Lie is an album by Charles Manson. Recorded on August 8, 1968, its distribution began during the Manson murder trial.
Tracklist
- Look At Your Game, Girl
- Ego
- Mechanical Man
- People Say I'm No Good
- Home Is Where You're Happy
- Arkansas
- I'll Never Say Never To Always
- Garbage Dump
- Don't Do Anything Illegal
- Sick City
- Cease To Exist
- Big Iron Door
- I Once Knew A Man
- Eyes Of A Dreamer
"Cease To Exist" had been previously recorded by the Beach Boys under the name "Never Learn Not To Love", and appears on their 1969 album, 20/20, and as the B-side of the single of "Bluebirds Over The Mountain". The single gives songwriting credit to Manson and Dennis Wilson. Manson is not given co-writing credit on the album.
Portions of the album have been sampled by many other artists, such as Front Line Assembly. Many of the songs have also been re-recorded; a version of "Look At Your Game, Girl" appears at the very end of Guns 'n Roses's album The Spaghetti Incident?, while GG Allin covered "Garbage Dump" for his 1987 album You Give Love A Bad Name and Redd Kross and The Lemonheads have both covered "Cease To Exist".
Devo are alleged to have plagarized their song "Mechanical Man" from Manson's composition of the same name.
All proceeds from the current version of the album, released by Awareness Records, are donated to a California fund for victims of violent crime.
An acoustic version of the song "Sick City" was recorded by Marilyn Manson but has never been officially released.