Review# 8
ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ, more commonly known as Psalm 69: The way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs, reputedly Ministry’s biggest album and without question the one that put them in the mainstream spotlight with the video for Jesus Built My Hotrod. The name comes from a Greek word meaning "head", and the number 69 in Greek numerals.
The opening track N.W.O is a fantastic way to open, a bullet attack on George H. W. Bush and the Cold and Golf war. Bush even has some of his quotes from his speeches sampled into the track, along with samples from the film Apocalypse Now. Al Jourgensen (Ministry mainman) took this album into a slightly heavier path on this album, crunching in a heavier guitar sound while still keeping the Industrial sound they had on previous albums but not relying on that to such an extent as the previous four. The general feel of the album is very serious, dabbling with war, drugs and religion but none of it in a really preachy way. It’s more a “hey everybody here is my take on it, what do you think?” which is nice, I like it when opinionated bands don’t talk to you like you can’t take the facts and work it out for yourself.
Jesus Built My Hotrod is the big elephant in the album, don’t get me wrong I love the track and to be fair is quite a nice break from the album as it takes you to a place of crazy nothingness in amongst the darkness. The track features Gibby Haynes of the Buthole Surfers on vocals and has such fantastic lyrics as “ ding dang a dang bong bing bong/ ticky ticky thought of a gun” and so forth. Good stuff. The track Psalm 69 is another example of fantastic sampling with a creepy sample from the movie Altered States of a girl saying “I think that my heart has been touched by Christ”. It is a fantastic track and followed by Corrosion, a track that Website The Quietus named #9 on their quest for the heaviest song ever, which is another standout track on the album and Grace it is a fantastic end to an amazing album.
I would also like to mention that the mix on this is great, it is adequately smudgy and grimy but without losing anything the band are doing. I like it!
ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ, more commonly known as Psalm 69: The way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs, reputedly Ministry’s biggest album and without question the one that put them in the mainstream spotlight with the video for Jesus Built My Hotrod. The name comes from a Greek word meaning "head", and the number 69 in Greek numerals.
The opening track N.W.O is a fantastic way to open, a bullet attack on George H. W. Bush and the Cold and Golf war. Bush even has some of his quotes from his speeches sampled into the track, along with samples from the film Apocalypse Now. Al Jourgensen (Ministry mainman) took this album into a slightly heavier path on this album, crunching in a heavier guitar sound while still keeping the Industrial sound they had on previous albums but not relying on that to such an extent as the previous four. The general feel of the album is very serious, dabbling with war, drugs and religion but none of it in a really preachy way. It’s more a “hey everybody here is my take on it, what do you think?” which is nice, I like it when opinionated bands don’t talk to you like you can’t take the facts and work it out for yourself.
Jesus Built My Hotrod is the big elephant in the album, don’t get me wrong I love the track and to be fair is quite a nice break from the album as it takes you to a place of crazy nothingness in amongst the darkness. The track features Gibby Haynes of the Buthole Surfers on vocals and has such fantastic lyrics as “ ding dang a dang bong bing bong/ ticky ticky thought of a gun” and so forth. Good stuff. The track Psalm 69 is another example of fantastic sampling with a creepy sample from the movie Altered States of a girl saying “I think that my heart has been touched by Christ”. It is a fantastic track and followed by Corrosion, a track that Website The Quietus named #9 on their quest for the heaviest song ever, which is another standout track on the album and Grace it is a fantastic end to an amazing album.
I would also like to mention that the mix on this is great, it is adequately smudgy and grimy but without losing anything the band are doing. I like it!
Jesus Built My Hotrod: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXCh9OhDiCI
Just One Fix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbXciBKcfQ8
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