Answering Machine Messages
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"Answering Machine Messages" is the unofficial title of the otherwise untitled fifth and final track on the 1990 release Big Black Bus. The track is made up of roughly 15 minutes of answering machine messages left on Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids' hotline, including messages in praise of the band, in disgust, and others of simple rambling for the sake of contacting the hotline. There were also many requests of information regarding the potential purchase of the band's tapes, which at the time would have been impossible according to Daisy Berkowitz's confirmation that Big Black Bus was the band's first cassette to be publicly sold.
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Appearances
Cassettes
Versions
- "Answering Machine Messages" — Appears on Big Black Bus.
Lyrics
(Tracy):
...Your call. I just sit by the phone waiting for your call. I won't even go take a shower for
fear that I might miss your call. They're afraid I'm gonna hurt somebody. They're afraid I'm
gonna hurt myself. Does it smell in here? Kim?
(Kim):
Mm-hmm.
(Tracy):
Over.
(Kim):
Did you do it?
(Tracy):
Yeah, I didn't click back to you?
(Kim):
No.
(Tracy):
I thought I did!
(Kim):
No.
(Tracy):
Uh oh, I think I...
(Kim):
Did you do it without laughing?
(Tracy):
Hold on...
(Kim):
Du-nu-du-nu-nu.
(Tracy):
Sitting by the phone,
(Kim):
Du-nu-du-nu-nu.
(Tracy):
Givin' Marilyn Manson a call,
(Kim):
Du-nu-du-nu-nu.
(Tracy):
And then I find out,
(Kim):
Du-nu-du-nu-nu.
(Tracy):
He don't want me at all,
(Kim):
Du-nu-du-nu-nu.
(Tracy):
So I'm just sitting here weeping,
(Kim):
Du-nu-du-nu-nu.
(Tracy):
I fear the rejection,
(Kim):
Du-nu-du-nu-nu.
(Tracy):
I really hope this message,
(Kim):
Du-nu-du-nu-nu.
(Tracy):
Will give you an erection.
(Kim):
Du-nu-du-nu-nu-do-do-do.
(Tracy):
Marilyn Manson, I wanna...
(Kim):
Du-nu-du-du.
(Tracy):
In case you didn't know who left all these messages, I'm not gonna tell you! No, um, it's Tracy
and my number, as I've left before is 749-9036.
(Paul):
Yeah, my name is Paul man, and my phone number is 978-9514 and I wanna get blown away dude! Cool!
(Tracy):
Mmm-hmm. Uh oh.
(Tracy):
Kim?
(Kim):
Yeah?
(Kim):
Marilyn, yes it's us again, yes, for the ninth time today.
(Tracy):
And we've wrote a little song for you.
(Kim):
I'm sure you'll really enjoy it once you're done throwing up. Okay, one two three:
(Kim and Tracy):
We keep calling you but you don't call back
You don't call soon, we're gonna turn you black
All these times we're pretty tired
So if you don't call back we'll set you on fire, word
Okay, we want those tapes and we want them now
And we're prepared to wait for the cows, mooo
You better call us back when you say you will
'Cause if you don't well have to kill, word
(Kim):
Okay, anyway this is ninth time and it's probably the last time.
(Anonymous man):
Hi, you guys have the most bogus crapolla message I've ever heard in my life, and I'm gonna come
see this trash because it's so fucking ridiculous.
(Tracy):
Kim, you're boring!...
(Kim):
I know, okay, Stephanie I don't get any money. I just have a... what? What are you talking
about? No, Stephanie, okay, I'll give you fifty dollars. Okay. did you call yet?
(Tracy):
Yeah, um, Kim, we're leaving a message right now.
(Kim):
Oh, Stephanie, this is all being recorded on the guy's answering machine.
(Tracy):
Oh yeah.
(Kim):
Stephanie... hang up the phone.
(Tracy):
Oh no, we're still being recorded.
(Kim):
Well hang it up.
(Tracy):
Why? He never calls us.
(Kim):
I know but Tracy, um, tell him what? Oh yeah, Stephanie's giving me the money so I can go to
Universal and I'll have to pay her back, I just have to give her back the fifty dollars which is
interest anyway cause...
