A matter of taste, very worthwhile for fans of TGAOG!

First of all: I, too, know the albums MMs from the beginning.
But the hype surrounding the first albums I can not understand to this extent, as some celebrate on the internet like. Sure there were good old songs. However, that was for my taste sometimes too raw, unpolished or just to perfection (eg with "Portrait Of An American Family" or in stark contrast, with "Mechanical Animals" I could not do anything). "Holy Wood" was certainly a good album if I was not nearly like every song. But I believe it was in terms of "roundness" of "The Golden Age Of Grotesque" provided by a mile in the shade. This album today. Still for me the most catchy hook lines, the best arrangements and draft The songs on TGAOG were so round that just arose no boredom. This album afforded MMN no real hangover and every song was a hit. I think it's generally sympathetic if one occurs, the playing time of an album is so short that you do not notice how much you have already heard.

And since "Born Villain" comes into play. In my view, makes it his business not really worse than TGAOG. The songs remind me in their "smooth" production at very TGAOG. And that's just as well. MM has managed again hinzubekommen the balancing act, hinzubekommen psychedelic elements with hardness and experimental influences; his strength up.
Overall, "Born Villain" does not come close to the hardness and the brutal guitar arrangements of TGAOG. I am thinking especially of songs like "Doll-Dagga Buzz-Buzz Ziggety-Zag" or "Ka-Boom Ka-Boom". Soft it is far from so. Whispering alternates with his typical, distinctive scream vocals, clean sung passages and his high-pitched "scream" from.
I've noticed that you clear the partially very distinctive (and distorted) bass guitar listen now stronger than ever. It was partially well placed in the foreground ("Slo-Mo-tion", "The Gardener" ...).
It is also striking that almost no song starts really brutal. Even after a short intro (whispering, etc.) run on the songs rather quiet and then ignite only in the chorus the afterburner.

The short version: If you, like me, tend to the more modern stuff MMs and there especially on "The Golden Age Of Grotesque" is and this album was superior to "Born Villain" should necessarily even listen. In my opinion it is linked more to it than any other album. Who Manson not only hear, because it is coarse and is thrown with expletives to himself, but also like to once enjoys MM (eg via headphones with closed eyes sucks), it's no wonder.