Any Ministry fans out there?Follow

A friend at work told me the CD was really good... havent gotten a chance to listen to it yet.

This is probably Ministry's best album to date. At least, it is in my personal opinion. They sound much more focused and streamlined on this one. There's an awesome and fresh intense feeling that I haven't really heard from them since Psalm69. Makes sense I guess since Paul Barker's replacement, Mike Scaccia, also played on Psalm69.

There's some relevant (and humorous) commentary about the current state of the political climate in America as well. There are plenty of skillfully arranged sound bites from Bush and others scattered throughout the album, the likes of which I haven't heard since N.W.O. (when the other Bush was in the White House).

Jourgensen himself seems to think that a Republican in power means he's going to be making some more quality music. "Four more years of Republicans? We'll have a couple of platinum records, then." … "There just won't be an economy to sell them in."

Edited, Fri Jun 25 18:19:58 2004 by OnePrime

I'm 29 and I used to like Ministry when I was 19. One interesting thing to note that both this disc (which I'm hearing rave reviews about from friends and in the papers) and Psalm 69 (their "opus") were both made during Bush administrations and both are critical of the leadership of the country.

A couple of weeks ago I was at a club where they did a flashback set that had "Jesus Built My Hotrod" in it. I'd forgotten how much the aggression was contagious in that song, and indeed the whole album. It's been in my car since then.

I'm looking forward to checking out the disc. I'm becoming more and more disenfranchised with what is being passed off as music by new bands, and while this album could turn out to be more retreaded garbage, I'm willing to give it a shot. It can't be worse than Maroon 5 and all the other 70's clones out there or the pluthera of bad pop-punk bands proliferating music right now.

Grady