In the spirit of April Fool’s…
…and anyone who ever played with AJ shows to up to chip in on each of the above tracks…
I would make a special trip out if this were true 
Instead, this is what we’re probably getting:
Ghouldiggers
Double Tap
Relapse
99%
Freefall
Let’s Go
Watch Yourself
Lies Lies Lies
Rio Grande Blood
Fear is Big Business
No W
Worthless
Stigmata
NWO
Nothing from Cover Up or Undercover?
Instead, this is what we’re probably getting:
Stigmata
NWO
That’s if we’re really lucky…
Piko’s was pretty believable until I saw “Stigmata”. Replace that with a ZZ Top song or “Thunderstruck” and it’s probably fairly close.
I put stigmata in there because was on Undercover.
Instead, this is what we’re probably getting:
Ghouldiggers
Double Tap
Relapse
99%
Freefall
Let’s Go
Watch Yourself
Lies Lies Lies
Rio Grande Blood
Fear is Big Business
No W
Worthless
Stigmata
NWO
What is ‘NWO’?
Just One Fix is probably going to be played too. But I would expect a setlist pretty similar to that. Maybe they’ll do some covers from Undercover. Rehab?
What is ‘NWO’?
I think it’s one of Erie Load’s remiXXXes of “No W”.
This is why I refuse to go to any of the US dates. If the setlist is dope, I’ll catch this second US tour their talking about.
I wonder if there’s any chance of them playing “Cuz U R Next,” from the Wicked Lake soundtrack. I always like it when bands play a more obscure non-album track.
A PARALYZZED TENNANT WIT NO TONGUE WHOO PAYZ THE RENT ON TIME IS FAST N BULBUSS. GOT ME!!!
I wonder if there’s any chance of them playing “Cuz U R Next,” from the Wicked Lake soundtrack. I always like it when bands play a more obscure non-album track.
That’s a cool track, but a) it sounds too much like Rio Grande Blood, which they’ll probably play and b) Josh Bradford does the vox and he’s no longer in the Ministry inner circle.
That’s a cool track, but a) it sounds too much like Rio Grande Blood, which they’ll probably play
They’ll almost certainly play “Double Tap,” which sounds like “Rio Grande Blood.” Really, doesn’t most of this new Ministry sound the same? “Rio Grande Blood” has too many dated GWB references, but yeah, I doubt that will stop Ministry from playing it.
and b) Josh Bradford does the vox and he’s no longer in the Ministry inner circle.[/reply]
So it’s 100% Josh? Sounds kinda like he’s doing his impression of Al. I don’t know if this is a dealbreaker, since Ministry has done songs on tour without the original vocalist (like “Jesus Built My Hotrod”). It’s a song I can easily imagine Al singing (unlike, say, “Die In A Crash,” which I love but is pretty different from anything Al has ever done).
Yeah, it’s definitely Josh.
You can also tell because the lyrics aren’t painfully obvious.
Josh wrote the lyrics to Got Cock?, though. I think they’re both equally capable of writing decent and painful material.
That’s very true, but when Josh is writing “serious” lyrics (Ministry, Stayte, Simple Shelter) they tend to be much better than his “funny” lyrics (RevCo, Captain Bigshot).
Honestly I respect Al’s approach to just playing whatever the fuck he wants from the newer albums, whatever he’s actually feeling musically.
As long as he doesn’t advertise otherwise…
Do you really want to see this lineup playing older songs? It wouldn’t sound right anyway.
I’m sure people were saying the same with the transition from ‘Twitch’ to ‘Land of Rape and Honey’…
One thing I do respect about Ministry is the sound keeps changing so even if I don’t like it they’re true to who they are at the time.
They ditched the new wave sound for industrial ebm postpunk, then went industrial metal, then sludge industrial prog metal or whatever the fuck the “Barker” years were…
Now they’ve ditched that and have gone thrash metal.
It kind of makes sense if you think from a commercial perspective their fanbase deserted them and largely shat on the “Barker years” anyway, even most of us who now praise those times…probably most on this forum were being enormous cunts at the time–just like continue to be now–if they were around.
Goth/Industrial scene is dead or just mostly crappy Combichrist techno shit now. Nothing after ‘Psalm 69’ is ever played in those clubs if they play Ministry at all. There is no money there.
They have to fit in somewhere. They should be hailed as a great and innovative metal band at this point but aren’t because they were too weird and actually took chances all along.
So now they’ve gone straight metal to cash in on the shredding talent they do have, but still kept some industrial elements to try and appease some of the diehards.