This sounds more like a Razed In Black mixxx to me.
This version of Thunderstruck kicks Al’s to the curb: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9uVyf0D8eM&feature=related
dear Lord! wtf is this! sounds like Al trying to be hip.
I love the album cover. It looks like those “Now That’s What I Call Music Vol: 58” discs with all your favorite teen hits by Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, and Justin Timberlake.
^ Yes I too was …thunderstruck by the godawful shittiness of that album cover.
Al is leaving no stone unturned as he drags the “Ministry” name through shit!
What the fuck.
Did anyone even buy the original (apart from grmpysmrf) ?
!!
Anyway, it’s STILL not as bad as anything off that ABOMINATION they called ‘Cover Up’.
Fuck that was awful.
make
the
bad
man
stop
i’d rather al be brutally murdered than listen to this shit
now if it was paul covering “thunderstruck”…
I’m telling you now, the drugs have fried his fucking brain. Either way, it’s a lose lose situation. You put that many chemicals in yer fucking brain and act like a garbage pail, it’s gonna catch up with you. Now it’s just fucking embarassing.
Believe me, I think we can all say we’ve seen something similar in our lives first hand, or at least most of us…
I really don’t think that’s it. I think it’s just a case of extreme laziness and extreme not-giving-a-rat’s-ass. I don’t think he even touches half his stuff any more.
Angie comes in to Al’s man-cave (he’s probably watching American Idol) and says, “Erie’s gonna remixxx the last remixxxo mixxxo remixxxo album of remixxxed covers. Here’s a fresh bottle of wine.”
“Do I get paid for it?”
“Yes.”
“Do I have to do anything?”
“No.”
“Okay, then. Sounds good to me.”
I suspect Gunnar is right.
And as for the covers themselves, I think he’s just become another middle aged guy who digs jamming on classic rock songs with his pals. The only difference is, shitty middle-aged bar bands don’t have a 30 year fanbase that gets upset when they play their tired remakes.
True. Also, shitty middle aged bar bands don’t typically announce their retirement before putting out 51 crappy CD’s of their awful covers and then another 175 remixxxes of the same awful covers.
I wish Al were famous enough for Family Guy to parody his sorry ass. He more than deserves it.
He’s not really that famous is he? Not really. More like a “hey, weren’t you on Married With Children at some point?” level of fame.
He’s probably more famous than Local H or Candlebox or something but less famous than, say, Cake or Everclear.
For people that live extensively in their chosen little musical or cultural sub-genre (“metal”, “industrial”, “goth”, whatever . . . " it’s easy to get an inflated idea about a lot of these rockstars.
But, unless you work in a music shop or something, it’s really not that hard to verify his obscurity. Mention his name (or even “Ministry” for the most part) and the very vast majority of people will just say “Who?”.
I don’t really hang out with any metalheads, punks, or whatever and most of my interactions on any given day are with people I work with and work for. The percentage of people that even know that Ministry is a band, is probably about 2% at the highest. The percentage of those people that would know who Al was or recognize him on the street is probably about 10% of that subset.
He gets looks and some inquiries, I’m sure, as he always wears giant boots, manscara, fake dreads and so forth . . . but his recognizability to the “man on the street” is practically nil.
I wish Al were famous enough for Family Guy to parody his sorry ass. He more than deserves it.
What would the joke be? I don’t think Family Guy really knows how to parody musicians. They had one episode where Chris is in a band supposedly influenced by Marilyn Manson, and I thought they handled that very generically as if it was written by someone just barely familiar with him. I’d rather see Al on South Park.
He’s not really that famous is he? Not really. More like a “hey, weren’t you on Married With Children at some point?” level of fame.
Was he? [laugh]
He’s probably … less famous than, say, Cake or Everclear.
I have no idea who either of those bands are. I guess that was your point.
He gets looks and some inquiries, I’m sure, as he always wears giant boots, manscara, fake dreads and so forth . . .
Every day? Seriously?
Well, considering he donned his usual get up with the boots and manscara and whatnot when he went to the hospital for toe surgery (there were photos and posts about it a few years back on the PA) I think it’s pretty safe to assume he puts the Al costume on fairly regularly.
seriously? LOL
when i clicked the link and saw that artwork i was sure you josh’d us. then I saw the artist. unreal.
What the fuck.
Did anyone even buy the original (apart from grmpysmrf) ?
!!
Anyway, it’s STILL not as bad as anything off that ABOMINATION they called ‘Cover Up’.
Fuck that was awful.
I went to the library and rented Iron Man 2 AC/DC with the original. It’s not bad–and I can see with the vocal intro why Al did it. His over-processed vocals are an easy way out to a lot of lyrical shit. and the animalistic uh.uhh…uh,uh,uhhh…uh makes it easy for him to remember
hell, he’s been doing black sabbath, and heavy metal classics. this one isn’t stellar, but it’s okay.
was he?[/reply]
yes, he was! If you saw him in the Donahuie youtube clip in the early '80’s, doing synth for Alan Vega in '84, gong off with Twitch–which was quite an audio departure in heavy metal, Big Recording Artist MTV-madonna period. doing psalm69 which turned most people on (not me…Twitch did). LAND OF RAPE AND HONEY!!! BLOW your mind killer album!!!) Your brain is a terrible thing to taste–kind of a let down. then this druggy heroin period. rockstar!!
yeah, al qualifies
Yes, but that doesn’t answer my question of whether Al Jourgensen was ever in an episode of Married With Children. I kind of want that to be real…
No, he was not on “Married With Children”. But Anthrax was on a classic episode.