As the buzzard flies, the old Ministry compound was about 50 miles
outside of Austin, Texas. After years in the urban hub-bub of Chicago, Al
Jourgensen and Paul Barker (Ministry founding fathers) felt it was
time to seek out newer, quieter pastures of creativity. Thus "the
compound," a bunch of buildings scattered up and around a
hillside that used to be a whorehouse for the "big business" of Oil.
They started bringing all their spaghetti and jacks and crap and
plugging them up and all over the damn place. Spaghetti junction
achieved, everyone started writing and recording and re-writing
and re-recording before things started to turn weird. A haunted
house? With the history Al and Paul knew about (as well as the
history they didn't), many's the time they felt ghosts in the Jacuzzi
room and heard blood red bedrooms whooping and hollering at
night. Al cheerily confessed to blasting big fat holes in the walls in
his bedroom with his 12-gauge shotgun, trying to kill spiders the
size of fists which crawled lazily up and down in steady trickles.
All the time back there in spaghetti junction, Paul was slicing up
wires and jacks left and right to make microphones work and get
tracks done. But even Paul's handyman approach couldn't
eliminate crushing technical problems which often resulted in
two-week delays. Two weeks of stir-crazy. Two weeks where Al
would drift off and away frustrated and Paul would try to find
solutions, just as frustrated.
When long time drummer Bill Rieflin quit, good old Texan boy Rey
Washam (he was in Scratch Acid and Rape Man amongst other
bands) came on into the seat, was astounded and somewhat
intimidated by the working ways of Ministry, but quickly settled
down to produce a series of performances that have anchored
him as the Ministry skinsman.
Everyone took a break from the technical nightmares during
January '95, heading to Australia and Japan where the band
played some excellent shows. But on their return to the
"compound," it was the same old shit. Paul, frustrated and angry at
everything and everyone, took a break, upped, left and hid for a
while. Al decided that he had to leave the whorehouse and get
back to Chicago and Chicago Trax Studios. Back in familiar and
comfortable surroundings, without distractions and enjoying fully
functional gear, Al holed up for a couple of months and got to
work. Seriously. Paul was re-energized. Both started bouncing off
each other and the album was completed quickly and happily.
Filth Pig got finished. It isn't too much on the "happy shiny people"
side of life, but hell, is yours? It's really slow in parts, fat and ugly all
around and perhaps the most pure riff-driven Ministry album yet.
Yes, it's got all sorts of aggravation and pain and anger and
general shit dripping through the craziness.
You know what it is?
Wouldn't you make angry music?
Wouldn't you name it Filth Pig?
12 Inch Singles:
In Case You Didnt Feel Like Showing Up:
The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste:
Psalm 69:
Twitch:
With Sympathy:
Dark Side of the Spoon (release 6/8/99):
note:these sounds are in mp3:
THE LAND OF RAPE AND HONEY
Abortive
"T minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5,4; weīve got the main engine start - we have main..."
"Americaīs first space shuttle"
"And the shuttle has cleared the tower."
NASA (Space Programmes)
Flashback
"Now hold up, man!"
"Now look, man!"
"Everybodyīs got to die sometime"
"Iīm hurt real bad inside"
"Do it!"
Platoon
Golden Dawn
"You have been found guilty of commerce with the devil"
"State your confession"
"Confess! Confess!"
"The Anti-Christ"
The Devils
[chanting]
Aleister Crowley (Call of the Second Aethyr)
You Know What You Are
"Die Motherfucker!"
Aliens
"You know what you are" (note : the Ugly in the end of the film)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
"Cīmon motherfuckers!"
"Dance motherfucker!"
Platoon
[Old man laughing]
Fistfull of Dollars
Land of Rape and Honey
[Crowd chanting Sieg Heil]
The Tin Drum
THE MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO TASTE
Cannibal Song
"The mind is a labyrinth..."
[screaming sounds and background noise]
Hellraiser II : Hellbound
Faith Collapsing
"You...are the dead. Remain exactly where you are. Make no move until you are ordered. [glass breaking]"
"Big Brother said!"
"Brother said!"
"There have been spontaneous demonstrations by party workers, voicing their gratitude and joy"
1984
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9..."
"Yeah, you - come here. (Whatīs the meaning of this?) Cīmon, come here. (Whats the meaning of this?)
Look.
What was I talking about? I told you about it just the other day, didnīt I, didnīt I? Why canīt you do what
youīre told? Why canīt you do what youīre told, eh? Why canīt you? Look at it. Look. Did I tell you...
havenīt you got a head?"
"Whatīs happening? [sound of glass breaking]"
"The system will eat itself"
"Watch for a man running through the streets. Repeating: Calling all citizens. wanted for murder, the
criminal is alone and on foot. Let each one stand at his front door, look and listen. Watch for a man
running through the streets. Repeating: Calling all citizens."
Fahrenheit 451
So What
"You have had all that money cangive you, but that wasnīt enough. you became a thrill seeker..."
"Kill for a thrill"
This thrill seeking became the one great thing in your life, piling one thrill on another untill...the murder."
"Kill for the love of killing."
The thrill seeker comes from all walks of life...comes from the home...the home where the parents are too
busy to...train their children respect."
