…“A Perfect Pair” is now available for download from iTunes, mp3.Amazon.com, and emusic.
Check it out if, for some strange reason, you haven’t already.
any of these offer flac version?
Ha!
No.
any of these offer flac version?
Get the pinchi disc.
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I bought the download and have already deleted it. The album is dull at best.
The perfect pair was Jourgensen/Barker.
maggitooth. i’m surprised you would want to delete anything ministry related. but that’s your choice. i personally always hated neil young’s anything b/c i hate his voice, and now i listen.
and now i appreciate the voice, after listening and seeing and meeting.
i don’t get this. what of ministry have you deleted otherwise?
Toot, While I absolutely beg to differ about Flowering Blight ([font “Webdings”][black]you motherfucker[/black][/font]), I’ll have to agree with you about the true “Perfect Pair.”
heh, I’ve sold half of my Ministry collection actually. just doesn’t do anything for me I suppose.
I’ve not really listened to Flowering Blight much, but the Perfect Pair is my favorite track of the bunch.
maggitooth. i’m surprised you would want to delete anything ministry related.i don’t get this. what of ministry have you deleted otherwise?
I scored an ipod a while back and have purchased a few albums via download due to being impatient. Usually I’ll burn the download onto a cd as well as the ipod…I didn’t bother with Flowering Blight though as I really did think it was rather dull for the most part after giving it numerous listens. I was happy to give Barker a bit of cash though.
As for Ministry I’ve not downloaded anything…I have it all on cd & vinyl.
That is a tremendous waste to buy and then delete something…
You could at least hold on to it and give it a listen in a year or something.
That being said, this album does seem to lose its charm the more I listen to it.
Paul’s voice is kind of grating and the vocals have no emotion for the most part. He’s just hitting the notes with that guttural style, not stretching his voice to add emphasis to any particular word or anything.
The songs themselves are well done and it’s easy to see how he was enormously important to Ministry’s sound. The rhythm sections are, for the most part, great and the drums as well. Hell, all of the instrumentation is cool and well done.
I just don’t think he has the charisma as a singer or front man to pull of a band on his own. He’s like the best right hand man in Industrial Rock but he just is not a frontman. That being said, I’ll still keep an eye on this project or anything else he does.
PS I think if he involved Max Brody in this project and made it almost a cross between what they were doing with Pink Anvil and the more evolved song writing of Flowering Blight it would be perfect. If he just used different effects on his voice for different songs and there was a bit more of an improvisational Pink Anvil element it would be perfect. Just a thought.
For what it’s worth I spoke to Max Brody about this and he wasn’t even aware Barker had released a solo CD despite them both being in Texas at the moment and having made plans to jam. And that’s even after the fact that Max Brody was credited on the release (for the 2 appropriated Pink Anvil songs)!
If one were to delete a purchased download, as opposed to just not syncing it to the ipod, it would be pure daft… even if the album was disliked. Would you buy a cd and after being unimpressed by it throw it away? I would presume, or moreso hope, that delete is used figuratively in this context.
A Perfect Pair is a good album. My frequency in playing it has reduced in recent weeks, as one would expect with an album you have a few months, but it still serves its purpose. While not every track is essential, particularly ‘Even This Day’, there are some gems, mostly in the first half. ‘A Perfect Pair’ and ‘Lover’s Leap’ are two of the finest songs Paul has made in years and I would rate them better than most of the material on Animositisomina.
To Carmangary, or anyone who has not yet heard it, its very likely you’ll appreciate most of the album if you like the Barker years of Ministry. While maybe it’s not immediately “Ministry” you can pick up resemblance here and there but it does enough to stand out on its own (despite some songs being re-hashed Pink Anvil and USSA songs).
