is a sample from the John Waters film Pinkish Flamingos, when Mink Stole'south grapheme says "Burn down, you fucker!" before setting burn to a trailer. Although the clip from Drastic Living is credited in the liner notes, this sound clip is not. Furthermore, John Waters was thanked in the liner notes. The phrase "We're gonna ride to the Abbey of Thelema" in the song "Misery Auto" is a reference to Aleister Crowley's Abbey of Thelema, which was used every bit the Headquarters from which the doctrines of Thelema would be spread throughout the earth.
The rail "My Monkey" borrows certain lyrics from a Charles Manson song called "Mechanical Homo;" the lyrics of "My Monkey" are credited simply to "Manson". At 02:29 of "Get Your Gunn", at that place is a sample of a crowd murmuring and a gun shot. This is the audio from the press briefing in which Budd Dwyer committed suicide in front of an audition. The words to "Prelude (The Family Trip)" come up from Roald Dahl's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Likewise, the printing of Marilyn Manson on various promos during this fourth dimension and on the remix album Smells Like Children resemble the press of the title to the 1971 moving-picture show version of the novel.
"Killing is killing, whether done for duty, profit or fun" is a quote by Richard Ramirez that is an audio clip at the kickoff of "Snake Eyes and Sissies". "Organ Grinder" features the sample "Lollipops for the kiddie winkies," spoken by the Child Catcher from the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Blindside. At the start of "Cyclops" in that location is a very slowed down and distorted sample of the preacher from Poltergeist Ii singing "God Is In His Holy Temple". "Dope Hat" contains the samples "the great Hoodoo!" and "Prepare to meet your doom" taken from the Sid and Marty Krofft cult TV show Lidsville. These words are spoken by the actor Charles Nelson Reilly. "Lunchbox" contains the sample "I bring you burn!" from the vocal "Burn down" by The Crazy Earth of Arthur Brown. "Misery Machine" contains a sample from "Beep Beep" by The Playmates. "Wrapped in Plastic" is influenced by Twin Peaks, referencing the image of character Laura Palmer wrapped in plastic, which was one of the bear witness'south almost enduring images. It also featured the distorted words "Hallelujah" and "Meanwhile" from the Twin Peaks scene in the Black Order. This is followed by the distinctive scream of Laura Palmer.
In Marilyn Manson book, The Long Difficult Route Out of Hell, he describes that Wrapped In Plastic is a song that's most his past at his gramps's basement and the scream in the end of the song is Manson's voice distorted and backwards. The family unit jams version of the song gives the listener better detail of this fact.
Promotion [edit]
To promote the album, Interscope held 2 dissever release parties for music journalists and fan lodge members – the first of these was held less than a calendar month before its commercial release in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on June 29, 1994, whilst the second took identify a day before the tape's scheduled date in Plantation, Florida on July 18, 1994.
Release [edit]
Singles [edit]
Portrait of an American Family was anchored past two singles, "Get Your Gunn" and "Lunchbox", along with "Dope Hat" which was issued to radio and music video channels without a commercial single release. A full of iii singles were spawned from the album.
The music video for "Get Your Gunn", directed by Rod Chong, features the band performing in a damp "attic-like" scene, intertwined past footage of ii feisty teenage girls. It did not receive much airplay.
The music video for "Lunchbox" directed by Richard Kern, features a boy being bullied by ii older students. The boy goes home, fed up with the style he is treated, and shaves his head into a mohawk hairstyle and prepares for any futurity retaliation confronting the bullies with his metal lunchbox. The boy after goes to the rollerskating rink where the band is performing. The boy gives Manson his lunchbox, which Manson lights on burn and parades around. The video ends with the boy staring into the called-for lunchbox. Information technology is ane of the few music videos with Manson performing without wearing makeup, alongside "Get Your Gunn" and "Tourniquet".
The music video for "Dope Chapeau", directed by Tom Stern, features the ring riding a boat through a psychedelic tunnel directly inspired by the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Mill, which happens to exist 1 of Manson's favorite films. In the video, the band members perform with many children and people resembling the Oompa-Loompas from the moving picture aboard the boat.
