I am so fortunate for having discovered Ministry early in the mid-80’s. I had discovered a few others prior (Puppy, 242, etc) and it set off an obsession with the Wax Trax, Play It Again Sam catalog. It was such a central aspect of my teens, 20’s, and to some degree still is today even though I am a corporate exec. There was s this recent interview with Strombo, where Al says he is waiting for the kids that listen to his music all these years to become leaders and take heed to some of his message so they’ll be better influences in the world. Well, we’re here . I carry an edge and counterculture mentality with me every day even though on the face, I look like a sell out. Al to this day will say there isn’t anything wrong with money, the problem is with greed. Nothing wrong with getting on with others and fitting in as long as you don’t trade off your identity in the process. Great to hear from people who were late to the party. Just imagine had you found it when you were highly impressionable.
Me too, I did not know how to react to Land of Rape and Honey and then The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste. Had to get Psalm 69 but I think The Mind is still my favorite. Hell I was listening to Depeche Mode and XTC so my mind got bend fast. Skinny Puppy got me into NIN.
I am the biggest Bill Burr fan and had no idea he went hard. Seeing Ministry in November in S. Dakota with Slayer, Phil Anselmo and Primus. tripkhaos you have good taste in music and comedy.
yes. and the most played to death VHS tape you own, no? Jello is in there, they have two drummers like... who the fuck does that other than Grateful Dead? Chain link fence and.... it's almost as good as Oscar Butterworth in Neil Young's Unplugged.
I was listening to Ministry at 12. Thanks to a older sibling and a friends older sibling that was in a industrial band. Also, skateboarding opened new musical doors for me. Bill is great. And, this was great to hear.
Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, a ministry side project with former minor threat and fugazi front man ian mcckaye called Pailhead. You also had a more electronic side project called Acid Horse as well as awesome stuff that is almost as old as ministry, The Revolting Cocks. Pigface also started out in the late 80s which featured all the greats at the time, from Skinny Puppy to KMFDM to Ministry to NIN and threw them all together in a hodge podge of industrial rock music. I was one of those fortunate had an older brother steeped in the new wave scene. He was born in '67 and me in '74. Check out 80's Chicago Wax Trax...that's where most of this flourished.
+Jason Williams i was too young to catch it at the beginning, but I got on to FLA, Ministry and NIN in the mid 90s. Only later did I come to appreciate the genius that is Skinny Puppy.
therein lies the poetry tho, opening yourself to those lyrics breathes a deeper understanding...I try at my best to mimic that in the music I wish to produce. At my worst: parrot. For me, personally it took psychedelics to finally give myself over, that was 20 years ago and now in my 40s it still lingers and resonates.
Al got most of his ideas and even tried to copy a lot of the techniques when he sat in the studio on the early (EBM pioneers from Belgium) Front242 stuff, yes he was also a big fan of SkinnyPuppy. Although no connection, FLA and Cubanate I found as superior in the musical sense, not so much in story telling.. but then Al was always like a grandpa anyway, so..
Bill Burr just ranked up in my opinion. Imagine discovering a band like Ministry or Skinny Puppy later in life and being like ..Wow! There must be so much more beneath the surface of what is spoon feed to as and called music! He's a funny guy and you should give Bill's stand up a listen after you listen to Ministry of course ;)
@@vsander09 i dont disagree but i do beg to differ well shit the land of rape of honey,the mind is a terrible thing to waste and psalm 69 are all legendary and influential albums and way ahead of its time even filth pig is a decent album it turned a few people away from ministry because it was different from his other work
Madly under rated, I've been blown away by how many people I would never expect to like Ministry, and they love Psalm 69! Certainly helps that bands like Rammstein asolutely take heavy influence from that era of Ministry. While the rest of the metal "scene" is intent on trying to drop tune below 0hZ, bands like that knew a fucking great guitar tone when they heard Just One Fix!
Love this band and everything Al touched. I was the perfect age to appreciate this when it was new. I'm with you Strange Tamer, Filth Pig was a good one!
Billy, you are awesome! I was the youngest and I was way into Ministry. I've met Al a few times (he's crazy) but the music is right on and so are you. Better to get to the party late than not at all. Cheers!
I met Al one time in Toronto on the tour that became the video In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up. Madman jumping on desks…. The bass player was nice ….
Interesting. I thought I was out of the loop on music in the 80’s. I listened to everything from Ministry, Dead Kennedy’s to Whitney Houston, Stray Cat’s, The Cure to my personal favorite band of all time 10k Maniacs. Crazy!
I just got that book. Lost Gospels? Dude AL is kick ass. When Keith Richards was downstairs and AL was too spaced out and told them to get out not realizing one of his idols was downstairs playing pool. Plus Gibby.
I was around 12 in 1980 and I was the eldest of my siblings and my parents were uptight religious fanatics and my refuge was listening to BAUHAUS, SIOUXSIE & The BANSHEES, P.I.L., THE CHAMELEONS, and so much more awesome music. Bill Burr was just not up on the good music when he was 12. No excuses. LOL Living in California in 1980 I also listened to X, DEAD KENNEDYS, BLACK FLAG, and other great punk bands.
