The Genius of Ministry "Filth Pig"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ค. 2024
- An often misunderstood album, "Filth Pig" showcased a new sound from Ministry. Appreciation for the album has grown over time, so this video will pick apart different aspects surrounding it.
Side note: not only is this my personal favorite Ministry album, but its among my favorite albums ever.
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Filth Pig & Dark Side Of The Spoon are the most underrated, underappreciated, and most misunderstood of Ministry's records.
And Animositisomina is the forgotten one! All three are my favorite era of Ministry
The Light Pours Out of Me & Impossible are the best songs off of Animositisomina. Also, Lay Lady Lay is my favorite track off of Filth Pig, cause it stands out so much when compared to everything else on the album.
@@KillbotAndGorGorAttack Agreed - it's amazing how underrated those 3 are & they're among my faves too!
Joshua Perrin Those are awesome songs! One of my other faves is Piss - the vocals, the lyrics, the riffs, the groove... just killer!
Agreed
@@KillbotAndGorGorAttack Duuuuuuuuude I cannot agree more. Fun fact: My brothers band Pitbull Daycare toured with them on the Rio Grande Blood album! fun fun fun shows
Killbot: Listen to these genius lyrics!
The lyrics: DAHDOOODODAHDAHDHADH
Chris could be like the Butthead impression of NWO, “hey Beavis... YG GUH HRR HRR HRR HRR HUH HUH HUH HUUUHHH!!!” Lmao
@@KillbotAndGorGorAttack yes! Thank you for responding!
....no
haha yes so playful, ironic lyrics he sang there
I love how heavy and sludgy this album is. It shocks me how many people just never listened to it.
I remember being disappointed initially, but coming around to it with repeated listens. Lava is my all-time favorite Ministry song, but I personally feel the album lags with the final two tracks. I also think that the cover art for this one and Dark Side turned a LOT of people off. A friend of mine got angry every single time he saw that Filth Pig cover (and he wasn't even a Republican!), and I didn't know a single person who remotely liked the Dark Side cover.
The one person who disliked this probably does karate in the pit
karate in the pit 102
Hahaha!
I saw one of those at a Ministry show. The pit did not appreciate it. 😂
"The Fall" is one of those songs that still gives me the chills after a hundred listens and 23 years later.
The fall? - осень..., почему?
Dude al Barker rules as song naker
Me too. I fucking love that song
My son and I love that song. Cool to see someone that feels the same as we do about that song.
@@RipRider916 Dude, I think you HAD a fall. And bumped your head 🤣🤣
Perfect timing dude!. Been on a Ministry kick myself lately.
I'm going to see them on tour with Slayer and Primus this fall
@@90thMeridian nice. if they come anywhere near buffalo, I will be too...
Imagine the interesting book reports killbot has probably done back in school
I once did a 700-page song report on the Entombed song “Left Hand Path”
Killbot&GorGorAttack!! Holy shit dude 700 pages?! You should be a reporter and educate more on Metal I mean you’re basically doing that already 🤟🏼
hahahaha
& he probably also got D's and E's for those honest reports. As I did.
Lay lady lay is an incredible cover.
Filth pig just has levels that just got me. It's a great album
'Dead Guy' is one of my top three favorites from Ministry. The other two songs might rotate, but 'Dead Guy' will always be one of the three.
My favourite studio album with them. It is solid from start to finish, no fillers at all.
Being a hardcore Ministry fan for well over 20 years now, I'm really loving these album reviews, you've got a knack for this, much appreciated, keep them coming please!
Wait till you get to over 30 years, this is hard to watch.
This album has grown on me, i was 17 in 1996 and i was horribly dissapointed when first listened to filth pig, although i would listen to Lay Lady Lay almost daily but the rest as came years later i cant see now how i wasnt in love with this album back then its genius and creepy and brilliant
One of their best. Heavy, doomy, dark, relentless and claustrophobic.
My favorite Ministry album by miles..I owned this on cassette 4 times. Made for great midnight ridge running over the years. The way the thickness of the album swallowed you up was the perfect soundtrack for travelling roads that were enveloped by the woods at night.
