Artist: MINISTRY
Album: THE MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO TASTE REISSUE (CD)

Release date: 1989/ 2021
EAN/UPS: 8718627233283
Media type: CD

This 4^th studio album definitively turned Ministry from an electro-industrial dance band into a cutting-edge metal act. The main reason is that it provides the best balance between the Industrial and the Metal halves of Ministry‘s work. The Thrashy guitars are now fully integrated into the band’s sound, and Alien Jourgensen‘s voice has a Heavy Metal roar. With fusing thrash guitars and the excellent synth and percussion work Ministry lay the foundation for even more followers of the band’s music. The song that best sums up the album as a whole is ‘So What’, an 8 minute epic that combines a furious thrash-metal chorus with quieter extended sample-laden sections. This is such an important release and it heavily influenced music as we hear it today.

TRACKLIST:

"Thieves" (Alain Jourgensen/Paul Barker/Chris Connelly/Kevin Ogilvie) – 5:00

Samples
"Get up, get on your feet" – GySgt. Hartman from Full Metal Jacket
"We are fighting for the liberation of man. Not for the rights of these pigs. The rights of society!" – from The War at Home(Documentary)
"We're going to rip this motherfucker off, we're going to tear this motherfucker down." – from The War at Home(Documentary)
"I hope they realize this is their last god damned chance!" – from The War at Home(Documentary)
"KILL! KILL! KILL!" – The maggots from Full Metal Jacket
"Power to the people" – from The War at Home (Documentary)
"You will not kill!" – GySgt. Hartman from Full Metal Jacket
"I can't hear you!" – GySgt. Hartman from Full Metal Jacket
"I still can't hear you!" – GySgt. Hartman from Full Metal Jacket

"Burning Inside" (Jourgensen/Barker/William Rieflin/Connelly) – 5:16
"Never Believe" (Jourgensen/Barker/Connelly) – 4:58
"Cannibal Song" (Jourgensen/Barker/Connelly) – 6:07

Samples
"The mind is a labyrinth" - Dr. Channard from Hellbound: Hellraiser II

"Breathe" (Jourgensen/Barker/Rieflin/Connelly/Ogilvie) – 5:38
"So What" (Jourgensen/Barker/Rieflin/Connelly) – 8:12

Samples
The stern monologue is the Judge from The Violent Years

"Test" (Jourgensen/Barker/Rieflin/K. Lite) – 6:02
"Faith Collapsing" (Jourgensen/Barker/Connelly) – 4:00
"Dream Song" (Jourgensen/Barker) – 4:50 (incl. on CD only)

Samples
"Kalimankou Denkou (The Evening Gathering)" by the Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir from the 1987 album "Le Mysteres du Voix Bulgares"

LINE-UP:

Al Jourgensen – vocals, guitars, programming
Paul Barker – bass, programming
William Rieflin – drums, programming, background voice (track 8)

Chris Connelly – vocals (tracks 3-5), background vocals (track 6)
The Grand Wizard (K. Lite) – vocals (track 7)
The Slogan God (Tommie Boskie) – vocals (track 7)
Angela Lukacen – vocals (track 9)

Joe Kelly – background vocals (track 1)
Kevin Ogilvie – background vocals (tracks 5, 8)
Jeff Ward – background vocals (track 5)
Bobbie DiBartollo – background vocals (track 8)

Mars Williams – saxophone (track 4)