I got into Ministry because of a Kirk Hammet mention of them in a Much Music interview in 88 and they played a clip from Stigmata. I went out a searched hard to find the album and it is still my fave song on the album. Uncle Al is just being a knob about it cuz it's popular
I had no cool older siblings, BUT since back in the day MTV had shows like Headbanger's Ball and 120 Minutes and Alternative Nation, so I got introduced to awesome music while a kid in the eighties and nineties. Al is a genius, not many like him.
I transport cars on occasion with my neighbor, it's his transport business. We take turns driving and when I drive late at night Ministry and Bill Burr are my staples to help keep me awake.
Ministry - "Psalm 69" (1992) - best album ever. Buy it now, friend for life. The riff in "Just One Fix" is worth it alone, especially after the break 3/4 of the way in. A band WAY before their time, that started the genre known as industrial, w/ their album "The Land of Rape and Honey" in ....86(?) I believe. I call them the trilogy albums, "Land/Honey", "The Mind is a Terrible thing to Taste", & "Psalm 69". Also, "No W" is the "sequel" to NWO very much worth checking out. Video as well. Uncle Al should have some amazing material coming out soon, now that DT is Pres. like he said, "We only write good albums when a republican's in office" lol. And with that, he's currently in the studio for most of this year. (2017) 🤘🏼
I found out about this stuff without a sibling, those cd/record shops in the west village NYC had whole sections of this stuff. The goth clubs played some of this stuff for its industrial side. I would ask the DJ what they just played all the time. Great stuff.
I'm glad my friends and I were always on the hunt for something better. Sure Crue was fun, but at a very young age in the 80's and early 90's we had a all kinds of good albums kicking. From New Order, and Cure to Death, and Carcass. So my little brother who is 14 yrs younger grew up with full access to good stuff.
Check out their band "Lead Into Gold" and "Pail Head".. good shit! When your done with those two.. check out their band "LARD", particularly the song, Generation Execute.. Enjoy!
My god, so much good music from the 70’s, 80’s & 90’s that so few know about, that get no recognition or airplay: Nazareth, no mean city. The Gaza Strippers. The Didjits. The Meteors. Revolting Cocks. P. Paul Fenech. The Supersuckers. ...& yeah, Ministry too! Start digging & you’ll find a grip of good stuff!
Stigmata was part of the soundtrack of a cult movie from 1990 named Hardware. Must’ve been my first Ministry song as well. Second song was Thieves. My fascination with Ministry ended with Filth Pig.
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I've never been a metal fan, but I love industrial, and particularly Ministry. The MInd is a Terrible Thing to Taste, Psalm 69 and Filth Pig are brilliant and have been on heavy rotation for decades. I'm a little scared to read his book, though. I like my heroes to be shrouded in mystery.
I just saw them last week in Cleveland. They played Stigmata. If he still hates the song then I'm glad he decides to play it. Granted, they were playing a bunch of stuff off of The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste. They did a bunch of side project stuff too, like Pailhead and 1000 Homo DJs.
Al is one of a kind. First met him in 83 or 84 in Dallas. I saw him play there on accident( was going to see another band).... and I was so mesmerized. I loved the music. Al never gets the credit he deserves. He and Wax Trax started a movement. There wouldn’t be a NIN or Pantera ( I went to high school with those guys) without Al. I believe Trent got his bands name from what Al said. He’s got all these wonderful and freaking crazy stories.... and I believe they’re all true.... just don’t get him talking about politics!
Similarly fantastic books: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell - Manson, Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good - Taylor, and Kitchen Confidential - Bourdain. Yes, the last one is a book by a Chef, but if you read it you will understand why it's on the list.
> The Ministry Album was the Best - - - I still play it quite a lot - - - - Now he is too con concerned with what he looks like more than what his music sounds like - - - and he look much better back then as well - - -- I miss the music they use to create - - - now It is just angry noise - -
Skinny Puppy! Mudhoney! Einstruzende Neubauten! Nick Cave! Misfits! (E.N. is Nick Cave's back up band) Black Flag! They were all great shows. Have E.N.'s logo (halber mensch) on my forearm and just found out so does Mr. Al. I think Mr. Rollins does as well. ♡ oh.. Blood for Blood. They rock. A little later tho. Mindless Self Indulgence is great.. late 90's tho. .. ooh No Control by Bad Religion. Have tickets to see Ministry in San Diego in a few days. Can't wait. Oh... anything by The Pixies..
Every Nine Inch Nails album ever. Especially the Fragile and Downward Spiral
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I love NIN, but always preferred Ministry because Reznor was always a bit too self-pitying for my taste. He was all "Fuck me, life is horrible." whereas Ministry's attitude was "The world is horrible. FUCK YOU."
