This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
As if Marilyn Manson hasn’t become tired enough lately, now we’ve got Manson wannabes.
This aptly named N.Y.C. quintet — led by self-claimed former drug-dealing brothers Edsel and Simon, yes, Dope — have obviously spent too much time dipping into their own supply. And you know what that can do to your ambition. Rather than go out and create their own sound, the boys have just copped Rob Zombie’s scary monstrosity and Marilyn’s super-creepiness and rolled them up into one big cartoon-industrial brainer. Heck, they’re probably so out of it they don’t even realize the chorus of Sick is essentially a rewrite of the ‘Bang, bang’ vamp from The B-52’s’ Love Shack. Why do you think they call them Dope?
