Ministry - The Last Sucker
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Artist: MinistryEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2007-09-18
Music Label: 13th Planet/Megaforce
Soundtracks:
- Let s Go
- Watch Yourself
- Life Is Good
- The Dick Song
- The Last Sucker
- No Glory
- Death & Destruction
- Roadhouse Blues
- Die In A Crash
- End of Days Part One
- End of Days Part Two
Free Music Notes for The Last Sucker
Free Music Review: Ministration: the way to be and the way to leave! (Pun on "Psalm 69: the way to succeed and the way to suck eggs.")
Hit: 5 Stars
I've been a Ministry fan since almost the begining-1989's "The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste", which I found by accident while joining a CD/Book Club. I was so impressed by the intense double-base-times-ten beats with perfect decidedly placed appropriate samples, that I became an instant fan. After that, I kept my ears open for more Ministresque industrial-thrash sounds. I also developed friends along the way who introduced me to others including: KMFDM, Front 242 and Skinny Puppy. In my opinion, Al Jourgensen and Co. are the Masters of Sampling and pioneers of industrial metal. Without Ministry, there would be no Rob or White Zombie, Nine Inch Nails or Static-X. I was ridiculed in the past for being a Ministry fan because they were always ahead of their time and going against the grain of modern metal--no one understood. My personal favorite album like many other Ministry fans is 1992's Psalm 69--I remember copies of the "Jesus Built My Hotrod" single floating around the undergrond industrial/thrash/metal scene of my high school before "Psalm 69" was ever released. My all-time personal favorite single is: "Dead Guy" from Filth Pig, followed by "Gangreen" from Rio Grande Blood and "The Dick Song" off of the album in question (The Last Sucker).
If this is indeed Ministry's final studio offering, I'm extremely proud of what they have produced. What I've enjoyed from Ministry over the years is the samples and how they are placed. The last couple of albums I've been slightly disappointed with, even though the songs were good.
As for "The Last Sucker", I'm blown away by not only the samples but, how they are perfectly placed within the songs. I could not think of any better song to start the album off with other than: "Let's Go", which has a repeatative sample revealing what is yet to come if you listen to the remainder of the CD--"...the tides are risin' and the sea is comin'in! A storm's a brewin'!" The album continues on with the politically charged single: "Watch Yourself" with another amazing sample to introduce the song. "The Dick Song" not only is amusing but, relives the true tale of Vice President Dick Chaney's hunting accident, including samples from the media release and of Mr. Chaney himself. The title track, "The Last Sucker" is a nice surprise rhythmically speaking as well as: "Die In A Crash" that is reminiscent of "The Land Of Rape And Honey" days. Speaking of days, the final opus: "End of Days (Pt. 1 and 2) is the perfect way to end a final Ministry release, especially with Part 2 containing the longest and most fitting sample. The cover artwork with removeable Serpent-Bush motion graphic is a nice aesthetic touch as you open the CD.
If we are not to hear from Ministry again, some things that I would like them to be remembered for but, not limited to are:
-Industrial sampling pioneers
-Most respected-in-your-face live band
and politically influential
Hope to see Ministry performing intermittently from here on out even though no new albums exist. Peace and sampling live on!
The Last Sucker Poster
Deep in the heart of Hell Paso Texas, Ministry?s Al Jourgensen?s studio has been at warp speed for the past year, furiously hammering out the third and final edition of the trilogy, The Last Sucker follows 2004?s Houses Of The Mole and 2006?s Rio Grande Blood. After twelve albums and 27 years (including four Grammy nominations), Uncle Al?s decided the Ministry garage is ready to close its doors, leaving The Last Sucker as the final Ministry studio offering. Welcome to the renegade road warrior Al Jourgensen?s latest behemoth an off-the-map, 12 hundred horsepower vehicle. Fuel-injected with equal parts fury, disgust, distrust and dismay, spitting and sizzling with grease and venom, each joint heaves under the pressure of emotionally relentless delivery. From the first double-digit salvo of ?Let?s Go,? with its deliciously bizarre trademark Ministry wasteland brutality, Jourgensen outlays a glorious smorgasbord of Ministry mayhem. Strap on ?Death & Destruction? for joyriding thrills, ?Watch Yourself? for its distinctive Ministry ?sample and slam you? warning, ?The Dick Song,? for Ministry?s tribute to the current US Veep, and a propane-powered cover of The Doors ?Roadhouse Blues.?Ministry mastermind Al Jourgensen has announced that The Last Sucker is the band's last stab. And that's as it should be, for the 11-track recording finds the outfit in the finest form it's been for more than a decade, harkening back to classic Ministry output such as A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste and Psalm 69. Throughout, Jourgensen smashes and thrashes eardrums and illusions with "Watch Yourself," "The Dick Song," and the title cut with all the angst of a man who's spent more than two decades battling normalcy, pop radio, and the White House. Never one to stray from brutality, he offers it all up here via "No Glory," "End Of Days" (both Part I and Part II), and even a cheeky (but not too cheeky) take on the Doors' classic "Roadhouse Blues." A fine and fitting epitaph for one of America's greatest and most uncompromising bands. --Jedd Beaudoin
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