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Commentary on Marylyn Manson and Soft Cell

PostPosted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 5:49 pm
by Quite Life
After hearing of all the reaction of the likes of Marylyn Manson some good some bad and some indifferent. It got me thinking about how we may have offended and older generation with one of our bands covering their tunes. Let me think of a band..... I got it I'll pick on Soft Cell since I'm currently listening to "Non Stop Erotic Cabaret". Now they probably pissed off a lot of non-new waver people just being themselves back in the day. But they may have made things even worse when they started to cover Jimmy Hendrix tunes. I remember when I was a sophomore in HS and this big tough Rocker Senior guy pushes me to the ground holding up a Soft Cell tape he commandeered from one of my friends and starts yelling at me "who the hell do you think you guys are! doing Hendrix songs like this it sounds like crap” like I had something to do with Marc's selection of tunes in the Soft Cell studio. "Oh yeah like it's my fault” as if I produced the album. Lucky for me Mr. White (History teacher) and black belt in Ju Jitsu came in the hall to save the day. Anyways that tough stoner-rocker dude is probably in jail or riding around in a Chopper built on TV listening to Soundgarden while robbing banks with his biker gang in the Phoenix, AZ area. (or what ever it is those rocker people do)


Yeah some including me complain that Marylyn Manson is a sleaze. Wait a minute... Our beloved Soft Cell, and you got to admit this, they are a bunch of sleaze balls too. (I am writing this while listening to "Entertain Me" love those back up singers they sound so tart) Case in point: Would you let Marc Almond and Dave Ball babysit your kids??? hummm??? For those loving New Wave parents just watch "Non Stop Exotic Video Show" and ask yourselves, "Would you trust your children to Marc Almond and company?"[:0] remember the lyrics in "Sex Dwarf"

aauuwwwh case closed!




Build them up, knock them down
jr

PostPosted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 12:30 am
by devildog
Interesting points made, Quite Life. I also would add The Plasmatics and Jane County into this realm of shock value. Would you really want your children to hang around these characters?

Marilyn Manson has admitted all of his personna is a pure market

PostPosted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 2:01 am
by Quite Life
[quote]Originally posted by kimiiii
I would never allow someone to put the filth that Marilyn Manson creates into my life, much less

PostPosted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 2:11 am
by WoodlandParkPunk
Spending my day in a high school it astounds me how many kids emulate Manson. He is huge among the youth. These same youth also question the validity of Hitler and his practices and also that the Bible is a fairy tale.
Now, I myself enjoy Manson for the

PostPosted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 2:47 am
by Quite Life
No worries Kimiii, we don't have to be Polly Pure Bread or any thing like that just decerning and have good discression.


Maybe I should build a Marylyn Manson sucks website and pick on silly church of satan superstision hocus pocus.


Time Machin

PostPosted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 3:54 am
by devildog
Kimii, Thanks for shedding more light on this freak. I never cared for any of his music and think he is a sham, but if he lives like a satanist pig as well, all the more reason to keep your children from his music.

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 4:01 am
by SwampThing
Hey, isn't Marilyn Manson that kid that played in the Wonder Years? [:D]

PostPosted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 6:13 am
by SwampThing
Snopes his a cool site. It amazed me that people fall for that one. I don't see any resemblence between the two.

PostPosted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 6:20 am
by mare_idol
OMG Devil Dog!! Dissing on the Plasmatics!!

I have to stick my two cents in here. I've met Ritchie Stotts and the late Wendy O. Williams plenty of times and they're awesome people.

The first time I met them, I was still a child, at 16 and they were

PostPosted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 7:14 am
by devildog
[quote]Originally posted by mare_idol
[br]OMG Devil Dog!! Dissing on the Plasmatics!!

I have to stick my two cents in here. I've

PostPosted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 8:46 am
by skinnytie
I don't have the same problem with Marilyn Manson. Don't get me wrong, I'm by no means a fan of his, but I didn't think his "Mechanical Animals" CD was so bad, and I even liked the song "Mobscene". Who knows, there may be a chance that if I was younger,

PostPosted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 9:02 am
by ghosty
I think Marilyn Manson's Satanic schtick could be very easily thwarted if someone from the Catholic/Christian hiearchy went on television and said "Y'know, I heard Mechanical Animals and I sorta liked it".

...that would be the end for Marylin Manson. N

PostPosted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 10:01 am
by phillyidol
I really did not know that much about him. I know that the kids that follow him are way into the dark stuff but I thought it was all an act for him. I heard him on a few talk shows and he sounded like another person. Not evil at all. But I never looked de

PostPosted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 1:47 pm
by phillyidol
LOL! Now we have titles! I hope everyone enjoyed tonights episode of the Kim and Phil show!

PostPosted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 2:37 pm
by KYYX4ever
It's funny tho think that back in the day, Boy George was considered SHOCKING. My parents knew it was just for show ( and by that I mean that he was/is an entertainer, even doing that look i his private life), and so they knew--as well as I and other te