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Mobscene, trademarked as mOBSCENE, is the inaugural single taken from the 2003 album The Golden Age of Grotesque by Marilyn Manson. Lines in the song chanted by female vocalists, "Be obscene, be, be obscene..." are inspired by the cheerleading chant in Faith No More's "Be Aggressive". Many critics have also compared lines in this song to the TV gameshow in the 2000 film, Requiem for a Dream, starring Jared Leto. The song was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance, but lost out to Metallica's, "St. Anger."
[edit] Track listing
- "Mobscene"
- "Tainted Love" (Re-Tainted Interpretation Version)
- "Mobscene" (Sauerkraut Remix Version)
- "Paranoiac"
[edit] Track listing US
- "Mobscene"
- "Paranoiac"
- "Tainted Love - Re-Tainted Interpretation" is in fact an acoustic rendition of Gloria Jones' hit.
- The video features Dita Von Teese who Manson was dating at the time (and would subsequently marry, and then divorce).
- The cover art is a photograph by Gottfried Helnwein and parts of the video were inspired by Helnwein's stage, costumes and make-up of the theater-production "Macbeth"- in Heidelberg, 1988 and Berlin, 1995[1].
- "Mobscene - Sauerkraut Remix Version" was remixed by German Industrial band, Rammstein.