"So What!"
"So What!" (note: diffrent sample)
"Some people think newspapers exaggerate juvenile crime, or that itīs confined mostly to large cities.
Juvenile delinquencies on the rise...thus apparent that something has gone wrong with the environment.
Adults create the world children live in. juvenile delinquency is always rooted in adult delinquency,
and in this process parents play a key role. When children grow up among adults who refuse to recognize
anything that is fine and good or worthy of respect..."
"Guilty!"
The Violent Years (note: Ed Wood 1956)
Thieves
"I canīt hear you!"
"I still canīt hear you!"
"Kill, kill, kill..."
"Get up, get on your feet!"
"You will not kill!"
"Pray!"
"huh!"
Full Metal Jacket
"Weīre gonna rip this motherfucker off, weīre gonna tear this motherfucker down." (note: Mel Gibson)
Lethal Weapon
"I hope they realize this is their last goddamned chance!"
The War at Home (documentary)
Dream Song
[echolalic singing]
Bulgarian Voices Choir (Kalimankou Denkou/Evening Gathering)
PSALM 69: THE WAY TO SUCCEED AND THE WAY TO SUCK EGGS
Jesus Built My Hotrod (Redline/Whiteline edit)
"Letīs hit the fucking road"
[tires squealing]
Blue Velvet
"Listen, dig this!"
"Nobody with a good car needs to worry about nothinī, do you understand?"
"Nobody with a good car needs to be justified."
"And Iīll tell you why"
"I come a long way since I believed in anything and I come halfway around the world."
"What are you talking about?"
"Where you came from is gone, where you thought you were going werenīt never there and where you are
ainīt no good unless you can get away from it..."
Wise Blood
"Thereīs no use trying to talk. No human sound can stand up to this."
"Loud enough to knock you down."
"These sensations are as hard to forget as they are to ignore."
Dragracing announcer
"Burnout"
"Dragracing"
?
Just One Fix
"Jesus wept!"
"Nooooooooooooo!"
Hellraiser
"Give me that thorazine man...Iīm gonna die"
The Trip
"Never trust a junkie!" (note: Nancy)
Sid and Nancy
"I wanna fix! Gimme a fix!"
"Just one fix" (note: Frank Sinatra)
The Man With the Golden Arm
"Smash the control images. Smash the control machine. Junkies have no interest in sex and they have no
interest
in other people except as suppliers of junk. They go around looking younger for a few days. Then they
need more."
William S. Borroughs (note: 12" edit) Ī
"To put it country simple; Earth has a lot of things other folks might want, like the whole planet.
And maybe these folks would like a few changes made. Like more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere [***]
for
their way of life. You seen this happen before, right here in the United States. Your way of life destroyed
the
indians way of life. Iīm with the invaders , no use trying to hide that. And at the same time I disagree with
some of the things theyīre doing. No, weīre not united any more than you are. Conservative faction is set
on
nuclear war as a solution to [***]personality. Others disagree. I donīt claim that my beliefs are 100%
humane, but I do say if we donīt come up with something quieter and kinder than that...we arenīt all much
better than you earthlings."
William S. Burroughs (note: Quick Fix remix) Ī
[Happiness in slavery]
Nine Inch Nails (Broken) (note: Quick Fix remix)
"Thereīs no place else to go. The theatre is closed. Cut word lines. Cut music lines. Smash the control
images.
Smash the control machine."
William S. Burroughs (note: Quick Fix remix) Ī
Ī Not really samples since Burroughs read from his books especially on Al Jourgensen's request.
N.W.O.
"Alright, itīs alright!"
[siren sounds]
Apocalypse Now
"A new world order. Weīre not about to make the same mistake twice."
"God bless America! [crowd sheering]" *
"Wait...watch and learn." *
"I believe in freedom." *
"What we are looking at is good and evil, right and wrong. A new world order."
George Bush (President) (note: * = 9 minute Dance edit)
"Iīm not setting myself above any law." *
Joseph McCarthy (senator) (note: * = 9 minute Dance edit)
Psalm 69
"I feel that my heart is being touched by Christ." (note: young woman)
Altered States
"Liar!"
"Blasphemer!"
The Pit and the Pendulum
"Stop it!"
Suspiria
"And now, itīs time for us to give a little love back to God."
"Amen!"
"Praise Jesus!"
?
Scarecrow
[wailing sound 1] (note: musical sting when the headless apparition kills the nurse)
[wailing sound 2] (note: musical sting when the possessed catatonic attacks)
Exorcist III
Corrosion
"Fight! Fight!"
[screams]
The Abyss
Grace
"Doomsday"
"The final battle"
"Armageddon"
"Apocalypse"
[screams] (note: throughout the whole song)
Armageddon (documentary)
FILTH PIG
Crumbs
"I never had a life. I donīt even know what life is."
Charles Manson
Lava
"Oyeah!"
?
TV III (B-side on Fall single)
"I aintīt afraid of skulls and alters and all that shit"
Apocalypse Now
"The bitch is nuts man. Sheīs been smoking that angel dust"
"Hello lover! Wanna go out?"
Fort Apache the Bronx
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