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'''''Portrait of an American Family''''' is [[Marilyn Manson|Marilyn Manson's]] debut album, released in 1994. As on the band's next two releases, [[Trent Reznor]] was a producer.
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#REDIRECT [[Portrait of an American Family (album)]]
 
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==Track listing==
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#Prelude (The Family Trip) – 1:20
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#Cake and Sodomy – 3:46
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#[[Lunchbox (single)|Lunchbox]] – 4:32
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#Organ Grinder – 4:22
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#Cyclops – 3:32
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#Dope Hat – 4:21
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#[[Get Your Gunn]] – 3:18
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#Wrapped in Plastic – 5:35
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#Dogma – 3:22
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#Sweet Tooth – 5:03
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#Snake Eyes and Sissies – 4:07
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#My Monkey – 4:31
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#Misery Machine – 5:50
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== Credits ==
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*[[Marilyn Manson (person)|Marilyn Manson]] — vocals, producer, brass, loops, artwork
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*[[Daisy Berkowitz]] — guitars
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*[[Madonna Wayne Gacy]] — calliope, Hammond organ, saxophone, theremin, brass, overdubs, loops
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*[[Sara Lee Lucas]] — drums, sound effects
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*[[Gidget Gein]] — bass
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*[[Jeordie White|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
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*[[Trent Reznor]] — producer, executive producer, digital editing, programming, mixing, brass, guitar
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*[[Robin Finck]] — synthesis, keyboards (uncredited on album, however Manson has confirmed his involvement)
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*[[Roli Mosimann]] — engineer
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*[[Sean Beavan]] — assistant producer, programming, digital editing
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*[[Alan Moulder]] — assistant producer, engineer, mixing
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*[[Charlie Clouser]] — drums, drum programming, editing
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*[[Chris Vrenna]] — percussion, programming, assistant engineer
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*Tom Baker — mastering
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*Chris Meyer — engineer
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*Barry Goldberg — assistant engineer
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*Brian Pollack — assistant engineer
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*Brian Scheuble — assistant engineer
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*Mark Gruber — assistant engineer
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*Hope Nichols — saxophone, vocals
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*Robin Perine — photography
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*Jeffrey Weiss — photography
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*Gary Talpas — packaging
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==Miscellaneous==
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*Bassist [[Gidget Gein]] was fired after the production of this album.
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*Daisy Berkowitz helped compose music for all of the songs except "Prelude (The Family Trip)" and "Sweet Tooth."
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*The album's original title was ''The Manson Family Album''.
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*"Snake Eyes and Sissies" was originally planned as the lead single but never released; "Get Your Gunn" was released instead.
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*The song "Filth" was deleted from the album prior to release, and has never been officially released.
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*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".
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*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 throughtout the world.
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*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]].
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*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".
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*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]] commited suicide in front of an audience during a press conference.
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==Billboard charts==
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*1995: Portrait of an American Family: Heatseekers: No. 35
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[[Category:Discography]]
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[[Category:Portrait of an American Family]]
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Latest revision as of 09:37, 29 July 2007