CD Review

They're not spooky, they're just kids

Release of demos from Marily Manson's first band may only appeal to the most diehard fans

By Mitchell Peters

When I first heard the surprising news that Marilyn Manson’s old band, The Spooky Kids, was releasing a disc of old demos, I was excited and a little curious to see what the band sounded like before they became world famous actresses, supermodels and serial killers. I heard rumors that Spooky Kids demo tapes were floating around on the Internet, but wasn’t interested in buying some second-rate bootleg of something that probably sounded bad and simply wasn’t good. If I wanted that, I could listen to old tapes of my first band recorded on a Karaoke machine when I was a kid.More>>

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