Marilyn Manson: Lest the American Family Forget

Lest the American Family Forget is an original guide for acquiring every officially released studio recording by Marilyn Manson. I have most of these albums in my personal collection and have listened to the rest. I mention this because I have seen several websites which claim that some of these CDs do not exist.

What is not included in this guide:
Live Recordings, bootleg or officially released
Interviews
Guest Artist Recordings

What is included:
Album Tracks
B-Sides
Covers
Soundtrack Recordings
Alternate Mixes
Recalled Versions
Remixes
Acoustic Versions

This guide includes detailed information on how to acquire every officially released studio recording from Portrait of the American Family to Lest We Forget. That's 1994-2004, 2 decades of Marilyn Manson.

Many of the non-album tracks can be found on multiple releases, but this guide will tell you how to get all available tracks with the fewest purchases. You will need to be very careful when buying singles that you get the correct version. There are often several releases with the same title, but I will specify the track listing and the exact edition in these cases to avoid confusion.

Whenever possible, I will also provide direct links to make a purchase. Even if following one of my links, be cautious when buying used CDs. The seller may not know about the different editions and may have listed the item incorrectly. It is not out of line to send a message to the seller before buying to confirm that the track listing of the CD is correct.

I am pleased to say that I got my hands on a copy of Lunch Boxes & Choklit Cows with the original artwork and bonus DVD before Mr. Manson's lawsuit pulled it from store shelves. I actually picked it up on a whim while shopping for something else. Lucky me!

As much as Marilyn Manson would like to deny it, Spooky Kids was the beginning of his rise to fame. Although he definitely developed as an artist, I enjoy the early music as well. However, the Spooky Kids are not my focus here. If you are interested in finding out more, I highly recommend that you pay a visit to SpookyKids.net.

Portrait Of An American Family
01 Prelude (The Family Trip)
02 Cake and Sodomy
03 Lunchbox
04 Organ Grinder
05 Cyclops
06 Dope Hat
07 Get Your Gunn
08 Wrapped in Plastic
09 Dogma
10 Sweet Tooth
11 Snake Eyes and Sissies
12 My Monkey
13 Misery Machine
* Trent Reznor is responsible for the final mix of this album. There are pre-Reznor mixes of the entire album available in bootleg circles. I was able to hear only minor differences and prefered the final version when changes were evident.

Lunchbox
01 Lunchbox
02 Next Motherfucker (Remix)
03 Down In The Park
04 Brown Bag (Remix)
05 Metal (Remix)
06 Lunchbox (Highschool Drop-outs)

Get Your Gunn
01 Get Your Gunn
02 Misery Machine
03 Mother Inferior Got Her Gunn
04 Revelation #9

Smells Like Children
01 The Hands of Small Children
02 Diary of a Dope Fiend
03 Shitty Chicken Gang Bang
04 Kiddie Grinder (Remix)
05 Sympathy for the Parents
06 Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
07 Everlasting Cocksucker (Remix)
08 Fuck Frankie
09 I Put A Spell On You
10 May Cause Discoloration Of The Urine Or Feces
11 Scabs, Guns and Peanut Butter
12 Dance Of The Dope Hats (Remix)
13 White Trash
14 Dancing With The One-Legged...
15 Rock 'n' Roll Nigger
16 Hidden Track

As described in Marilyn Manson's book, this album was changed a great deal at the request of the label. However, the original version was mysteriously pressed. Several copies shipped as promotional material before someone who cared caught the "mistake". If you get a chance to hear the recalled version, it is worth your time. There were several major changes, and I found it very enjoyable.

Antichrist Superstar
01 Irresponsible Hate Anthem
02 Beautiful People
03 Dried up, Tied and Dead to the World
04 Tourniquet
05 Little Horn
06 Cryptorchild
07 Deformography
08 Wormboy
09 Mister Superstar
10 Angel With the Scabbed Wings
11 Kinderfeld
12 Antichrist Superstar
13 1996
14 Minute of Decay
15 Reflecting God
16 Man That You Fear
17 Untitled (Hidden Track)

Remix & Repent
01 The Horrible People
02 The Tourniquet Prosthetic Dance Mix
03 Dried Up, Tied And Dead To The World [Live in Utica, NY]
04 Antichrist Superstar [Live in Hartford, CT]
05 Man That You Fear [Acoustic Requiem for Antichrist Superstar]


Antichrist Superstar Studio A, New Orleans Demo
This 1 Track demo has the Antichrist Superstar track with the original ending. The ending is the same as the live version on last tour on earth.

