I don’t rate one version higher than the other, but there’s something about that riff played with some distortion that shows anybody who wasn’t sure that Manson means business. Still, I’ve never known Manson to play by the rules, and it’s not a bad song to kick off the album, if a little illogical.įor those of you who don’t know, this was a cover of Depeche Mode.
I have no doubt that it goes down well in the mosh pit but as far as I know this was neither a single or one of his best songs so what it’s doing on this CD I don’t know. This was from the “Holy Wood” album, and with the lyrics including “Do you love you Guns, God, Government?” probably fits in the most with the image he was using at the start of this century. Still, this makes for what I hope is an objective view to review an album from. The vast majority of tracks on Lest We Forget are his singles, and in my opinion Marilyn Manson’s best tracks have very little to do with this album or even his singles. Nevertheless, it has enough of the hits to make this worthwhile for the casual fans, as well as those listeners who never wanted to admit that these late-'90s alt-rock radio staples were guilty pleasures.There’s not a track on this album that I would consider bad, (and Marilyn Manson has made some appalling tracks in his time, I’ll be the first to say that,) but the problem with this and more or less every other “Best Of” album is that you can ask any, say, 100 people what their 17 favourite Manson songs are and I can guarantee they will not come up with the same thing. Not every single had a great hook - "Tourniquet" is a moody dirge, indicative of what awaits a listener on the album tracks - but the best of them did, whether it was "Lunchbox" from the debut, the delirious "The Beautiful People," the glam-stomp of "The Dope Show," or the Faith No More homage "mOBSCENE." All these are here, but Lest We Forget doesn't have all the hits - charting singles "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)" and "Rock Is Dead" are conspicuously missing, as are video hits like "Dope Hat," "Man That You Fear," and "Coma White." These omissions are curious, considering that album tracks and covers are used as substitutions. Yes, catchy - at his best, Marilyn Manson had a knack for a heavy, glammy hook, the kind that's hard to get out of your head, no matter how hard you try. While each of his post- Portrait of an American Family LPs were designed to be heard as a whole, their singles unfailingly distilled the attitude and ideas behind the individual albums to their catchy core.
It's rather ironic that Marilyn Manson, an artist who kept the idea of the concept album alive during the '90s, turns out to have a greater impact as a singles artist, as the 17-track hits compilation Lest We Forget: The Best of Marilyn Manson illustrates.
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