I had been a fan in the 80's and saw them on the land of rape and honey tour and the mind is a terrible thing to taste. just had no idea al was on heroin plus. a genius is all I can say about him. his influence or creation really of that genre of music was so unique I am still baffled at how good he was/is. I hadn't thought about them for years but got into a conversation about wax Trax and it just got me listening again. mind u I'm 45 but can still appreciate it. cheers to your discovery!
Al has a new band called surgical meth machine. As far as 2016 bands that are out right now, nuclear blast seems to be the label that has probabily the best metal. Hands down between them and metal blade. A lot of other label for metal in the industry doesn't compare.
I was lucky. I lived in a small town in Utah and still got exposed to all of the good stuff. Skinny Puppy, KMFDM, Front242, Nitzer Ebb, NIN Pigface etc, etc. But ya... I had a couple older sisters that helped me out but they were mostly into new wave type stuff New Order, Midnight oil, Depeche Mode etc. But they pointed me in the right direction. Thasher Magazine did help a little.
Jason Bock Brigham. It was a great town to get into this type of music as they had a suicide epidemic during that time so severe that 20/20 or 60 min. or some shit did a show on it.
***** lol That must have been interesting. I moved to St. George in 1991. the town was more than twice the size of Brigham but still so isolated that nearly no one had heard of any of the music me and my sister listened to. At least in Brigham you could pick up KJQ out of Ogden if you tried hard enough. We were like outcasts there. Then I got sent to the bad kids school and made some friends. I knew a guy that grew up in Kanab in the 70's and said he'd go to school dressed like Paul Revere & The Raiders and get the shit kicked out of him for it.
I dont like everything Bill Burr is saying but half of his stuff is pretty on point, like having an older brother who dumps all this good music on you. This was exactly our situation in 1990 where we had 2 older brothers from our crew and would make us tapes with ministry, lard, nomeansno, victims family, etc, etc... listening to this i realise i took this for a given and could have missed alot of it.
+David TD no, it's called "Cooking in the Ministry- Hot Dogs and Organic Buns and the Death that Consumes 1990's Industrial Music: A Cookbook of Nihilism".
Hank Cuntpunt it's called Ministry: The Lost Gospels According To Al Jourgensen. Take some of it with a grain of salt because as wild as it seems some of it is probably pretty exaggerated. There's also a documentary called Fix which isn't that great but it's something to compare stories to along with the superior (imo) 'Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible & Fried: My Life as a Revolting Cock' by Chris Connelly. It's pretty funny and serves as a counter-point to some of Al's claims about him (Al's book came out after).
im a huge fan of bill burr's so this was cool finding out that he too is just now getting involved with ministry. Im actually having a hard time getting into them. Im a big fan of all types of rock and metal and i love nine inch nails. From what ive gathered, there wouldnt be a nin without ministry. But every song i hear of ministry just seems to be repetitive. i need a good die hard ministry fan to throw me some good tunes. i kinda like " jesus built my hot rod" "just one fix" and "stigmata."
Sum of ministry is repetitive & thats part of what makes it unique....then there's stuff that's like prof Rick industrial goth....it's pretty groovy stuff yo....I meditate & trance out to a few Ministry records::::: Mind is Terrible Thing Taste & Land of Rape & Honey....Filth Pig & Dark Side have similar effect on me too!!
Oh man...... I grew up post punk prime...... I was thrash generation .....the last month I've been listening to old punk..... I know half the songs as covers by bands like sepultura and slayer and pantera........etc etc etc....... it was kind of weird but of course awesome.... the circle jerks are my current favorite band
Theres a lot of great stuff Bill could stand to give a chance. Some of the butthole surfers' stuff is really lit, too ...as is the Reverend Horton Heat
I thought I was the only one wondering how Land of Rape and Honey managed to pass without becoming a smash hit at the time. Been listening to Ministry for little over a year. Daily staple.
Try Big Black’s Atomizer from 1986. I listened to shitty music for most of the 80s too, but I was born when Jimmy Carter was still in office. Pretty much just hip hop, Weird Al, and oldies ‘87-‘93. Some of it’s almost as embarrassing as Poison in retrospect.
i was 5 in 1980 and i got Ministry in about '86/87... and '87 was the first year i went to a gig - Bowie in Slane, as a 12yr old. you were just being punished by the 'powers that be' for ever thinking motley crue were good
Al Jourgensen is so underrated as an intelligent man. His music is great. However, his perspectives are so insightful. I agree...his music is amazing. He lives his life to the fullest and who can blame him. With that much fame and influence, a person will do some wild things. But, his political views are on point.
I don't think al is underated as an intelligent guy. Most everyone that knows of him knows he's highly intelligent. It's just intelligent on a drugged out his own terms calls it like he sees it stage is all. I think it's absolutely great that he couldn't make music unless he was totally whacked out on dope and booze. Where on the flip side there's a ton of musicians that can't produce good music anymore because the dope and booze stole their creativity. That guy from the eurythmics was another one like AL. Every single one of their songs was made while on LSD. Fact.
