Song · Marilyn Manson
“The Dope Show” by Marilyn Manson
From the album Mechanical Animals (1998)
“The Dope Show” by Marilyn Manson appears on 25 radio countdowns from 16 stations between 1998 and 2023. It was first released in 1998 on the album Mechanical Animals. Its best result is #20 on The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 1998. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #34 alternative song of 1998, #2,650 alternative song of all time and #197 of the '90s.
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"The Dope Show" was the lead single from Marilyn Manson's third album, Mechanical Animals, released in September 1998, and it's the sound of the shock-rock bogeyman slipping into glam finery. After Antichrist Superstar, Manson was tired of being a cartoon villain and wanted to win over the rock and pop fans who'd written him off, so he turned to the glam that David Bowie made in the 1970s, down to the wardrobe and the hair.
Manson wrote the words and Twiggy Ramirez the music, playing both bass and guitar, with Madonna Wayne Gacy on piano and Manson himself on drum machine. Michael Beinhorn produced alongside Manson, and the result is a slow, sleazy glam stomp. The album's many drug references, Manson said, came from reading writers like William S. Burroughs and Philip K. Dick.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 25 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1998 | 107 |
| 1998 | 34 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1998 | 106 |
| 1998 | 47 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1998 | 101 |
| 1998 | 56 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1998 | 100 |
| 1998 | 26 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 101.7 Songs of 1998 | 102 |
| 1998 | 28 | 107.7 The End Seattle, WA | The End Top 107 Songs of 1998 | 107 |
| 1998 | 20 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 1998 | 100 |
| 1998 | 72 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 1998 | 103 |
| 1998 | 44 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1998 | 100 |
| 1998 | 72 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 103 Songs of 1998 | 102 |
| 1999 | 58 | K-Rock New York, NY | K-Rock Top 92 Songs of 1999 | 92 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 128 | KROQ | KROQ Top 300 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 1999) | 300 |
| 1999 | 408 | WHFS | WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999) | 500 |
| 1999 | 965 | Q101 | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1017 |
| 1999 | 398 | WFNX | WFNX Top 500 Songs of All-Time (June 1999) | 500 |
| 1999 | 191 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1077 |
| 1999 | 597 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) | 1002 |
| 2002 | 985 | KISW | KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) | 999 |
| 2005 | 668 | 99X | 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) | 1000 |
| 2006 | 342 | KROQ | KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2006) | 500 |
| 2007 | 270 | KROQ | KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007) | 500 |
| 2013 | 140 | KBPI | KBPI Top 200 Songs of All Time | 200 |
| 2020 | 318 | 105.9 The X | 105.9 The X July 420 (2020) | 420 |
| 2022 | 285 | 105.9 The X | 105.9 The X July 420 (2022) | 420 |
| 2023 | 331 | 105.9 The X | 105.9 The X July 420 (2023) | 420 |
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