Cover and packaging [edit]
| " | "I wanted to use a photo in [the anthology]'s booklet of me naked on a couch when I was a kid. When you concord upward something to people, usually what they see in it is what'south inside them in the kickoff place. And that's what happened because the lawyers at Interscope said, 'First off, that flick's going to be considered child pornography, and not only will no stores bear the album but we're subject to legal retribution from information technology.' They said if a judge were to await at information technology, the law states that if a photograph of a minor elicits sexual excitement so information technology'south considered kid pornography. I said, 'That's exactly my signal. This is a photo that was taken by my mother, and it's extremely innocent and very normal. But if y'all see it equally pornography, why am I the guilty person? You're the person who'southward got a hard-on. Why aren't you punished? That'southward still a point I'd like to make. People's morality is so ridiculous: If they go excited by it, then it's wrong."[11] | " |
| —Marilyn Manson discussing Interscope'south objection to his initial vision of the anthology's cover fine art. | ||
The album's original cover art featured no text, but a painting of a clown by John Wayne Gacy. The interior photography included Polaroid pictures (faked by Manson and friends) apparently of a mutilated female trunk, and a photo of what Manson described as "one of those dolls from the '60s and you lot pull a cord on the back of it and the eyes go actually big and they change colors."[11]
In the early on stages of the album'due south conception, Manson intended to use a flick of himself as a child sitting nude on a couch in the album's interior artwork. Though no genitalia is shown in the picture, and information technology was taken by his own parents with no vulgar intent, the characterization rejected the idea on the grounds that it could constitute as kid pornography, so Manson instead created the dirt sculpture present on the last cover artwork of the album. On the table on this sculpture, at that place are petty models of The Beatles next to the lamp. The male child in the photograph on the back cover is Ramirez's half-brother Wes Brown. He'south holding an ear-piercing needle rather than a syringe. Portrait of an American Family is notable for being the band'southward only studio anthology non to feature an epitome of Manson on the encompass. However, Manson did eventually use a nude photo of himself as an adult for the inside flap photograph for the CD unmarried for "Lunchbox" but did not expose his genitals.
Past the time the anthology became Portrait of an American Family, the ideas of using Gacy's clown artwork and the nude photograph was dropped completely.
Reception [edit]
Critical reception [edit]
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| allmusic |    [12] |
| Rolling Stone | [13] |
Upon its release, the album met with mixed reviews from music critics. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of allmusic gave the anthology a favorable review but noted that "even a few years on from its 1994 release, Portrait of an American Family began to sound a petty dated, especially since its Nine Inch Nails-meets-West.A.Southward.P.-meets-Alice Cooper formula was fully realized on Manson'southward follow-up album, Antichrist Superstar. Here, it's in sketch form, and by the finish of the album it's articulate that Warner, Manson, whatever yous want to telephone call him, needs a full canvas to truly wreak havoc."[12] Rolling Stone gave the album a negative review and said that "Manson's debut [...] isn't the sharply rendered cultural critique of America he'd similar you to call back information technology is. Most of the record comes off similar some depression-budget horror movie.[13]
Portrait of an American Family Bout [edit]
Prior to embarking on any official tour under the wing of a major characterization, Marilyn Manson spent several years touring independently at various locations in Florida such equally Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, Miami Embankment, South Hallandale and Davie, among various other one-night venues. During this time, the band is known to have left Florida only three times to perform. Until August 1992, the ring played these shows as Marilyn Manson & the Chilling Kids. The band played these contained shows from April 28, 1990 until June 4, 1994. During the Spooky Kids-era, the concerts featured several antics amid which were girls covered in blood and wearing creature masks whilst locked in metal cages, women ironing Nazi flags onstage and Gacy'southward renowned keyboard paraphernalia, such as children's toys and dismembered doll heads.[xiv]
Nine Inch Nails' Self Destruct bout was the offset tour Marilyn Manson embarked on, now under management of major record label Interscope Records. They were an opening human activity for Nine Inch Nails. The band was on the bout from Apr 24, 1994 until Dec 11, 1994.
