Smells Like Children [PA] by Marilyn Manson (CD, Oct-1995, Interscope (USA))

Album Features
UPC:	606949264123
Artist:	Marilyn Manson
Format:	CD
Release Year:	1995
Record Label:	Interscope (USA)
Genre:	Alternative, Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. Hands of Small Children, The
2. Diary of a Dope Fiend
3. S****Y Chicken Gang Bang
4. Kiddie Grinder - (remix)
5. Sympathy For the Parents
6. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
7. Everlasting C***Sucker - (remix)
8. F*** Frankie
9. I Put a Spell on You
10. May Cause Discoloration of the Urine or Feces
11. Scabs, Guns and Peanut Butter
12. Dance of the Dope Hats - (remix)
13. White Trash - (Tony J. Wiggins remix)
14. Dancing With the One-Legged...
15. Rock 'N' Roll Nigger
16. (Untitled) - (hidden track)

Details
Playing Time:	55 min.
Producer:	Marilyn Manson, Trent Reznor
Distributor:	Universal Distribution
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Personnel: Reverend Marilyn Manson (vocals); Daisy Berkowitz (guitar); Twiggy Ramirez (bass); Ginger Fish (drums); Madonna Wayne Gacy, Tony F. Wiggins.A year on from Portrait of an American Family, Marilyn Manson released the stopgap EP Smells Like Children. Where the full-length debut showed sparks of character and invention beneath industrial metal sludge, Smells Like Children is a smartly crafted horror show, filled with vulgarity, ugliness, goth freaks, and sideshow scares. Manson wisely chose to heighten his cartoonish personality with the EP. Most of the record is devoted to spoken words and samples, all designed to push to the outrage buttons of middle America. Between those sonic collages arrives one new song, retitled remixes of Portrait songs -- "Kiddie Grinder," "Everlasting C*********," "Dance of the Dope Hats," "White Trash" -- and three covers ("Sweet Dreams," "I Put a Spell on You," "Rock 'n' Roll Nigger"), all given a trademark spooky makeover. Musically, it may not amount to much -- it's goth-metal-industrial, as good as the "Dope Hat," "Lunch Box," and "Cake and Sodomy" trilogy that distinguished the debut -- but as a sonic sculpture, as an objet d'art, it's effective and wickedly fascinating. It's exactly what Brian Warner needed to do to establish Marilyn Manson as America's bogeyman for the late '90s. [And it also helped enhance his myth for his fans. Smells Like Children originally was released promotionally, complete with unauthorized Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory samples and other unapproved sound bites. It was pulled, censored, and re-edited ("Abuse, Pt. 1" and "Abuse, Pt. 2" were removed from the EP) before it was officially released in October 1995, and the original promo copies became valuable collectibles and the most bootlegged item in the Manson catalog.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Editorial Reviews
...It's the best album of the year. It's one bad-trip rocket ride through the psyches of some sick bastards who would vote ten-year-olds as Penthouse Pets Of The Year, while spiking pixie sticks with crystal meth...
Alternative Press (19960101)