Great video, thanks for posting!
David Tuttle I feel ya. This is the only Ministry album I bought twice. I saw them play this whole album except LLL in 1997. Opening band was Atari Teenage Riot. Great show! I got punched in the face.
To this day, fp has been the only Ministry album that I've heard lol. It was the result of coincidence than intent because i bought the CD which was inside the case of another album that I wanted. No complaints here though since I instantly enjoyed it. Crazy to see how some people hated it.
If you've not already, go listen to The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste... it's a much better album. More dynamics, clearer samples, better engineering overall. Guitar riffs that really hook: th-cam.com/video/1GojD_iwcAM/w-d-xo.html
This was the album that got me into Ministry and still my favorite. Really opened up all kind of musical doors for me.
I initially hated Filth Pig but I kept jamming Reload - it had their patented Ministry feel. Slowly I'd let the CD continue to other tracks and exploring the CD. I learned to love Filth Pig, Lava, Dead Guy, The Fall and Crumbs. Then one day I was like "oh sht this is good album! Then I went to the Filth Pig tour where they played in a closed down supermarket. It wasn't a tall ceiling and the feel of intimacy. I recall the bass of Lava vibrating the skin on my face while the mosh pit moved that's when I embraced this album.
Fun fact when Al was recovering from having his toe amputated ( i believe thats is what he was recovering from), he said he woke up to Gibby Haynes saying "wanna smoke some crack?" Damn lol
Greg Kelly yuup, supposedly got bit by a tarantula and lost it
@@grandmaaero8004 I thought it was his arm?
@@PolarBear-rc4ks toe was amputated after stepping on a needle
My favorite album by Ministry for sure. Great video dude! \m/
From the day it was released, Filth Pig is my favorite Ministry album. Masterpiece.
Filth Pig was my introduction to this band back when the album was new and i was absolutely mesmerized by it. It still stands as one of my top 5 all-time albums. many albums rise up the list and slide back down over time but FP never slid.
Lava is one of the heaviest songs ever recorded in my opinion.
I go through periods where I get burnt out on Ministry, but I NEVER get tired of Lava or Eureka Pile.
Lay Lady Lay is my favourite cover of All! Time! 🖤
The "I never had a life. I don't even know what a life is". They sampled Charles Manson from an interview.
Necrobutcher said That you don't need to take LSD you can Just listen to Ministry.
Yup Al Barrker always rocks heavy music
Even better was to listen to ministry on LSD. Their set started just as my acid was kicking in at Lalapalooza. It was mesmerizing and terrifying and chaotic all at once. I remember standing there just perfectly still at one point while the crowd around me was a frenzy of hot sweaty insanity and just staring at the bizarre images flashing on the screens behind the band then Jourgensen looking like he was sliding sideways across the stage as if being pushed by the devil himself with bones hanging from his mic stand. Killer show and still the greatest concert overall I’ve ever seen. Best lineup ever.
It's my favourite Ministry album, so happy that you made a video about this! More videos like this in the future would be great. My favourite songs of the album are The Fall, Reload, Filth Pig and Lay Lady Lay, which is just magical and breathtaking. No other version conveys so many emotions. You can hear longing in Al's voice and this moment near the end when it's just guitar is perfect. There is live from 1994 where they're playing it in more traditional way
This is my favorite album ever! I remember when it was released and was shocked at how much it was disliked.
I didn’t like Filth Pig when it first came out, but I love it now. One of my favorites.
Hey Killbot \m/
I got Psalm 69. Now I need to get the rest. I feel really informed on them now 🤘🏻 Awesome video!
I got Filth Pig from Columbia House in highschool just based on the description, but considering I was big NIN fan and already liked industrial, I liked the album. Still come back to it from time to time, maybe ahead of its time.
This used to be my least favorite album by Ministry but it grew on me over the years. "The Fall" is my favorite song from it.
I can’t wait to see what you do for Animositisomina!!!
Lay Lady Lay is a fantastic cover - one of the best for any Dylan song
I always liked this album a lot. Of course it might not have been what anybody expected (or maybe even wanted), but I always appreciated it for what it was.