The Portrait of an American Family Tour was the second tour Marilyn Manson embarked on. It was also the band'south first headlining tour under a major label. The band was on the bout from Dec 27, 1994 until March 11, 1995. During these concerts, the stage unremarkably was arranged like a living room, much like the one on the album comprehend artwork. A table with a lamp, candy canes and multiple six-sided dice were the most unremarkably seen props.
Track list [edit]
- 1. "Prelude (The Family Trip)" – 1:20
- 2. "Block and Sodomy" – 3:46
- three. "Lunchbox" – 4:32
- 4. "Organ Grinder" – 4:22
- 5. "Cyclops" – 3:32
- 6. "Dope Hat" – 4:21
- 7. "Go Your Gunn" – 3:18
- 8. "Wrapped in Plastic" – 5:35
- 9. "Dogma" – 3:22
- 10. "Sweet Tooth" – 5:03
- 11. "Snake Eyes and Sissies" – 4:07
- 12. "My Monkey" – iv:31
- 13. "Misery Automobile" – 13:11
Argentinian Bonus tracks [edit]
- 14. "Down in the Park" – v:00
- 15. "Brownish Handbag" – 6:19
Album credits [edit]
MARILYN MANSON:
"PORTRAIT OF AN AMERICAN Family"
Starring:
DAISY BERKOWITZ: PSYCHOACOUSTICAL GUITARS
TWIGGY RAMIREZ: BASE TENDENCIES
MADONNA WAYNE GACY: HAMMOND ORGAN, THEREMIN, SAXOPHONE, CALLIOPENIS, Contumely, BABIES, DISTORTED MUZETTE, LOOPS
SARA LEE LUCAS: HITTING
/ music: berkowitz) 3. LUNCHBOX (lyrics: manson / music: berkowitz, gein) bionic guitar: reznor. Contains elements from
"Fire" (Crane/Finesilver/Chocolate-brown). Onward Music, Ltd. (PRS). Performed past Arthur Brownish. Used under license from
PolyGram Special Markets, a division of PolyGram Distribution Group, Inc. 4. ORGAN GRINDER (lyrics: manson / music:
gein, berkowitz) v. CYCLOPS (lyrics: manson / music: berkowitz, gein, gacy) vi. DOPE Hat (lyrics: manson / music:
manson, berkowitz, gacy) boosted percussion: Chris Vrenna, boosted loops: Manson. Contains excerpts of dialogue from
"Liddsville". Used under license from The Sid & Marty Krofft Motion-picture show Corp. 7. GET YOUR GUNN (lyrics: manson / music:
berkowitz, gein) uncontrolled saxophone: Hope Nichols 8. WRAPPED IN PLASTIC (lyrics: manson / music: berkowitz)
knives: Manson, additional voodoo drums Charlie Clouser, violation: Melissa (age 19) 9. DOGMA (lyrics: manson / music:
berkowitz) background vocals and citronella: Hope Nichols x. SWEET TOOTH (lyrics: manson / music: gacy, gein) scab
loop: Manson 11. Ophidian Optics AND SISSIES (lyrics: manson / music: gacy, berkowitz, gein) skull: Podboy, "Maria": Gacy
12. MY MONKEY (lyrics: manson / music: berkowitz) boy: Robert Pierce (historic period six), the pitiful pot pie brass section: Gacy,
Reznor, Beavan. xiii. MISERY Car (lyrics: manson / music: gein, berkowitz, gacy). Contains elements from "Beep,
Beep" (Claps/Cicchetti). Longtitude Music Co. (BMI). Used by permission. All rights reserved. Performed by The Playmates.
Used under license from Warner Special Products/EMI Records (Uk). EPILOGUE: Contains excerpts of dialogue by
Mink Stole from the moving picture "Drastic Living". Used under license from New Line Cinema.
All bass played on this recording by Gidget Gein (AKA Brad Stewart).
Recorded at The Record Institute (Los Angeles), The Hamlet Recorder (Los Angeles), Sus scrofa (Beverly Hills) and Criteria (Miami).
Engineered by Alan Moulder and Roli Mosimann. Assisted by Brian Pollack, Marc Gruber, Chris Vrenna, Barry Goldberg and
Brian Scheuble. Mixed at The Hamlet Recorder and Pig by Trent Reznor, Alan Moulder, Sean Beavan and Marc Freegard.
