Ministry

a joke band doing a bad impression of the already terrible depeche mode that transformed into a silly cock-rock band with synths and comically-cliched samples. CRAP, with a few vaguely tolerable songs if i'm feeling very generous.

jesus fucking christ on a crutch CRAP!!!!!!!!!!

euro-fags until they heard songs about fucking and then who do they sound like?

wanna buy a remix record? douche bags

At the risk of nothing...

I like 'em. I even like the last album they did, -best they've ever done maybe. Of course they are goofy looking and have ridiculous samples, -we need ridiculous bands like Ministry. And crap or not, I don't think they've ever sounded like Big Black.


-k

they sound nothing like big black, they were ripping big black off and failing and making horrid music at the same time

with sympathy - crap
12" inch singles (halloween/etc.) - not crap for the time but pretty crappy now.
twitch - see above
land of rape and honey - not crap
the mind is a terrible thing to taste - not crap
psalm 69 - more crap than not
filth pig - not total crap because of being smart enough to recruit rey washam
dark side of the spoon - total crap despite rey washam
animositisomina - just barely not crap, especially when compared to the last two

I have an ingrained reflex to always try out new Ministry music, because they were one of the first "big" shows (relatively, of course) that I saw that wasn't mainstream, like REM or whomever. At the Riviera, 1988, holy crap. LOR&H tour, and there was more going on onstage then I could process. And guys going into the pit with razor blades sewn sharp end out into their leather.

I still really love that record, and certain ones by RevCo and Front 242 and Lard. Okay, actually only certain songs.

But I think that all of their good songs from the last five Ministry albums could be put on one disc.


Not Crap: 4 vs. Crap: 5

thusly,

Ministry = Crap

Al Jourgensen wore diapers in the studio. Diapers.

Full of crap.

I don't think there was one other human being who was treated with more disdain at Waterloo Records In Austin as Mr. Al Jourgensen. Staff would regularly ask him if he was someone else, and he would grumble something unintelligible from behind his shit-smell cowboy hat. For one week, he was asked by just about everyone if he was Ted Nugent. Yet, he still came back in. Amazing.

This band is, well, CRAP.

A basic standard CRAP. The example they use in the CRAP 101 textbook.

"everyday is halloween" is one of the most comically bad things i have ever heard. honestly, if the "bop-oom-bop-bop" backing vocals don't throw you into a laughing fit when they come in, just wait for the breakdown with all the rapid turntable scratches and that tormented jourgensen-shriek. or is it a sample? either way, it's comedy gold. oh! and the faux-british accent is brilliant.

Ministry are the greatest band of all time. This is, in fact, a fact. That song Stigmata is a brilliant example of what I like to call "exquisite minimalism".

Overwhelmingly powerful slabs of monolithic rock. The repitition elucidates on the automation of the post-modern era. Don't you get it?

They invented that distorted vocal sound. Al Jourgensen was correct in saying that Steve Albini is not talented. I mean, Steve's pretty good, but compared to the compositional power of Ministry, who can compare? In comparison, no one is talented at all.

I think the 75% crap here is due to people just not getting Ministry. If your favorite band is U.S. Maple, you won't like Ministry at all. You should seriously get some taste in music, if that is the case.

I hear Paul Barker recently left the band. Paul, if you're looking for a new song writing buddy, here I am! 5 weeks on the road with Fugazi. Email me, man! Lead into Gold was the best thing ever (next to Ministry and FYC).

"The look in your eyes!!!!!"

are these guys even a band? they don't sound like a band, but more like a guy writing mediocre industrial music in a studio.

...kinda CRAPpy if you ask me.