I guess you have convinced me to check out this album thanks man
After being a psalm 69 fan for so many years when i first heard filth pig it made me love ministry even more and cemented the genius of this band for me. The production quality of the filth pig album still unmatched to this day, and ive listened to it everyday for almost 30 years. 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Aw yeah
One of my favourite by Ministry. Very heavy and during a time everything coming out sounding like ministry this was just perfect. When I got it on cassette I thought it was warped as it was so slow. I turn the speed it up and it sounds good either way.
The piano on the fall is my favourite ministry moment ever.
A really underestimated album. It s their more experimental and doomish album yet
This is an incredible look into the world of Ministry!!! Love it, well done.
Thank you :)
Filth Pig was and still is my favorite Ministry record.
Dude loving the video essayish style of video you're going for keep up the good work
I bought this on cassette tape to listen to it on my walkman. I thought it kicked ass! Loved it. Still have the tape.
Loved Filth Pig when it came out. So sick
Filth Pig is one of my favorite ministry albums.
Lava was one beast of a song! I can't help but flash the metal horns and slowly bang my head whenever I hear the beat; it's just so boss.
That thump. “DMM DMM... DMM DMM...”
FILTH PIG is an important album for me. MINISTRY was my very first concert ever! I saw them on the SPINCTOUR back in 96 at the ELECTRIC FACTORY in Philly. The YOUNG GODS and FOETUS were the opening acts. It blew my mind and changed everything for me! After the show, I met Al and we hit it off. Over the years, me and Mom would call Chicago Trax and also send him cartoons (which he loved). Years later, we got to Party with him in his limo for his 44th Birthday. My late great Mother (R.I.P) also interviewed him, which is going in her book that I'm working on. FILTH PIG is such an underrated album. So, glad that you love and appreciate it as much as I do! Thanks for making these MINISTRY videos and giving them the credit they deserve!
Awesome story! And thank you. I have another Ministry video coming up on the Bush trilogy!
@@KillbotAndGorGorAttack You're welcome and thank you too! Hangin with Al is a trip! He played us Animositisomina before it was released. This was backstage at a KORN show, so I heard it for the first time with Munky of KORN. Fred Durst was there and we were playing air guitar to it lol. We all ended up getting shitfaced afterwards at the Supper Club in NYC. Btw that night of Al's Birthday, someone grabbed the A.I. skull off his cowboy hat, so that skull is somewhere out there. Can't wait for your next MINSTRY video! Keep up the great work! 🤘🤘
Sounds like a fun time
One of my favorite albums! Happy for the video. Thanks!
I remember seeing Ministry perform the song Filth Pig live in Dallas. It did not sound good and Al apologized for that. I was a bit taken back. That’s proof how much Ministry put into this album. It’s a masterpiece and I will always love it. Thanks Uncle Al
Still gets high replay value from me
I was totally in the loop when Ministry released psalm 69 and Filith Pig, graduated high school in 1992 , went to Lollapalooza 92 seeing Ministry for the First time up close 72 thousand people, Houston Tx., Epic!!! And yes was disappointed with Filth Pig at frist being slow and sluggish. But Filth Pig would age like fine Wine. Today almost 30 years later, Filth Pig is some of there best work, also I've discovered Ministry 1982 early work on TH-cam, a must listen to , very good 👍 👌 🤟🤟
The very first part of the song “Filth Pig” has that echoed cymbals or whatever that sound is, and then crushing crushing crushing guitar. Especially if you listen to the first song loud, then that noise becomes incredible foreboding. Crank that shit up, and own it. How the fuck do you sleep at night!!! When that album came out, I read Al saying that there were no samples or overdubs, just pure instrument playing. Huge. Crunch. Mean. Something you can identify with. Listen with caution. It could change your day, quickly.
