Samples in Marilyn Manson songs

Marilyn Manson has sampled numerous parts of songs, movies, and other audio into its songs. This page will attempt to catalog each usage.

The Beaver Meat Cleaver Beat

"Red (in My) Head" samples:

• "He didn't exactly kill her, it was an accident" said by Layne (Crispin Glover) from the 1986 film River's Edge
• "I killed a girl once, it was no accident, I was in love" said by Feck (Dennis Hopper) from the 1986 film River's Edge
• "He's still killing her" said by Matt (Keanu Reeves) and Tim's (Joshua Miller) little sister from the 1986 film River's Edge
• "I mean they're evil, you had to kill her" said by Layne (Crispin Glover) from the 1986 film River's Edge

Grist-O-Line

"Dune Buggy" samples:

• Tex Watson saying, "We would swoop down on the town, and kill everyone that wasn't beautiful."

After School Special

"Choklit Factory" samples:

• Charlie Bucket (Peter Ostrum) from the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory saying, "Where's the chocolate?"
• Arthur Slugworth (Gunter Meisner) from the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory saying, "Nobody ever comes in and nobody ever goes out."
• Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) from the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory saying, "Little surprises around every corner but nothing dangerous."

The Family Jams

"Dope Hat" samples:

• A keyboard effect from the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
• An interviewer saying, "Manson Family, your friends," followed by Charles Manson's response, "The Manson Family was a music group. The music group I had was called The Family Jams, and all the girls sang in the music group, and all the guys played in the music group. It had nothing to do with the occult, it was a music group!"
• Magician Horatio HooDoo (Charles Nelson Reilly) from the 1971 children's television series Lidsville saying, "The Great HooDoo."
• Magician Horatio HooDoo from the 1971 children's television series Lidsville saying, "Prepare to meet your doom!"
• Magician Horatio HooDoo from the 1971 children's television series Lidsville saying, "Hahahahahaha."
• Bob Hughes (Matt Dillon) from the 1989 film Drugstore Cowboy saying, "Who put the goddamn hat on the bed?"

"Strange Same Dogma" samples:

• Connie Marble (Mink Stole) in the 1972 film Pink Flamingos saying, "Burn, you fucker, burn!"
• "We can surprise him," from the 1972 film Pink Flamingos.
• "Burn," from the 1972 film Pink Flamingos.
• "This is unreal," by Layne (Crispin Glover) from the 1986 film River's Edge.

"Let Your Ego Die" samples:

• "I said you can fucking die"

Refrigerator

"Cake and Sodomy" samples:

• "Help!"
• Peggy Gravel (Mink Stole) from the 1977 film Desperate Living saying "White trash", looped.

"Lunchbox" samples:

• "Fire" and "I bring you..." from the 1968 song "Fire" by Arthur Brown (featured on The Crazy World of Arthur Brown)

"My Monkey" samples:

• Charles Manson saying, "I'm the king of this whole planet," taken from The Charles Manson Interviews.
• Charles Manson saying, "The world of madness is a lot bigger than the world of saneness," taken from The Charles Manson Interviews.
• Charles Manson saying, "Sanity's a little box," taken from The Charles Manson Interviews.
• Charles Manson laughs and says, "I sing like this!" taken from The Charles Manson Interviews.
• Charles Manson saying, "I'm the king of this whole planet... I'm gonna rule this whole world," taken from The Charles Manson Interviews.

"Misery Machine" samples:

• Velma (Pat Stevens) asking, "Uh, oh... Why is the motor making that strange noise?" followed by Fred (Frank Welker)'s response, "I don't know Velma, and I don't like it," taken from the 1976 children's television series The Scooby-Doo Show.
• Shaggy (Casey Kasem) asking, "Where are we?" followed by Scooby (Don Messick)'s response, "I don't know..... Uh-uh, oh my gosh!"
• A man singing, "I'm gonna ride you to Hell, until you are dead. I'm gonna ride you to Hell, until you..."

