Song · Marilyn Manson
“Mobscene” by Marilyn Manson
From the album The Golden Age of Grotesque (2003)
“Mobscene” by Marilyn Manson appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations in 2003. It was first released in 2003 on the album The Golden Age of Grotesque. Its best result is #45 on the WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2003. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #195 alternative song of 2003.
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"Mobscene" (styled mOBSCENE) kicked the door in for The Golden Age of Grotesque, Marilyn Manson's fifth studio album, as its lead single in April 2003. Manson came to the band after watching several Busby Berkeley films and their all-girl chorus lines, and asked for a song that summoned up Berkeley, the writing of Oscar Wilde and a stampeding herd of elephants. What he got was industrial metal with a kick line.
Manson wrote the words and the music with John 5, and he produced, recorded and arranged it with Skold, with Ben Grosse co-producing and mixing. It went up for a Grammy for Best Metal Performance, losing to Metallica's "St. Anger", and reached 18 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks. PopMatters' Lance Teegarden later named it the best thing on the Lest We Forget hits set.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 73 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2003 | 99 |
| 2003 | 45 | WCCC The Rock Hartford, CT | WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2003 | 106 |
| 2003 | 62 (tie) | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2003 | 196 |
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