“Dance of the Dope Hats” by Marilyn Manson

"Dance of the Dope Hats" turns up on Smells Like Children, the first Marilyn Manson EP, released in 1995 on Nothing and Interscope. Manson wrote the words and sings it, and the music is credited to him with Daisy Berkowitz, Madonna Wayne Gacy and Gidget Gein; Manson produced it with Trent Reznor, and Sean Beavan engineered and mixed.

The EP it lives on was never supposed to be an EP at all. It began as a planned remix single for "Dope Hat", then swelled as Dave Ogilvie, Charlie Clouser and a batch of new band material piled in, all of it cooked up on the road behind the 1994 debut Portrait of an American Family. The result is a lurid grab bag from a stretch the band spent steeped in drugs, touring and sonic experiments, with the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang lurking around the edges.

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