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Artist: Charles Manson
Title: LIE
Label: Awareness Records
Catalogue No: 08903-0156
Year: 1974 (CD Release 1987)
Lie: The Love and Terror Cult (actual title Charles Manson Sings) is the debut album by Charles Manson, originally released by ESP-Disk. Recorded on September 11, 1967 and August 9, 1968 (overdubs), its distribution began during the Manson murder trial.
The cover is a copy of the December 19, 1969 Time Life front cover, only with "LIFE" substituted with "LIE".
"Cease to Exist" had been previously recorded by the Beach Boys under the name "Never Learn Not to Love", and appears on their 1969 album, 20/20, and as the B-side of the single of "Bluebirds over the Mountain". The single gives songwriting credit to Manson and Dennis Wilson. Manson is not given co-writing credit on the album. It is worth pointing out that the Beach Boys' version does include significant changes (including a bridge that wasn't part of Manson's version, and changing the line "Cease to exist" to "Cease to resist", which does alter the meaning of the song).
Portions of the album have been sampled by many other artists, such as Front Line Assembly. Many of the songs have also been re-recorded; a version of "Look at Your Game, Girl" appears as a hidden track on Guns N' Roses' cover album "The Spaghetti Incident?", while GG Allin covered "Garbage Dump" for his 1987 album You Give Love a Bad Name and Redd Kross and The Lemonheads have both covered "Cease To Exist". Dilute released a cover of “Home is Where You're Happy” in 2002 on the CD compilation If The Twenty-First Century Didn't Exist It Would Be Necessary To Invent It (5 Rue Christine). The Brian Jonestown Massacre does a slightly reworked cover of "Arkansas" (called "Arkansas Revisited") on their 1999 album Bringing it All Back Home - Again. The band's leader, Anton Newcombe, has expressed interest in Manson's songwriting.
Devo are alleged to have plagiarized their song "Mechanical Man" from Manson's composition of the same name.
An acoustic version of the song "Sick City" was recorded by Marilyn Manson but has never been officially released. The Marilyn Manson song "My Monkey", from the album Portrait of an American Family, contains samples of Charles Manson speaking, as well as lyrics from the track "Mechanical Man".
All proceeds from one reissue of the album, released by Awareness Records, are donated to a California fund for victims of violent crime. (California law prohibits Manson from collecting any money or royalties for his work.)
TRACK LISTING:
01 Look At Your Game Girl
02 Ego
03 Mechanical Man
04 People Say I’m No Good
05 Home Is Where You’re Happy
06 Arkansas
07 I’ll Never Say Never To Always
08 Garbage Dump
09 Don’t Do Anything Illegal
10 Sick City
11 Cease To Exist
12 Big Iron Door
13 I Once Knew A Man
Lineage: Original Silver CD > Nero > Wav > BonkEnc > Flac
RapidShare Links:
PART 01: http://lix.in/-32d6f1
PART 02: http://lix.in/-35e433
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3 comments:
Cool man.. Thank you so much for this!
Always wanted to hear his stuff ever since I found out GNR covered 'Look At Your Game Girl'..From a musical standpoint, some of this isn't that bad..Actually, he had more talent than alot of the "musicians" I hear today.. Thanks again for posting this one! :)
Thank you for the comments friends. I am glad you liked this unique post. I have "Charles Manson Live At San Quentin" that I will be posting some time in the future. Some may not get it but you guys do. This is a part of music history. These recordings were made before the murders.
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