Ministry

I hadn't noticed, haha. I only watched a bit of the video, had it playing in the background while doing other stuff. I actually quite like the vocal effects on this, making his voice sound pretty harsh at times compared to the released Ministry stuff of the era. I like the overall sound more than what's on With Sympathy, kind of odd that even though this was recorded before that album, the song has a darker, heavier sound that they later went back to (and obviously went heavier as time went on). I need to find a download of this song.
 
Yeah, I agree. This was almost closer to Twitch than to With Sympathy. I almost wish they had done more stuff like this. Good find.
 
I'm totally with you here. It's not that later Ministry is bad per se it's just that I feel he just started making inferior versions of Psalm 69 over and over again. I already own Psalm 69 and like it a lot so I've never felt a huge urge to get five more alternate-but-not-as-good re-imaginings of it.


It's funny, I had a somewhat similar introduction to them, also in a car. When I was 13 or 14 I was riding in my brother's car (with my mother of all people), looking through his tapes when the cover of Land of Rape and Honey jumped out at me. So I popped it in the tapedeck and promptly had my mind blown. I had never heard anything like that before and was immediately a fan. I remeraber trying to describe the style of music to a friend of mine a few days later and the best I could come up with was "a cross between Depeche Mode and Obituary".
 
I lived on the far north side of Chicago in the Rogers Park neighborhood from 2001-2006. I went to Naperville quite a few times though. An ex-girlfriend of mine lived in Glen Ellyn and then in Bolingbrook so I spent a lot of time out the the general Naperville area.
 
I never spent any time on the north side, basically just the neighborhooRAB around Naperville and of course downtown Chicago. I bet Naperville was quite different already, 9 years after I left. I haven't been back since, but would like to visit one of these days.
 
Naperville as I knew was pretty nice and had a lot of stuff to do for a suburb. It had a nifty downtown which, hilariously, had a whole bunch of signs around proclaiming that you could be fined for cruising.
 
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