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Mechanical Animals
Rock · 1998 · 12 tracks

Mechanical Animals

A neon-soaked pivot from industrial grit to melodic glam rock. Cold, synthetic textures meet vulnerable songwriting about fame and chemical isolation.

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It's like David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust but if he crashed in a 90s rehab clinic.

A shimmering, synthetic melancholy that feels like a cold neon light in a dark room.

Mechanical Animals · vs · Marilyn Manson
Addiction+2.9σ

The writing leans far further into addiction than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 12 Tracks
01
Great Big White World
5:01
02
The Dope Show
3:47
03
Mechanical Animals
4:33
05
Disassociative
4:51
06
The Speed of Pain
5:30
07
Posthuman
4:18
08
I Want to Disappear
2:57
09
I Don’t Like the Drugs (but the Drugs Like Me)
5:03
10
New Model No. 15
3:41
11
User Friendly
4:17
12
Fundamentally Loathsome
4:50
13
The Last Day on Earth
5:01
Moments Worth Waiting For
The transition from the icy synth pads of the opening track into the swaggering stomp of the lead single
The acoustic guitar bridge in track 6 where the vocals shift into a fragile, uncharacteristic vulnerability
The gospel-inspired backing vocals clashing with the cynical lyrics about pharmaceutical dependence
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