Saints Are Hell On Earth

Tracklisting
01. Boxcar Willie (3:00)
02. Mountains On My Mind (1:45)
03. Computer Brain baby (5:15)
04. Jigger Jam (2:13)
05. Dreamer Man (3:26)
06. Kamikaze Dreamer (7:00)
07. Little Kids (5:47)
08. Old Muleskinner (2:41)
09. Summer Road (13:16)
10. Hello To My Friends (4:59)
11. To The Colors (8:13)

Recorded 1983 in San Quentin prison, California. Charles Manson sings and plays guitar. This recording was made under imperfect conditions and smuggled out of San Quentin prison. Technical limitations will be apparent.

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Universal Soul: A Selection of the Very Best of Charles Manson 1967-2009

Well I dug this up from a torrent on Pirate Bay, made by Yamashita Riki. It included a compilation which I'd never heard of before, and it was actually put together (artwork and all) by him. The following is directly from the artwork:

The Charles Manson "Universal Soul" Selection is a compilation of songs form various albums between 1967-2005. Thirteen songs were selected to represent the "Very Best of" the music of Charles Manson, as an easy introduction to first time listeners. "Thirteen" was also selected because it symbolized the infamous "Cell 13" which Manson once resided during his prison stay. A reminder to strive to be free from the "prisons of our minds". Best regards to fans both new and old - keep living it "All The Way Alive" - Yamashita Riki (20070713)

01. Angels Fear To Tread
02. Close To Me
03. Down In Dixieland
04. Dream Train
05. Eyes Of A Dreamer
06. Home Is Where You're Happy
07. I'm Free Now
08. Invisible Tears
09. Look At Your Game, Girl
10. My World
11. She Done Turned Me In
12. Sick City
13. This Night Life

The songs presented here are meant to serve as an introduction to the music of Charles Manson. This compilation does not reflect the expressed opinions of ideas by the official organizations representing Charles Manson, nor is it a definitive representation of 'the very best of'. This album had been introduced to widen greater appreciation and acceptance of the music of Charles Manson, without any intention of profit. It was compiled and remastered out of pure love, gratitude and appreciation. No copyright is implied and this album should never be sold. If you wish to support Charlie, please do so by purchasing one of his albums from familyjams.com or visit mansondirect.com

No real "new material" on this compilation, but I feel it deserves a place here. So at least all us collectors and fans can get our fill, since I know we're terribly starved for new material.

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Enjoy, and don't forget to comment!
-Dan

A Couple Of Things

Been a little short on Manson material here as of late. Many of our regular visitors have probably noticed it's been quiet but that's because of a lack of new stuff to share with you. If you haven't been here much, look through the archives and you'll find nearly every single recording out there. We've got the major albums plus singles, alternate versions, Family Jams, and other related albums. Not to mention interviews and the like. I'm sure we'll come across something new for you soon.
In the meantime, I can't help but direct you to Digital Meltd0wn where I've released my new effort. Subduction is an experimental music project I've been working on with my friend and collaborator, Ian Briscoe. This had nothing to do with Manson but I think at least some of you will dig it. The album is called "Bad News From The Inner Solar System" and explores several different avenues of musical endeavor. The sound was created using a mixture of vintage synths, homemade syths, theremin, stylophone, tape loops, samples, and more. You can check out Michael's review at DM or just go ahead and download it here if you like.

Digital Meltd0wn

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Interesting Google Feature

We've fallen on a bit of a silent period here at Manson Music since the holidays but we are still here. It's just that the business of the season, coupled with that fact that we've compiled a pretty comprehensive blog here so far, leaves us with little to post at the moment. Still, leave it to Google to provide us with yet another interesting way to search the net, thus enabling me to pass this on to those of you who haven't seen it yet. Google has added a new "timeline" feature that allows you to search and view the results chronologically, so to speak. You can actually search just about anything with a history, from countries like England to institutions like the Federal Reserve, but I think it might work best with people. Try Charles Manson with it and you'll see what I mean. You get a nice little graph at the top of your results that is divided by decade. Within each of these decades you also get mini bar graphs indicating how much information you can expect to find during each time period. Clicking on each decade you can continue to refine your results by the individual years and even months. It's actually a very cool new way to search and I can already think of many ways to use it. The syntax is simple. Just try it out by pasting this into the search bar:

charles manson view:timeline

As always, thanks for stopping by and if you have any requests or material we're missing here let us know. Obscurities, links, and comments are always welcome!