I read the Chris Connelly book i really liked it but after reading Als book, hmm he paints such a different pitcher as to Chris's involvement . Calling him part of the "Book Club" etc, and addict for show. I would say there both good reads but you have to kinda read both and some wear in there is the truth. I would like to read a Paul Barker book.
Jeff Bayard it's not that far fetched. if you strip away the production and arrangement style you often get some really simple blues metal riffs - one note shit like zz top and some of zepp. just pick up a guitar and play the riffs and forget it's "ministry". arrangement and delivery counts for so much in music... it's like people always think i'm nuts when i say billy idol is basically jim morrison with coked up 80s production. if i sing the shit to them and maybe slightly alter it to more jim's style people go "oh, so that's billy idol not the doors?". true story. there's literally tons of weird connections like that in music where you don't hear it unless you really point it out.
I still think Al is full of shit, but I see your point. Afterall, I'm probably the only one who hears the similarity between Zeppelin's "Going To California" and Charles Manson's "Bet You Think I Care."
I always say the same thing when I listen to Bill.. Every fucking thing he says is exactly what I'm thinking.. Even in his video about Al and Ministry.. The only thing I don't agree with him is on Motley Crew and Poison. I fucking hate those bands LOL
This is surreal, like world colliding. My favorite comedian talking about one of my favorite bands.
I am so fortunate for having discovered Ministry early in the mid-80’s. I had discovered a few others prior (Puppy, 242, etc) and it set off an obsession with the Wax Trax, Play It Again Sam catalog. It was such a central aspect of my teens, 20’s, and to some degree still is today even though I am a corporate exec. There was s this recent interview with Strombo, where Al says he is waiting for the kids that listen to his music all these years to become leaders and take heed to some of his message so they’ll be better influences in the world. Well, we’re here . I carry an edge and counterculture mentality with me every day even though on the face, I look like a sell out. Al to this day will say there isn’t anything wrong with money, the problem is with greed. Nothing wrong with getting on with others and fitting in as long as you don’t trade off your identity in the process. Great to hear from people who were late to the party. Just imagine had you found it when you were highly impressionable.
Me too, I did not know how to react to Land of Rape and Honey and then The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste. Had to get Psalm 69 but I think The Mind is still my favorite. Hell I was listening to Depeche Mode and XTC so my mind got bend fast. Skinny Puppy got me into NIN.
Yeah...was cool to see him tell Alex Jones that he's a libertarian... great lyrics on the 1000 Homo DJs album, too
I love Bill Burr even more now, which i didnt think was possible. Who would think he digs Ministry?
tripchaos My thoughts exactly
Every hard rock/metal drummer I've ever met has either liked or loved Ministry. No surprise that ol' Billy Drumsticks is a fan.
I am the biggest Bill Burr fan and had no idea he went hard. Seeing Ministry in November in S. Dakota with Slayer, Phil Anselmo and Primus. tripkhaos you have good taste in music and comedy.
Every Rose has its thorn . Izzle
He’s just got good taste!👍
"In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up" is one of the best live albums in my collection...check it out
The live video is here on youtube until it gets pulled down, I've lost track of the number of times I watched it, it's timeless
Yes!
The dual drummers was cool. That stage was like a who’s who of NoWave, punk, and industrial groups of the time.
yes. and the most played to death VHS tape you own, no? Jello is in there, they have two drummers like... who the fuck does that other than Grateful Dead? Chain link fence and.... it's almost as good as Oscar Butterworth in Neil Young's Unplugged.
Unequivocally.
"In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up" is the greatest live recording ever. Period.
F’ing agreed….. Even better is the DVD Version which has 2 extra songs, the 1st one being “Breathe.” My go to work-out audio.
I love Sphinctour just a little more
both In Case... and Sphinctour are fucking phenomenal live albums
@@brettmckenzie900 it ain’t dead yet skinny puppy video is my favourite. I was there too
You God Damned Son of a Bitch by Revco was pretty insane too
I was listening to Ministry at 12. Thanks to a older sibling and a friends older sibling that was in a industrial band. Also, skateboarding opened new musical doors for me. Bill is great. And, this was great to hear.
Hearing Bill talk about how he’s found this music after all these years warms my heart.
Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, a ministry side project with former minor threat and fugazi front man ian mcckaye called Pailhead. You also had a more electronic side project called Acid Horse as well as awesome stuff that is almost as old as ministry, The Revolting Cocks. Pigface also started out in the late 80s which featured all the greats at the time, from Skinny Puppy to KMFDM to Ministry to NIN and threw them all together in a hodge podge of industrial rock music. I was one of those fortunate had an older brother steeped in the new wave scene. He was born in '67 and me in '74. Check out 80's Chicago Wax Trax...that's where most of this flourished.
+Jason Williams the waxx trax black box set is a great comprehensive look into 80s and early 90s industrial.