I've been a Ministry fan since TLORAH and when P69 "blew up" I noticed a lot of people just kinda liking Ministry for the fad, mostly due to the heavy fast songs like "nwo" and "just one fix", that a lot of meatheads liked for the fast aggression. But, when FP came out, boy did those "hangers on" drop away fast. I loved it, but then again I love pretty much anything Al or Paul do. I felt like they purposefully made a 180 and refused to compromise their art once they got semi-famous, and in fact would dive even deeper into weirder but cooler sounds and styles. I'm over 40 now and still always listen to Ministry. One time my teenage son said to me when I was listening to them, "no one sounds like ministry hey dad? ..." that pretty much sums them up.
You hit the nail right on the head, man!! The risk you take when expanding your audience is having people listen to you who aren’t supposed to be listening to you... it’s like what Paul said somewhere in the Fix movie, “we know what our fans want, that’s why we won’t give it to them!” They made challenging albums at one time, its a shame they became so one-dimensional after 2003. Even if I do like Houses, was there really a need to make three albums about a president no ones gonna care about bashing ten years later?
@@KillbotAndGorGorAttack ya, basically after Paul left Al kinda just hopped back into that easily sell-able NWO/JOF sound, which dont get me wrong I still love, that whole Bush trilogy has its monumental songs, but I do miss the more electronic style Paul brings. And the BASS, Paul's basslines are just unmatched. Leper came on my mix today and wow...such a wicked bassline in that song. You dont hear that anymore in the new stuff. FP, DSOTS, and Animositisomina are not just my favorite ministry albums but they're some of my favorite albums period.
I make music myself, kinda all genres I grew up on mixed together, a lot of "ministryesque" sounding ones, here's a link if you feel like checking some out.
th-cam.com/video/1ZXZY1bHdIY/w-d-xo.html
Aww I just got out of high school when Filth Pig dropped .. Filth Pig and Melvins Houdini was the soundtrack to that summer ! And they still hold up
Thank you for writing! I enjoy hearing from people who were there
Filth Pig is one of my favorite albums of all time! It's got that different feel and pure heaviness!
Amazing - been on a major revisiting binge of Type O Negative lately... then I stumble across yr outstanding video for them... And now this? I swear I just got rehooked on it this year after not having listened to it in ages & must say it's like a fine wine. It's probably a combination of getting older & getting into slower forms of metal but shit this album is incredibly strong & seems to sound better over time. I absolutely love the Sphinctour DVD as well, some great performances of many of these songs on there. That inlay mushroom pic is very appopriate of Al to put in there too - perfect album to trip balls to ;) And that Fix documentary is also a great companion piece for this period, I enjoy the hell out that movie even tho I know it was destructive to all involved's health!
Thank you for this! I’ve been obsessed with this album since it came out
Just found your page, this is the content I've been looking for. I love the original short videos as well!
Why thank you! Welcome to the channel, plenty to enjoy
This is what I’m fucking talking about.
I always thought I heard a sax on Stigmata. Glad to hear I wasn't crazy.
Being a huge Ministry fan, I think my favorite song of all,"Useless" doesn't have Uncle Al on vocals but Paul Barker :) Cool channel man 👏
An absolute classic album
by far my favorite ministry album.
Amazing content, such passion and interest that it pours out of the screen. I hope one day you can fully sustain yourself by doing what you love because you're so unbelievably good at it
I have loved this album from the first. Great video
Every once in a while, I’ll put on the Sphinctour DVD. Great memories.
There’s something magical about the Hypo Luxa/Hermes Pan era of ministry.
Described perfectly to the "T", as how I viewed this album. One Ministry's best!
My favorite album by Ministry followed closely by Dark Side of the Spoon.
A real Ministry fan knows and expects for the sound to change.its been that way since the beginning
All my favorite bands evolve, a fine indicator they fucked off the music industry
Their last I dunno how many albums have sounded exactly the same though
They haven't changed since Psalm 69. They are just heavy metal now.
Filth Pig, Psalm 69 and Dark Side of the Spoon are among my favorite Ministry albums!
Filth Pig ... My favorite Ministry album!
Those 90's memories. It was always fun to browse the used record shop and pick another Ministry CD to add to the collection. Filth Pig I really liked from the get-go with its organic sound and real drums. Solid album with strong, distinct tracks.
