EAT ME DRINK ME (2007)
SYNOPSIS
Eat Me Drink Me marked a whole new direction for Manson after the release of 2003's Golden Age Of Grotesque. When Manson was interviewed in the years preceeding about the sixth album, he said it would have a death metal, black plague feel. However following his seperation from wife of one year Dita Von Teese, Manson created something very different.
Firstly the album was a collaboration between Manson and Tim Skold. Although other members would come on the live tour, Tim was solely responsible for the music, playing all instruments on the track. Second, the direction of the album changed people's view of Manson as a song writer and singer.
The album was more emotional, and drew heavily on two key components - lost love and new love. Using the theme of vampirism the album is also the most guitar driven with many solo's from Skold and over all a much more melodic album than Manson has ever produced before.
ALBUM CREDITS
Marilyn Manson: I would like to thank the loyal few that waited at the far end of the abyss for me to make this record.My mother and father, my best friends (you know who you are), Tony, Bobby and everyone else who has forgiven me for my wrongdoings. This record is dedicated to those who stood by me. Most of all, this is for Evan.
Tim Skold: I would like to thank Lennart, Ase, Linda, Erin, Ken and Kay, Stephen Sessa, Ken TJ Gordon, Matty Barrato, GRM Tools.
Produced by: Marilyn Manson and Tim Skold. All Songs written by Marilyn Manson and Tim Skold. Mixed by Sean Beavan for SOS Management. Mastered at Marcussen Mastering.
Performed by: Marilyn Manson and Tim Skold. Recorded, engineered and programmed by Tim Skold. Track 12: Inhuman Remix by Jade E Puget.
All songs:©2007 EMI Blackwood Music, Songs Of Golgotha Music (BMI). 120050 Publishing (BMI) (P)2007 Interscope Records
Photo Credits: Front Cover: Nela Koenig. Back Cover: Anthony Silver. Inside Photos: PEROU, Nela Koenig, Marilyn Manson. All Polaroids by MM and ERW. Heart-Shaped Eyes self-portrait by Manson. Art direction and design by Marilyn Manson and Liam Ward.
Management: Tony Ciulla at Ciulla Management. Business Management: David Weise @ Weise & Associates, Inc.
A&R: Mark Williams @ Interscope Records
Booking Agents: Rick Roskin, Chris Dalston, Emma Banks @ CAA.
TRACKLISTING
1 If I Was Your Vampire 5:56
2 Putting Holes In Happiness 4:31
3 The Red Carpet Grave 4:05
4 They Said That Hell’s Not Hot 4:16
5 Just A Car Crash Away 4:54
6 Heart-Shaped Glasses (When The Heart Guides The Hand) 5:06
7 Evidence 5:19
8 Are You The Rabbit ? 4:14
9 Mutilation is the Most Sincere Form Of Flattery 3:52
10 You And Me And The Devil Makes 3 4:24
11 EAT ME, DRINK ME 5:41
12 Heart-Shaped Glasses (When The Heart Guides The Hand) Inhuman Remix by Jade E Puget 4:09
13 Heart-Shaped Glasses (When The Heart Guides The Hand) Space Cowboy Remix 5:22
REVIEWS
icBirmingham review by Emma Ludford
On the whole, this is Manson at his best in a long time. It’s not about screaming and rock hard guitar riffs, but a journey, the first since the trilogy concept of Antichrist Superstar, Mechanical Animals and Holywood. This is an off kilter romantic album, not in your conventional Celine Dion fluff but risky. It’s about consummation in all its forms, the way love eats you, the way relationships and people eat away at you, it’s about unconventionality.
allmusic.com review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
These are the moments where Manson seems like the eternal teenager, unwilling and unable to grow up, and they provide a bitter ironic counterpoint to the rest of the record, where he is striving for an emotional honesty he's never attempted before. Put these two halves together, and Eat Me, Drink Me becomes an intriguing muddle, an interesting portrait of Manson at the cusp of middle-age melancholy even if as sheer music it's the least visceral or compelling he's ever been.
Kerrang! magazine review by Ben Myers
Ultimately, ‘Eat Me, Drink Me’ is the product of a fertile mind and a musical ear that has both darkened dry-ice-filled clubs and outdoor festival stages in mind. It’s his most downbeat and - whisper it - mellow album yet; it doesn’t break new ground, but it works and Marilyn Manson remains the reigning King of the Goths, The God Of Fuck and occasionally naughty boy. Tuck in
is Hardcore? Review
If the album is your first real exposure to Marilyn Manson, don't expect an easy ride, or a clean cut trip through hell, as the various attributes that have always made Manson write so beguiling are all resplendent here, it's just a little harder to spot them, as the songs have developed a spirit and variety that perhaps wouldn't have had room to breath on previous, more externally charged albums. On the flipside, if you are a longtime fan, don't expect this album to change your world, or destroy anyone else's, but simply hope that the best way Marilyn Manson could compliment this record is to feed on this new strain of productivity and make certain that this album gets a follow up next year, and another the year after that, and so on.