Mastered by Tom Baker at Future Disc, Los Angeles
Photography: Robin Perine
Publicity by Sioux Z. at Formula
To bring together the Marilyn Manson Family unit write to: 2901 Clint Moore Rd., Suite #404, Boca Raton, FL. 33496 or call the Marilyn Manson Family Intervention Hotline anytime at (407-997-9437)
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Domestic dog, BILL HOWARD, LORI WERDER, HOPE AND SUGARSMACK, JOHN "MARIA" SCAZZA, FLASHBACKS, LEW, TIM GALLAGHER,
SHAWN, A.J., STEVE-O, DAN, MARNIE SMITH, CHARLZ WIEBER, CHAD McCABE, MARC GRUBER, STREITHORST FAMILY,
DENONCOUR Family unit, PIERCE Family, META POWLES, DAVID "SPARKY" BANNETT, T.J. LOCASTRO, ALLEN L. MITCHELL, TIM
O'NEAL OF RESURRECTION DRUMS, STEVE AND HELEN BIER, BILL AND LEE BIER, CHARLENE YIP, ANGEL ARAZHY, JULIE
BLANDFORD, GJ DOUG, SCOTT VAN AMSTERDAM, PDRAIC OGLE, BRAD WILSON, MIKE FELS, DAVE FRAUMAN, HOLLY POWELL,
RYAN AT BOX OF SNAKES, KURT MOODY, MARK, JOHN RAYMOND, CINDY, TEPPER, PAULA, LAURA TAYLOR, NORMA K., JOHN
TOVAR, TERRI SMITH AND ALL OTHERS WHO Have HELPED OR WE HAVE EXPLOITED ALONG THE WAY.
AND LIES DISGUISED IN YOUR SUGARY BREAKFAST CEREALS. THE
PLATES YOU Made US CLEAN WERE FILLED WITH YOUR FEARS. THESE
THINGS HAVE HARDENED IN OUR SOFT Pinkish BELLIES. We ARE WHAT
YOU Have MADE US. Nosotros HAVE GROWN UP WATCHING YOUR
Boob tube. WE ARE A SYMPTOM OF YOUR CHRISTIAN AMERICA, THE
BIGGEST SATAN OF ALL. THIS IS YOUR Earth IN WHICH WE GROW.
AND We Volition Abound TO HATE YOU.
© 1994 Trounce UP YOUR MOM MUSIC/EMERALD FOREST MUSIC PUBLISHING. LYRICS USED Past PERMISSION.
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Charts and certifications [edit]
Album charts [edit]
| Charts (1995) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Billboard Top Heatseekers[15] | 35 |
Singles [edit]
| Unmarried | Chart (1997) | Top position |
|---|---|---|
| "Become Your Gunn" | Billboard Canadian Singles Chart[16] | 11 |
| "Lunchbox" | Billboard Canadian Singles Chart[16] | 5 |
Trivia [edit]
- "Snake Optics and Sissies" was originally planned as the lead single but never released; "Get Your Gunn" was released instead. It also was originally v:09, and had actress lyrics.
- Portrait of an American Family is the band'south only studio album in which Marilyn Manson does not announced on the cover. He did however create the clay sculpture shown in the art.
- Manson had initially wanted to put a nude photo of himself every bit a kid for the album artwork. Interscope deemed it would be seen as kid pornography, so Manson created the album artwork with the dirt figures.
- Although there are technically no subconscious tracks on the album, there is some additional audio a few seconds later the end of last track, "Misery Machine". The sample, "Go habitation to your mother! Doesn't she ever watch you!? Tell her this isn't some Communist twenty-four hours-intendance center! Tell your mother I hate her! Tell your mother I detest you lot!" is spoken by Mink Stole from the John Waters 1977 film "Drastic Living". After this, a telephone tin can be heard ringing very quietly for several minutes, which is then followed an irate answering machine message, presumably from a parent of a Manson fan.
- Bassist Gidget Gein was fired later the production of this album.
- Daisy Berkowitz helped compose music for all of the songs except "Prelude (The Family unit Trip)" and "Sweet Tooth".