I use “lava” and “filth pig” to test out new pairs of headphones, stereos, etc. if that bass sounds nasty? Its a winner
Great video Killbot! has me all the more exited for Slayer Primus and Ministry november 6th!!!!!!!
One of the best albums they created and one of the best albums ever
love your ministry videos sir!
Brilliant album , listened to this non stop when it came out . Still listening today . Happy days
It be so great if you made a video review and chronological homage to Ministry for each record...you are so great at this, Killbot...please do more Ministry vids...I love these 3 for what I feel are their best albums and can’t wait to see what you do next !!!
Great video dude. Well done 🖤
I got this record when it first came out. I listened to this all the time.
Sounds awesome! Perfect driving music
I never noticed the sax in Stigmata. That’s awesome!
Excellent video and review of a Ministry Classic. Love to see you do one on Dark Side of the Spoon!
I’d love to do that one, especially since that and Animositisomina are the two Ministry albums fans know the least about. But thats also the issue, since so little is known, I need to wait for Barker/Washam or someone to do some interview or book on those years so I can have something to work with.
Awesome album for sure. This and Mind are among my favorites. The crap Al's churning out now is not Ministry anymore, sadly.
You can say that again.
Not a fan of AmeriKKKant? I thought that one was pretty solid ngl
Great video!! Love Al!! Keep up the good work!!😎🎶🎶🎶
Very well done documentary.
this is a great video and you got me hooked on ministry. thought I would give the video a go as you said you spent a long time making it. Great job.
Great video! Filth Pig is my second favourite Ministry album and it is also among my favourite albums ever. I don't know why but Filth Pig is perfect on a rainy day for me.
From all his album I always come back to Filth Pig as you mention its slower but mature and well calculated I guess because I'm older and I have follow MINITRY since 1983 at comisky park in Chicago when they open for THE POLICE,A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS,JOAN JETT AND THE BLACK HEART, AND SIMPLE MIND.I HAVE SEEN ABOUT 10 TIMES BUT MY BROTHER SINCE I INTRODUCED HIM TO MINITRY HAS SEEN THEM MORE THEN 20 TIME.
Damn, really old school follower then! Sounds cool
I saw Ministry first time on their Filth Pig tour. Easily in my top 5 gigs ever. Love this album!
My favorite ministry album
Very informative and taking me way back. The way the sound changed and how I adapted is coming back strong as well as letting me know things I didn’t know at the time. (I was just wee lil’ teen, eh.) It’s fascinating to hear how hurried others were to get more of this sound, whereas with me I took my time. “Psalm 69” took some getting used to but hey, we had the time back then. With “Filth Pig” and me it was different. That took more time not just because the sound altered but I’d altered too, a lot of things changed from 1992-1996. I love the bit in the book there about him not wanting to maintain the same thing. Ministry seems to be all about change, and letting things roll to see where they go. That’s admirable!
Plus just looking back at those two-toned computer screens! No kidding it’s about changing constantly when you see those things. Love the bit of using the CD itself to mirror the album cover! Oh, finally “Lava”. I think that was my first love on this album. I was fond of the cover “Lay Lady Lay” and that they were covering anything! I need to listen to this album again, but I knew I’d want to when I watched this. Muchos gracias!
For some reason this album is the one i always come back too the most out of any of there catalog,bought it the day it came.out and its still fresh too listen too today
I had a pre release version of this album about a year before it actually released and the only real difference is some post production noise and a few edits. A clasic always.
I'm sad to say that I was one of many who didn't understand what the album was trying to do at the time. I like the songs a lot better as I've aged.
It took me by suprise when it came out, but I loved it & still listen do it frequently.
This has become one of my favorite albums
Very well put, it's an amazing album.
Enjoyed this 🤘great job🤘
Really good video, man! I love these documentary-style informative videos, you're really good at making them!
Dead Guy is grunge sludge...definitely helmet vibe...god I love it.
I love this Album, I also like there heavier stuff. This album was the first I bought when I was 15. I like all the different versions of Ministry even With Sympathy. Look up “Same Old Madness” by Ministry very new wave from the With Sympathy days.
Good job with the review. Its my favorite album from Ministry.