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Charles Manson

Lie

Charles Manson's most famous recording was made on September 11, 1967 and released as an LP in 1970 while the Tate/La Bianca murders and subsequent Manson Family trials were still headline news. The album cover is an altered version of Manson's likeness as it appeared on the cover of Life Magazine on December 19, 1969. On the record jacket the "F" has been removed, transforming "LIFE" into "LIE" in graphic denial of Manson's guilt. Certainly Manson played up to the sensationalism, mugging for the cameras like Aleister Crowley or Arthur Brown, bulging his eyes like Beelzebub, carving a swastika into his forehead, and spouting stream of consciousness yang with nothing-to-lose-audacity. The mass media's portrayal of Manson as the archetypal homicidal freak (forever stamped with the meaningless word "hippie") permanently tarnished the common perception of '60s counterculture and rendered some of its social agenda wrongfully suspect by association. For the listener to accurately comprehend the music on this recording, an extra helping of context is in order. Composer John Moran, whose The Manson Family: An Opera adds several dimensions to an already loaded equation, has stated that ''Until the murders, psychedelia had been associated with the idea of love. After Manson, and because of the way the media portrayed him, psychedelia became associated with flipping out and violence and fear." He also adds: ''People forget that cults are not just fringe groups. America is a cult. All countries use cult techniques. They teach you that anything outside the cult is evil and to be feared, and they constantly inundate us with slogans. We like to think that we're past propaganda, but we are subjected to it all the time, through the media and through our friends. What is commonly called a cult is just smaller.'' (Review by arwulf arwulf, AMG)

Songs include:

Side A:

1. Look at Your Game, Girl
2. Ego
3. Mechanical Man
4. People Say I'm No Good
5. Home Is Where You're Happy
6. Arkansas
7. I'll Never Say Never to Always

   Side B:

8. Garbage Dump
9. Don't Do Anything Illegal
10. Sick City
11. Cease to Exist
12. Big Iron Door
13. I Once Knew a Man
14. Eyes of a Dreamer

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Details:

• Genre: Folk, Singer-Songwriter, Psychedelic
• Catalog Number & Year: Awareness AWARE-1, 1987 reissue of the 1970 Release, made in USA
• Speed: 33 RPM, Approximately 12" diameter (30 cm) (standard size)
• Record Condition: Sealed, Never used, excellent condition
• Jacket Condition: Very Good
• UPC# (none)
• Special Attributes? Guaranteed against manufacturer's defects.
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