‘A Perfect Pair’ and ‘Lover’s Leap’ = Essential
‘A Blinding’, ‘Flowering Blight’ and ‘The Waste Land’ = Very Good
‘Angel’s Code’ = Good
‘Holy Sugarwater’ = Alright
‘Even This Day’ = forgettable
I still have it on my ipod but I doubt it’ll last very long on there. I have so much music and am constantly buying new fresh stuff from numerous scenes and I’ve spent enough time listening to the Blight to know It really doesn’t do much for me at all. Like I said though…I was more than happy to throw some cash Paul’s way.
…I’ve spent enough time listening to the Blight to know It really doesn’t do much for me at all. Like I said though…I was more than happy to throw some cash Paul’s way.
Unfortunately I’m going to have to say the same.
I’m finding Flowering Blight far too ordinary to really appreciate. It just doesn’t do anything for me at all- especially the vocals, which at times really make me cringe. It’s very monotonous and flat and goes nowhere very quickly.
A shame really, cos I think Paul is one hell of a guy who deserves the very best in life. Hopefully he can bounce back from this. I’m assuming this sold very sparingly.
I’m assuming this sold very sparingly.
I think you’re right, but I believe it has more to do with woeful lack of promotion than quality. I mean, when people who are ON the album don’t know it’s out, perhaps it’s time to take a look at your marketing scheme.
[reply]I’m assuming this sold very sparingly.
I think you’re right, but I believe it has more to do with woeful lack of promotion than quality. I mean, when people who are ON the album don’t know it’s out, perhaps it’s time to take a look at your marketing scheme.[/reply]
Yeah I DEFINATELY think that cd should have been in the shops with a big ass sticker that said “Paul Barker Of Ministry Fame”. That would’ve moved a hell of alot more copies…and after all the least Paul deserves is to cash in on the Ministry logo seeing as it was at it’s strongest with him. I’m sure Paul was probably too proud to do that though…but you know in the end this is a business.
I love “Perfect Pair Pt. 1”, it sounds like a brilliant dark follow-up to “Gila Coptor” but feel that the rest of the album doesn’t hold up to the same standard. I also love his Puscifer mix and wish this sounded a little more like that.
The drumming by anyone other than Freese or Brody is pretty damn shitty and kills some of the tracks for me. Something tells me Paul doesn’t have much of an ear for percussion.
Something tells me Paul doesn’t have much of an ear for percussion.
Yep. Just listen to how the drumming was mixed on Dark Side Of The Spoon.
when asked about terrible mixing of animositisomina, max brody said that mixing was “all Al”. so i think jourgensen had more to do with thin drum sound, ever since filth pig… and overall trebliness.
Yeah the “marketing” (if you can even call it that, considering it seemingly consisted of a few posts on a handful of Ministry-related messageboards by people like Afra doing Paul a favor)for Flowering Blight was woefully half-assed.
I think his intentions were more to just kind of do a summary of what he’d been up to post-Ministry as a lot of the material is rehashed from his other projects. The kind of thing for die-hard fans only. And from the looks of it, those are the only people aware of the release or who bought the release.
I’ll have to talk more with Max Brody about this. I mean, shouldn’t he have known about the release if he was on it and credited for at least 2 songs. Wouldn’t he receive royalties? I’m going to message him now about the whole thing.
I just think the least Paul could have done to promote this was to come on this board himself for a post about it or something. Some kind of interaction with his the fan base he rightfully inherited from his time in Ministry. I understand that by nature he feels he shouldn’t sink to the level or using the name Minstry to sell units, but he kind of invested his whole musical career with them and that’s how anyone really knows him now. It amazes me how musicians in successful bands have no marketing skills to at least recruit listeners from the band’s fanbase once they leave to follow their new endeavors.
It’s clear that Al was a braggart an d exaggerated his role in the music of Ministry, but without his marketing skills the band would not have gotten nearly as much publicity. Sometimes bullshit and hyping is a talent in itself.
I can’t believe nobody has came up with the notion that perhaps Paul lurks the board and put that cd out specifically for us… we have no idea how big that run of cd’s was, perhaps it’s just a limited run that he broke even on… and wasn’t really looking for marketing but just kind of a nod to the people here that appreciate him.
Late,
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