Lest We Forget: The Best Of

by Marilyn Manson

Lest We Forget: The Best Of cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 28 September 2004
  • Label: Interscope
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:09:42
  • Community rating: 4.01/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This retrospective collection anthologizes the project's most successful material from the Florida underground era through the commercial peak of the early 2000s. The tracklist highlights the stylistic shift from sample-heavy industrial to glam-inflected alternative metal, featuring a notable cover of Depeche Mode's 'Personal Jesus'. It serves as a definitive archive of the artist's cultural impact and his role in standardizing the shock-rock aesthetic within the mainstream.

Genres

Descriptors: cover, soundtrack, antireligious, industrial, confrontational

Tracklist

  1. The Love Song (3:05)
  2. Personal Jesus (4:06)
  3. mOBSCENE (3:26)
  4. The Fight Song (2:57)
  5. Tainted Love (3:20)
  6. The Dope Show (3:40)
  7. This Is The New Shit (4:20)
  8. Disposable Teens (3:04)
  9. Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (4:51)
  10. Lunchbox (4:35)
  11. Tourniquet - Album Version / Extended Fade (4:44)
  12. Rock Is Dead (3:09)
  13. Get Your Gunn (3:18)
  14. The Nobodies (3:35)
  15. Long Hard Road Out Of Hell (4:21)
  16. The Beautiful People (3:42)
  17. The Reflecting God (5:36)
  18. (s)AINT (3:45)

Credits

  • Lucas Ettlin - artwork [video stills]
  • Nathan Cox - artwork [video stills]
  • Ginger Fish - drums
  • Madonna Wayne Gacy - keyboards, music by
  • Liam Ward - production manager [production]
  • John 5 - music by
  • Twiggy Ramirez - music by
  • Martin L. Gore - written-by

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