lol...I see so many people saying Marilyn Manson is the most controversial... if you consider just being a unique person and stating things you believe or hate as being controversial, I guess he is. As good of a musician he is, I don't think he's even close to the
most controversial. A better word for Him is publicity harlot [and there's nothing wrong with it...it's how he makes money.] The funny thing about it is this...people from generation to generation tend to consider a certain genre [for the most part a harder type of music or anything new for that matter] as being evil or immoral, and from that they're considered controversial. I'd have to agree that Elvis was an abomination in his day, the Beatles in theirs, KISS in theirs, Slayer was and is still considered sort of controversial, etc, etc. It's always what is different, or what is new. Something to think about: the preacher at the church I'm forced to attend has a problem with Skillet, a christian band. He says, "no matter how christian the words sound, the music in itself is too hard and is completely evil sounding..." If any of you know who Skillet is, not the frying pan lol, but if you have heard any of the bands music you'd probably scoff at that statement. Same goes with my grandparents... my sister listens to KJ-52, they never cease to say how Satanic that is. Another fine example: my aunt listens to nothing but the Beatles...which her parents had a horrible problem with...but calls her sons Metallica CD's 'the most dispicable thing she's ever heard...' lol. It's just a never ending chain of stupidity if you ask me. No one understands that from generation to generation, different things begin to rise and become popular, people put forth new images and make different kinds of music. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean that it is 'evil.'
Amongst the Flock, I admire your persistence, but...you were very contradictory. First you say that Marilyn Manson isn't controversial because of some reason [I don't wanna expand the effort to look lol

] and then you argue about 'Cradle of Filth' being the most controversial because of their name...you first have to understand that the name doesn't really matter all that much. If you wanted to judge by the name, if you didn't know, Marilyn Manson comes from Marilyn Monroe [the beautiful harlot] and Charles Manson [the intellegent 'serial killer']. Either way, the name doesn't matter but you get the picture
About the most* controversial, again I'll say I don't think there's one...to really choose you'd have to set the standards and establish what is really correct [Christianity, Satanism, Buddhism, whatever] and whatever is against that is controversial. However, we can't do that. I'd have to say though, the whole BM DM, and most of the Metal scene in general is controversial to a lot of people, but so is the rap. It's just anything that people make it out to be. I'll also agree with the statement that music isn't evil unless you make it that way.
It's definitely hard to get out what I'm trying to say, knowing that you can't read my mind

Sometimes I forget that lol. Maybe you at least see where I'm coming from.
Talk l8r.
Bless.
-Heather