Monday, October 16, 2017

Number 13: Ministry - Revenge

For several decades, Ministry was known for hardcore industrial music, political-statement songs, and rotating band lineups due to infighting, feuds, substance abuse, and arrests. Before all that, however, Ministry was known for its first (synthpop) album, With Sympathy. Released in 1983, it featured lead singer Al Jourgensen in a fake English accent, backed by two keyboard players cranking out new wave sounds. Now that's a Ministry I can support! Here's the #13 spot for you, Al, with your awesome song "Revenge", which you refuse to play live or acknowledge in any way nowadays. Sad.

5 comments:

  1. Yes! One of my Top 20 as well... the "With Sympathy" album is great, it begins with one the best four-in-a-rows ever - Effigy - Revenge - I Wanted to Tell Her - Work For Love. Al looks great in the video, especially compared to what he became - an over-pierced, over-tattooed, over-drugged Rastafarian Johnny Depp. I bet he did all that redecorating because he knows deep down that his best work will always be "With Sympathy"

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  2. * forgot "over-rated"

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  3. Great song! By the way, "Every Day is Halloween" is another Ministry song with a New Wave sound to it.

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