Classic rock is usually respected but the shock rock subgenre is often left out in the cold. Marilyn Manson, the king of shock rock, is sometimes dismissed as an artist, but his songs beg to differ. Here’s a look at the eclecticism of his best work.
5. ‘Coma White’ When people think of Manson, they think of controversy and Satanism . They might not expect one of Manson’s best songs to be a ballad about the downside of drugs.
The line “A pill to make you numb / A pill to make you dumb / A pill to make you anybody else / But all the drugs in this world / Won’t save her from herself” is painfully accurate and can apply to all sorts of addictions. Where Manson went wrong here was the music video. What does this song have to do with the assassination of John F.
Kennedy? Sometimes, he just appropriated imagery without thought for its meaning. 4. ‘I Don’t Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)’ The cheeky title of “I Don’t Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)” is so clever that it makes the whole song.
Any decent song that used that title as its chorus would be good. Of course, “I Don’t Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)” also works because of its instrumentation. Manson frequently cited David Bowie as an inspiration, and that influence was never more evident than in “I Don’t Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me).
” The track lifts one of the riffs from Bowie’s “Fame.” While that song is a classic, “I Don’t Like the Drugs (But th.