The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste

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Product Details

Artist : Ministry
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0075992600422
Label : Sire-Wbr
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 1989-11-16
UPC : 075992600422

ASIN : B000002LJ0

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Thieves
2. Burning Inside
3. Never Believe
4. Cannibal Song
5. Breathe
6. So What
7. Test
8. Faith Collapsing
9. Dream Song

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Editorial Reviews

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This was the record that definitively turned Ministry from an electro-industrial dance band into a cutting-edge metal act. With distorted vocals, pounding drum machines, and ripping guitar chords, songs like "Thieves" and "Burning Inside" merged computer technology with metallic riffology, setting the pace for dozens of second-rate computer nerds to follow. --Jon Wiederhorn

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Pionnier du genre aux côtés de Nine Inch Nails, Ministry est devenu le combo le plus populaire du genre indus. Formé à Chicago en 1981 par Alian Jourgensen, le groupe sut évoluer, après une tournée avec les Belges de Front 242, d'une musique synthétique fortement influencée par les nouveaux romantiques tendance Depeche Mode à un son beaucoup plus abrasif. Volontiers infidèle, en compagnie notamment de Jello Biafra des Dead Kennedys au sein des Revolting Cocks, le multi-instrumentiste Jourgensen revient toujours à la maison-mère post-industrielle de Ministry. Enregistré en 1989, The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste, quatrième album de Ministry, désoriente par sa direction dance. Jourgensen y expérimente le mélange d'une musique métal, indus et trash, avec une approche hip hop. Il sample des voix, utilise des beats distordus et joue sur des guitares hardcore. Les premiers titres, boucles brutales de dance totalitaires et claustrophobes soutenues par des rythmes sans âme, conduisent l'auditeur à la soumission. Cependant, les choses évoluent rapidement vers un néo-rap sympathique ("Test") et un groove plus sensuel ("So What"). Trois ans avant l'enregistrement de Psalm 69, album à l'apogée du genre qui révéla Ministry, The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste est l'un des plus excitants d'Al Jourgensen, l'homme qui contribua à inventer la techno à Chicago au milieu des eighties. --Sabrina Silamo

Customer Reviews

Amazing Cd [late review] (2008-02-04)

Ministry is one of those industrial metal bands that needs to be heard at least once in your lifetime. A Mind... is the band's best, tied with Psalm 69. There is a bunch of catchy songs, each with a very intelligent message. Lyrics are harsh, brutal, and have paved an act for legions of new bands.If you think industrial metal is boring, give this a spin, it will be hard to take out of your cd player for the first week or so, it is really that addictive. There is a reason why this is one of the bestselling cds on the Amazon list, even though it came out in 1989. Wow. That's almost 20 years. There's the proof, no more need to write more.5/5

Anger and Energy (2004-06-06)

This album is definately worthy of at least 4.5 stars. I don't think very many albums, if any at all since 1989, can match the pure anger and energy put out in this album. And that's just what it is, intense angry music. Not thrash metal, and certainly not smooth EBM like some groups nowadays. But this is just a great example of what Ministry was accomplishing during their best years in the late 80s. They have a style all their own.A style that seems to constantly change over the years (as if I had to point that out). I listened to this album many times as it kept growing on me like chest hair. Maybe some have to listen to this album more than once to get the effect. I know it sure became addictive to me.

Better than NIN? I think not! (2004-05-31)

People who complain that Nine Inch Nails isn't really an industrial band point to Ministry as an alternative--the Real Deal, if you will. Having recalled a fairly decent song off the Matrix soundtrack, I complied and rented this from the library.Thank God I didn't pay for it.I can't understand for the life of me why this band is worshipped. Every song is 4+ minutes of the exact same beat repeating over and over and OVER again, and the singer(s?) are completely incapable of changing pitch or actually creating some sort of melody--they just repeat the same techno-warped phrase in the same unbroken note throughout the CD. The only thing that actually changes from song to song is what message they're trying to pound into your brain. But there was potential for something greater, I'll give you that. Someday I will check out their other CDs and see if they get any better. But only after I dedicate my time to some more promising bands.Ministry: Heavier than NIN? Probably. Does that necessarily mean better? Not a chance.

Ministry's best (2004-02-27)

This album is Ministry's artistic peak. To me there are 3 worthy Ministry albums, The Land of Rape and Honey, The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste, and Psalm 69. The three, when viewed together, show the steady evolution of a band from experimental industrial band that uses guitars, to speed metal band that uses drum machines. Where perhaps LoRaH is more ground breaking, and Psalm69 has more mainstream appeal, this disc gets the best of both worlds. Almost completely guitar driven, but also very much dancable, and with the aid of Ogre from skinny puppy and a concise song list, this muscular industrial-metal cd proves its worth again and again.

Metal Machine Music (2004-02-17)

The title is taken from Die Krupps' song, and it perfectly describes the 53 minutes of this record. Al Jourgensen and Paul Barker are at their best, inspiration flowing out of every note.

This is the template and master-class for all industrial-metal. The drum-machine fills the air with mechanized super-precise pounding, that forces your body to convulsions. Bass-guitar adds to the overall heaviness. The guitar riffs are incredibly catchy, drowning the listener deeper in this entrancing sound of violent machinery. Highly processed voice of Al tears your eardrums apart.

"Thieves" and "Burning Inside" are Ministry's classic merciless tracks, that are as fresh-sounding now as they were 15 years ago. "Never Believe" is a bit lighter, and has emphasis on bass-lines. "Cannibal Song" is a slow hypnotic track, with a simultaneous feel of both Ministry's previous effort (The Land of Rape and Honey) and their sound of mid-90s. "Breathe" returns us to violent force of the 1st song. "So What" is my favourite here. It's incredibly innovative, since the whole "verse" part is one big sample taken from the movie "The Violent Years". The sampled speach is broken into smaller pieces, that are inserted precisely into the rhythm pattern. This is sampling perfection, rivalled by none! Remember, there were no sound-processing PCs at that time. "Test" is another brave experimentation, that tries to mix industrial-metal with rapping vocals. Very innovative again. Traces of this song could be heard on 1997's "The Fat of the Land" by British ravers The Prodigy. "Faith Collapsing" and "Dream Song" again return to slower tempo. With not really much vocals, they are filled with samples, that create that specific Ministry atmosphere.

This album competes with "Psalm 69" for the best Ministry album ever, and is doubtlessly one of the best and most influential recordings in recent 20 years. Essential purchase.

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