Just like a car crash
Just like a knife
My favorite weapon
Is the look in your eyes!
That always sounded cool to me.
i know it is next to impossible, but i would really like ot know EXACTLY who wrote which lyrics on the albums, Mind through Dark Side…
sometimes you can tell a chris song or an al song… but sometimes…
“Do you believe in angels?”
“… No.”
“Do you believe in angels?”
“… No.”
Those lyrics were technically “written” by Angie (I guess Al said “no”).
you are right. that is angie
altghough the ominous NOooOOoOOo sounds cool.
If al didn’t dfistort the fuck our of his lyrics, woudln’t we have have some fine lyrical content to discuss??
I always liked the entirery of the “unofficial” song America. In fact, it holds up better (sadly enough) post-9/11 than it did in '82 or whenever it was originally written.
In particular:
America
There is no trust
If you want get the business, you have to get fucked
America, America, America, America
America, HAHAHAHA!
America, HAHAHAHA!
America, HAHAHAHA!
America, HAHAHAHA!
America
Fourth of July
Here we go with some apple pie
There’s apple pie for everyone
America, there’s so much fun
Love so much Ministry material, but still can’t possibly go past this:
"you said you needed full time help
cause you’re all alone
i said i’d work for nothing at all
if i just could take you home
and now you’re taking applications
for your love
you wanted certain specifications
i circled the one that said all the above"
you are right. that is angie
altghough the ominous NOooOOoOOo sounds cool.
If al didn’t dfistort the fuck our of his lyrics, woudln’t we have have some fine lyrical content to discuss??
If I remember right. Could’ve sworn she denied it being her.
I don’t think so. I remember an interview where somebody asked her about the valley girl accent and she said she thinks that’s just her Canadian accent.
Or something…
Angie literally wrote my favorite Ministry song. I’m okay with this.
As for Al/Paul penned stuff… I think my favorite lyrics are from “Whip and Chain.”
i know it is next to impossible, but i would really like ot know EXACTLY who wrote which lyrics on the albums, Mind through Dark Side…
sometimes you can tell a chris song or an al song… but sometimes…
Good lyrics: Connelly, Barker
Bad lyrics: Al
[reply]i know it is next to impossible, but i would really like ot know EXACTLY who wrote which lyrics on the albums, Mind through Dark Side…
sometimes you can tell a chris song or an al song… but sometimes…
Good lyrics: Connelly, Barker
Bad lyrics: Al[/reply]
that isnt fair… or true. i mean, in recent years Al has become a joke… but before that he really was something special. Ministry couldnt have existed without him. hell, i would even argue that a lot of industrial music post 91 wouldnt exist the way it does. al was a mythical beast, a monster and a god in a lot of ways. even the people who knew him were in awe of him… not always for good reasons, haha, but still. a lot of his lyrics are really interesting, really introspective, and really powerful. granted… that last few Cocks albums and the last 2 ministry albums didnt exactly have any real powerful lyrics… but still. haha.
Ministry couldnt have existed without him. hell, i would even argue that a lot of industrial music post 91 wouldnt exist the way it does.
Oh dear. The whole “If… then, …” argument sounds especially ridiculous when applied to something as nuanced and obscure as “industrial music post '91”
[reply]Ministry couldnt have existed without him. hell, i would even argue that a lot of industrial music post 91 wouldnt exist the way it does.
Oh dear. The whole “If… then, …” argument sounds especially ridiculous when applied to something as nuanced and obscure as “industrial music post '91”[/reply]
no, no i know, and i was thinking that even when writing it, but still, as silly as Al has become, there is no way anyone can deny the influence and reach he had back in the day.
Questions of influence aside, Al wrote all the lyrics from With Sympathy through Twitch, probably most from Land Of Rape And Honey, and probably the lion’s share from Psalm 69 through the present (Mind… was mostly Chris or a group effort, and I assume Paul only wrote the stuff he sang, but I certainly could be wrong). And I’d argue that while the lyrics from pre-87 and 92-03 weren’t as good as Chris’s (and some of the stuff is actually pretty bad), there are still some really fine gems in there.
Sure, once his muse switched to alcohol and politics it all went downhill, but that’s a pretty minor slice of his overall lyrical career.
thieves
thieves, thieves and liars, murderers
hypocrites and bastards in laughter
hey thanks for nothing!
morals in the dust
two-faced bastards and syncophants
no trust