- Record Label: nothing/Interscope
- Release Date: Nov 14, 2000
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Universal acclaim- based on 161 Ratings
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Positive: 148 out of 161
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Mixed: 3 out of 161
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Negative: 10 out of 161
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Where 'Holy Wood' does come together and threaten to transcend its at times cliched parts is in its clarity of vision. This is a lean, visceral album that is as tripwire lithe as its maker. Manson's also remembered to write some great pop-goth tunes this time out, nowhere more so than with first single 'Disposable Teens'.
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SpinWith nothing fresh to moan about, it's like a seventh James Bond movie without any new gadgets. [12/2000, p.223]
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Yeah, it's a party. And it's great rock music. Those who claim Manson "went back to Goth" and reclaimed Antichrist's noise after Mechanical proved too subtle for kids are only partly right. Okay, he virtually cloned his hit "The Beautiful People" in "Disposable Teens." And there are several familiar yell-and-stomp numbers on Holy Wood. But even those almost all contain a double-take chord change or a textural overdose or a mind-blowing bridge, and they'll be terroristic in concert. More important, there are a bunch of plain brilliant tracks where Manson anoints bits of rock history into his own church.