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Originally Posted by sidewinder
Definitely. Can't believe there wasn't a thread about them!
I missed seeing them live in their hey day, but caught them on the Filth Pig tour, which was the beginning of the end for me. I checked out part of a more recent album and it wasn't bad, but I just didn't feel it was necessary for me to get it. Twelve Inch Singles, Land of Rape and Honey, The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste, In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up, and Psalm 69 are what it's all about for me.
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I'm totally with you here. It's not that later Ministry is bad per se it's just that I feel he just started making inferior versions of
Psalm 69 over and over again. I already own
Psalm 69 and like it a lot so I've never felt a huge urge to get five more alternate-but-not-as-good re-imaginings of it.
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Originally Posted by sidewinder
They were my gateway into the world of industrial and industrial rock. A friend picked me up for school, shortly before I moved out of Chicago and my friends were just starting to drive. He had "Burning Inside" playing, I was like holy f uck what the s hit is this, I LOVE IT!  And that was that. At the time I was listening to mostly big-4 metal, some more alt rock like FNM and RHCP, etc. |
It's funny, I had a somewhat similar introduction to them, also in a car. When I was 13 or 14 I was riding in my brother's car (with my mother of all people), looking through his tapes when the cover of
Land of Rape and Honey jumped out at me. So I popped it in the tapedeck and promptly had my mind blown. I had never heard anything like that before and was immediately a fan. I remember trying to describe the style of music to a friend of mine a few days later and the best I could come up with was "a cross between Depeche Mode and Obituary".