Portrait of an American Family

"Cake and Sodomy" samples:

• A woman moaning
• Peggy Gravel (Mink Stole) from the 1977 film Desperate Living saying "White trash", looped.
• "Go on and smile you cunt!" by Paul (Marlon Brando) from The Last Tango in Paris (1972)
• "Cuntfucker!"

"Lunchbox" samples:

• A woman saying "It's just one more way that Satan strangles our society.".
• "Fire" and "I bring you..." from the 1968 song "Fire" by Arthur Brown (featured on The Crazy World of Arthur Brown)
• "It's the most beautiful thing. It's beautiful to be made into a tattletale or forced to admire authority or sell yourself for a piece of candy." by Paul (Marlon Brando) from The Last Tango in Paris (1972)
• "I'm making my lunch!" from Wild at Heart(1990) by David Lynch

"Organ Grinder" samples:

• The Child Catcher from the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang saying, "If there are children here, my friend, you will die, hahahaha!"

"Dope Hat" samples:

• Magician Horatio HooDoo (Charles Nelson Reilly) from the 1971 children's television series Lidsville saying, "The Great HooDoo."
• Magician Horatio HooDoo from the 1971 children's television series Lidsville saying, "Prepare to meet your doom!"
• Magician Horatio HooDoo from the 1971 children's television series Lidsville saying, "Hahahahahaha."
• Bob Hughes (Matt Dillon) from the 1989 film Drugstore Cowboy saying, "Who put the goddamn hat on the bed?"

"Get Your Gunn" samples:

• Audio from which Bud Dwyer committed suicide in front of an audience during a press conference.

"Wrapped in Plastic" samples:

• Opening scream and Little Man's laughter from the 1992 film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.

"Dogma" samples:

• Connie Marble (Mink Stole) in the 1972 film Pink Flamingos saying, "Burn burn burn" and "Burn, you fuckers!"
• "They're afraid of the dark, imagine that. Come on mother, I want you to meet my friend!" by Paul (Marlon Brando) from The Last Tango in Paris (1972)
• "You are so pretty."

"Snake Eyes and Sissies" samples:

• "Killing is killing whether done for duty, profit or fun," said by Richard Ramirez during a court appearance.
• The resonating synth sound, by The Electronic Halloween Music Ghosts.

"Misery Machine" samples:

• "I would like to face reality, let me tell you there's over three-thousand groups operating in this country today and the number is growing. As Christians we gotta take on the armor of Christ and go to battle against Satan.", source unknown
• "Beep Beep" by The Playmates

"Epilogue" samples:

• Peggy Gravel (Mink Stole) from the 1977 film Desperate Living saying, "Go home to your mother, doesn't she ever want you? Tell her this isn't some communist day care center. Tell your mother I hate her, tell you mother I hate you."
• A message left on the Spooky Kids answering machine by an angry mom, saying "I want my son off of your mailing list. I have already contacted the post office for your pornographic material that has been received in the mail. My next stop is my attorney. I do not want this number called anymore and do not want anything delivered to my address. If I receive anything else from this band or this group, my next phone call will be my attorney and you will be contacted. Thank you and good bye."

"Get Your Gunn"

"Revelation #9" samples:

• "She looks like a real woman when she takes her clothes off," among several other samples.
• "Cobra!" from G.I. Joe.

"Mother Inferior Got Her Gunn" samples:

• A speech by evangelist David Ring.

"Lunchbox"

"Down in the Park" samples:

• "Interference. You are receiving this broadcast as a dream. We are transmitting the year 1-9-9-9. You are receiving this broadcast for all the events you are seeing. Our technology is not developing transfer to reach your conscious. This is not a dream. You are seeing what is actually occuring," from the 1987 film Prince of Darkness.
• "Everything I have left to prove, a light for you. Pictures that I keep in my dictionary, and let the world know."

