Groundbreaking

Review Score: (10/10)
This album forever changed the way I look at "Shock Rock". I found that Alice Cooper and the shluck "scare your parents" metal of the 80's didn't fully have the guts to shred our everyday lives and make us think about who and what we are in society. Manson shook the bible in our faces and showed us how plastic the American day to day life is. "Cake and Sodomy"...nuff said. It was a first real taste of our real environment.Not everything around us was really important anymore. To close here on my rambling...I've had this CD for four years. A friend of mine said it would never last. I played it just yesterday and my soul melted right back in.

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• redoux