{"id":973679,"date":"2019-11-22T08:46:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T15:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=916407"},"modified":"2019-11-22T08:46:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T15:46:38","slug":"marilyn-manson-covers-the-doors-the-end-for-upcoming-stephen-king-adaptation-the-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/marilyn-manson-covers-the-doors-the-end-for-upcoming-stephen-king-adaptation-the-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Marilyn Manson Covers the Doors\u2019 \u2018The End\u2019 for Upcoming Stephen King Adaptation \u2018The Stand\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marilyn Manson<\/a> has been waiting his whole life to bellow, \u201cFather! I want to keelll<\/em> you!\u201d He gets to live out all of his Jim Morrison fantasies on a new cover of the Doors\u2019 menacing meditation, \u201cThe End,\u201d which he seems to be releasing as a standalone 12-inch picture disc just for the hell of it.<\/p>\n

He gets so into it, in fact, that when he gets to the patricidal part of the band\u2019s oedipal odyssey, he gets hung up on second half of the story: Where Jim Morrison once sang, \u201cMother, I want to \u2026 \u201d before screaming (and singing \u201cfuck, fuck, fuck,\u201d in the original, uncensored version<\/a>), Manson takes it another step, singing \u201cmotherfucker\u201d over and over again. The vinyl will be available March 6th, but the song is streaming now.<\/p>\n

Manson\u2019s cover, of course, is darker and more purposely nightmarish than the Doors\u2019 original. It\u2019s not quite heavy metal \u2014 it still has a chilly, dessert-rock vibe to it \u2014 but when it peaks, it turns loud and staticky, reflecting Manson\u2019s gnashed-teeth delivery of lyrics like, \u201cAll the children are insane\/waiting for the summer rain.\u201d If the Doors version was acid rock, Manson\u2019s is PCP rock.<\/p>\n

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A lot of the credit to the song\u2019s mood goes to producer Shooter Jennings. Manson said in an interview with Revolver<\/a><\/em> that the song informed the work on his upcoming album. \u201cShooter and I also did a cover of \u2018The End\u2019 by the Doors, for a new miniseries of The Stand<\/em> by Stephen King, which I\u2019m also going to be acting in,\u201d Manson said. \u201cI think that sort of kick-started our process for the album and started us exploring different things.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Manson hasn\u2019t released any other details about his upcoming LP, but he did recently put out a creepy cover of the traditional song \u201cGod\u2019s Gonna Cut You Down,\u201d<\/a> which he had cut with producer Tyler Bates. That song has also been covered by Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Odetta and others.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe End\u201d is not the first time Manson covered the Doors. At the Sunset Strip Music Festival in 2012, he did a number of the band\u2019s songs, including \u201cLove Me Two Times,\u201d \u201cPeople Are Strange\u201d and \u201cFive to One,\u201d in tribute to the group. And at a 2016 Amoeba Music in-store, he tackled \u201cNot To Touch the Earth\u201d with help from Johnny Depp on guitar.<\/p>\n