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Brutal Planet
(What's Up, 1998-07-08)
When it comes to shock rock that spurs real controversy, I was born at the wrong time to really take advantage. I was just a tiny child when my teenage uncle scandalized the family by going to the Memorial Coliseum to see Alice Cooper pretend to kill babies on stage. A few decades later, when I went to the same arena to see Marilyn Manson do outrageous stuff on stage, I was already too old to understand what all the fuss was about. Kids in my age group had to settle for Ozzy Osborne, and after one little incident with a bat, the Ozzman went mainstream on us. ...