Mobscene

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"Mobscene"
Single by Marilyn Manson
from the album The Golden Age of Grotesque
ReleasedApril 2003
Genre
Length3:25
Label
Songwriters
Producers
Marilyn Manson singles chronology
"Tainted Love"
(2001) 		"Mobscene"
(2003) 		"This Is the New Shit"
(2003)
Audio sample
"Mobscene"

"Mobscene" (stylized as "mOBSCENE") is a song by American rock band Marilyn Manson. It was released in April 2003 as the lead single from their fifth studio album, The Golden Age of Grotesque (2003). The song was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance, but lost out to Metallica's "St. Anger". As of 2020, the song sold around 50,000 copies in the United Kingdom, where it has also been streamed almost 4 million times.[2] In the US, the song reached number 18 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks and number 26 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.

Composition

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Manson has said that "Mobscene" was "pulled from the weirdest parts of my imagination." Prior to writing the song, Manson had seen several Busby Berkeley films with all-female chorus lines. He then met with his band and told them that he wanted to create a song that evoked Berkeley's films, the writings of Oscar Wilde, and an elephant stampede.

Critical reception

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In PopMatters, Lance Teegarden deemed "Mobscene" the best track on the band's greatest hits album Lest We Forget: The Best Of (2004), writing "Here Manson finds the little bit of irreverence he is looking for." Teegarden praised Sköld's production.[3] BuzzFeed's Richard James opined that the song "proves nu metal is the greatest gift to music ever".[1]

Track listings

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  • International CD single
  1. "Mobscene"
  2. "Tainted Love" (Re-Tainted Interpretation)
  3. "Mobscene" (Rammstein's Sauerkraut Remix)
  4. "Paranoiac"
  • US CD single
  1. "Mobscene"
  2. "Paranoiac"

Charts

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Chart (2003) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[4] 31
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[5] 15
Belgium (Ultratip Bubbling Under Flanders)[6] 8
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[7] 38
Canada (Nielsen SoundScan) 4
Denmark (Tracklisten)[8] 7
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)[9] 28
Finland (Suomen virallinen lista)[10] 16
France (SNEP)[11] 61
Germany (GfK)[12] 20
Hungary (Single Top 40)[13] 6
Ireland (IRMA)[14] 27
Italy (FIMI)[15] 9
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[16] 84
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[17] 32
Norway (VG-lista)[18] 20
Portugal (Billboard)[19] 1
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[20] 10
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[21] 18
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[22] 6
UK Singles (OCC)[23] 13
US Alternative Airplay (Billboard)[24] 26
US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[25] 18

References

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  13. ^ "Archívum – Slágerlisták – MAHASZ" (in Hungarian). Single (track) Top 40 lista. Magyar Hanglemezkiadók Szövetsége.
  14. ^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Mobscene". Irish Singles Chart.
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  22. ^ "Marilyn Manson – Mobscene". Swiss Singles Chart.
  23. ^ "Marilyn Manson: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company.
  24. ^ "Marilyn Manson Chart History (Alternative Airplay)". Billboard.
  25. ^ "Marilyn Manson Chart History (Mainstream Rock)". Billboard.
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