The front and back artwork for this album were withdrawn almost immediately when this promo was released due to too much garnered attention. Only the compact discs in plain jewel cases were sent out on future pressings. The writing on the CDs are on the back of white insulating tape and written in black felt tip pen. The song itself has a different ending than "When you are suffering, know that I have betrayed you".

I have heard this extended mix so the demo is not a myth. Whether or not the hand-labeled CDs regularly for on eBay are authentic, I can't say.

Mechanical Animals
01 Great Big White World
02 The Dope Show
03 Mechanical Animals
04 Rock Is Dead
05 Disassociative
06 The Speed Of Pain
07 Posthuman
08 I Want To Disappear
09 I Don't Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me)
10 New Model No. 15
11 User Friendly
12 Fundamentally Loathsome
13 The Last Day On Earth
14 Coma White

I Don't Like the Drugs [Japanese Version]
01 I Don't Like the Drugs (Infected by the Scourge of the Earth)
02 I Don't Like the Drugs (Danny Saber Remix)
03 I Don't Like the Drugs (Every Day)
04 I Don't Like the Drugs (Absinth Makes the Heart Grow Fonder)
05 I Don't Like the Drugs

The Last Tour On Earth
[Australian 2-CD Version]
01 Inauguration Of The Mechanical Christ
02 The Reflecting God
03 Great Big White World
04 Get Your Gunn
05 Sweet Dreams/Hell Outro
06 Rock Is Dead
07 The Dope Show
08 Lunchbox
09 I Don't Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me)
10 Antichrist Superstar
11 The Beautiful People
12 Irresponsible Hate Anthem
13 The Last Day On Earth
14 Astonishing Panorama Of The Endtimes
15 Coma White
16 Get My Rocks Off
17 Coma White Acoustic
18 A Rose And A Baby Ruth

Tracks 1-13 are live.
Tracks 14-18 are studio recordings.

Holy Wood [Japanese Version]
01 GodEatGod
02 The Love Song
03 The Fight Song
04 Disposable Teens
05 Target Audience (Narcissus Narcosis)
06 "President Dead"
07 In the Shadow of the Valley of Death
08 Cruci-Fiction in Space
09 A Place in the Dirt
10 The Nobodies
11 The Death Song
12 Lamb of God
13 Born Again
14 Burning Flag
15 Coma Black
16 Valentine's Day
17 The Fall of Adam
18 King Kill 33°
19 Count to Six and Die (the vacuum of infinite space encompassing)
20 The Nobodies (Acoustic)
21 Mechanical Animals (Live)

Fight Song [Japanese Version]
01 The Fight Song (Live)
02 The Love Song (Remix Version)
03 Disposable Teens (Remix Version)
04 The Fight Song (Slip Knot Remix)
05 Diamonds & Pollen
06 Working Class Hero
07 Five To One
08 Astonishing Panorama Of The Endtimes

The Golden Age of Grotesque
01 Intro
02 This Is The New Shit
03 mOBSCENE
04 Doll-Dagga Buzz-Buzz Ziggety-Zag
05 Use Your Fist And Not Your Mouth
06 The Golden Age Of Grotesque
07 (s)AINT
08 Ka-Boom Ka-Boom
09 Slutgarden
10 Spade
11 Para-noir
12 The Bright Young Things
13 Better Of Two Evils
14 Vodevil
15 Obsequy (The Death Of Art)
*This album was initially released in a limited edition package including the DVD Doppelherz.

This Is The New Shit [Korean Tour Edition]
01 This Is The New Shit
02 mOBSCENE - Sauerkraut Remix
03 mOBSCENE - Overnight Mix
04 Tainted Love - Re-Tainted Interpretation
05 This Is The New Shit - Goldfrapp Mix
06 Baboon Rape Party
07 Paranoiac
*Enhanced CD includes videos for mOBSCENE, This Is The New Shit, and the Making of mOBSCENE.

