Read We Forget: The Best Of

Read We Forget: The Best Of
Compilation album by Marilyn Manson
Publication (s)	September 28, 2004
admission	1994-2004
Label (s)	Interscope Records
Format (s)	CD , LP , download
Genre (s)	Alternative rock , alternative metal
Title (number)	17/18
running time	65:48 / 69:31
production	Sean Beavan Michael Beinhorn Ben Grosse Marilyn Manson Dave Ogilvie Trent Reznor Dave Sardy Tim Skold
chronology The Golden Age of Grotesque (2003) Read We Forget: The Best Of Eat Me, Drink Me (2007)
Single release September 21, 2004 Personal Jesus

Read We Forget: The Best Of ( English for " So that we may never forget: The best of ") is a greatest hits album by the American rock band Marilyn Manson . It was released on September 28, 2004 on the Interscope Records label .

content

Most of the songs on the album are previously released singles from the five studio albums published by the band Portrait of an American Family (two songs), Antichrist Superstar (three tracks), Mechanical Animals (two pieces), Holy Wood ( four tracks) and The Golden Age of Grotesque (three and four songs respectively). Also included are the track Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) released on the EP Smells Like Children and the track Long Hard Road Out of Hell , which is part of the soundtrack of the film Spawn . Only the cover song Personal Jesus , released as a single, was previously unreleased.

production

The songs on the album were produced by music producers Sean Beavan, Michael Beinhorn , Ben Grosse, Dave Ogilvie, Trent Reznor and Dave Sardy, and Marylin Manson members Marilyn Manson and Tim Skold .

Cover design

The album cover is a painted picture of Marilyn Manson's pale, make-up face with two horns. On the right there are the black lettering Lest We Forget and The Best Of as well as the MM logo of the band. The background is kept white.

Track list

#	title	Producers	length	Original album (year)
1	The Love Song	Dave Sardy , Marilyn Manson	3:05	Holy Wood (2000)
2	Personal Jesus	Marilyn Manson, Tim Skold	4:06	previously unpublished
3	mOBSCENE	Marilyn Manson, Tim Skold, Ben Grosse (Co)	3:26	The Golden Age of Grotesque (2003)
4th	The Fight Song	Dave Sardy, Marilyn Manson	2:57	Holy Wood (2000)
5	Tainted love	Marilyn Manson, Tim Skold	3:20	The Golden Age of Grotesque (2003)
6th	The dope show	Michael Beinhorn , Marilyn Manson, Sean Beavan	3:39	Mechanical Animals (1998)
7th	This is the new shit	Marilyn Manson, Tim Skold, Ben Grosse (Co)	4:20	The Golden Age of Grotesque (2003)
8th	Disposable teens	Dave Sardy, Marilyn Manson	3:04	Holy Wood (2000)
9	Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)	Trent Reznor , Marilyn Manson	4:51	Smells Like Children (1995)
10	Lunch box	Marilyn Manson, Trent Reznor	4:35	Portrait of an American Family (1994)
11	Tourniquet	Trent Reznor, Dave Ogilvie	4:44	Antichrist Superstar (1996)
12	Rock is Dead	Michael Beinhorn, Marilyn Manson	3:09	Mechanical Animals (1998)
13	Get your gunn	Marilyn Manson, Trent Reznor	3:18	Portrait of an American Family (1994)
14th	The Nobodies	Dave Sardy, Marilyn Manson	3:35	Holy Wood (2000)
15th	Long Hard Road Out of Hell	Marilyn Manson, Sean Beavan	4:21	Soundtrack for Spawn (1997)
16	The Beautiful People	Trent Reznor, Dave Ogilvie, Marilyn Manson (Co)	3:42	Antichrist Superstar (1996)
17th	The Reflecting God	Trent Reznor, Dave Ogilvie, Marilyn Manson (Co)	5:36	Antichrist Superstar (1996)
18th	(s) AINT ( bonus song of the international version)	Marilyn Manson, Tim Skold, Ben Grosse (Co)	3:43	The Golden Age of Grotesque (2003)

Chart successes and singles

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Read We Forget: The Best Of   DE 4th 10/11/2004 (13 weeks)   AT 3 10/10/2004 (13 weeks)   CH 5 10/10/2004 (9 weeks)   UK 4th 10/09/2004 (8 weeks)   US 9 10/16/2004 (27 weeks)

Singles

Personal Jesus   DE 11 04/10/2004 (9 weeks)   AT 10 10/03/2004 (11 weeks)   CH 13 10/03/2004 (10 weeks)   UK 13 10/16/2004 (5 weeks)

Lest We Forget: The Best Of entered the German album charts at number 4 on October 11, 2004 and stayed in the top 100 for a total of 13 weeks. The album also reached the Top 10 in Austria, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, the United States, New Zealand and Sweden, among others.

On September 21, 2004, the only previously unreleased song Personal Jesus was released as a single , reached number 11 in the German charts and stayed in the top 100 for nine weeks.

Sales figures and awards

In 2005, Lest We Forget: The Best Of received a gold record for more than 100,000 units sold in Germany and over 500,000 units in the United States . In the UK, the album was certified platinum for more than 300,000 copies sold in 2017.

reception

Professional reviews
Reviews
source	rating
laut.de
allmusic
Rolling Stone

Daniel Straub from laut.de rated Lest We Forget: The Best Of with three out of a possible five points. The album shows "the countless transformations of the multi-faceted American" and looks back on "more than a decade of career, dozens of hit singles and almost as many alter egos ."

Individual evidence

1. ↑ album cover
2. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
3. ↑ Chart tracking Read We Forget: The Best Of on officialcharts.de
4. ↑ International chart tracking Lest We Forget: The Best Of
5. ↑ DE: Gold
6. ↑ US: Gold
7. ↑ UK: platinum
8. ↑ Rating: laut.de
9. ↑ Rating: allmusic.com
10. ↑ Review: rollingstone.com