found this site…not sure if this isn’t info we already know:
filth pig
The title was allegedly derived from a statement made in the British Houses of Parliament, where bandleader Al Jourgensen was described as a “filthy pig” by one of the MPs.
so what
The sample in this song comes from the classic Ed Wood B-movie The Violent Years
what about us
Ministry wrote this for the 2001 Steven Spielberg movie A.I. It was used in the “Flesh Fair” scene, where the robots get ripped apart.
Ministry performed this in the movie. Spielberg kept the set closed so details of the plot wouldn’t get out. The band had to sign confidentiality agreements and were only shown a small part of the script.
you know what you are?
The opening creepy laugh in this song (which pans left and right in the speakers) is a sample from the bartender scene in Clint Eastwood’s movie A Fistful of Dollars.
Attack Ships On Fire
The title is a reference to Rutger Hauer’s dying soliloquy at the end of the movie Blade Runner.
“You know what you are?” is a line by Tuco (Eli Wallach) in the final scene of ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’. Fucking great film. Might watch it again tonight.
You’ve made me want to watch TGB&U now as well… got all those old spaghetti westerns on VHS!
Anyone else dig em?
HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER FTW. Painting a town red, making them rename it HELL, fucking everyone’s wife and making a midget the mayor is the coolest payoff for ‘protecting’ a town under siege… [laugh]
Did you know that Jesus Built My Hotrod was originally sung by Al and had ‘lyrics’?
Apparently the track just wasn’t working and then Gibby turned up at the studio late one night completely off his face and…well you know the rest.
I’ve also heard that Barker wrote the song Useless after Al called him that while Barker was frantically attempting to fix an electrical fault in the studio not long after they’d relocated to Texas to record the follw up to Psalm 69.
I’ve also heard that Corrosion is a conglomerate of three songs they were working on and decided to scrap. Barker took bits from all three scrapped songs and called it Corrosion.
Barker was pissed during the Psalm 69 sessions that he couldn’t make a ‘noisy’ record and that Al had caved in to suggestions from Warners that they make it more ‘rock’.
I don’t remember the exact publication, but I remember reading an interview with Mikey and Al back when “Filth Pig” came out and they were talking about some of the sounds on the album. You know that weird “RRREEEEEEHHHUUUEEWWW RRREEEEEHHHEEEUUUWWW” squealy piglike sound in the song? They said that was a toy remote control truck. They’d rev the engine to get that sound which they then sampled and looped backwards.
When you think of this next time you hear the song you can make it out pretty good.
You’ve made me want to watch TGB&U now as well… got all those old spaghetti westerns on VHS!
Anyone else dig em?
HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER FTW. Painting a town red, making them rename it HELL, fucking everyone’s wife and making a midget the mayor is the coolest payoff for ‘protecting’ a town under siege… [laugh]
‘High Plains Drifter’ is one of the top westerns. That film had balls bigger than most. What was that quote after Clint did the bad deed on the woman and was wondering why it took so long for her to get angry, the midget Mordecai says something like: “because you didn’t go back for more” A raw, fucked up film.
Clint’s ‘The Outlaw Josey Wales’ film is pretty good too, if not too biased in favour of the rebs. A great line from that I remember: “There are three kinds of suns in Kansas: sunshine, sunflowers and sons of bitches”.
Love the westerns with a civil war backdrop and that’s probably why ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’ is the best. An epic in every way. How that was filmed has never been topped. The sheer scope of it added to the brilliant characters and music.
I’d add ‘Once Upon a Time in the West’ and ‘The WIld Bunch’ to the essential western list.
There’s a calling there for a hard and graphic western to be made now. It’s a shame ‘Deadwood’ didn’t do better than it did, could have led to something bigger. Some recent westerns like the ‘3:10 to Yuma’ remake were good but too “nice” if you know what I mean.
Yeah Hollywood has been effectively trying to make the Western Film dead for the past decade or so. The few projects that have been made in the past few years like ‘3:10 To Yuma’, ’ Appaloosa’ have been good, but something is just missing.
The Spaghetti western helped usher in the age of the anti-hero in film, and I believe the Leone/Eastwood films are some of the best cinema ever made. Lee Van Cleef is certainly awesome in both TGTB&TU, and For A Few Dollars More. If you like those check out ‘Yojimbo’ by Akira Kurosawa the fim that ‘Fistful of Dollars’ is based on.
Putting this thread back on Ministry how about ‘Happy Dust’? If there ever was a Buck Satan album released that sounded all like this track then my faith in Al would be restored. Not holding my breath though.
Unforgiven was probably the last great western made. I always felt that it essentially ended the era of the revisionist western, a genre of film that had huge impact not only on Hollywood but also on various other waves of cinema around the world.
With the exception of only a few stinkoids pretty much anything with Clint in it is solid gold. Clint has the perfect style and attitude that translates so well to the Western format and genre.
In my opinion, Gran Torino is basically just a classic Western put into the ghetto. I kind of wonder if Clint just didn’t want to get on a horse anymore. I mean really, think about that story and you’ll see I’m right.
The outlaws are terrorizing the town and the good folk are living in fear.
The legitimate authorities can’t do squat about it.
The good-intentioned priest is helpless.
Clint mentors some scrub and teaches him to man up.
Clint goes on a path of vengeance (drinking, spitting, smoking, and cussing all the while).
Clint dies a martyr’s death, leaving a glimmer of hope.
I don’t know, maybe I’m on crack but it seems pretty obvious to me.
Al pretty much wrote What About Us over the phone with the producers of A.I.
Al also claims he cant remember making Dark Side Of The Spoon. How can he not remember making that masterpiece
Al pretty much wrote What About Us over the phone with the producers of A.I.
Al also claims he cant remember making Dark Side Of The Spoon. How can he not remember making that masterpiece
I’ve always been under the impression that Al was inspired to use the title “So What” because it was something that Ves, the owner of Club 950, used to say a lot and something that Al used to say when he impersonated Ves.
Ves was Croatian I think and had one of those funny, East-European “wild and crazy guys” accents. Ves and Al were pretty good pals although complete opposites. We all used to get a big kick out of Vez’s nutty malaprops…things like “my eyes were one inch thick” and “of course I scared…I shoot!”, “Jeddy (Jerry) get broom!” and the immortal “dance, drink, sweat” which is how he described the success of Club 950. You had to have been there I suppose.
Ves had a funny way of shrugging people off by saying, “So What?” in his Croatian accent. I guess I always thought that’s were Al got the initial inspiration.
I don’t remember the exact publication, but I remember reading an interview with Mikey and Al back when “Filth Pig” came out and they were talking about some of the sounds on the album. You know that weird “RRREEEEEEHHHUUUEEWWW RRREEEEEHHHEEEUUUWWW” squealy piglike sound in the song? They said that was a toy remote control truck. They’d rev the engine to get that sound which they then sampled and looped backwards.
When you think of this next time you hear the song you can make it out pretty good.
I thought that was a sample of a guy saying “Be healed” strangely.