+Jason Williams i was too young to catch it at the beginning, but I got on to FLA, Ministry and NIN in the mid 90s. Only later did I come to appreciate the genius that is Skinny Puppy.
therein lies the poetry tho, opening yourself to those lyrics breathes a deeper understanding...I try at my best to mimic that in the music I wish to produce. At my worst: parrot. For me, personally it took psychedelics to finally give myself over, that was 20 years ago and now in my 40s it still lingers and resonates.
Well written, Bub!
Al got most of his ideas and even tried to copy a lot of the techniques when he sat in the studio on the early (EBM pioneers from Belgium) Front242 stuff, yes he was also a big fan of SkinnyPuppy. Although no connection, FLA and Cubanate I found as superior in the musical sense, not so much in story telling.. but then Al was always like a grandpa anyway, so..
great book, just finished. Ministry was my favorite band when I was an acid dropping teenager. Land Of Rape And Honey is 10/10.
Bill nailed it. My older sister got me in to this stuff when I was as young as ten years old.
Bill Burr just ranked up in my opinion. Imagine discovering a band like Ministry or Skinny Puppy later in life and being like ..Wow! There must be so much more beneath the surface of what is spoon feed to as and called music! He's a funny guy and you should give Bill's stand up a listen after you listen to Ministry of course ;)
Psalm 69 is a really good Ministry album, especially if you're coming from a metal background.
Mind... is better though
@The Hooded Claw Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste is the best Ministry album. Never gets old and there's new shit you catch every time you listen.
You're all wrong. Filth Pig is ministry's best album
@@vsander09 i dont disagree but i do beg to differ well shit the land of rape of honey,the mind is a terrible thing to waste and psalm 69 are all legendary and influential albums and way ahead of its time even filth pig is a decent album it turned a few people away from ministry because it was different from his other work
Madly under rated, I've been blown away by how many people I would never expect to like Ministry, and they love Psalm 69! Certainly helps that bands like Rammstein asolutely take heavy influence from that era of Ministry. While the rest of the metal "scene" is intent on trying to drop tune below 0hZ, bands like that knew a fucking great guitar tone when they heard Just One Fix!
Love this band and everything Al touched. I was the perfect age to appreciate this when it was new. I'm with you Strange Tamer, Filth Pig was a good one!
That's exactly what I meant when I said "everything he touched"
Billy, you are awesome! I was the youngest and I was way into Ministry. I've met Al a few times (he's crazy) but the music is right on and so are you. Better to get to the party late than not at all. Cheers!
I met Al one time in Toronto on the tour that became the video In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up.
Madman jumping on desks….
The bass player was nice ….
Big Ministry fan, i'd recommend Killing Joke, Big Black, Jesus Lizard, Cop Shoot Cop, Foetus
Killing Joke are totally f**king unimpeachable.
Throbbing Gristle, Severed Head, PIGFACE, Revolting Cocks, etc
Blood for Blood?
@@soundgardener4940 love yr name!
Foetus (JG Thirlwell) is a fucking genius.
Interesting. I thought I was out of the loop on music in the 80’s. I listened to everything from Ministry, Dead Kennedy’s to Whitney Houston, Stray Cat’s, The Cure to my personal favorite band of all time 10k Maniacs. Crazy!
I just got that book. Lost Gospels? Dude AL is kick ass. When Keith Richards was downstairs and AL was too spaced out and told them to get out not realizing one of his idols was downstairs playing pool. Plus Gibby.
It's a blast to read! Got my copy signed by Al ♡
I was around 12 in 1980 and I was the eldest of my siblings and my parents were uptight religious fanatics and my refuge was listening to BAUHAUS, SIOUXSIE & The BANSHEES, P.I.L., THE CHAMELEONS, and so much more awesome music. Bill Burr was just not up on the good music when he was 12. No excuses. LOL
Living in California in 1980 I also listened to X, DEAD KENNEDYS, BLACK FLAG, and other great punk bands.
I got into Ministry because of a Kirk Hammet mention of them in a Much Music interview in 88 and they played a clip from Stigmata. I went out a searched hard to find the album and it is still my fave song on the album. Uncle Al is just being a knob about it cuz it's popular
Same, stigmata is a bop
2 of my favourite people!
I had no cool older siblings, BUT since back in the day MTV had shows like Headbanger's Ball and 120 Minutes and Alternative Nation, so I got introduced to awesome music while a kid in the eighties and nineties. Al is a genius, not many like him.
I transport cars on occasion with my neighbor, it's his transport business. We take turns driving and when I drive late at night Ministry and Bill Burr are my staples to help keep me awake.
