If you’ve managed to live this long without hearing any of Charlie Manson’s music, I feel really, really bad for you. The man might be a psychopath to boot, but he’s a musical genius with a voice like an angel. I’m not kidding. I’d let him sing me to sleep any day. In fact, before we go any further, listen to Peace in Your Heart and Eyes of a Dreamer:
Charles Manson - Eyes of a Dreamer
Charles Manson - Peace in your heart
So yeah…if you’ve ever seen The Beach Boys movie, it’s no longer such a mystery why Dennis Wilson thought it a wise move to give Manson 100k, hmm? The limited (to 1000) CD release of All The Way Alive is still available exclusively from family jams dot com, and the new record, released with a Creative Commons license, is available FOR FREE DOWNLOAD via some LimeWire blog somewhere, or you can pay 15 bucks for an actual copy of the cd at, again, family jams dot com. For someone whose been in prison for so long he sure seems to know his way around the internet.
Click here for a complete list of Charles Manson related releases. Now listen up, but make sure the lights are on by the time you get to the last two tracks:
Charles Manson and the Family - I’ll Never Say Never to Always
Charles Manson - Invisible Tears
Charles Manson on Jail Beatings
Charles Manson on Mind Control
And finally, I suggest that if you haven’t yet seen it, you find yourself a copy of Charles Manson Superstar (yes that title is for real), because after watching it you’ll know that all these articles that you’ve read about the new release that call him a “mass murderer” or a “murderous psycho and WANNABE musician” are wrong. Allegedly. Right? At least about the wannabe musician part. Cause the man really seems to know what he’s doing in the music writing department.
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Very interesting review. I like your analogies. They sound pretty solid.