(Anonymous man):
You're a skinny fuckin' runt douchebag.
(Kim):
Hi, it's Kim again but you should be really thankful this is only the first time that I've
called today, but um, okay, it's Friday night and it's 9:34 and 49 seconds and I was wondering
if you had a tape for me yet? And if you do, like, you know, could I get it like tomorrow? And,
if you, like, if you're going to insist on sending me on a wild goose chase after it, then well,
I guess I could handle that but um, just like you know me and Tracy were thinking 'bout maybe
like we could get it tomorrow or something. Just think about it. And I want underwear too.
(Paul):
'Allo, 'allo, do tell. My name is George McCartney and I should call you again.
(John): 853-7496. My name is John, uh, and Jim Camacho. 653-8218. Uh, we really, we really would
like to win this um, thing. Jim?
(Jim):
Ever since... ever since the first night when we... and that spooky lane of, I'm reminiscing, I,
I had that, that vibe to call, and now this gives me a real reason that I just want to, a, you
know, a real reason to call. Because, you know, it's, it's a hotline. I figure it's perfect.
(Anonymous woman):
I wanna see you God... Feel you so bad I can almost taste it.
(Elaina): Hi Marilyn, my name is Elaina. I'm one of Tracy's friends and she just gave me this
number...
(Bill):
Alright fellow, give me a call. This is Bill. Bye.
(Jason):
Hi this is Jason, I love you guys. Give me a call at 437-4210. Thank you.
(Anonymous man):
My dog barks.
(Anonymous man):
Where do we get tape info, huh? 467-6425.
(Sparkles' Dad):
You still there, who was it?
(Sparkles):
Say, "this is Sparkles' Dad."
(Sparkles' Dad):
This is Sparkles' Dad. We don't have a problem here, we happen to like your music so how do we
go from here? My phone number is 341-9341. Thank you very much, bye bye.
(Christine):
Hey Marilyn baby, I'm a big fat Siamese cat and I'm interested in you. Why don't you call me
some time. My name's Christine. I forget the phone!
(Christine):
Hey Marilyn, it's me the big fat Siamese cat with no rake. Sorry but my bitsy horny dog, you
know she like stepped on the phone, I think she was trying to use it as a dildo. But you know
man, you guys sound like really cool, I'm like really intrigued by you. It's Christine and why
don't you call me some time cowboy. Maybe we can go for a ride. As you can tell, I have this
like, enormously like sex drive and I don't know, just call me back. 742-2572. Later man.
(Anonymous woman):
Hey, when you come Wednesday night, bring me directions to the junkyard please. Okay, bye.
(Julie):
Hey Marilyn, the coolest thing happened today at school, you're not gonna believe this right? So
it's like I'm sitting in the caffeteria right, and it's no big thing, I'm just being bored and
waiting for something to happen, right, so there's this girl, I don't know who she is, I still
don't know her name, well anyways this is really weird, okay, so anyway I'm sitting there and
she has a picture on her folder and I get up to look at it and I realize she was wearing Marilyn
on her shirt and I'm like freaking out and I said to her "Where'd you get that shirt? Where'd
you get that shirt?" and she's like... And I'm like I'll buy it off you for $20 and she's like
if you get me money I'll get you a shirt at the concert on Friday, I'm going to the concert on
Friday and I'm like, wait, you got that shirt at a concert and she's like, yeah, I don't know if
you know her, she's like Chinese and she's got really long hair with a streak and I don't know
and actually...
(Julie):
Anyways, like I was saying, right, I was freaking out and she's like, Julie...
Trivia
- American heavy metal band Twisted Sister's "Come out and Play" can be heard in the background during Bill's message.
- American rapcore band Rage Against the Machine's "Wake Up" can be heard in the background during Elaina's message.
- Eight people left the band their home phone numbers.
- Towards the end of the playback, an anonymous woman leaves a message saying, "Hey, when you come Wednesday night, bring me directions to the junkyard please. Okay, bye." It is speculated that this message was left by Barb Warner, Marilyn Manson's mother.
