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Psalm 69: The Way To Succeed And The Way To Suck Eggs
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Product Details/SpecificationsRecording label: Sire / Warner EAN: 0007599267272Binding: Audio CDRelease Date: 1992-07-14Universal product code (UPC): 075992672726Number of discs: 1Product Description
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Media Type: CD
Artist: MINISTRY
Title: PSALM 69
Street Release Date: 07/14/1992
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Genre: ROCK/POP
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Ministry's followup to The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste makes use of the same aggressive approach but sinks to a darker and fiercer level. Chokehold opener "N.W.O." uses tape loops of then-President Bush calling for a "New World Order," which Ministry delivers by infusing their industrial savvy with machine-gunned, thrash metal guitars, relentless beats, and vocals that run the gamut from deranged auctioneer of the damned ("Jesus Built My Hotrod") to terrifying screams ("Just One Fix"). Fast and furious, Psalm 69 is an acidic taste of Ministry at their most focused and diabolical. --Erin Amar
Devil doo-wopReview Date: 2009-06-29 Rating: 6 out of 103 1/2
For an early 90's industrial-metal release, Psalm 69 still comes slathered in a surprisingly seductive sheen which belies its dated and doomed synthesis; still keeping it apart from countless imitators and even emulators.
ReviewsBest Mnistry albumReview Date: 2008-07-10 Rating: 10 out of 10When this record came out it established a new sound, the heaviest thing ever heard at the time! It was a very intense experience, nowadays psalm 69 remains Ministry's best effort so far. Among the best Industrial metal records of all time.Sucks eggsReview Date: 2007-12-09 Rating: 2 out of 10Midway through the opening cut, "N.W.O.," with Bush Sr. rapping at the mic, there's a moment where all the steroid-chugging axe grinding and scream-at-the-top-of-your-lungs-like-you're-a-frantic-ghoul vocals fade and the listener is left with a myopic dance beat. And that's when well-versed listeners will remember that Ministry started out (shudder at "Twitch") and was condemned to remain a sissy boogie band. Alain Jourgensen and pals merely added a Skinny Puppy motor to their makeshift parade float by the time they recorded "Land of Rape and Honey."
"Psalm" continues to lose IQ points as you delve further. The clunky wrestler's-catwalk theme "TV II" and meathead-friendly powerpuff "Jesus Built My Hot Rod" reveal Jourgenson to be in the same dopey league as the Bush clan he so constantly rails against. "Tell me something I don't know" is apropros of George Jr., as well as "Diggy diggy-don a dong dong ding-dong." But the line, "Who'm I trying to impress, who could care less?" has for me come to merely mean that Jourgensen is a man who has no faith in his convictions ... or pumps so much noise, lights, screaming and other testosterone-sized diversions into the mix that you ultimately realize he just can't take himself seriously, which should be insulting if you are a fan.
However, if the most challenging music you can handle is jerry-built by bands like Kid Rock, Monster Magnet and White Zombie, then by all means add this to your collection. However, first put down that bong and check to make sure you don't already have it somewhere in your milk-crate library.This album owns!!!!Review Date: 2007-12-07 Rating: 10 out of 10Great thrash album, Al has done it again, great songs awesome riffs and great lyrics all the way threw.It's thrash, Jim, but not as we know it.Review Date: 2007-09-18 Rating: 10 out of 10Making a basic Slayer-style speed metal album wouldn't have sufficed for Uncle Al. He wanted to create something far uglier. Something industrialised. Something which would kick grunge off the radio and into the same mass grave as glam rock. That something was Psalm 69, a seethingly furious blast of distorted vocals, disturbing samples, inhumanly fast drumming and guitars processed to the point that they become blurs of jarring white noise. Even the thorough mauling of the psychobilly genre results in the deranged classic Jesus Built my Hotrod, featuring nonsensical lyrics courtesy of gibberin' Gibby Haynes (yeah, he of [...] Surfers fame) who apparently WASN'T drugged up to the eyeballs at the time. A pummeling riff worthy of any metalhead's attention can be found on Just One Fix, while those more noise-inclined will have any ideas that Ministry isn't a "true" industrial act destroyed by the eardrum-rendering savagery of Corrosion. Amongst all the chaos, you'll find the apocalyptically majestic title track, a short yet violent outburst known as TV 2 and the incredible Scarecrow, which crushes slowly yet effectively.
In 1992, Ministry was the last word in extremity, yet found enormous commercial success. In the 21st century, their finest hour still stands as testament to what can be achieved through man and machine's aggressive mating.
Brand: MINISTRYDisc 1 Tracks: 1. N.W.O.2. Just One Fix3. TV II4. Hero5. Jesus Built My Hotrod6. Scare Crow7. Psalm 698. Corrosion9. GracePublishers: Sire / Warner
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