Ministry – Original Album Series 5CD

Ministry – Original Album Series

Alain, Al Jourgenson for short, launched Ministry in the early 80s as a synth-pop band like others, before increasingly integrating other influences and finally finding a massive industrial metal with guitar broadside, which not only became style-defining, but also found an ever larger audience. Albums like "The Land Of Rape And Honey" and "The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste" provided the first definitions of this sound, but Ministry's opus magnum must still be considered their fifth studio work "Psalm 69: The Way To Succeed And The Way To Suck Eggs" from 1992. The title was based on "The Book Of Lies" by cult author Aleister Crowley and especially chapter 69. What is striking is the virtuoso use of samples, both from films such as "Apocalypse Now", "Blue Velvet" and "The Exorcist III", as well as from political speeches by Joseph McCarthy and George W. Bush senior. Jourgenson also liked to take aim at the Republican administration later on. A highlight of the album is also the guest appearance of Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers, as singer and songwriter in "Jesus Built My Hotrod." With "Psalm 69..." Ministry could place themselves in the German charts for the first time - it should not be the last time.

Tracklist:
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1-1 Just Like You 5:00
1-2 We Believe 5:56
1-3 All Day (Remix) 6:02
1-4 The Angel 6:06
1-5 Over The Shoulder 5:11
1-6 My Possession 5:02
1-7 Where You At Now? / Crash And Burn / Twitch (Version II) 12:13
1-8 Over The Shoulder (12" Version) 6:44
1-9 Isle Of Man (Version II) 4:31

The Land Of Rape And Honey
2-1 Stigmata 5:45
2-2 The Missing 2:54
2-3 Deity 3:23
2-4 Golden Dawn 5:42
2-5 Destruction 3:30
2-6 Hizbollah 3:59
2-7 The Land Of Rape And Honey 5:12
2-8 You Know What You Are 4:45
2-9 I Prefer 2:16
2-10 Flashback 4:48
2-11 Abortive 4:23

The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste
3-1 Thieves 5:02
3-2 Burning Inside 5:20
3-3 Never Believe 4:59
3-4 Cannibal Song 6:10
3-5 Breathe 5:40
3-6 So What 8:13
3-7 Test 6:04
3-8 Faith Collapsing 4:01
3-9 Dream Song 4:48

In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up (Live)
4-1 The Missing 3:35
4-2 Deity 3:38
4-3 So What 11:30
4-4 Burning Inside 6:23
4-5 Thieves 5:09
4-6 Stigmata 9:30

Psalm 69
5-1 N.W.O. 5:31
5-2 Just One Fix 5:11
5-3 TV II 3:04
5-4 Hero 4:13
5-5 Jesus Built My Hotrod 4:51
5-6 Scarecrow 8:21
5-7 Psalm 69 5:29
5-8 Corrosion 4:56
5-9 Grace 3:05

Label: Warner Records
Released: 2011