Marilyn Manson - Lest We Forget: The Best of Marilyn Manson
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Artist: Marilyn MansonEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2004-09-28
Music Label: Nothing
Soundtracks:
- The Love Song
- Personal Jesus
- mOBSCENE
- The Fight Song
- Tainted Love
- The Dope Show
- This Is The New Shit
- Disposable Teens
- Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
- Lunchbox
- Tourniquet
- Rock Is Dead
- Get Your Gunn
- The Nobodies
- Long Hard Road Out Of Hell
- The Beautiful People
- The Reflecting God
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Free Music Review: Manson's Trick or Treat Bag
Hit: 4 Stars
Marilyn Manson has been one of the most talked about artists of our time, but how much of those discussions have been about the actual music? Like such controversial artists as Madonna or Alice Cooper, Manson's stage performances and overall appearance has sparked more debate than the records. When the band first emerged on the scene in 1994, they were seen as all shock, but with a few good rock songs to scare parents and draw teens in. While they didn't quite take on MTV, they found other ways to infiltrate the media consciousness with their controversial stage shows and even an odd appearance on the Phil Donahue Show (the episode was about the dangers of rock and moshing at concerts). While they celebrated a twisted cartoon/talk show way of life, their music wasn't getting too much attention, that is until their cover of the Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This" was released. It's a creepy crawling spine tingler that still holds up to day and paved the way for the band's most important release, 1996's Antichrist Superstar and two years later, Mechanical Animals. During that period, Manson was a mad scientist, an even more warped Willy Wonka and the world, as it seemed to him, was his chocolate factory. He practically stayed in the headlines and he was Ameican culture's public enemy number one during the Columbine Massacre. These days, he doesn't quite make the impact he once did. Has the Manson ship sailed? In a word, yes. His latest stuff isn't nearly as horribly intriguing as such anthems as "The Beautiful People" or "Disposable Teens". His best is of course, "Sweet Dreams". Other gems on this best of collection include the buzzing obsessive ballad "Tourniquet", the excellent commercial-but-still-Manson 1998 track "The Dope Show", the chunky electro stomper "Rock is Dead" and the Spawn Sountrack song "Long Hard Road Out of Hell". Aside from "Sweet Dreams" there are the other '80s cover songs, making it a few too many. "Personal Jesus" seems fitting for Manson, but "Tainted Love" seems a little contrived and forced. Newer songs (for that time)such as "mOBSCENE" are way beneath Manson and pale in comparison to the excellent work from Antichrist Superstar, such as one of the best songs from that record, "The Reflecting God". Good early songs from Portrait of an American Family are the singles "Lunchbox" and "Get Your Gunn", although "Get Your Gunn" was always a bit much for me. Best of collections usually get a few complaints, so quickly I have to mention the absence of such songs as "Coma White" and "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)", two awesome singles that really showcase Manson's songwriting and often over the top edginess. Overall, a good collection aside from some hit or miss melodrama and steadily declining substance. We don't want chanting goth cheerleaders, just Manson being himself. Whether or not the star has fallen, you have to hand it to him for the great stuff he's given us.
Lest We Forget: The Best of Marilyn Manson Poster
Culled from the band's ten year, six album career, Lest we Forget: The Best of Marilyn Manson features some of the greatest rock anthems of the last decade. Opening with "The Love Song" from Holy Wood, it proceeds to the first of a handful of cover songs which have made it as singles. The decadent, beefed up version of Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus" may not vary much from the original but the band do it the appropriate Goth justice; "Tainted Love" adds a menacing, industrial-glam to the electric northern soul of Soft Cell's version; and the one that broke them into the UK mainstream, "Sweet Dreams" by the Eurythmics sounds as good as ever. So, they do a good cover but it's really the fists in the air crowd-pleasing anthems that back up the band's iconic imagery. The high-energy signature tune, "Beautiful People" and tracks like "Disposable Teens" or "The Fight Song" typify the band's intelligent approach to rock'n'roll posturing. While many may have all the albums already, Lest We Forget is the perfect addition for anyone who likes the odd song but was too fearful to delve any further in the world of Marilyn Manson. --Georgina CollinsAlternative Rock Music CDs
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