- Roli Mosimann was the original producer of the album, however due to the direction the album was taking the band felt his product was not what they were looking for and Trent Reznor took over the producer office while Mossiman was credited as the engineer.
- The anthology's original title was The Manson Family Album.
- The song "Filth" was planned to exist officially released on Portrait of an American Family simply was replaced by "Wrapped in Plastic" instead, and this Reznor-produced version has never been officially released.
- The track "My Monkey" is dissimilar from the 1 on Big Black Bus.
- One of the release parties for the album was held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on June 29th, 1994.
- One of the release parties for the album was held in Plantation, Florida on July 18th, 1994.
- In late 2009, Hot Topic stores began selling a combination set up of a t-shirt baring the anthology artwork and colored vinyl of the album. The colour of the vinyl is green, matching most fonts from the fourth dimension.
Credits and personnel [edit]
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References [edit]
- Footnotes
- ↑ "RIAA Database Search for Marilyn Manson". Recording Industry Clan of America . http://riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?resultpage=1&table=SEARCH_RESULTS&action=&championship=Portrait%20Of%20An%20American%20Family&artist=Marilyn%20Manson&format=&debutLP=&category=&sex=&releaseDate=&requestNo=&type=&level=&label=&company=&certificationDate=&awardDescription=&catalogNo=&aSex=&rec_id=&charField=&aureate=&platinum=&multiPlat=&level2=&certDate=&album=&id=&afterwards=&before=&startMonth=one&endMonth=one&startYear=1958&endYear=2010&sort=Artist&perPage=25 . Retrieved 2008-08-14.
- ↑ "Portrait of an American Family unit [Limited Edition Vinyl Box set up with T-Shirt]". Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Portrait-American-Family-Limited-T-Shirt/dp/B00336KECM/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1306154017&sr=1-three . Retrieved 2011-05-23.
- ↑ three.0 3.1 three.2 Manson & Strauss 1998, p. 144
- ↑ Manson & Strauss 1998, p. 123
- ↑ Manson & Strauss 1998, p. 128
- ↑ Manson & Strauss 1998, p. 134
- ↑ Greg, Bakery (1994-07-twenty). "Manson Family Values" (Tabloid). Miami New Times (Hamlet Voice Media, Inc.). http://www.miaminewtimes.com/bug/1994-07-20/music/music3.html . Retrieved 2006-09-09.
- ↑ 8.0 8.i Manson & Strauss 1998, p. 147
- ↑ Manson & Strauss 1998, p. 95
- ↑ Marilyn Manson (1999-05-28). "Columbine: Whose Fault Is Information technology?". Rolling Rock (Wenner Media LLC) (815).
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Manson & Strauss 1998, p. 150
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Portrait of an American Family review". allmusic. All Media Guide (Rovi). http://world wide web.allmusic.com/album/portrait-of-an-american-family-r204446/review . Retrieved 2011-06-28.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Rolling Stone Album Guide for Marilyn Manson". Rolling Stone. Wenner Media LLC. http://world wide web.rollingstone.com/music/artists/marilyn-manson/albumguide . Retrieved 2011-06-28.
- ↑ Manson & Strauss 1998, p. 115-116; 122
- ↑ "Portrait of an American Family Charts & Awards". allmusic. All Media Guide (Rovi). http://www.allmusic.com/album/portrait-of-an-american-family-r204446/charts-awards/billboard-anthology . Retrieved 2011-05-23.
- ↑ xvi.0 sixteen.ane "Portrait of an American Family unit Charts & Awards Billboard Singles". allmusic. All Media Guide (Rovi). http://world wide web.allmusic.com/album/portrait-of-an-american-family-r204446/charts-awards/billboard-single . Retrieved 2011-05-23.
- ↑ 17.0 17.i "Portrait of an American Family credits". allmusic. All Media Guide (Rovi). http://www.allmusic.com/album/portrait-of-an-american-family-r204446/credits . Retrieved 2011-05-23.
- Bibliography
- Manson, Marilyn; Strauss, Neil (February 14, 1998). The Long Difficult Road Out of Hell. New York: HarperCollins division ReganBooks. ISBN 0-06-039258-4.
Source: https://www.mansonwiki.com/wiki/Portrait_of_an_American_Family
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