Lest We Forget: The Best Of

Lest We Forget: The Best Of
Greatest hits album by Marilyn Manson
Released September 28, 2004
Recorded 1994-2004
Genre Industrial rock, post-industrial, heavy metal
Length 65:58
Label Interscope
Producer Marilyn Manson, Tim Sköld
Marilyn Manson chronology
The Golden Age of Grotesque
(2003)		 Lest We Forget: The Best Of
(2004)		 Eat Me, Drink Me
(2007)
Singles from Lest We Forget: The Best of
  1. "Personal Jesus"
    Released: October 4, 2004
  2. "The Nobodies 2005"
    Released: May 9, 2005
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Indie London (Favorable)[2]
Rolling Stone [3]
Spin [4]

Lest We Forget: The Best Of is a best of album by Marilyn Manson. A new song was recorded to promote the album, a cover of Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus". The album was released at the end of September 2004.

The inside booklet contains previous photo-shoots and several new pictures to hint at Manson's next era and musical/lyric direction. The album cover itself was taken from one of Marilyn Manson's watercolors, titled "Experience is The Mistress of Fools". The deluxe edition (now out of print) includes a DVD containing most of the band's music videos, excluding "(s)AINT" (although the Region 2 edition sold in the UK features this video, uncut, and the Japanese edition features a slightly edited version), "Tainted Love", and "Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes". The album was certified Gold in USA and was supported with the band's Against All Gods Tour.

Manson has been quoted as having called Lest We Forget the band's "farewell album"; however the band has since made two additional studio albums, Eat Me, Drink Me, released in June 2007, and The High End of Low, released in May 2009.

Contents

Tracklisting

All lyrics written by Marilyn Manson, except tracks 2 by Martin Gore, track 5 by Ed Cobb and track 9 David A. Stewart and Annie Lennox.

No. Title Music Length
1. "The Love Song"   Marilyn Manson, Twiggy Ramirez, John 5  
2. "Personal Jesus" (Depeche Mode cover) Martin Gore  
3. "mOBSCENE"   Manson, John 5  
4. "The Fight Song"   Manson, John 5  
5. "Tainted Love"   Ed Cobb  
6. "The Dope Show"   Manson, Ramirez  
7. "This Is the New Shit"   Manson, John 5, Sköld  
8. "Disposable Teens"   Manson, John 5, Ramirez  
9. "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" (Eurythmics cover) David A. Stewart, Annie Lennox  
10. "Lunchbox"   Manson, Berkowitz, Gein  
11. "Tourniquet"   Manson, Berkowitz, Ramirez  
12. "Rock Is Dead"   Manson, Ramirez, Gacy  
13. "Get Your Gunn"   Manson, Berkowitz, Gein  
14. "The Nobodies"   Manson, John 5  
15. "Long Hard Road Out of Hell"   Manson, Ramirez  
16. "The Beautiful People"   Manson, Ramirez  
17. "The Reflecting God"   Manson, Ramirez, Reznor  
18. "(s)AINT" (International Bonus Track) Manson, John 5, Sköld  
19. "Irresponsible Hate Anthem" (UK/Japanese Bonus Track) Manson, Ramirez, Berkowitz, Gacy  
20. "Coma White" (Japanese Bonus Track) Manson, Ramirez, Gacy, Zim Zum  

Notes

DVD

  1. "Personal Jesus"*
  2. "(s)AINT"*
  3. "This Is the New Shit"
  4. "Mobscene"
  5. "The Nobodies"
  6. "The Fight Song"
  7. "Disposable Teens"
  8. "Coma White"
  9. "Rock Is Dead"
  10. "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)"
  11. "The Dope Show"
  12. "Long Hard Road out of Hell"
  13. "Cryptorchid"
  14. "Man That You Fear"
  15. "Tourniquet"
  16. "The Beautiful People"
  17. "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"
  18. "Dope Hat"
  19. "Lunchbox"
  20. "Get Your Gunn"
* Not included on the US edition.
** The video for "(s)AINT" on the Japanese deluxe edition would be uncut if it were not for 2 seconds worth of material: at the 2:07 and 2:10– 2:11 in the video, it shows a vagina, and is blurred out due to Japanese laws, regarding nudity in video.

The DVD contains several easter eggs. There is a video of Manson's autopsy which can be found by highlighting his crotch in the special features menu. There is also the making of the "Mobscene" video (otherwise found on a limited edition single) and the performance version of the "Disposable Teens" video, which was shown on most television channels pre-watershed, because of the "disturbing" content in the original version.

For a full list of Marilyn Manson's official music videos see: list of Marilyn Manson's music videos.

"(s)AINT" Bonus DVD

Consumers who ordered either the CD/DVD combo or just the CD edition of Lest We Forget off of Marilyn Manson's Official Website also received a Bonus DVD featuring the "Uncut, Unrated, Banned by the Label, unreleased video for '(s)AINT'". The music video was produced over two days in a Los Angeles hotel room and directed by Asia Argento. While presented as an "exclusive" the "(s)AINT" video was also available on some editions of Lest We Forget distributed overseas and still is on all R-rated versions in Australia.

