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Old 12-11-2009, 04:27 PM   #1 (permalink)
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What no thread one of the finest Industrial Metal bands ever? and of course there are the numerous side projects too:

Revolting cocks, Lard, 1000 Homo DJs, PTP, Acid Horse, Lead Into Gold, Pailhead.

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They still rank as one of the best bands I have ever seen live and I was so frigging pleased to see them last year as they have ceased touring.
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Old 12-11-2009, 04:33 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Wow, they are ranked very low on the list of bands I've seen live. Perhaps because it was more recently that I caught them, but it was fucking terrible. Now that I think about it, it could be a number of things to why the show sucked (venue, company, fuckin' sound guy, etc.) , but I stand in my ignorant ways and am pretty content about never seeing them live again.
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Old 12-11-2009, 04:34 PM   #3 (permalink)
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One of the defining bands of my youth without a doubt. They're not nearly as good now as they were in their late 80s/early 90s heyday but Al still comes up with some good stuff from time to time.
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Wow, they are ranked very low on the list of bands I've seen live. Perhaps because it was more recently that I caught them, but it was fucking terrible. Now that I think about it, it could be a number of things to why the show sucked (venue, company, fuckin' sound guy, etc.) , but I stand in my ignorant ways and am pretty content about never seeing them live again.
Seriously? I saw them last year and I was right near the soundboard and they were phenomenal and everyone with me said the same. The venue was great though!

I agree that they are a shadow of their former selves but they still hold a dear place in my heart!
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Seriously? I saw them last year and I was right near the soundboard and they were phenomenal and everyone with me said the same. The venue was great though!

I agree that they are a shadow of their former selves but they still hold a dear place in my heart!
Like I said, it was most likely the venue. The sound alone gave me a headache and I actually LEFT EARLY. Trust me, I was pretty heartbroken about it, too.
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Old 12-11-2009, 05:37 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Yeah, that show was pretty lame. I had really been looking forward to it, too.
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One of the defining bands of my youth without a doubt. They're not nearly as good now as they were in their late 80s/early 90s heyday but Al still comes up with some good stuff from time to time.
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.

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 fuck what the shit 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.
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Al Jourgenson is still alive. Wow.
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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.
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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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 fuck what the shit 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".
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Al Jourgenson is still alive. Wow.
It's the William S. Burroughs effect where if you do enough drugs they act as preservatives.
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