Smells Like Children
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| Remix album by Marilyn Manson | |||||
| Released | October 24, 1995 | ||||
| Recorded | Nothing Studios, New Orleans | ||||
| Genre | Industrial metal | ||||
| Length | 54:43 | ||||
| Label | Nothing / Interscope / Atlantic | ||||
| Producer | Marilyn Manson, Charlie Clouser, Trent Reznor, Dave Ogilvie | ||||
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Smells Like Children is a 1995 EP Remix album by band Marilyn Manson. Various contributions by engineer and Skinny Puppy producer Dave Ogilvie, Nine Inch Nails keyboardist Charlie Clouser and new material by the band resulted in an eclectic, bizarre and surreal combination of material. The album was produced by Trent Reznor and Marilyn Manson and represents an era of the band full of drugs, abuses, tours, sound experimentations and is also a reference to the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang movie. All the ideas and tracks for this EP were created and composed during the Portrait of an American Family tour and is also the first Marilyn Manson work that features Ginger Fish on drums. Marilyn Manson referred to this album as "An album that looks like an album for children that is not for children".
A number of covers are included on the album, most famous of which is the band's cover of Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)", which helped to skyrocket the band into the mainstream. The other covers on the album are the Patti Smith song "Rock N Roll Nigger" and Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You". Manson's recording of "I Put a Spell on You" was also featured on the soundtrack for the David Lynch film Lost Highway.
Early promotional copies of Smells like Children featured unauthorized samples from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, as well as other sound bites considered too extreme; the album was re-edited into the proper release. The removed songs were the original opening track, "Abuse part 1", featuring Manson and Danzig/Pantera tour driver Tony Wiggins speaking to a masochistic girl, attempting to calm her down when things get really out of hand and "Abuse part 2", featuring an interview with a teenage girl who confesses to molesting her 7-year-old male cousin.
The "Frankie" referred to in "Fuck Frankie" is Frankie Proia, Manson's tour manager at the time who embezzled $20,000 from the band during their tour for their previous release, Portrait of an American Family. The "One Legged" referred to in "Dancing with the One Legged", was a Huggy Bear doll (the pimp from Starsky and Hutch) that the band used as a container for drugs; it had one leg.
"May Cause Discoloration of the Urine or Feces" was also featured as part of the sound scape "Revelation #9", released on the single for "Get Your Gunn".
[edit] Track listing
| # | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "The Hands of Small Children" | 1:34 |
| 2. | "Diary of a Dope Fiend" | 5:55 |
| 3. | "Shitty Chicken Gang Bang" | 1:19 |
| 4. | "Kiddie Grinder (Remix)" | 4:23 |
| 5. | "Sympathy for the Parents" | 1:00 |
| 6. | "Sweet Dreams (are made of this)" | 4:53 |
| 7. | "Everlasting Cocksucker (Remix)" | 5:13 |
| 8. | "Fuck Frankie" | 1:48 |
| 9. | "I Put a Spell on You" | 3:36 |
| 10. | "May Cause Discoloration of the Urine or Feces" | 3:59 |
| 11. | "Scabs, Guns and Peanut Butter" | 1:01 |
| 12. | "Dance of the Dope Hats (Remix)" | 4:39 |
| 13. | "White Trash (Remixed by Tony F. Wiggins)" | 2:47 |
| 14. | "Dancing with the One-Legged..." | 0:46 |
| 15. | "Rock 'n' Roll Nigger" | 3:31 |
[edit] Credits
- Marilyn Manson — concept, vocals, producer, art direction
- Twiggy Ramirez — bass, tape manipulation
- Daisy Berkowitz — guitars and concept
- Madonna Wayne Gacy — keyboards, synthesizers, loops, programming
- Ginger Fish — drums
- Tony F. Wiggins — vocals, acoustic guitar
- Trent Reznor — executive producer
- Chris Vrenna — programming, digital editing
- Sean Beavan — engineer, mixing
- Charlie Clouser — remixing
- Dave "Rave" Ogilvie — remixing
- Joseph Bishara — remixing
- Anthony Valcic — remixing
- Jim Janick — assistant
- Joseph Cultice — photography
- Gary Talpas — art direction, package design, logo
[edit] Charting positions
Album
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1995 | The Billboard 200 | 31 |
Singles
| Year | Single | Chart | Position |
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| 1996 | "Sweet Dreams (are made of this)" | Modern Rock Tracks | 26 |
| 1996 | "Sweet Dreams (are made of this)" | Mainstream Rock Tracks | 31 |
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