Embarrassing things you aren't too embarrassed to admit liking

[Meursault]

For my money: Marilyn Manson.

BRTD recently posted a criticism of the YouTube celebrity TheAmazingAtheist for "still listening to Marilyn Manson", as if he had room to criticize anyone for their tastes.

I listen to Manson, too. I like him quite a bit more than Nine Inch Nails or TReznor more generally; Trent's good at brilliantly scoring bad poetry. Manson, on the other hand, writes quite excellent, evocative and politically charged lyrics, like the track "Burning Flag" off 2000s Holy Wood (In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death:

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The same record (my favorite from Manson) is homd to a gorgeous, thunderswept homage to political martyrs, "The Fall of Adam":

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[Meursault]

Type O Negative should hardly need defending. Even if you take them seriously, which the band only rarely did (most of the funeral dirges about the death of Pete's relatives or his drug abuse on World Coming Down, say, which also is probably the favorite of hardcore TON fans), the band itself was absurdly talented. Peter Steele had a way of making his bass licks sound like Jimi Hendrix playing a guitar - the psychedelic interlude on "Less Than Zero", say - and he had tremendous vocal range for a natural bass. Nothing embarrassing at all, imo, and one of my personal Top Ten.