Ministry - "Psalm 69" (1992) - best album ever. Buy it now, friend for life. The riff in "Just One Fix" is worth it alone, especially after the break 3/4 of the way in. A band WAY before their time, that started the genre known as industrial, w/ their album "The Land of Rape and Honey" in ....86(?) I believe. I call them the trilogy albums, "Land/Honey", "The Mind is a Terrible thing to Taste", & "Psalm 69". Also, "No W" is the "sequel" to NWO very much worth checking out. Video as well. Uncle Al should have some amazing material coming out soon, now that DT is Pres. like he said, "We only write good albums when a republican's in office" lol. And with that, he's currently in the studio for most of this year. (2017) 🤘🏼
As influential as Ministry is, they did not start Industrial as a genre. TG did a decade earlier.
RIP mikey scaccia lord of riffology, live on in the underworld, big brother we love you
Thats one of my all time favorite albums.
Stigmata is my favorite too,..one of my favorites.. It's actually more industrial with a guitar part over it
Al is a legend
M is for Ministry f-ing rules!
F is for family is a kick ass show!
This planet owes Al Jourgensen fucking everything!!
Saw an interview with Dino Cazares from fear factory mention ministry as one of his influences and thought I’d check them out. Now i love ministry
I found out about this stuff without a sibling, those cd/record shops in the west village NYC had whole sections of this stuff. The goth clubs played some of this stuff for its industrial side. I would ask the DJ what they just played all the time. Great stuff.
I was there.
Ministry OWNED Lollapalooza
You wanna see good 80's bands? Just go check out the 1st two Lollapalooza lineups. SUCH talent.
I'm glad my friends and I were always on the hunt for something better. Sure Crue was fun, but at a very young age in the 80's and early 90's we had a all kinds of good albums kicking. From New Order, and Cure to Death, and Carcass. So my little brother who is 14 yrs younger grew up with full access to good stuff.
Bill burr jumped up many points in my opinion of him. I had no idea al wrote a book, I want it.
Stigmata was one of my fav mosh songs.
Check out their band "Lead Into Gold" and "Pail Head".. good shit!
When your done with those two.. check out their band "LARD", particularly the song, Generation Execute..
Enjoy!
NAUresistance Acid Horse and PTP are also great... maybe even better depending on what era/style of Ministry you like.
I was looking in the comments section for someone to mention Lard. They're the shit.
My god, so much good music from the 70’s, 80’s & 90’s that so few know about, that get no recognition or airplay:
Nazareth, no mean city.
The Gaza Strippers.
The Didjits.
The Meteors.
Revolting Cocks.
P. Paul Fenech.
The Supersuckers.
...& yeah, Ministry too!
Start digging & you’ll find a grip of good stuff!
Stigmata is what turned me on to Ministry.
Best song ever played in a club.
Stigmata was part of the soundtrack of a cult movie from 1990 named Hardware. Must’ve been my first Ministry song as well. Second song was Thieves. My fascination with Ministry ended with Filth Pig.
I've never been a metal fan, but I love industrial, and particularly Ministry. The MInd is a Terrible Thing to Taste, Psalm 69 and Filth Pig are brilliant and have been on heavy rotation for decades.
I'm a little scared to read his book, though. I like my heroes to be shrouded in mystery.
Just one fix best Ministry song
I just saw them last week in Cleveland. They played Stigmata. If he still hates the song then I'm glad he decides to play it. Granted, they were playing a bunch of stuff off of The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste. They did a bunch of side project stuff too, like Pailhead and 1000 Homo DJs.
awesome, I startled listening to these guys when I was like 10 not motely cru lol
Al is this generations Keith Richards and Lemmy all rolled into one.
Word!
In the 80s, I listened to Raffi and Barry Louis Polisar and the soundtracks of Sesame Street, Rainbow Brite, and Care Bears. So hardc0re.
Stigmata is one of my favorites too lol.
Al is one of a kind. First met him in 83 or 84 in Dallas. I saw him play there on accident( was going to see another band).... and I was so mesmerized. I loved the music. Al never gets the credit he deserves. He and Wax Trax started a movement. There wouldn’t be a NIN or Pantera ( I went to high school with those guys) without Al. I believe Trent got his bands name from what Al said. He’s got all these wonderful and freaking crazy stories.... and I believe they’re all true.... just don’t get him talking about politics!
my big sister got me into ministry early - hell yeah!
This makes me so happy my 2 worlds colliding
Bill Burr was on Opie and Anthony with Al Jourgensen and Rogan. Hilarious interview. Jourgensen is hilarious
Sisters of Mercy.... listen to Amphetamine Logic Bill Burr
Lots of people love to shit on Al, but he's definitely a legend and we're so lucky he's still around being a crotchety old guy.
I love Duran Duran!
Similarly fantastic books:
The Long Hard Road Out of Hell - Manson, Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good - Taylor, and Kitchen Confidential - Bourdain. Yes, the last one is a book by a Chef, but if you read it you will understand why it's on the list.
> The Ministry Album was the Best - - - I still play it quite a lot - - - - Now he is too con concerned with what he looks like more than what his music sounds like - - - and he look much better back then as well - - -- I miss the music they use to create - - - now It is just angry noise - -
Proof that confessing to listening to the 80s metal radio shit when you could have been listening to something good-it's cleansing for the soul!
