Judgement Night: What could have been

Discussion
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Was reading the recent oral history of the Judgement Night soundtrack put up by Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/judgment-night-soundtrack-oral-history-1993-rap-rock-summit-722094/

It’s a soundtrack that was a legitimately cool idea for the time, and let the bands figure out how to work through the collaboration, instead of having the label dictate it like they would for any major label effort today. Some truly classic songs on it.

And I ran across this little gem from Muggs from Cypress Hill:

Muggs: I was really into Ministry at the time. And I got on the phone with Al [Jourgensen] and Al was busy. So then [Happy]’s like, “How ’bout Sonic Youth?”

So it sounds like we could have gotten a Ministry/Cypress Hill track, if Al hadn’t been “busy”. Ironically, this was 1993, when Ministry was fresh off the last Psalm tour. They recorded Linger Ficken Good later that year, but never toured for it and didn’t release anything for quite a while after that, so busy probably = drugs. How much differently would things have gone if the band had released something good in 93/94 after LFG instead of disappearing into Texas.

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Was reading the recent oral history of the Judgement Night soundtrack put up by Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/judgment-night-soundtrack-oral-history-1993-rap-rock-summit-722094/

It’s a soundtrack that was a legitimately cool idea for the time, and let the bands figure out how to work through the collaboration, instead of having the label dictate it like they would for any major label effort today. Some truly classic songs on it.

And I ran across this little gem from Muggs from Cypress Hill:

Muggs: I was really into Ministry at the time. And I got on the phone with Al [Jourgensen] and Al was busy. So then [Happy]’s like, “How ’bout Sonic Youth?”

So it sounds like we could have gotten a Ministry/Cypress Hill track, if Al hadn’t been “busy”. Ironically, this was 1993, when Ministry was fresh off the last Psalm tour. They recorded Linger Ficken Good later that year, but never toured for it and didn’t release anything for quite a while after that, so busy probably = drugs. How much differently would things have gone if the band had released something good in 93/94 after LFG instead of disappearing into Texas.

It may have been cool it may have been another “Test”

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A lot of the issue with Test was the MC. I think Cypress Hill would have brought it.

4

Great soundtrack.

I’m not sure Cypress Hill’s vibe would mesh with Ministry at the time.

I always thought Ice Cube & Ministry could crank something sick out.

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If we have to do hip-hop Ministry mash-ups, I’d like one with DMX and one with ICE-T.

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This soundtrack was one of the best ideas of the time. The album still holds up to this day.

Ministry being involved would have been fantastic on so many fronts. What a shame that it didn’t happen.