My Review on Marilyn Manson's The High End of Low

Ah yes, the illustrious Marilyn Manson. I figured that since I haven't given him a chance since Holy Wood, I'd give The High End of Low a listen, and I will say that he impressed me. He moved on from being about shocking the audience, and moved toward being more about the music, which is what I love in an artist. I found it a little annoying how every song except a few were acousticy/ambient failures. I loved his voice, but the acoustic songs needed to leave and stay out. The bass and drums were simple as always, but effective at redeeming the acoustic things he was doing.

The album art? Just his face with some strange colors and the album title. Nothing fancy.

I will say this: I am glad that I downloaded the album and not bought it, because they want 9.99 at Best Buy and that's about 4 dollars too high in my book. There is also a special edition for 14.99, which comes with a bunch of remixes, and that's pointless because his remixes are always worse then his actual music,

In essence: Mediocre except for a couple of tracks. Unless you're a die-hard MM Fan (James...) then don't buy it.