mechanical animals

"posthuman," incidentally

Title track.

Incredible record! This is sort of what i imagined Ziggy Stardust must sound like before I'd heard it. Will go for I Want To Disappear or the title track or the opener...

What was the rest of the 90s glam revival? I wasn't paying attention at the time. Following up on this fron the My Chemical Romance thread.

Well Spacehog for some but Suede's Coming Up can't be ignored.

THIS ALBUM, though. I ranted this back in 1999.

http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~tewing/ned/n78.html

Florid as per usual with me. Stand by it though. Just relistened to it again last month. If I had to pick any specific song it'll always be a tie between "The Speed of Pain" and "I Want to Disappear," but ultimately, the whole damn thing.

pretty sure i couldn't have gotten away with bringing this album home in 1998

also feel like this record shares a lot sonically and lyrically with our lady peace's spiritual machines

could just be that manson and raine maida are similarly incompetent singers

I didn't have a copy myself, but in high school we listened to it a lot in the darkroom, including in pitch-black while processing film negatives. I'm not sure I would enjoy this album w/o those sullen friends around.

one of the best album covers of all time

of the mechanimals/machina/celebrity skin trifecta of corgan-addled attempts to keep up with mainstream pop excess by going super glam it might be the best but iunno how well it's aging outside of dope show

speed of pain is just warrant covering exit music for a film

lol "i don't like the drugs" is so "let's dance"

speed of pain is just warrant covering exit music for a film

Why not?

And "Let's Dance"? Man that's a total "Fame" rip.

lol i knew i was thinking of the wrong bowie song

also agree that warrant covering exit music is a welcome aesthetic

mm's low-key radiohead fanboying was the funniest thing about this period

the topline on "lamb of god" off holy wood is a note for note rip of "climbing up the walls"

could just be that manson and raine maida are similarly incompetent singers

This is so mean to MM! He's a pretty good tuneful screamer. Gotta go w. "I Want to Disappear" as three-minute anthem MM is the only mode I can still deal w/ tbh

He's a pretty good tuneful screamer

agreed! i don't mean to be unfair, i like his narrow croak

lol I just really hate Raine Maida/OLP

are any of the post-Holy Wood records worthy?

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

'Coma White'

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Huh. Didn't expect that.

weird results!

still the best album ever

are any of the post-Holy Wood records worthy?

the one from last year-ish is soooo good

i disagree with almost everything i've said in this thread

Which begs the question.

yes I have heard last year's album and it rules

I have a weird relationship with this record: I dug "The Dope Show" after not really feeling one way or another about his/their earlier material and bought the album when it came out in 1998, loved it on first listen, and then never really cared to check out anything they did afterwards. But the real reason I'm posting in this thread in 2018 is that I just found the poll and no one voted for "The Last Day on Earth" and wtf, c'mon, that song rules

i love this album so much and i very much love that the title track won

I was arguing this album's virtues the other day.

dead astronaut in spaaaaaaaaace

songs that deserved votes:

all of them, but in particular
speed of pain
disassociative
i want to disappear
new model no. 15
last day on earth

are any of the albums btwn Holy Wood and Pale Emperor worth hearing?

i've never investigated and have no desire to

even holy wood is kinda running on fumes

omg I just realized I already asked this question on this very thread xp

i've heard the occasional positive thing about born villain

the singles from the tim sköld era (golden age of grotesque and eat me, drink me) are bad enough that i can't imagine the albums are much better

I found a copy of EMDM in a thrift store bin yesterday but it didn't seem like a sound investment

i love this album so much and i very much love that the title track won

― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 21:05 (two days ago) link

^^^^^^^

Classic album

Such great guitar sound, all crunchy and compressed.