Skinny Puppy! Mudhoney! Einstruzende Neubauten! Nick Cave! Misfits! (E.N. is Nick Cave's back up band) Black Flag! They were all great shows. Have E.N.'s logo (halber mensch) on my forearm and just found out so does Mr. Al. I think Mr. Rollins does as well. ♡ oh.. Blood for Blood. They rock. A little later tho. Mindless Self Indulgence is great.. late 90's tho. .. ooh No Control by Bad Religion. Have tickets to see Ministry in San Diego in a few days. Can't wait. Oh... anything by The Pixies..
bill burr is the man never new he was a metal head and he like the fucking best band
Every Nine Inch Nails album ever. Especially the Fragile and Downward Spiral
I love NIN, but always preferred Ministry because Reznor was always a bit too self-pitying for my taste. He was all "Fuck me, life is horrible." whereas Ministry's attitude was "The world is horrible. FUCK YOU."
Waxtrax, netwerk and cleopatra are great record label that have great music..
I had been a fan in the 80's and saw them on the land of rape and honey tour and the mind is a terrible thing to taste. just had no idea al was on heroin plus. a genius is all I can say about him. his influence or creation really of that genre of music was so unique I am still baffled at how good he was/is. I hadn't thought about them for years but got into a conversation about wax Trax and it just got me listening again. mind u I'm 45 but can still appreciate it. cheers to your discovery!
Bill should check out the Replacements, Godflesh, old Soul Asylum, Fudge tunnel, and nailbomb to name a few.
Replacements just really sucked. I'm sorry.
biodot88 Let It Be is pretty fuckin' good though.
Al has a new band called surgical meth machine. As far as 2016 bands that are out right now, nuclear blast seems to be the label that has probabily the best metal. Hands down between them and metal blade. A lot of other label for metal in the industry doesn't compare.
I was lucky. I lived in a small town in Utah and still got exposed to all of the good stuff. Skinny Puppy, KMFDM, Front242, Nitzer Ebb, NIN Pigface etc, etc. But ya... I had a couple older sisters that helped me out but they were mostly into new wave type stuff New Order, Midnight oil, Depeche Mode etc. But they pointed me in the right direction. Thasher Magazine did help a little.
Einsturzende Neubauten??
BRYONMU
Nope. haven't heard of them till now. Thanks. Sounds like John Lydon singing in German.
what town? I live in Lehi
Jason Bock
Brigham. It was a great town to get into this type of music as they had a suicide epidemic during that time so severe that 20/20 or 60 min. or some shit did a show on it.
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lol That must have been interesting. I moved to St. George in 1991. the town was more than twice the size of Brigham but still so isolated that nearly no one had heard of any of the music me and my sister listened to. At least in Brigham you could pick up KJQ out of Ogden if you tried hard enough. We were like outcasts there. Then I got sent to the bad kids school and made some friends.
I knew a guy that grew up in Kanab in the 70's and said he'd go to school dressed like Paul Revere & The Raiders and get the shit kicked out of him for it.
I wondering if the fact that Stigmata (song and video) was featured in a Miami Vice episode has anything to do with Al's disdain for it.
I dont like everything Bill Burr is saying but half of his stuff is pretty on point, like having an older brother who dumps all this good music on you. This was exactly our situation in 1990 where we had 2 older brothers from our crew and would make us tapes with ministry, lard, nomeansno, victims family, etc, etc... listening to this i realise i took this for a given and could have missed alot of it.
Bill burr likes Ministry? Fuck yeah!
I've been a Ministry fan since 12 inch singles.whats the book title?
+David TD no, it's called "Cooking in the Ministry- Hot Dogs and Organic Buns and the Death that Consumes 1990's Industrial Music: A Cookbook of Nihilism".
Hank Cuntpunt it's called Ministry: The Lost Gospels According To Al Jourgensen. Take some of it with a grain of salt because as wild as it seems some of it is probably pretty exaggerated. There's also a documentary called Fix which isn't that great but it's something to compare stories to along with the superior (imo) 'Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible & Fried: My Life as a Revolting Cock' by Chris Connelly. It's pretty funny and serves as a counter-point to some of Al's claims about him (Al's book came out after).
Mark Grant I figured the partying might be legitimate but I don't party that hard anyway lol
The 12" single of "Jesus Built My Hotrod" (aka the Redline/Whiteline version) blows the album version out of the fucking water.
Everything ministry put out was great.
im a huge fan of bill burr's so this was cool finding out that he too is just now getting involved with ministry. Im actually having a hard time getting into them. Im a big fan of all types of rock and metal and i love nine inch nails. From what ive gathered, there wouldnt be a nin without ministry. But every song i hear of ministry just seems to be repetitive. i need a good die hard ministry fan to throw me some good tunes. i kinda like " jesus built my hot rod" "just one fix" and "stigmata."
