I love Ministry as much as the next guy - more probably, truth be told - but one thing that’s always struck me are the songs that borrow a bit from other artists.
Not necessarily specific borrowed elements and certainly not samples, but times when you can hear an inspiration nonetheless.
I’m probably forgetting some, but I think that should be enough examples.
Not a sample, or a complete copy, but when you hear them both you can definitely tell there’s some inspiration.
Not that it’s a bad thing… I mean FLA basically borrowed every New Order baseline during their golden period. Just strange that there would be several from decently big contemporary groups.
I was listening to some old Devo the other day and I heard a song that reminded me very much of Ministry from a few years later. I don’t remember the name of either the Devo or Ministry songs, unfortunately.
No surprise, I guess, now that we’ve heard Al cover Caves of Steel.
I came across this song by The Flowerpot Men (Ben Watkins’ pre-Juno Reactor band) and can’t help but think this was the template for “You Know What You Are.” Keep in mind this song dates to 1984:
@brandtrax Oh wow, that’s exactly what I was talking about. That synth’s not exact, but oh so close. Like someone was playing it from memory or something.
That’s a killer track too. Completely off my radar, but I’m definitely going to check it out. For 1984, that’s absolutely crazy.
@realmdemagic That’s crazy too! I can’t remember if I’ve heard it before, but that’s pretty dead on.
I bet those sounds are Fairlight presets, but I think that’s just too close to be coincidence.
HAHA!!! Nailed it. I just clicked on the track and when the music kicked in, I’m like, “Okay, there’s the LORAH-era Ministry.” And then the vocals came in, hahhaha. “Oh, hello, Suicide!”
Totally, haha! I came to 'em quite late. I think I heard Henry Rollins talking about 'em in some interview and dove in with “Frankie Teardrop” and “Ghost Rider”. It was wild, haha. And, yeah, so unique. I’ll usually go backwards to find some band/artist I’d not checked out before and think, “Oh, right, this started [insert newer band that sounds like the original stuff]…”, but Suicide were definitely stand alones, hahaha!
Yeah,they are the blueprint…some of their solo shit is really cool but still nothing like those first two Suicide albums…so weird that one of them is produced by Ric Ocasek…so strange that the guy from the Cars produced Suicide and Bad Brains…
No shit? I knew Ocasek produced some Suicide stuff, but this is the first I’d heard of him working on Bad Brains. That one is really unexpected. He was so cool.
- but one thing that’s always struck me are the songs that borrow a bit from other artists.