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1. Lunchbox 4:34
2. Next Motherfucker (Remix) 4:48
3. Down In The Park 5:01
4. Brown Bag (Remix) 6:19
5. Metal (Remix) 5:25
6. Lunchbox (Highschool Drop-Outs) 4:37
How old:
This CD is old!
Release Date:
February 6th 1995
Format:
CD
Record Label:
Interscope Records
Catalogue No:
IND 95806
Price Guide:
£5.00
Country:
United Kingdom
Additional info:
Deleted
Highest Chart Position:
N/A
Credits:
Marilyn Manson – lyrics, production, sleeve design and calligraphy
Daisy Berkowitz – music, electric guitar
Gidget Gein – music, bass guitar
Madonna Wayne Gacy – electronics
Sara Lee Lucas – drumst
According to Daisy Berkowitz, "Lunchbox" was written as "tacit plea—for the frontman to be left alone with his thoughts in the back of a swank tour bus." Its lyrics were inspired by Manson's use of a metal Kiss lunch box to defend himself against school bullies, an incident which prompted the school to ban all metal lunch boxes. The band performed the track during their audition for Sony Records' head of A&R Richard Griffin. Berkowitz recalled that Griffin "personally rejected us within minutes, saying he liked the show and the idea but 'didn't like the singer.'" Instead, the label signed Pearl Jam. "Lunchbox" became a "fan favorite" of the band's live
sets; Manson said that during performances of the song, "I regularly set a metal lunchbox on fire, took off all my clothes and danced around it, trying to exorcise its
demons." The band were signed to Trent Reznor's Nothing Records in 1993.
"Lunchbox" was released as a single on February 6, 1995 alongside three remixes of the song created by Nine Inch Nails keyboardist Charlie Clouser – "Next Motherfucker", "Brown Bag" and "Metal" – as well as a censored version of the A-side called "Lunchbox (Highschool Drop-Outs)", and a cover of "Down in the Park" (1979) by Gary Numan. In his book Marilyn Manson, Kurt B. Reighley said that the "air of detachment and repressed xenophobia" present in "Down in the Park" made the song fit well with the band's own work. Both Numan and Reighley noted that the band's cover of the song significantly reworked the original track.
Down in the park
Lyrics
(Single from 'Replicas' album, 1979)
Down in the park
Where the machmen
Meet the machines
And play 'Kill by numbers'
Down in the park
Wit a friend called 'Five'
I was in a car crash
Or was it the war
But I've never been
Quite the same
Little white lies
Like 'I was there'
Come to 'Zom Zoms'
A place to eat
Like it was built
In one day
You can watch the humans
Trying to run
Oh look
There's a rape machine
I'd go outside
If he'd look the other way
You wouldn't believe
The things they do
Down in the park
Where the chant is
'Death, death, death'
Until the sun cries morning
Down in the park
With friends of mine
We are not lovers
We are not romantics
'We are here to serve you'
A different face
But the words never change