Thieves, Burning Inside and So What
Sum of ministry is repetitive & thats part of what makes it unique....then there's stuff that's like prof Rick industrial goth....it's pretty groovy stuff yo....I meditate & trance out to a few Ministry records::::: Mind is Terrible Thing Taste & Land of Rape & Honey....Filth Pig & Dark Side have similar effect on me too!!
You know what will been fucking amazing if and al jourgensen and gg allin met now that a book to read
did he ever hear Skinny Puppy too? even more bizarre
Good call.
*nods*
adj789 Better Canadian Icon than Nickelback.
the shitting blood story in the beginning had got me hooked. ridiculous story
I wish I made choices that led to Al's royalties
Fraont Line Assembly and Psychopomps
Peace :)
Oh man...... I grew up post punk prime...... I was thrash generation
.....the last month I've been listening to old punk..... I know half the songs as covers by bands like sepultura and slayer and pantera........etc etc etc....... it was kind of weird but of course awesome.... the circle jerks are my current favorite band
Al "I was pickled" Jourgensen
I gotta get this book! Sounds like 50 Shades of Crazy. Jawbreaker and Pennywise.
Theres a lot of great stuff Bill could stand to give a chance. Some of the butthole surfers' stuff is really lit, too ...as is the Reverend Horton Heat
I thought I was the only one wondering how Land of Rape and Honey managed to pass without becoming a smash hit at the time.
Been listening to Ministry for little over a year. Daily staple.
Better late than never Bill
Try Big Black’s Atomizer from 1986. I listened to shitty music for most of the 80s too, but I was born when Jimmy Carter was still in office. Pretty much just hip hop, Weird Al, and oldies ‘87-‘93. Some of it’s almost as embarrassing as Poison in retrospect.
i was 5 in 1980 and i got Ministry in about '86/87... and '87 was the first year i went to a gig - Bowie in Slane, as a 12yr old. you were just being punished by the 'powers that be' for ever thinking motley crue were good
Check out American Demon by Jack Grisham.
Al Jourgensen is so underrated as an intelligent man. His music is great. However, his perspectives are so insightful. I agree...his music is amazing. He lives his life to the fullest and who can blame him. With that much fame and influence, a person will do some wild things. But, his political views are on point.
I don't think al is underated as an intelligent guy. Most everyone that knows of him knows he's highly intelligent. It's just intelligent on a drugged out his own terms calls it like he sees it stage is all. I think it's absolutely great that he couldn't make music unless he was totally whacked out on dope and booze. Where on the flip side there's a ton of musicians that can't produce good music anymore because the dope and booze stole their creativity. That guy from the eurythmics was another one like AL. Every single one of their songs was made while on LSD. Fact.
3:30 😂 ...I wonder if Bill likes Xploding plastiX or Amon Tobin
Just go buy the entire Skinny Puppy collection... do it now!
kinda surprised Bill wasn't hip to Ministry, so maybe he don't know about Kyuss or QOTSA or Them Crooked Vultures either
hehe listening to Motley Crue at the time LOL
Bill Burr really needs to read Chris Connelly's book if he wants good drugs stories. At least, there's probably more fact in those...
I read the Chris Connelly book i really liked it but after reading Als book, hmm he paints such a different pitcher as to Chris's involvement . Calling him part of the "Book Club" etc, and addict for show. I would say there both good reads but you have to kinda read both and some wear in there is the truth. I would like to read a Paul Barker book.
I'm pretty sure I'd take Chris' word over the guy who claims "you can hear influences of Led Zeppelin and ZZ Top" in every one of his songs.
Jeff Bayard it's not that far fetched. if you strip away the production and arrangement style you often get some really simple blues metal riffs - one note shit like zz top and some of zepp. just pick up a guitar and play the riffs and forget it's "ministry". arrangement and delivery counts for so much in music...
it's like people always think i'm nuts when i say billy idol is basically jim morrison with coked up 80s production. if i sing the shit to them and maybe slightly alter it to more jim's style people go "oh, so that's billy idol not the doors?". true story.
there's literally tons of weird connections like that in music where you don't hear it unless you really point it out.
I still think Al is full of shit, but I see your point. Afterall, I'm probably the only one who hears the similarity between Zeppelin's "Going To California" and Charles Manson's "Bet You Think I Care."
i don't think he's full of shit. it's just what he hears. he grew up listening to that shit. why would he make it up`?
slayer, complete thrash era
You never mentioned Bad Religion 🤷♂️
Best punk band of all time, sue me
GODFLESH
The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste. Get it.
I second Scratch Acid//The Jesus Lizard. That shit is abstract.
KMFDM!!!!!!!
I always say the same thing when I listen to Bill.. Every fucking thing he says is exactly what I'm thinking.. Even in his video about Al and Ministry.. The only thing I don't agree with him is on Motley Crew and Poison. I fucking hate those bands LOL
If there was ANYTHING "good" about the 80's... it was Motley Crue/Poison. *shrugs*
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... as far as "mainstream" goes.
Check out KMFDM, Butthole Surfers, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Front Line Assembly