The Summer Of Hate: The '67 Sessions

Tracklisting:

01. Devil Man
02. The More You Love
03. Two Pair Of Shoes
04. Maiden With Green Eyes (Remember me)
05. Swamp Girl
06. Bet You Think I Care
07. Look At Your Game, Girl
08. Interview
09. Who To Blame
10. True Love You Will Find
11. My World
12. Invisible Tears
13. Night Life
14. Sick City
15. Run For Fun
16. The Empty House Of Tomorrow
17. Close To Me
18. She Done Turned Me In / Twilight Blues / Your Daddy's Home

Well this is the 09/11/67 sessions which have been recently packaged in numerous ways, and while "The Psychedelic Soul Of Charles Manson" is what I believe to be the whole entire session, in the correct order. The incredibly poor sound quality of that disc ruins it (for me at least). That's why if I want to hear this material I always reach for this disc instead.

Put out in 2007 in Germany by the Arte Lupo label, I can't say I really care for the title of it, but the quality of the disc itself makes up for that. It's about as close as we can get at this time to the entire 09/11/67 sessions released with a good quality sound mix.

Enjoy!

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LIE: The Love and Terror Cult

I know Will's against posting duplicates on this blog, but I figured I'd make an exception for this album. See this originally came out in 1970 in a limited run of 2,000 copies on a made up label called Awareness Records as "LIE: The Love and Terror Cult" (2144).

Producer Phil Kaufman later peddled the recordings around to other labels in hopes of getting a wider circulation, and eventually made an agreement with ESP-Disk who put out the album again in 1974 as "Charles Manson Sings" (ESP-2003).

As time went on more and more pressings of this started to appear, such as an Argentinian bootleg, a French issue with a different sleeve, and in 1987 the junk UK label stealing the label name of the original release, put out the most readily available reissue of the album on both cheap LP & CD.

And gradually as time went by and these tapes were pressed, repressed and bootlegged to high heaven, the quality started to deteriorate considerably.

That is why I'm choosing to post my rip of the original 1970 album, no mastering, no quality loss, nothing. Just as it was meant to sound when it was released. This pressings thick vinyl has kept the sound as pristine as it can, and I've ripped it first to wav, then converted it to high quality 256kbps mp3.

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Poor Old Prisoner Boy

Poor Old Prisoner Boy
The 55th Anniversary album.

This record contains 55 minutes of live-music, recorded at Vacaville in the early 80's.

Many thanks to:
Nicholas Schreck, Boyd Rice, Aleister Crowley, Anton LaVey, John Aes-Nihil, Nick Bougas, Bobby Beausoleil, Neul Emmons, Lynette Fromme, Genesis P. Orridge, Kenneth anger, Oliver Strahl, Roman Polanski, and finally, Sharon Tate for inspiration.

This record is dedicated to Paul Richard Polanski

Limited edition of 555 copies.

This is a much better quality vinyl rip than the one I did before, so if you have the other one, it is worth replacing it with this.

The music itself is an unedited version of the "Live At San Quentin" tape, so although you'll think "I've heard this before" well yes, but you've only heard selections from this tape. On this album you'll find many sections that were edited out of the other release, and when you look back on things this was the original release from 1989, long before Grey Matter got their hands on it in 1993 and cut it all up.

Since the record sounds like it's cut a little too slow I altered the pitch (through my turntable not computer) and now it sounds like it's playing at the right speed & pitch, so Charles voice doesn't sound too low and murky.

Also on my previous rip near the end of the B-Side, noise overtook the recording, at first I thought my stylus had worn completley out, but it actually turned out to be static built up in my stereo cable linking to my computer. Once I replugged it everything was fine, so I now have a full 55min rip with no static available here for you guys.

Enjoy, and don't forget to comment!

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