I was looking through the lastest issue and Ministry has a song on the “Top 500 songs since you were born”
They come in at # 208
Song: Work For Love
"Here’s a dirty secret: Before Ministry turned into the druggy dark lords of ugly industrial rattle (fan club name: the Piss Army), leader Al Jourgensen crooned like a David Bowie wannabe. His fake brit accent lights up this cute, prancing complaint, but good luck finiding the out-of-print CD it appears on: “With Sym is off the shelves for good”, he recently crowed in an online chat. “I have the masters and burnt them ha ha”’.
sweet.
-al
Blender are full of shit. Aren’t they the ones that do those poxy “50 Worst Songs Ever” articles?
Blender are full of shit. Aren’t they the ones that do those poxy “50 Worst Songs Ever” articles?
Yes they are. Anything that is associated with Maxim is good in my book.
Besides, their all time worst song is We Built This City…by Starship. Can’t say they’re wrong with that one…
-al
Yes they are. Anything that is associated with Maxim is good in my book.
Besides, their all time worst song is We Built This City…by Starship. Can’t say they’re wrong with that one…
-al
True. How can a band that started off so great (or at least decent) degenerate into such cocksucking bollocks as “We Built This City”
I loved that song when I was four.[mad]
The irony is…Al, in fact, only wrote some of the ‘Work For Love’ lyrics. And that was his only contribution to the song.
He didn’t write the bassline, which is the riff that the song evolved out of. He didn’t come up with the concept of the song. He didn’t write any of the little sparkly parts of the song (actually, producer Ian Taylor and Furs drummer Vince Ely did).
So while Al disowns this song, it’s not entirely his to disown (although he’s the only one who gets an album credit for it). But it’s funny how this song, 22 years after it was recorded, keeps surfacing every now and then.
I find the irony delicious.
I’m really rather fond of “Work For Love”. You can call me all kinds of shades of faggot, but I still really dig that early 80’s sound.