Marilyn Manson – Smells Like Children
By Chris Utne
This CD is just a bunch of killer remixes of Marilyn Mansons’ last album, “Portrait of an American Family” and some weird satanic intros that are all about one minute long. They also have really cool cover songs. One is “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” by the Eurhythmics. Another one is “I Put a Spell on You” which was originally sung by Creedance Clearwater Revival. Perry Farrell also sang this in his “Ted Just Admit It” song in the Natural Born Killers soundtrack. This tune is really good. Another cover they did was “Rock n’ Roll Nigger.” There’s also a pretty amusing country type, hick song of “Cake and Sodomy” on acoustic guitar performed by Tony F. Wiggins. All of these covers were done very well.
So if you’re down with the Satanic music scene, and you already have “Portrait of an American Family”, I suggest you buy this album. In January Marilyn Mansons’ putting out another album, all originals called “Anti-Christ Superstar’ which I also recommend purchasing. I haven’t heard it yet, but of course I will. I’d give “Smells Like Children” four stars out of five.