Portrait of an American Family
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| Portrait of an American Family | |||||
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| Studio album by Marilyn Manson | |||||
| Released | July 19, 1994 | ||||
| Recorded | August-December 1993, Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida; and Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles, California |
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| Genre | Alternative metal, industrial metal, industrial rock | ||||
| Length | 61:00 | ||||
| Label | Nothing/Interscope | ||||
| Producer | Trent Reznor, Marilyn Manson | ||||
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Portrait of an American Family is Marilyn Manson's debut album, released in 1994. As on the band's next two releases, Trent Reznor is co-producer.
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
- Prelude (The Family Trip) – 1:20
- Cake and Sodomy – 3:46
- Lunchbox – 4:32
- Organ Grinder – 4:22
- Cyclops – 3:32
- Dope Hat – 4:21
- Get Your Gunn – 3:18
- Wrapped in Plastic – 5:35
- Dogma – 3:22
- Sweet Tooth – 5:03
- Snake Eyes and Sissies – 4:07
- My Monkey – 4:31
- Misery Machine - 13:11
[edit] Credits
- Marilyn Manson - vocals, producer, brass, loops, artwork (Accusations, Child Manipulations, Backwards Masking, Polaroids Credited in the Album)
- Daisy Berkowitz - guitars (Psychoacuostical Guitars Credited in the Album)
- Madonna Wayne Gacy - calliope, Hammond organ, saxophone, theremin, brass, overdubs, loops (Hammond Organ, Theremin, Saxophone, Calliopenis, Brass, Babies, Disorted Muzette, Loops Credited in the Album)
- Sara Lee Lucas - drums, sound effects (Hitting Credited in the Album)
- Gidget Gein - bass
- Twiggy Ramirez - in an often misunderstood pun, Twiggy is listed in album artwork as "base tendencies", which of course, would be different from the bass guitar
- Trent Reznor - producer, executive producer, digital editing, programming, mixing, brass, guitar
- Robin Finck - synthesis, keyboards (uncredited on album, however Manson has confirmed his involvement)
- Roli Mosimann - engineer
- Sean Beavan - assistant producer, programming, digital editing
- Alan Moulder - assistant producer, engineer, mixing
- Charlie Clouser - drums, drum programming, editing
- Chris Vrenna - percussion, programming, assistant engineer
- Tom Baker - mastering
- Chris Meyer - engineer
- Barry Goldberg - assistant engineer
- Brian Pollack - assistant engineer
- Brian Scheuble - assistant engineer
- Mark Gruber - assistant engineer
- Hope Nichols - saxophone, vocals
- Robin Perine - photography
- Jeffrey Weiss - photography
- Gary Talpas - packaging
[edit] Charting positions
Album
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1995 | Top Heatseekers | #35 |
[edit] Miscellaneous
- This album was recorded in the house where the Tate murders were committed.
- The words "Go on, smile you cunt" at the beginning of "Cake and Sodomy" are spoken by Marlon Brando. The clip is sampled from the film Last Tango in Paris.
- Bassist Gidget Gein was fired after the production of this album.
- Daisy Berkowitz helped compose music for all of the songs except "Prelude (The Family Trip)" and "Sweet Tooth."
- "Snake Eyes and Sissies" was originally planned as the lead single but never released; "Get Your Gunn" was released instead.
- The song "Filth" was deleted from the album prior to release, and has never been officially released. (*)
- Although there are technically no hidden tracks on the album, there is some additional audio a few seconds after the end of last track, "Misery Machine". The sample "Go home to your mother! Doesn't she ever watch you!? Tell her this isn't some Communist day-care center! Tell your mother I hate her! Tell your mother I hate you!" is spoken by Mink Stole from the John Waters film "Desperate Living". After this, a telephone 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.
- In the song "Dogma," there is a sample from the John Waters film Pink Flamingos, when Mink Stole's character says "Burn, you fucker!" before setting fire to a trailer. Although the clip from Desperate Living is credited in the liner notes, this audio clip is not. Furthermore, John Waters was thanked in the liner notes.
- The phrase "We gotta ride to the Abbey of Thelema" in the song Misery Machine is a reference to Aleister Crowley's Abbey of Thelema, which was used as the Headquarters from which the doctrines of Thelema would be spread throughout the world.
- Manson has stated in his auto-biography The Long Hard Road Out of Hell that he originally wanted to use a nude photograph of himself as a child as artwork for the album jacket, but the label rejected the idea on the grounds that it could constitute child pornography. This made it the only Marilyn Manson LP not to feature an image of Manson on the cover.
- The track "My Monkey" borrows certain lyrics from a Charles Manson song called "Mechanical Man;" the lyrics of "My Monkey" are credited simply to "Manson".
- At 02:29 of 'Get Your Gunn', there is a sample of a crowd murmuring and a gun shot. This is the audio from the press conference in which Bud Dwyer committed suicide in front of an audience.
- The words to Prelude (The Family Trip) come from Roald Dahl's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Also, the printing of Marilyn Manson on various promos during this time and on the remix album Smells Like Children resemble the printing of the title to the 1971 film 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 start 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 Bang
- At the start of Cyclops there 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 "Fire!" from the song "Fire" by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown.
- Misery Machine contains a sample from "Beep Beep" by The Playmates.