Korea Special Edition

On July 22, 2008. Korea released special edition of the album. The album released in a Digi-pak casing with the bonus tracks "(s)AINT" and "Irresponsible Hate Anthem", DVD and the live album The Last Tour on Earth. It does not include "Coma White" on the CD, nor the "(s)AINT" video on the DVD.

Credits

The following credits appear in the booklet. It does not contain the exhaustive list of the many people that performed on all the songs on the album; although it does list special thanks to Twiggy Ramirez and John 5, it is merely a list of the band roster around the time of the album's release. For the people who played on the individual songs, please see the appropriate entries in the Manson discography.

Charts and certifications

Album charts

Chart (2004) Peak
position
Australia[5] 15
Austria[5] 3
Belgium (Flanders)[5] 19
Belgium (Wallonia)[5] 4
Canada[6] 3
Denmark[5] 20
Hungary[7] 40
Finland[5] 22
France[8] 5
Germany[8] 4
Ireland[9] 23
Italy[5] 14
Mexico[8] 12
Netherlands[5] 41
New Zealand[5] 9
Norway[5] 16
Poland[8] 38
Portugal[5] 11
Spain[5] 97
Sweden[5] 10
Switzerland[5] 5
U.K.[10] 4
U.S. Billboard 200[6] 9

Certifications

Region Provider Certification Shipment Actual Sales
Australia ARIA Gold[11] 35,000+ —
France SNEP Gold[12] 100,000+ 74,700+[13]
Germany BVMI Gold[14] 100,000+ —
United Kingdom BPI Gold[15] 100,000+ —
United States RIAA Gold[16] 500,000+ 1,000,000+[17]

Singles

Single Chart (2004) Peak
position
"Personal Jesus" Australia[18] 30
Austria[18] 10
Belgium (Wallonia)[18] 38
Hungary[18][7] 8
Denmark[18] 8
Finland[18] 20
France[18] 62
Germany[19] 11
Ireland[19] 46
Italy[18] 10
Netherlands[18] 89
Norway[18] 15
Sweden[18] 39
Switzerland[18] 13
United Kingdom[10] 13
U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks[20] 12
Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks[6] 20
Billboard Dance Music/Club Play Singles[6] 35
Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 24
Single Chart (2005) Peak
position
"The Nobodies 2005" Austria[21] 56
France[21] 94
Germany[21] 65
Italy[21] 21
Spain[21] 8
Switzerland[21] 42

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Indie London review
  3. ^ Rolling Stone review
  4. ^ Spin review
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Marilyn Manson Lest We Forget (The Best Of) charting". Hung Medien. http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Marilyn+Manson&titel=Lest+We+Forget+-+The+Best+Of&cat=a. Retrieved 2011-02-03. 
  6. ^ a b c d AllMusic Charts & Awards www.allmusic.com. Access date: January 5, 2011.
  7. ^ a b "Search for Marilyn Manson in the Artist field". Mahasz. http://www.mahasz.hu/?menu=slagerlistak&menu2=archivum. Retrieved 2011-09-01. 
  8. ^ a b c d Lest We Forget Chart Statistics from aCharts. Access Date: February 3, 2011.
  9. ^ "Lest We Forget ChartTrack". GfK. http://www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p/musicvideo/music/archive/index_test.jsp&ct=240002&arch=t&lyr=2004&year=2004&week=40. Retrieved 2011-02-03. 
  10. ^ a b Zywietz, Tobias. "Chart Log UK: M - My Vitriol". Zobbel. http://www.zobbel.de/cluk/CLUK_M.HTM. Retrieved 2011-02-03. 
  11. ^ "ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 2006 Albums" Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved on August 14, 2008.
  12. ^ "Les Certifications" www.disqueenfrance.com. Access date: February 3, 2011.
  13. ^ Gold Certification for The Golden Age of Grotesque, with exact sales figure www.infodisc.fr. Access date: February 3, 2011.
  14. ^ "Chartverfolgung / Marilyn Manson / Longplay". PhonoNet. http://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/Marilyn+Manson/?type=longplay. Retrieved 2011-02-03. 
  15. ^ "BPI - Statistics - Certified Awards - Search for Marilyn Manson" www.bpi.co.uk. Access date: February 3, 2011.
  16. ^ "RIAA Database Search for Marilyn Manson" Recording Industry Association of America. Access date: February 3, 2011.
  17. ^ "Cooking Vinyl signs Marilyn Manson" Music Week. Access date: February 3, 2011.
  18. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Discography Marilyn Manson". Hung Medien. http://swisscharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Marilyn+Manson&titel=Personal+Jesus&cat=s. Retrieved 2011-02-03. 
  19. ^ a b Personal Jesus Chart Statistics from aCharts. Access Date: February 3, 2011.
  20. ^ "Marilyn Manson Album & Song Chart History: Alternative Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. http://www.billboard.com/#/artist/marilyn-manson/chart-history/36874?f=377&g=Singles. Retrieved 2011-02-03. 
  21. ^ a b c d e f The Nobodies 2005 Chart Statistics from aCharts. Access Date: February 3, 2011.
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