Rock Is Dead (song)
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- This article is about the song. For the tour, see Rock Is Dead (tour).
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| Song by Marilyn Manson | ||
| Album | Mechanical Animals | |
| Released | September 14, 1998 | |
| Recorded | 1997–1998 at the White Room, Westlake Recording Studios in West Hollywood, California and Conway Studios | |
| Genre | Alternative rock | |
| Length | 3:09 | |
| Label | Nothing, Interscope | |
| Writer | Marilyn Manson | |
| Composer | Twiggy Ramirez, Madonna Wayne Gacy | |
| Producer | Michael Beinhorn, Marilyn Manson | |
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"Rock Is Dead" is the third single of the third album Mechanical Animals. The line, "Amphetamines for boys, crucifixes for ladies" implies that society is being dumbed-down and controlled by drugs and religion and that rock music is dying from censorship.
Contents |
[edit] Appearances
[edit] Albums
- Mechanical Animals (1998)
- Lest We Forget (The Best of) (2004)
[edit] Singles
- "Rock Is Dead" (1999)
[edit] Soundtracks
- The Matrix (1999)
- Beat the Devil (2002)
[edit] Versions
- "Rock Is Dead" — Appears on Mechanical Animals.
- "Rock is Dead (Live)" — Appears on The Last Tour on Earth.
- "Rock Is Dead" (Edit) — Appears on The Matrix soundtrack and music video.
[edit] Music video
The music video, directed by Samuel Bayer, features a basic performance from the band, intertwined with scenes from the film The Matrix, to which soundtrack "Rock Is Dead" was included on. The music video premiered on MTV during the second week of March 1999.[1]
[edit] Lyrics
All simple monkeys with alien babies
Amphetamines for boys
Crucifixes for ladies
Sampled and soulless
Worldwide and real webbed
You sell all the living
For more safer dead
Anything to belong
Rock is deader than dead
Shock is all in your head
Your sex and your dope is all that we're fed
So fuck all your protests and
Put them to bed
God is in the TV
1,000 mothers are praying for it
We're so full of hope
And so full of shit
Build a new god
To medicate and to ape
Sell us ersatz
Dressed up and real fake
Anything to belong
Rock is deader than dead
Rock is deader than dead
Shock is all in your head
Your sex and your dope is all that we're fed
So fuck all your protests and
Put them to bed
God is in the TV
[edit] Trivia
- In 1998, a poll was held on MarilynManson.com to gather opinions on whether the band's next music video should be for "Rock Is Dead" or "The Last Day on Earth".
- The song was briefly mentioned in chapter three of the Japanese light novel "The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya".
| Marilyn Manson singles | |||||||
| Commercial | Get Your Gunn (song) · Lunchbox (song) · Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (song) · The Beautiful People (song) · Tourniquet (song) · Long Hard Road Out of Hell (song) · "The Dope Show" · "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)" · "Rock Is Dead" · "Disposable Teens" · "The Fight Song" · "The Nobodies" · "Tainted Love" · "mOBSCENE" · "This Is the New Shit" · "Personal Jesus" · "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)" · "Putting Holes in Happiness" · "We're from America" · "Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon" | ||||||
| Promotional | Dope Hat (song) · Antichrist Superstar (song) · Man That You Fear (song) · Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes (song) · "Coma White" · "Working Class Hero" · Thrift (song) · "You and Me and the Devil Makes 3" | ||||||
