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Lest We Forget – The Best Of is a best of album by Marilyn Manson, released on September 28, 2004 by Interscope Records. A new song was recorded to promote the album, a cover of Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus". The inside booklet contains previous photo-shoots and several new pictures hinting at Manson's next era and musical/lyric direction, At the time of release Manson had been quoted as having called Lest We Forget the band's "farewell album". However, assured the public that it would "not be the last Marilyn Manson album." This album marks highlights from the band's catalogue from 1994-2003. In several interviews following Lest We Forget, Manson hinted that he no longer wished to produce music around this time, and thus marks the beginning of Manson's venture into other projects, such as Phantasmagoria. Lest We Forget was followed by the band's sixth studio album, Eat Me, Drink Me, released on June 5, 2007.
The now out of print deluxe edition includes a bonus DVD containing most of the band's music videos, excluding "Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes", "Tainted Love" and "(s)AINT".

Track listing

1. "The Love Song" – 3:05
2. "Personal Jesus" – 4:06
3. "mOBSCENE" – 3:26
4. "The Fight Song" – 2:57
5. "Tainted Love" – 3:20
6. "The Dope Show" – 3:40
7. "This Is the New Shit" – 4:20
8. "Disposable Teens" – 3:04
9. "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" – 4:51
10. "Lunchbox" – 4:35
11. "Tourniquet" ^[1] – 4:44
12. "Rock Is Dead" – 3:09
13. "Get Your Gunn" – 3:18
14. "The Nobodies" – 3:35
15. "Long Hard Road Out of Hell" – 4:21
16. "The Beautiful People" ^[2] – 3:42
17. "The Reflecting God" – 5:36

1. ↑ "Tourniquet" has been slightly edited from the original album version, having extended sound effects at the end despite the tracklisting on the package listing it as the original version.
2. ↑ "The Beautiful People" has been slightly edited from the original album version, having horns added to the first chorus despite the tracklisting on the package listing it as the original version.

Japan bonus disc

1. "Next Motherfucker" (Remix) – 4:47
2. "The Not So Beautiful People" – 6:11
3. "The Horrible People" – 5:43
4. "The Tourniquet Prosthetic Dance Mix (Edit)" – 4:10
5. "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me) (Danny Saber Remix)" – 5:18
6. "Working Class Hero" – 3:39
7. "The Fight Song (Slipknot Remix)" – 3:50
8. "mOBSCENE (Sauerkraut Remix)" – 3:16

Bonus tracks

18. "(s)AINT" (International bonus track) – 3:45

19. "Irresponsible Hate Anthem" (UK, Australia & Japan bonus track) – 4:17

20. "Coma White" (Japan bonus track) – 5:38

DVD track listing

Main menu

Special Features menu

1. "Personal Jesus" (Only on international versions)
2. "(s)AINT" (Only on international versions)
3. "This Is the New Shit"
4. "mOBSCENE"
5. "The Nobodies"
6. "The Fight Song"
7. "Disposable Teens"
8. "Coma White"
9. "Rock Is Dead"
10. "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)"
11. "The Dope Show"
12. "Long Hard Road Out of Hell"
13. "Cryptorchid"
14. "Man That You Fear"
15. "Tourniquet"
16. "The Beautiful People"
17. "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"
18. "Dope Hat"
19. "Lunchbox"
20. "Get Your Gunn"

DVD easter eggs

• The "Autopsy" which was originally an easter egg on the Holy Wood CD but has since gone offline, can be found by highlighting "Photo Gallery", and press left. This should highlight a box with the text "AUTOPSY" inside.
• The 'Making of the "mOBSCENE"' video, previously only available on select versions of the "mOBSCENE" and "This Is the New Shit" singles can be found by browsing the GAOG videos, highlighting "Next Album", and pressing right.
• The performance version of the "Disposable Teens" video, which was shown on most television channels pre-watershed, because of the "disturbing" content in the original version can be found by viewing the Holywood videos menu, highlighting "The Fight Song", and pressing left and then select.

• Alternate Menu Screens can also be accessed by browsing through different album era's video catalogs and exiting back to the menu screen. Exiting via the "Holywood" or the "Antichrist Superstar" index gives you a Holywood theme, "Mechanical Animals" and "Golden Age of Grotesque" gives you a GAOG theme, while "EPs, etc" or "Portrait Of An American Family" grants you the default "Lest We Forget" theme. Curiously, selecting "Special Features" with the "Holywood" theme has the same function as selecting "Play All".

(s)AINT bonus DVD

Consumers who ordered either the CD/DVD version or just the standard CD edition of Lest We Forget – The Best Of from Marilyn Manson's official website also received a bonus DVD featuring the "uncut, unrated, and banned by the label," unreleased video for "(s)AINT". The music video was produced over two days in a Los Angeles hotel room and directed by Asia Argento. While presented as an exclusive the "(s)AINT" video was also available on some editions of Lest We Forget – The Best Of distributed overseas and still is on all R-rated versions in Australia.

Charting positions

Album

Singles

Personnel

• Marilyn Manson — vocals
• Tim Skold — guitar, bass
• Madonna Wayne Gacy — keyboards
• Ginger Fish — drums

Trivia

• The front cover features the painting "Experience Is the Mistress of Fools". The tray insert features the painting "For God So Love the World That He Gave His Only Begotten Son (Father's Day Gift for Hugh Warner)".
• Manson recorded a duet with Shirley Manson for the album. It wasn't packaged with the album as both singers felt it didn't showcase their talents. It has been since unreleased. Personal Jesus was in turn, recorded and featured on the album in its place.