Smells Like Children

"Kiddie Grinder" (Original Version) samples:

• The Child Catcher (Robert Helpmann) from the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang saying, "If there are children here, my friend, you will die, hahahaha!"
• The Child Catcher from the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang saying, "Come along kiddie winkies!"
• The Child Catcher from the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang saying, "Come children, come and get your lollipops."

"Everlasting Cocksucker" (Original Version) samples:

• "Oompa Loompa Doompa-De-Do" by the Oompa Loompas
• Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) from the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory saying, "Suck on it."
• Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) from the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory saying, "You can suck on it, and suck on it, and suck on it, and it will never loose flavor... Never. At least I don't think they do, a few more tests."

"I Put a Spell on You" samples:

• Music from the 1974 film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Antichrist Superstar

"The Beautiful People" samples:

• Tex Watson saying, "We would swoop down on the town, and kill everyone that wasn't beautiful."

"Tourniquet" samples:

• Manson saying, "Perhaps I have weakened her body. I want to control her."

"Minute of Decay" samples:

• "From a dead man, greetings," backmasked in the first few seconds of the song, from the 1984 film Nineteen Eighty-Four, based on the novel by George Orwell.

Remix & Repent

"Man That You Fear (Acoustic Requiem for Antichrist Superstar)" samples:

• "Adulters, fornicators, drunkards, and thieves, and liars. Ah, I mean you know there's just... It just doesn't fit with Christianity."

Mechanical Animals

"I Want to Disappear" samples:

• "Now children it's time for recess, please roll up your sleeves," from the 1998 film Brave New World, adapted from the 1932 novel of the same name.

The Last Tour on Earth

"Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes" samples:

• "And to die in dignity. Sing to the..." backmasked in the first few seconds of the song, sang by children in 1984 film Nineteen Eighty-Four, based on the novel by George Orwell.

Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)

"The Love Song" samples:

• "Last night... I think he should have suffered... longer," said by Marguerite Claverie in reference to the death of her son Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of United States President John F. Kennedy.

"Coma Black" samples:

• "A loved one laid his head in her lap, red roses fell to the floor, and the world stood still."

The Golden Age of Grotesque

"Obsequey (The Death of Art)" samples:

• "They taste tension because it is their life. Chrome complemental. Stop Looking for ourselves. Bored towards most of it. We have grown to complain. The hole we have to fuck her. I'm still captive, hide in the distortion. It's a shame I'm still expected to wave. Though we have no disgruntled. We are lower girls. Man, girls, good evening. Nothing is more propaganda than the world. Tired of them stabbing. I am a... Forever but still I am a door to all of the worst who are jittery. Crazy people pretend me to not give a fuck. And we are made of a dry contact, without the people we aren't alive. We are cows scraping up our genitals, we saved our best milk. Propaganda is not done. Break down me. Then the faces will evolve. Let's just see the only child . The bored are to be of devoured, but not you," from the 1963 film 8½.

• "Let's see what we will bring. We will hide. We have grown just to die. Does it... Their propaganda is not heavy. I have grown bored with their best milk. Evolve. Contact them. Complimental. Tell them to hide. Bored out of this world. No one will answer us. Girls. No one is more abnormal or unimportant than, like them. I tried, I fucked them still. No more establishing. Bored. Don't accept them. About. Our life. Chrome. Bite their bullet. There is fresh something. But all I'm trying to do. Is about their lifestyle is fucked. Without those people we grow disgruntled. Propaganda has always worked. They are very dull. I expected their lives. Girls. There has to be something," also from the 1963 film 8½.

Eat Me, Drink Me

"You and Me and the Devil Makes 3" samples:

• Manson saying, "Eat me, drink me."
• Manson saying, "Pants can always come off, pants can always come off."

"EAT ME, DRINK ME" samples:

• Manson saying, "I hear voices in my head."

The High End of Low

• "Four Rusted Horses" samples speech at the end of its first chorus, and through some of the following verse.
• "The Wow" samples a woman speaking in German, at both the beginning and ending of the song.

See also

• Backmasking in Marilyn Manson songs
• Marilyn Manson samples and backmasking: an analysis on The Nachtkabarett