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Dimension5
From this album starts more guitar driven era of Ministry but this is one amazing album, dark, energetic, different and for its time very progressive. So many good songs: Burning Inside, Breathe, So What, Thieves and my personal favorite atmospheric ending with mystical Dream Song. 9/10
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EnricoFranchi
I love this album ! one of my fav , I love the distorted guitars and vocals and samples, bass sound too and industrial drums, perfect sounds / soundvibe !
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mediocre
Picked up this interesting bit from the wikipedia page: "For pre-production, Rieflin said he and Barker watched films for a month, sampling anything that caught their interest. Instead of writing music, they all improvised individually, rarely collaborating with each other. Connelly compared it to exquisite corpse, a Surrealist technique in which an artistic work is created collaboratively without any of the participants having knowledge of the others' contribution. Rieflin cited "So What" as the only track to feature two musicians in the studio at the same time."
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malonemuert
Their best. The Land... is more groundbreaking, but they just perfected their formula here - songs like "Burning Inside", "thieves", Cannibal Song", "Breathe" and (especially) "So What" just make it nearly perfect album. And I like "Test", the best metal-rap collaboration of the 80s :):)
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MisterJunior
Classic. If it weren't for "Test" I'd say this is a perfect album from start to finish. "Thieves," "Breathe," "Burning Inside," "So What" all pound like hell.
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pessimystica
i distinctly remember when i bought this at a used cd shop 10 years ago, the dude at the counter just replied "wow, what a great album"... & how right he was!!! i couldn't put this down for months, blasting it in my truck every chance i got. I'm surprised i didn't go deaf ;-) I caught up with a lot of other Ministry albums, but the 3 mid/late 80s Ministry albums are still my favorites: Twitch, TLoR&H, & this one
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TheBlackRaven87
Cannibal Song is so friggin awesome, intensive and creepy. Thieves, Burning Inside and So What are the other favorites of mine. 1989 must have been a great Industrial-year, with Ministry and Godflesh releasing masterpieces. too bad I was just 2 years old back then.
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lesans_muse
After I heard "Cannibal Song" and "So What", I started buying up any Ministry albums I could find. This one being one of my favorites. I love listening to their older albums because they are so different from each other and still amazing after all these years!
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Info_Broker
I believe this is Ministry's strongest release (by far). In fact, it is one of my all-time favorite albums (especially for getting pumped up!). Almost every cut is strong.
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pessimystica
i didn't get this album til about 10 years later after it came out... but when i got it at a used cd shop, the dude at the counter just said "wow, what an aMAzing album...", which is saying alot cuz they usually don't say anything about what you buy. & boy, was he right... so solid thruout, my favorites being "Burning Inside" & "Breathe". even "Test" is friggin cool!!
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stopdenlarm
Aphex_VI: I totally agree.. Faith Collapsing is the closer on the vinyl I bought back in the days.. Never really got used to Dream Song..
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agnosticmystic
Blew my mind on first listen. As far as early Ministry goes, Land of Rape and Honey is my fave, but this is a continuation of those themes and kicks solid ass. First time I heard Ministry was in a club called The Stud, in San Fran, 1983. I was dragged there by my stepbrother Jared (RIP), who was of the gay stripe. The tune was sorta '80's dance-clubby. I was happy with their trail-blazing shift in styles later in the decade. All-time Ministry fave will always be Psalm 69, however. It has never been topped. Recent albums (HOTM, RGB), after the clock-watching of the druggy phase, are only pale shadows of Psalm's brilliance, but are worth the money or downloading time.
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thedr9wningman
This was my first Ministry album. Usually your first taste of a band tends to be the best. I'm not sure if it has stood the test of time (the Land of Rape and Honey is pretty damned good), but it easily has some of the best tracks of Ministry's career on it.
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Lord_Derek
You definitely have to go with more recent Ministry if are looking for stuff similar to FF and SYL.
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