Lest We Forget: The Best of Marilyn Manson
01 The Love Song
02 Personal Jesus
03 Mobscene
04 The Fight Song
05 Tainted Love
06 The Dope Show
07 This Is The New Shit
08 Disposable Teens
09 Sweet Dreams
10 Lunch Box
11 Tourniquet
12 Rock Is Dead
13 Get Your Gunn
14 The Nobodies
15 Long Hard Road Out Of Hell
16 The Beautiful People
17 The Reflecting God
*This album was initially released in a limited edition package including a DVD of music videos. If you have the DVD, look for an easter egg video in which Marilyn Manson's corpse undergoes an unusual autopsy. Buyers who purchased this limited edition from Manson's official website also received a bonus DVD containing the video for (s)AINT which was too racy for the record label even with a parental advisory sticker.

The Nobodies: 2005 Against All Gods Mix [Korean Tour Edition]
01 Nobodies [2005 Against All Gods Mix]
02 Nobodies [Burn 69 Mix]
03 Nobodies [Stephane K Rock Dub Mix]
04 Personal Jesus [Rude Photo Motor Remix]
05 Mobscene Replet [Mea Culpa Mix]
06 New *Hit Invective [Obiter Dictum Mix]
07 This Is the New *Hit [Sergio Galoyan Mix]
08 Not So Beautiful People
09 Fight Song [Slipknot Remix]
10 Tourniquet [Phosthetic Dance Mix]
11 Personal Jesus [Multimedia Track]
12 Nobodies [2005 Against All Gods Mix][Multimedia Track]

Lost Highway (1997)
Apple of Sodom
I Put a Spell on You (also available on Smells Like Children)

Long Hard Road Out of Hell (1997)
[Australian Promo for the movie Spawn]
01 Long Hard Road Out Of Hell
02 Long Hard Road Out Of Hell (Critter Remix)
03 Long Hard Road Out Of Hell (Instrumental)
04 Kick The P.A. (Instrumental)

Private Parts Soundtrack (1997)
The Suck For Your Solution

Dead Man On Campus (1998)
Golden Years

Detroit Rock City (1999)
Highway To Hell

Blair Witch 2 (2000)
Suicide Is Painless

From Hell (2001)
Nobodies [Wormwood Remix]

Queen of the Damned (2002)
Redeemer

Resident Evil (2002)
The Fight Song (Slipknot Remix)
Main Title Theme
Seizure Of Power
Reunion
Cleansing
*In addition to Slipknot's remix of The Fight Song, this CD contains four tracks from the movie's score which were performed by Marilyn Manson.

The Nightmare Before Christmas
[2-CD Special Edition released 2006]
CD 2 opens with Marilyn Manson's version of This Is Halloween

We're A Happy Family
This tribute to the Ramones was the brainchild of Rob Zombie and includes Marilyn Manson's unique take on The KKK Took My Baby Away.

The Long Hard Road Out of Hell (1998)
If you've made it this far, you would probably enjoy reading Marilyn Manson's autobiography The Long Hard Road Out of Hell.

Eat Me, Drink Me (2007)
01 If I Was Your Vampire
02 Putting Holes In Happiness
03 The Red Carpet Grave
04 They Said That Hell's Not Hot
05 Just A Car Crash Away
06 Heart-Shaped Glasses (When The Heart Guides The Hand)
07 Evidence
08 Are You The Rabbit?
09 Mutilation Is The Most Sincere Form Of Flattery
10 You And Me And The Devil Makes 3
11 Eat Me, Drink Me

I have not yet gone to the trouble of sorting out the remixes on the various editions of the Heart-Shaped Glasses and Putting Holes In Happiness singles. Frankly, I'm not certain if I will. Eat Me, Drink Me fell a bit flat of my expectations.

Lyrically, the running theme throughout the album is lost love. Musically, Manson is still trying to layer lots of guitars over a percussive backdrop while alternately croaking and screaming his lyrics.

It should be obvious to anyone that I am a huge fan of Manson's musical style, but it just doesn't seem to fit with the emotions he is trying to convey in these songs. Perhaps someone should tell Marilyn that it's OK to not always come across as a badass. If not, perhaps this album should be re-titled It's Hard Being In Love When You're E-e-e-e-e-evil so people know what they are getting into.

I've listened to the album 3 or 4 while times trying my best to keep an open mind. It's not bad, but it is hard to view Eat Me, Drink Me as an improvement on previous work.