[reply] “Killing In The Name Of”
Hey i love Rage
Ah.
Comeback down the road with me, to a young man in his twenties.
A random summer in 1995. As it has been with most of the man’s girlfriend’s parents, he has been forced to meet his woman at a local park for a nice afternoon ride in the country in order to avoid any petty arguments with teh Mom und the Dad. When the man can not bear to hear his girlfriends Concrete Blonde tape one minute longer he fumbles for another tape in her glovebox and finds something with no words, writing, on the cassette case. Just a picture of what appears to be a black angel standing in front of a cobweb or somthing. When he can stand it no longer he ejects the bothersome tape blasting Joey for the nth time and puts in the new tape. The barrage that greets his ears with the opening track brings dark surcease and bliss to the young man’s ears.
He will never hear another record like it again.
Wow you’re a late comer! I always thought (because of your age mind you) that you had been there from the start! or at least close to the start.
Late,
grmpysmrf
My first Ministry was “Work For Love” at a highschool dance. That would be like 1984-85. Loved it. Got the cool manga cover art 12" sometime soon after. Man I have always loved that groovy snaking bassline.
One twisted and tripped out night, I saw RevCo ‘YGSOB’ video. ‘What the fuck is this?’ I seem to remember thinking…and I seem to recall that at some point in the following weeks I got to hear ‘In Case…’
‘The Missing’ STILL has to be played at least daily for me…don’t know why.
Ah, the memories…
JasonA
I saw “What About Us?” on MuchMusic around the time A.I. was released. Went on some lame messageboard I frequented at the time and asked about Ministry.
I was told it was “Industrial” and went down a long road discovering other bands from there. Then I got the Greatest Fits CD because it had “What About Us?”
Thieves/burning inside in 1989.
N.W.O.
Stigmata in Hardware around 90 or 91
first proper ministry listening was “in case” and two songs drilled right into my head, burning inside and stigmata.
Ditto, that still is my favorite Ministry release.
ICYDFLSU is quite frankly the greatest live record ever. Why on earth Breath and Land Of Rape And Honey were left out of the cd/record release i’ll never know? The intro to Breath is fucking superb and Al’s voice is devastating.
heard jesus built my hotrod on the friday rock show on radio 1, went out and bought the album. no regrets !!
The Missing, from
In Case You Didn’t Feel Like Showing Up
I’m PRETTY SURE that was my first Ministry album.
Then i got the mind & the spoon and between the three
was horrified for months.
TV II when I was about 15 years old.
Stigmata in 1988. I was a long hair metal head with hardcore and thrash leanings at the time but it was getting boring and I was looking for something really wild. Something unique. Something I never heard before. A lot of my friends were into the more electronic stuff like SP, Nitzer, Neubauten, Throbbing Gristle etc. I thought it was interesting and pretty out of the mainstream which I liked but just wasn’t heavy enough. Someone gave me LORAH and I was hooked right then and there. It just blew me away and I knew I had found what I was looking for. I was home.
Similar story for me. Ministry was definitely that first stepping stone on a way to more varied and rewarding musical tastes. Well, I was a kid, so I was a metalhead. I guess Ministry helped me grow up a little bit.
Fuse had a short-lived show Uranium Classics in the summer of 2004 I enjoyed watching. Saw the video for Stigmata, was highly intrigued.
Fuse had a short-lived show Uranium Classics in the summer of 2004 I enjoyed watching. Saw the video for Stigmata, was highly intrigued.
I remember that one. Good stuff. That and “Slave to the Metal” were basically my life during my early high school years.
Mistress Juliya = SEX.
Stigmata in 1989.
A sort of college radio used to play the song quite often. And that song was some sort of a revelation to me.
The same radio DJ made me like Killing Joke again by playing on a regular basis Money Is Not Our God one year later…
[reply]Stigmata in 1988. I was a long hair metal head with hardcore and thrash leanings at the time but it was getting boring and I was looking for something really wild. Something unique. Something I never heard before. A lot of my friends were into the more electronic stuff like SP, Nitzer, Neubauten, Throbbing Gristle etc. I thought it was interesting and pretty out of the mainstream which I liked but just wasn’t heavy enough. Someone gave me LORAH and I was hooked right then and there. It just blew me away and I knew I had found what I was looking for. I was home.
Similar story for me. Ministry was definitely that first stepping stone on a way to more varied and rewarding musical tastes. Well, I was a kid, so I was a metalhead. I guess Ministry helped me grow up a little bit.[/reply]
Same thing here. In high school, I was mr. thrash metal, but after a couple of years of Megadeth/Slayer/Exodus/Testament etc. I was eager to hear something new. One of my best friends told me “dude, you’ve got to hear this fuckin’ band Ministry! They’re heavy but unlike anything else you’ve ever heard!” so I bought Mind on his recommendation, and I was blown away.
Also, probably around the same time there was a Michelob Dry commercial playing on the radio that used “Every Day Is Halloween” but I had no idea that this was the same Ministry. I remember it said “You dance, you sweat, you dry yourself off. Michelob Dry.” and had the “bah-ooh-bah-bah” playing. Does anyone have an mp3 of this, I’d really love to hear it again!.
Stigmata in 1988. I was a long hair metal head with hardcore and thrash leanings at the time but it was getting boring and I was looking for something really wild. Something unique. Something I never heard before. A lot of my friends were into the more electronic stuff like SP, Nitzer, Neubauten, Throbbing Gristle etc. I thought it was interesting and pretty out of the mainstream which I liked but just wasn’t heavy enough. Someone gave me LORAH and I was hooked right then and there. It just blew me away and I knew I had found what I was looking for. I was home.
Very interesting…another similar story, a true thrashmetalhead i was…until i saw the Stigmata video and of course got blown away by a sound completely new to me! Got the album and played it like mad in the highschool cafeteria, an eye/earopener for me & several of my friends…happy days… [:)]
Probably “Cold Life”. My brothers had lots of Wax Trax records around and I would borrow them. I was actually into the first few Revolting Cocks singles first though.