Lest We Forget: The Best Of

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Lest We Forget: The Best Of
Compilation album by Marilyn Manson
Released	September 28, 2004
Recorded	1994-2004
Genre	Industrial Metal Alternative Metal
Length	65:58
Label	Interscope
Producer	Marilyn Manson, Tim Skold
Professional reviews
Allmusic link Indie London (Favorable) link Rolling Stone link Spin link
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
"Personal Jesus" Released: October 4, 2004 " The Nobodies 2005" Released: May 9, 2005

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.^{[citation needed]} 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 has sold 3 million copies worldwide.

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.

Track listing

Bonus Tracks

Japanese Bonus Disc Track listing

The Japanese Deluxe edition (now Out Of Print) includes an Extra Bonus disc of Remixes.

1. "Next Motherfucker" (Remix) – 4:47
2. "The Not So Beautiful People" – 6:11
3. "The Horrible People" – 5:13
4. "Tourniquet" (Prosthetic Dance Mix Edit) – 4:10
5. "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)" (Danny Saber Remix) – 5:18
6. "Working Class Hero" – 3:39 (John Lennon cover)
7. "The Fight Song" (Slipknot Remix) – 3:50
8. "Mobscene" (Sauerkraut Remix) (Rammstein Mix) – 3:16

DVD track listing

1. "Personal Jesus"*
2. "(s)AINT"*
3. "This Is the New Shit"
4. "Mobscene"
5. "Disposable Teens"
6. "The Fight Song"
7. "The Nobodies"
8. "The Dope Show"
9. "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)"
10. "Rock Is Dead"
11. "Coma White"
12. "Long Hard Road out of Hell"
13. "The Beautiful People"
14. "Tourniquet"
15. "Man That You Fear"
16. "Cryptorchid"
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

In 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.

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.

• Marilyn Manson - vocals
• Tim Skold - guitar, bass
• Madonna Wayne Gacy - keyboards
• Ginger Fish - drums

Charting positions

Album

Singles

References