I hope Toby winds up on the album, like Sgt. Major on RGB.
That would be incredible. Have random soundbites of him waxing poetically about which Vodka gets you the most effed up and announcing that a case of Charles Shaw is coming in on Thursday . . . .
But that would be creative and different…
Wow.
Dark Side of the Spoon and Rantology have new competition for worst ever Ministry album cover.
I don’t get it…Some fat guy puking in a church?
Clearly Paul Elledge didn’t shoot this?
That cover is the worst thing I have ever seen. I am truly speechless.
fkkkkkkkkkkkk rip MINISTRY, that is utter crap! That is a photoshop disaster!
I thought you guys were just being emo for nothing . . . . but then I saw the cover.
Wow. No need to wait for amateur. He’s arrived. That is the stupidest, most cliche, piece-of-crap Junior-high-school graphics class album cover I’ve seen.
And the slob isn’t even believable. His shirt is all intentionally pulled up and just looks more posed than the fakest of mannequins. Couldn’t they have gotten Erie Load to pose for this one? I think he would at least look believable.
It reminds me of some horribly manufactured 80’s anti-drug ad where they just randomly place everything in the piece . . . . "Put some more booze bottles in the shot . . . now add some pills . . . and some joints . . . oh, and let’s put some vomit on the guy . . . "
Lame. Very lame.
BOOOOOOOOOOOO
Still better than the Rantology cover though.
I think Peligro is always yammering on and on about what a cartoon parody Ministry has become… this cover pretty much supports Peligro
Late,
grmpysmrf
This is a dude???
Late,
grmpysmrf
Still better than the Rantology cover though.
Late,
grmpysmrf
I can’t really be arsed to explain why right now, but I think this one is way worse.
Everybody who has ever worked with or been associated with Ministry prior to 2003 and who is now no longer associated with Ministry just threw up.
If Christian Fennesz and Merzbow teamed up with that LMFAO party rock dance band thing …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyx6JDQCslE
…and released a double album of doof doof music I might be as upset and disgusted as I am right now.
MIGHT be.
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Still better than the Rantology cover though.
Late,
grmpysmrf
I can’t really be arsed to explain why right now, but I think this one is way worse.[/reply]
perhaps because of the cartoonish nature of it… reminds me of the [url http://www.amazon.com/Fat-Music-Live-Die-Young/dp/B00005A0O2/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1324344152&sr=1-3] fat music … series cover arts. At least they tried with this one, the rantology was more of a twizzler’s commercial. But I could see why some would think this is worse.
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grmpysmrf
No, it’s nothing to do with the cartoonish nature of fat people, etiher.
I think it’s because it just comes across as so fake and so desperate. I don’t see it as a cartoon, really, but as a cheap sham. It’s like they’re trying to impress the 13 year olds behind the backstop by showing them a Playboy mag and a can of Copenhagen.
It’s just so frat-boy douchey. Like the assmunch at the party that runs around telling you HOW wasted he is and how many beers he’s had — “Oh my God, Dudes!!! I had like 8 beers and i’m sooooooooo wasted!!!”
There didn’t seem to be any thought into this cover. “Let’s call the album Relapse . . . for OBVIOUS reasons, huh huh huh!!!”
Yeah, and let’s not leave anything to mystery or allow any interpretation or abstraction. Let’s just put a guy wasted on the cover. Let’s not think it out, though. Let’s just do it all as an afterthought like a couple of short-attention-spanned 12 year olds.
The guy is holding 2 cigars for crying out loud! The picture has zero believability but it’s also not delivering any joke or punchline. I feel like the Law and Order team would walk in on this scene and go, “F*** it! Case closed! This guy didn’t OD on anything! He’s just being a stupid poser asstard! Let’s get out of here while the ‘Hot Donuts’ sign is still lit up at Krispy Kreme”.
“Rantology” – yeah, it was a bad cover. But first off, it was just a greatest hits collection, so who gives a crap? But second, it was abstract and symbolic. You could kind of come up with some sort of (no matter how sophomoric the process) “meaning” and interpretation to it.
Not this one. Not “Relapse”. Totally devoid of meaning. Totally devoid of imagination. Totally devoid of soul. It’s the absolute worst kind of album cover. Desperate and jaded. It’s the type of album cover made by a band led by an outdated man who is really scared of losing his street tough status, yet who doesn’t want to actually dig in his heels and do something truly badass or worthy of updating his street cred.
I hope he didn’t have anything to do with this album cover. It’s so depressing to connect the man to it. I’d rather assume that he just gave up completely and said, “I really don’t give a crap what you put on the cover - - - why don’t you let that kid at the liquor store design it? He’ll probably give us a couple bottles of Mad Dog if we use it.”
That’s it. I’m happy with my decision. It IS the worst album cover ever. That’s my final choice and I’m locking it in.
I think what’s worse is that the guy looks like he belongs in the band!!!
I think what’s worse is that the guy looks like he belongs in the band!!!
I think he does work for them. He looks way too familiar. One of the videos or promo pictures or something?