Not amazing, but a good song nevertheless. This is radically different from Soft Cell’s effort, moving from a swinging keyboard song to a grinding industrial metal track, and is all the better for it. This one truly deserves to be on the “Best Of” album.Īnother of Manson’s many covers and in many respects better than the original, this is on a surprisingly large number of CDs despite not actually being featured on any of the albums. Apparently the song was written in retaliation to the Columbine incident, but this is one of those songs where you can just forget about what he’s trying to say and ENJOY it.
Indeed, after the second verse it’s basically a wall of distorted Nu-Metal euphoria. This single from “Holy Wood” is something we all need from time to time a storming anthem that doesn’t let up on the pace even for a second. And that he could get away with the audacity of basically copying off Faith No More (Be Aggressive, anyone?) shows an unusual but nevertheless inspired technique that he pulls off very will. The storming riff’s an absolute belter, and the rabble-rousing chorus is well received.
The lead single from the “Golden Age of Grotesque” album, this was his Manson’s first single release after Tainted Love and was probably therefore the most well known of his singles that weren’t covers. His vocal style and attitude compliment this song perfectly, and anybody who’s seen the video will recognise that he knows how to push the right buttons in a world terrorised by paedophilia and George Bush. 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. 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.
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