― Dan (Still Not Interested In Them Anymore) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:44 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/music/2003/05/images/download_150.jpg
― dali madison's nut (donut), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:14 (eighteen years ago) link
Ministry `06 (with Tommy from Prong and Raven from KJ)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y13/maxmal/sonicranch2.jpg
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: Deutsch Bag (latebloomer), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― howell huser (chaki), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link
Tommy Victor did play in Danzig as well, yeah, but I think that was more out of financial necessity.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Klaus Darko (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Klaus Darko (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link
and I don't get it- I saw Lazarus live over the summer and his set was 100% bouncey electro-house....
― jsoulja (jsoulja), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:22 (eighteen years ago) link
"The REVOLTING COCK."
"Heh heh, yeah, must be some strip show.. y' know.. with strippers."
― dali madison's nut (donut), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― dali madison's nut (donut), Thursday, 15 December 2005 00:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 03:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― js (honestengine), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm tempted to do a C/D for 'Filth Pig'. I hated it on release and never bothered checking out any of their stuff after that, but once in a while songs pop up on shuffle and they're usually pretty awesome (e.g. last night "Brick Windows")
― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 11 November 2008 13:52 (fifteen years ago) link
twitch's rare mentions in this thread is a crime.
― HI, YOUR BAND! (Mackro Mackro), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 14:24 (fifteen years ago) link
WHERE YOU AT NOW
― damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Saturday, 29 August 2009 02:35 (fifteen years ago) link
land of rape and honey 4-EVAH
― crappy, use her name (latebloomer), Saturday, 29 August 2009 02:40 (fifteen years ago) link
USE IT A WHILE AND IT'S OVER THE SHOULDER
― damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Saturday, 29 August 2009 04:26 (fifteen years ago) link
You know, I actually really liked Rio Grande Blood -- not The Last Sucker quite so much though it was still certainly better than a lot of their mid-period (ie Filth Pig and onward).
Just bought Twitch again and I like it okay. Parts of it didn't age well at all.
― Sean Carruthers, Saturday, 29 August 2009 13:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Again, I wish they'd pulled the plug after Psalm 69.
― Alex in NYC, Saturday, 29 August 2009 20:59 (fifteen years ago) link
It bears repearing: "Jesus Built My Hotrod" is utterly unstoppable. Play it loud!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 29 August 2009 21:23 (fifteen years ago) link
For whatever reason I cannot stop listening to "Hizbollah" today
― More Butty In Your Pants (Telephone thing), Thursday, 3 September 2009 20:01 (fifteen years ago) link
love the snippet of dubbed out accordian sampled in "where you at now"
― damo tsu tsuki (r1o natsume), Thursday, 3 September 2009 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Hmmm.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 15:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I wrote about that here. My memories of that 1990 RevCo show are pretty vivid, so I hope the movie focuses on that period and the year or two immediately prior; by the time they played Lollapalooza they'd already pretty much lost it, IMO.
― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Lolla 92 was the last time they made any real sense, if only for "N.W.O." and the Bush I samples.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 16:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I am in the extreme minority here but, aside from "Burning Inside" and "Faith Collasping", I think they started losing it by A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste. The songs there have a kernel of awesome smothered by repetive bullshit nonsense ("Breathe", "Thieves", "So What", "Test", "Dream Song") or is just flat-out unlistenable ("Cannibal Song", "Never Believe") ans Psalm 69 took everything I hated about AMIATTTT and cranked it up to 100.
― Restless Genital Syndrome (HI DERE), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
thieves =! repetitive bullshit nonsense in any world i live in
― bum-sniff deviant (cutty), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I gotta disagree with pretty much all of this...Psalm 69 was definitely the end of the golden era (though I'll offer another minority opinion, namely that Animositisomina had some very good songs), but there are a couple of solid tracks on it, "Hero" and "Scarecrow" in particular. However, the three singles from Psalm 69 - "NWO," "Jesus Built My Hotrod" and "Just One Fix" - are much, much better in their longer 12"/CD single versions.
― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I've actually managed to listen to Cannibal Song many, many times. AMIATTTT is peak Ministry imo.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
― bum-sniff deviant (cutty), Wednesday, December 30, 2009 8:44 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark
1st post of 2010.say it all really.
― mark e, Friday, 1 January 2010 02:10 (fourteen years ago) link
i just started getting into this band. i think i am in love with this evil.
also, 'Cannibal Song' is fucking awesome. all yall haters are crazy.
― Honey, I squirted jizz all over the baby (the table is the table), Monday, 27 September 2010 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I love classic Ministry but think Psalm 69 is extremely overrated. it's good but don't spin it anywhere near as much as Land of Rape and Mind...."Just One Fix" is ace though
― u r no man, take the balls (San Te), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 02:27 (thirteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_discography#Studio_albums
these sales figures are hilarious
― fat fat fat fat Usher (DJP), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Ouch. How the hell did they lose momentum so badly between Psalm 69 and Filth Pig? Which is an underrated album. Dammit.
― GLOWER METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 08:19 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah this is pretty incredible - I now rate it but it's true that I remember a big sense of deflation when Filth Pig came out.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 08:39 (thirteen years ago) link
To be honest, when it was out Psalm 69 kind of alienated me - maybe it's because noe of it lived up the promise of the single version of Jesus Built My Hotrod - and I was off the bus by Filth Pig. Listening back I can't work out why, as it's really pretty good.
The numbers for The Last Sucker are just embarassing. Has anyone knowingly heard it?
― I said Omorotic, not homo-erotic (aldo), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 08:54 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah tbh Psalm 69 is pretty mediocre apart from the singles
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 10:04 (thirteen years ago) link
i always kind of liked filth pig and never understood why it was considered mediocre. after that one i didn't bother though.
― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 10:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Psalm 69's not just about the singles. Scarecrow's astounding - that's the heart of the album for me. But I agree it has more filler than The Mind.
― Pop is superior to all other genres (DL), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 11:41 (thirteen years ago) link
http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/m/ministry/album-filth-pig.jpg
Don't know how they didn't manage to shift 2 million units of this sucker.
― kkvgz, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 11:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, I didn't even buy it. I still use "Filth Pig" as an insult though, particularly toward one of my wife's chihuahuas.
― kkvgz, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 11:51 (thirteen years ago) link
filth pig is worthy of the entry price for the bob dylan cover version alone, that's a proper late night + wine loud music blast.
― mark e, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 12:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I can sum up why Filth Pig never got anywhere easy -- "The Fall" was released as the first single and it seemed slow, draggy and boring in comparison to a lot of other Ministry singles (and in terms of the mass market, a certain NIN album of the previous year had wider appeal, shall we say).
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 12:05 (thirteen years ago) link
filth pig cover art always reminded me of this classic Arbus photo
http://brownstate.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451be1b69e20105357094dd970c-450wi
by way of Massive Headwound Harry
http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/41589_143588872337299_6284_n.jpg
― car's not yellow, it's chicken (Pillbox), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 12:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, King Tubby is dead, so maybe it's just a matter of parsing tense.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 18:31 (ten years ago) link
Had no idea this was completed or released but man, some harrowing (heroin) stuff:
http://vimeo.com/91347991
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 6 October 2014 03:07 (nine years ago) link
No matter how tempted you are, do not try and read Al's book.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link
Thanks for the warning. I'm always on the lookout for a good trashy drug band bio. What's bad about it?
― american tail/american pie (how's life), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, it's bad. I can't even remember enough about it to pick it apart, but it was just...dull.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 18:16 (nine years ago) link
It's dull because it's full of bullshit stories (some of which are patently not true) only told to make Al the greatest bestest drug taker ever. An awful lot of them have something "nearly" happen and there's a preponderance of casual racism, homophobia and rape culture that is sometimes glorified but at a minimum glossed over and excused with another anecdote where he has a token gay or black friend (invariably who he never mentions again).
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 20:41 (nine years ago) link
i kind of almost enjoyed it even though i was fully aware it was BS. his treatise on economics at the end was complete and utter nonsense though; he patently thinks he's a lot smarter than he actually is or maybe he has genuinely fried his brain. i read chris connelly's book immediately after which is way better.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:10 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I read Chris Connelly's first but it seemed so skewed to making out Al was a complete dick that I thought I'd read this for balance. Instead it reinforces some of the conclusions you make from the other book.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link
everyone otm
― don't ask me why i posted this (electricsound), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:40 (nine years ago) link
So this week, Ministry (via Cleopatra Records) posted a previously unreleased live album on Bandcamp. It's called Live Necronomicon, and it's about 85 minutes long - there's a double vinyl edition that may already be sold out, and then a digital version. No CDs. Anyway, according to this piece on Slicing Up Eyeballs, it's basically the raw tapes from In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up, with a few Jello Biafra spoken-word bits and a version of Revolting Cocks' "Stainless Steel Providers" excised. Note that In Case... had a lot of studio overdubs, which are absent here, making the music much more overtly metallic and placing the vocals a lot higher in the mix. The set list includes their covers of Public Image Ltd.'s "Public Image" and Skinny Puppy's "Smothered Hope," and versions of Pailhead's "No Bunny" and "Man Should Surrender" and Lard's "The Power of Lard" and "Hellfudge." It's really good, and worth your nine bucks.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 7 July 2017 01:55 (seven years ago) link
Chris Connelly lives by me. I see him all the time with his family, in full suburban dad mode.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 July 2017 02:03 (seven years ago) link
Search: With Sympathy
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Friday, 7 July 2017 13:03 (seven years ago) link
Ministry Visual History BookMinistry: Prescripture Announced Today
http://gallery.mailchimp.com/1d59aca4aeedaab429816159e/images/626b2502-963e-41e2-bd58-3ae80e210582.jpg
Out December 6, Read About the Book via Rolling Stone Includes 7 inch of "(Every Day Is) Halloween (Acoustic)” featuring Dave Navarro (Jane’s Addiction)
The book features an introduction by Jello Biafra and exclusive quotes from members of Smashing Pumpkins, ZZ Top, Cheap Trick, NWA, Ramones, Nine Inch Nails, Tool, Megadeth, AFI, Slayer, Jane’s Addiction, Rammstein, The Flaming Lips, Devo, Butthole Surfers, Static-X, Anthrax, White Zombie, Death Grips, Bauhaus, Killing Joke, High on Fire, GWAR, Einstürzende Neubauten, Revolting Cocks, and many more! Various packages available for pre-order include copies autographed by Al Jourgensen and the author, Aaron Tanner and a 7” of the studio version of "(Every Day Is) Halloween (Acoustic)” featuring Dave Navarro (Jane’s Addiction)!
LIMITED-RUN OF 20009" X 9" casebound, pages TBDPUBLISHED: December 6, 2019PRE-ORDER: September 18, 2019ISBN: 978-0-578-56212-4
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:16 (five years ago) link
Includes 7 inch of "(Every Day Is) Halloween (Acoustic)” featuring Dave Navarro (Jane’s Addiction)
that's a "no" from me, dawg
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:18 (five years ago) link
^ otm
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link
only $150
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 18:29 (five years ago) link
Al finally makes his peace with
― stirmonster, Monday, 7 August 2023 22:25 (one year ago) link
....With Sympathy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU6-uMVECRE
― stirmonster, Monday, 7 August 2023 22:26 (one year ago) link