All right, I haven’t logged on in quite awhile, and I realize I may be revisiting the past a bit with this post…but oh well.
Anyhow, so I finally got around to picking up Rantology, and I’ll admit, I wasn’t that impressed with it…but then again, I didn’t expect to be.
First off, on the positive end, I thoroughly enjoyed “The Great Satan”. I’ll admit, the Rice intro had me sort of on a “I’m getting sick of this rag on Bush Admin theme” trip. Also can’t say that I cared for the guitar solo, but I’m just not a big guitar solo fan period (ahhhh, the days when Ministry use to hardly ever bother with them).
Also really dug the reworking of Unsung…it took on much more of a minimalist str8 forward approach then it originally had, and I’ll confess, I really liked that old Ministry approach.
One of the things I did notice is that well, I think Mr. Jourgensen is considerably happier, and it shows in his music. Sure, one could say it’s still heavy, but dare I say, the more time passes, the farther away from actual anger Ministry seems to go to me. For example, I’d never expect to be hearing the word “baby” used in Stigmata during the time period it came out. It puts thing almost more into a tounge in cheek “lets have fun and rock” kind of frame. There just generally seems to be a bit of darkness that seems to have left the Ministry sound…but though I miss the darker Ministry, it’s nice to see Jourgensen evolving rather than remaining stagnant. (of further note, Ministry really seemed to in large, cease being dark and aggressive after Psalm in my view).
In total, I can’t say I’m sure why I got Rantalogy…just to round out the collection I guess. In total though, I can’t say I totally understand why Sanctuary wanted another “Greatest Fits” (which I actually enjoyed GF more), and I commend Jourgensen on at least adding a bit of a twist to this “Greatest Fits” part II.