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Sadly, when they're collated on this album it becomes glaringly obvious that these cover versions have formed the backbone of Manson's career. Nonetheless, his take on "Sweet Dreams (are made of this)" is particularly effective. Nearly ten years old now, it sounds every inch as creepy as it did on 1995'sSmells Like Children.
The secret, as with most of his work, is in the superb production. Early releases benefited from the expert guiding touch of Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails), of which "The Beautiful People" is still the most impressive. Since then, Manson has spent more time playing with knobs than guitars: besides co-producing, he is credited with penning the lyrics and little else. Fair enough, you might say. After all, it takes time to come up with genius one-liners like 'I'm not an artist, I'm a f***ing work of art' and 'I wasn't born with enough middle fingers'.
When Marilyn (real name: Brian Warner) started out with his former band the Spooky Kids, they openly intended to 'explore the limits of censorship'. Mission most definitely accomplished, Brian. The special edition of Lest We Forget comes packaged with a rather generous DVD full of the kind of sordid video material for which Manson is notorious. It also bears an 18 certificate, thanks to the previously unseen video for "(s)Aint", which is lewd to say the very least.
It's this kind of infamy which MM has thrived on in the past. The more unpopular Manson became in the US (for 'polluting young minds', allegedly), the more the UK rocked to angst-anthems like "The Nobodies", "The Fight Song" and "Disposable Teens". Lest We Forget oozes vitriol and spite (nowhere more so than the blistering opener "The Love Song"), but when the knob labelled 'shock-tactics' is already set to 10, one can't help but wonder where he'll go from here. --Richard Banks
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1. "The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell" is on it (stupendous song only previously included on the soundtrack to Spawn I think)
2. The song ordering works very well indeed, it's as if Mister Manson has recorded a compilation of his stuff for you. Which is nice.
3. MOST IMPORTANTLY...make sure you get a copy that comes with the free DVD. This gem of a disc includes every promotional vid the band ever did, which is just fantastic. I hadn't seen any of the first album vids before. There's even one when Manson still had eyebrows...back in the days when he was a handsome devil indeed!
Oh, and the accompanying photos of Manson are excellent, but it would have been nice to have included some of Twiggy, surely? One even? And when did the name "Marilyn Manson" stop meaning the whole band and start just meaning the singer? Maybe you should ask Alice Cooper...
This album is full of catchy lyrics and heavy beats, do not be put off by this guys scary image, his songs are pure class and you definately do not have to be a goth to appreciate his work!
Buy it and be very pleasantly suprised!
The range of songs selected for this album traces through several of his albums, with furious songs like "Get your Gunn" and "Irresponsible Hate Anthem", the dark hearted social comments within "The Fight Song", "The Love Song", "The Dope Show", "The Beautiful People" and "Disposable Teens" and through to the greedily received songs from last year's album "The Golden Age of Grotesque" with "mOBSCENE", "This is the New Sh*t" and "(s)AINT.
Including possibly the best covers for any songs I've ever heard for "Tainted Love", "Sweet Dreams" and his newest cover release of "Personal Jesus", there is barely room for anything else to blow your mind with such a unique interpretation of music, but with a few extras thrown in, the album itself takes on it's own persona despite it "simply" being a Best of album.
The Special Edition version of this album is incredible with 2 bonus tracks and an imagination-altering DVD of 21 of Manson's videos for the explosive songs he has given his morbid touch to. With videos of several of the songs on each of his 6 albums, including the controversial "Coma White" and the never seen before video for "(s)AINT (that needless to say will probably never show on any tv channel ever), it adds that dark magic shadow that all Manson fans will treasure to have within their grasp at all times.
This is one album for anyone who has ever even been remotely caught in the blacklight headlights of Manson's songs. For new fans, for old fans, and for the spooky kids yet to come.
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