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Portrait of an American Family |  | Artist: Marilyn Manson
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Category: Music
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Rating:  142 reviews
Sales Rank: 21806
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 92344
UPC: 606949234423
EAN: 0606949234423
ASIN: B000001Y5X
Release Date: July 19, 1994
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| Tracks:
| • | Prelude (The Family Trip) | | • | Cake and Sodomy | | • | Lunchbox | | • | Organ Grinder | | • | Cyclops | | • | Dope Hat | | • | Get Your Gunn | | • | Wrapped in Plastic | | • | Dogma | | • | Sweet Tooth | | • | Snake Eyes and Sissies | | • | My Monkey - Daisy Berkowitz, , Marilyn Manson | | • | Misery Machine |
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Amazon.com
Every parent's nightmare and every teenager's dream band, Marilyn Manson take no prisoners on their blistering and brutal Trent Reznor-produced debut. Aiming to shock and rock simultaneously, Portrait scores high marks in both arenas. Manson and his grand grimoire take Alice Cooper's tongue-in-cheek mix of glam and death rock to the nth degree with their vision of youth gone wild, personified on cuts like "Cake and Sodomy" and "Lunchbox," a schoolyard revenge fantasy gone horribly awry. One of the most original, hardest rocking albums recorded in the '90s, Portrait of an American Family is a hallmark of the industrial/metal genre, but not for those who are easily offended. --Gail Worley
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 142
 Decent Debut from Manson and co. May 30, 2009
Matthew D. Davis (Ventura, CA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been listening to all of Marilyn Manson's albums in the weeks awaiting his newest release "The High End of Low" which was just released May 26th, 2009. I spent much of my teen years listening to Marilyn Manson and consider myself a big fan of his work. But this does not make me biased in any way towards the high and lows (no pun intended) of his career. So this is my review series of all his albums. Hope you get to check them all out.
I really rate this album 3 1/2 stars. Its a decent album. For this review I will state the good followed by the bad.
THE GOOD:
This album is raw. It is full of angst ridden rock n roll! I can't think of any 16 year old kid who wouldn't like listening to this kind of music besides today's idiotic teens who only seem to listen to hip hop (and not even the good kind). It has a good amount of singles and it shows the beginning of a great musical act. For a debut album it is pretty good.
THE BAD:
This album is lacking in the quality of music. That is common with a debut album. Yes it has some really great tracks, but those tracks are also few and far between. They are overshadowed by some not so good tracks. Many that just seem like filler. You can tell that the band is still trying to find itself and it shows.
This album is pretty much the standard debut. It is raw, in your face, aggressive, and all over the place. The other problem with this album is that the angst feel to it is the kind that most people grow out of. It is a very "Teen angst" oriented album. If I had wrote this review back when I was 16, I would have given it a much higher rating. In other words it hasn't stood the test of time in my opinion. I am much older now and I find that I prefer Mechanical Animals and Holywood much more than this album. That is not saying the album is bad. For a debut it is great. But I am glad that the band evolved onto bigger and better things. There are many people out there with what I call "Debut album syndrome" in which they like the first album and the first album only of many bands. So much in fact that they will not listen to any of the other albums and they would definitely disagree on my review on this album. However I am not one of those people. I cannot stand it when a band does not evolve. For better or worse it is a band's duty to evolve and make every album different in my opinion and Marilyn Manson definitely does not fail on that aspect! Anyways, here is a track listing:
1. "Prelude (The Family Trip)" 1:20
2. "Cake and Sodomy" 3:46
3. "Lunchbox" 4:32
4. "Organ Grinder" 4:22
5. "Cyclops" 3:32
6. "Dope Hat" 4:21
7. "Get Your Gunn" 3:18
8. "Wrapped In Plastic" 5:35
9. "Dogma" 3:22
10. "Sweet Tooth" 5:03
11. "Snake Eyes and Sissies" 4:07
12. "My Monkey" 4:31
13. "Misery Machine" (with bonus track. actual song is 5:08)13:09
This album is not a bad album by any means. I like it alot and will listen to it from time to time. Especially those days when I am full of alot of angst. Angst doesn't go away over time... you just have alot less of it! I sort of grew out of this album. And in terms of music that is not a great thing. That is why I am reviewing it in such a way. I will note that Wrapped in Plastic is my favorite song on the album and should have been a single. It is a great song that shows the direction Manson and co. were heading. Its like a preview of everything after it. If you haven't listened to this album yet, definitely check it out. If you only check out one song, definitely check out "Wrapped in Plastic". It is not an essential album and all of the best songs are easily on "Lest we forget: The best of" Except of course "Wrapped in Plastic" So get all the songs that are on Best of plus "wrapped in plastic" and you have the best this album has to offer!
Rock roots May 23, 2009
IRate
While most of Manson's self-absorbed stabs at edginess subside in proportion to one's years lived, his debut came mildly packed with more honest rock influence than anything the progressively convinced artist produced afterwords, and besides a viable follow-up, is possibly the only recording of merit.
 GUTTER GOTH_INDUSTRIAL PUNK EXTREMO! March 30, 2009
CRAZOTOLOGY (Joplin, MO. (USA))
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Marilyn Manson's first album is awesome!!! This is some hard hitting carnival gutter-esqe Goth/Industrial oookie spookie weirdness that is shure to offend any moraly conservative right wing christian, and probably alot of modest liberals as well. Manson has been compared to Alice Cooper, but I see no simularity between Manson and Cooper other than the fact that they both dress in drag and have a girl's first name. Marilyn Manson writes existential, provocative lyrics such as found on his amazing "Get Your Gun" and Alice Cooper writes songs like "Schoool's Out For Summer". Again, MARILYN MANSON IS NOT SIMULUR TO ALICE COOPER!!!! If your looking for some truly intellectually stimulating shock-rock than Start here and countine your journey down Marilyn Manson highway 666. If you looking for some pointless poor man's shock-rock than you need to step it down a notch and go hang out on the golf course with Alice. Me,...I'm with Manson. For fans of JOJ, NINE INCH NAILS, and MURDERDOLLS.
He's Not Getting Any Better!!! January 23, 2009
Pumpkin Man
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is my 8th Marilyn Manson CD, and he's still boring, and dull. Still, my favorites MM CDs are Eat Me, Drink Me, and Lest We Forget! Unless you are a freaky goth kid, and love Marilyn Manson, I probably wouldn't recommend PORTRAIT OF AN AMERICAN FAMILY!!!
 Isn't this idiot's 15 minutes of fame over yet? September 11, 2008
Lovin' The Truth (Deep in the South, US of A)
1 out of 14 found this review helpful
Tired cliches and stale lyrics set to a grating electronic noise that claims to be music. Isn't this idiot's 15 minutes of fame over yet?
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