Marilyn Manson

The voice of outsider teens since he brought his transsexual-industrial metal circus to MTV in 1989, Marilyn Manson has been around so long now, he resembles his aesthetic inspiration, Alice Cooper, more than ever. Listening to this collection of his best stuff, it's clear that Manson deserves more props than he gets.

It is hard to believe that a few years ago Middle America had no better nightmare than
Marilyn Manson's arena-rock evil. Best of is a fitting tombstone to Manson's moment in the
mainstream: It includes all of his essential pied-piper calls to alienated suburban youth such
as "The Dope Show," "The Beautiful People" and his cover of Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams."
Manson's mix of fetish, goth, hedonism and metal still jells on these tracks and ot... More >