I actually saw the Stigmata video first before i heard any ministry songs I absolutly loved that shit and been jammin out to ministry ever since. Then it waz onto Twitch were i freakin got a boner just listening to We Believe and Over The Shoulder.
psalms69
cold life. on a turntable.
it was horrible then, and still is.
scarecrow… off of a lollapalooza sampler for whatever year it was that they did… 92?
track 1 side 1 - Land of Rape and Honey
Nature Of Outtakes. It was on side 1 of a tape compilation a friend made for me. Halloween Remix was on side 2.
Lots of ‘firsts’ for me on that tape:
Front 242 - WYHIWYG
Laibach - Life Is Life
Nitzer Ebb - Murderous
RevCo - Union Carbide (Bhopal Version)
Kraftwerk - Boing Boom Tschak/Musique Non-Stop 12"
Pretty much my intro to Wax Trax and everything else.
1002
I actually saw the Stigmata video first before i heard any ministry songs
aye. purchase was had the following monday.
psalms69
Same here. since in s’pore during those days (in the 90’s) stuffs like Ministry were not so easy to find.
I bought the mind album on a whim, so that’s the first i’ve heard of them ever.
“the missing” from in case you didn’t feel like showing up. I didn’t really become fanatic about them until N.W.O and had no idea they were the same band.
Late.
grmpysmrf
Saw the “Stigmata” video on MTV when I was like 9 or 10 and it freaked the shit out of me. Of course soon thereafter I owned most of the back catalog up to that point.
For the majority of my life, I’d been raised in a blues/classic rock environment, so I dug that a lot. Still do. The good stuff: Black Sabbath, Floyd, Deep Purple, Clapton, Motorhead, B.B. King, Etta James, C.C.-motherfuckin’-R., Big Brother & the Holding Co., Billy Joel, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Blue Cheer… Oh yeah.
Then sometime my freshman year of high school, during my flirtation with doom/death metal, I happened to be surfing through DirectTV’s then music service, MusicChoice. I flipped to the metal channel, and heard the song that would probably change my life forever.
“THIEVES!!! THIEVES AND LIARS!!!”
I was weirded out, intrigued, and madly in love with it at the same time. Fax machines and drills in music? No way. NO WAY. So I wrote down the name of this totally foreign, yet violently beautiful, band and promptly went to my local Hastings… and acquired “The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste.”
If “Thieves” was the first step down the road of ruin, “Dream Song” was surely what put the nail in the casket of my former self.
Good times, man… Good times.
Supernaut on the Nativity In Black tribute album…
Well, that one sparked my interest so I went out and bought The Mind, so the first real Ministry song I heard would also be Thieves…
Honestly no idea.
When i was living in a block of flats in Sydney i used to punch cones with this guy who lived a few doors up…he was into all sorts of Death type metal such as Morbid Angel amongst others.
Anyway one afternoon i popped around to his after getting hold of some brutal skunk and he’d just come back from a record store with two promo’s that’d just been released…one featured the songs “NWO”, “Just One Fix” and “TVII” by Ministry and the other featured “Killing In The Name Of” and some other pish by RATM…i thought the RATM songs sounded tacky and crappy but the Ministry one’s were fuckin awesome! I then bought ICUDFLSU and the rest was history.
Album was ‘In Case you Didn’t Feel Like Showing Up’.
I believe I heard ‘Stigmata’ first.
My friend wanted me to hear the “Fuck Jesus” part.
I was hooked.
The first song I heard was Just Like You as my older brother had the Twitch tape, and like many of you I saw the Stigmata video first before LoRaH had come out. It was quite the eye opener being used to the Wax Trax singles, and With Sympathy sound.
cold life. on a turntable.
it was horrible then, and still is.
That sounds about right. Ditto.
first proper ministry listening was “in case” and two songs drilled right into my head, burning inside and stigmata.
N.W.O.
But it was Just One Fix that hooked me.