Eat Me, Drink Me (album)

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Eat Me, Drink Me is the sixth studio album by Marilyn Manson, due for release in June 2007 in North America by Interscope Records. Eat Me, Drink Me was produced by frontman Marilyn Manson and recorded in multiple studios in California, and in collaboration with "an assortment of other musicians".

Manson on Eat Me, Drink Me

"I feel as if there's more like three albums' worth of material, [because] I don't want to cram a long record into a place that doesn't have the attention span for that... I'd like to return to the old-fashioned records that had eight or nine songs [that] were all very important. Not to say that I made records that had filler material. They were all based around a central idea, and the central idea in this one is my pain and its ability to be unashamed to repeat itself."

The singer also referred to the album as "very guitar-oriented and very melodic", and as featuring "various unconventional forms of percussion". He has also called it a romantic album, whose lyrical content involves "the unfulfilled yearning to be in another time or another place where you feel like you would fit in better".

On February 26, 2007, MarilynManson.com revealed the opinion of Rolling Stone upon first hearing the album as being:

"Things got really interesting on Saturday when the Smoking Section drove out to the Valley at the behest of Marilyn Manson. The S.S. joined Manson in his rec room where we worked our way down the belly of a bottle of German absinthe and were blown away as Manson debuted his new album, Eat Me, Drink Me. The key cut is "If I Was Your Vampire," a six-minute epic with the lyric "The hole is where the heart is." If anyone thought Manson was down for the count, think again."[1]

Tracklisting

Confirmed Working Titles:

  • "If I Was Your Vampire" - A "six-minute epic" with the lyric "The hole is where the heart is", described by Manson as the new "Bela Lugosi's Dead"
  • "Just a Car Crash Away" - A Bic-waving ballad, a death march punctuated by Skold's searing guitar solo.
  • "Putting Holes in Happiness" - The first single; A romantic-misogynistic-cannibal-gothic-vampire ballad.
  • "Rebels Without Applause" - A song lyrically critical of new bands.
  • "The Red Carpet Grave" - Classic Manson, echoing with buzz saws and primitive percussion.
  • "You, Me And The Devil Makes 3" - Includes the band using a "metal skunk trap they found outside the house" as percussion.

Possible Inclusions

  • "Celebritarian Hymn" — The apparent title of a short piece of music within a flash animation at MarilynManson.com.
  • "Eat Me, Drink Me" — Based on naming precedent of the previous four Marilyn Manson albums of having a track with the same name as the album.
  • "Gloomy Sunday" — A cover of the popular "Hungarian suicide song" by Rezső Seress. Manson is said to keep his version closer to that of the original, and not that of the version popularized by Billie Holliday.
  • "One Road to Asa Bay" — A cover of Bathory.
  • "This is Halloween" — A cover featured on The Nightmare Before Christmas Soundtrack re-release in October 2006. The chances of it being featured on the standard version of Eat Me, Drink Me as bonus track are improbable, but it may see future release on international versions of the album, much like "Tainted Love" (also a cover) was to The Golden Age of Grotesque.

Personnel

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