Marilyn Manson's 'Best of' In Stores September 28, 2004




Marilyn Manson will unleash a compilation of songs that made him the most controversial rock star in the world today. Lest We Forget will be released next month on September 28th and will feature the upcoming single, "Personal Jesus".
The track listing is as follows

1. The Love Song
2. Personal Jesus
3. mOBSCENE
4. The Fight Song
5. Tainted Love
6. The Dope Show
7. This Is The New Shit
8. Disposable Teens
9. Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
10. Lunchbox
11. Tourniquet
12. Rock Is Dead
13. Get Your Gunn
14. The Nobodies
15. Long Hard Road Out Of Hell
16. The Beautiful People
17. The Reflecting God

The DELUXE EDITION will include a Bonus DVD with the following videos:
(s)AINT, mOBSCENE, This Is The New Shit, Disposable Teens, The Fight Song, The Nobodies, Autopsy, The Dope Show, Don't Like The Drugs, Rock Is Dead, Coma White, Long Hard Road Out Of Hell, The Beautiful People, Tourniquet, Man That You Fear, Cyrptorchid, Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This), Dopehat, Lunchbox, & Get Your Gunn.

MarilynManson.com

Thanks Evil.. I can't wait. Manson is sooo Cool. This will be Great ...

I'll just be buying it for the videos since I don't have them on DVD.

Yeah...Really Cool.

His one the best pop artists around, his last album was really under rated, MOBscence was one the best tracks of last year.

I like the cover portrait (assuming it's a self portrait, cuz it looks like the other stuff MM has painted) but I'm not thrilled with the cover design...kinda looks like fan art or somethin. Still and all, I might actually pick up the special edition of this - I like looking at his vids.

There are alot of cool songs missing. Oh well, im picking it up anyways for the DVD

I'll be getting it for the videos as well.

I wish he would've had fans vote on it or at least had a better selection of tracks for the main listing-songs like "The Death Song" and "Coma White" should've been included along with "Man That You Fear", "Snake Eyes and Sissies", something other than more obvious singles with a few other tracks thrown in.

"Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes" is another favorite that could have been included as well and should have.

Just seems a little incomplete/doesn't flow as well as it could. I guess everybody can still make their own favorites mix, but for an official release it could've been so much more.

John 5's got a new guitar album coming out in September called Vertigo for those interested by the way.

Info at www.john-5.com

Is Personal Jesus a cover of the Depeche Mode Song?

He does like his Brit synth pop bands doesn't he!

SquirrelMeat said:

Yep, sure is SquirrelMeat, and he does.

Maybe it'll be acoustic-based.

SquirrelMeat said:

You don't know much about goth culture do you?

Novabreaker said:

That depends what element you mean. I grew up geographically and time wise smack in the middle of the brit synth pop revolution.

But Soft Cell and Depeche mode had no gothic roots.

Anxiety said:

I guess at the same time, he wanted to show off some of his artwork as well. Pretty damn good likeness.

subhuman09 said:

I'd be interested in hearing what John's up to these days. He's really a diverse guitar player. Prince would definitely benefit from having him on board. Plus, I've met the guy and can say he's very down to earth and a genarally cool dude.

I think most "best of" packages are pretty much the same. They all have the hits that everyone's familiar with. Another idea would have been to make it a double hits album. One CD with the current track list, and the other would have the rest of the die-hard fan favorites. I would have thrown in:

Angel With the Scabbed Wings
Irresponsible Hate Anthem
My Monkey
Spade
The Golden Age Of Grotesque
Great Big White World
New Model, No. 15
Last Day on Earth
Coma White
Target Audience (Narcissus Narcosis)
Cruci-Fiction in Space
King Kill
Valentine's Day
Rock 'N' Roll Nigger
Cake and Sodomy
1996
Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes

EvilWhiteMale said:

So now it's clear why Trent wasn't able to/didn't do this song...

Neversin.

Neversin said:

Was he trying to?

EvilWhiteMale said:

Yeah, he wanted to make an exact note for note replica of the song, but someone beat him to the punch...

Neversin.

Novabreaker said:

NEITHER DO DEPECHE MODE

EXPLAIN!

EvilWhiteMale said:

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[This message was edited Mon Aug 16 14:23:41 2004 by Number23]

EvilWhiteMale said:

The portrait is fine - it's just the cover layout that I think sucks eggs. Kinda reminds me of another album cover with a decent portrait and a crappy layout...

That might be worth checking out since I don't have any of his stuff but have been kind of interested. The DVD edition is probably the way to go.

Number23 said:

No way, that's a cool track.

EvilWhiteMale said:

I agree. It fucking rocks!!

Wouldn't have minded "Anti-Christ Superstar", "Dope Hat" and "Irresponsible Hate Anthem" (my personal fave). Woulda left off "This Is The New Shit", I just didn't care much for that tune.

SquirrelMeat said:

btw. "Tainted Love" was not a Soft Cell original.

However, what I was referring to is that most goth clubs play 80s synth music all the time. And it's been pretty much stardard practise for electronic / industrial rock acts to put covers of 80s pop classics on their records (especially as single B-sides / album extra tracks) since the mid-90s. It's become a rather dire thing to be honest.

Oh, and I also would have included "I Don't Like The Drugs (but the drugs like me)" and "I've Put A Spell On You".

JediMaster said:

Yeah, it's strange they didn't include that one.

Damn, I knew a Manson compilation was on the way but I would have preferred a disc of compilation only tracks. There are more than enough of those floating around to fill a single disc. I would love to have most of those on a single disc, especially his cover of "The KKK Took My Baby Away". I LOVE his version. Oh, well, maybe a rarities compilation is in the works?I'm usually not too big on video compilations but his will probably be more interesting than the average one.

rialb said:

There really does need to be a compilations tracks/b-sides/rarities disc. I have quite a few (although some of mine disappeared a while back)

Just off the top of my head:

Golden Years (Bowie cover)
Apple Of Sodom
Suicide Is Painless (cover of the M*A*S*H* theme)
5 to 1 (Doors cover)
Working Class Hero (Lennon cover)
The KKK Took My Baby Away (Ramones cover)
Highway To Hell (AC/DC cover)
Diamonds And Pollen
Baboon Rape Party
Mind Of A Lunatic
Get My Rocks Off (Dr Teeth cover)
Down In The Park (Gary Neuman cover)
Revelation #9

Any others??

subhuman09 said:

Ow no...is he gonna screw up this fantastic song??? I thought this person was such a great songwriter!!!
Please let him NOT touch Depeche Mode songs!! It will NEVER EVER be better than the original!!