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Portrait of an American Family
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| Studio album by Marilyn Manson | ||
| Released | July 19, 1994 | |
| Recorded | August-December 1993, Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida; and Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles, California |
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| Genre | Industrial Metal, Alternative Metal | |
| Length | 61:00 | |
| Label | Nothing/Interscope/Atlantic | |
| Producer(s) | Trent Reznor, Marilyn Manson | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Marilyn Manson chronology | ||
| Portrait of an American Family (1994) | Smells Like Children (1995)
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Portrait of an American Family is Marilyn Manson's debut album, released in 1994. As on the band's next two releases, Trent Reznor was a producer.
Contents |
- Prelude (The Family Trip) – 1:20
- Cake and Sodomy – 3:46
- Lunchbox – 4:32
- Organ Grinder – 4:22
- Cyclops – 3:32
- Dope Hat – 4:21
- Get Your Gunn – 3:18
- Wrapped in Plastic – 5:35
- Dogma – 3:22
- Sweet Tooth – 5:03
- Snake Eyes and Sissies – 4:07
- My Monkey – 4:31
- Marilyn Manson — vocals, producer, brass, loops, artwork
- Daisy Berkowitz — guitars
- Madonna Wayne Gacy — calliope, Hammond organ, saxophone, theremin, brass, overdubs, loops
- Sara Lee Lucas — drums, sound effects
- Gidget Gein — bass
- Twiggy Ramirez — in an often misunderstood pun, Twiggy is listed in album artwork as "base tendencies", which of course, would be different from the bass guitar
- Trent Reznor — producer, executive producer, digital editing, programming, mixing, brass, guitar
- Robin Finck — synthesis, keyboards (uncredited on album, however Manson has confirmed his involvement)
- Roli Mosimann — engineer
- Sean Beavan — assistant producer, programming, digital editing
- Alan Moulder — assistant producer, engineer, mixing
- Charlie Clouser — drums, drum programming, editing
- Chris Vrenna — percussion, programming, assistant engineer
- Tom Baker — mastering
- Chris Meyer — engineer
- Barry Goldberg — assistant engineer
- Brian Pollack — assistant engineer
- Brian Scheuble — assistant engineer
- Mark Gruber — assistant engineer
- Hope Nichols — saxophone, vocals
- Robin Perine — photography
- Jeffrey Weiss — photography
- Gary Talpas — packaging
- Bassist Gidget Gein was fired after the production of this album.
- Daisy Berkowitz helped compose music for all of the songs except "Prelude (The Family Trip)" and "Sweet Tooth."
- The album's original title was The Manson Family Album.
- "Snake Eyes and Sissies" was originally planned as the lead single but never released; "Get Your Gunn" was released instead.
- The song "Filth" was deleted from the album prior to release, and has never been officially released.
- Although there are technically no hidden tracks on the album, there is some additional audio a few seconds after the end of last track, "Misery Machine". The sample "Go home to your mother! Doesn't she ever watch you!? Tell her this isn't some Communist day-care center! Tell your mother I hate her! Tell your mother I hate you!" is spoken by Mink Stole from the John Waters film "Desperate Living".
- The phrase "We gotta ride to the Abbey of Thelema" in the song Misery Machine is a reference to Aleister Crowley's Abbey of Thelema, which was used as the Headquarters from which the doctrines of Thelema would be spread throughout the world.
- Manson has said that he originally wanted to use a nude photograph of himself as a child as artwork for the album jacket, but the label rejected the idea on the grounds that it could constitute child pornography.
- The track "My Monkey" borrows certain lyrics from a Charles Manson song called "Mechanical Man;" the lyrics of "My Monkey" are credited simply to "Manson".
- At 02:29 of 'Get Your Gunn', there is a sample of a crowd murmuring and a gun shot. This is the audio from the conference in which Bud Dwyer committed suicide in front of an audience during a press conference.
- 1995: Portrait of an American Family: Heatseekers: No. 35