Ministry - Same Old Madness - 1982 (Very Rare - Revolting Cocks) (Ftr)

[todoslosputosnicks]

¡I cant believe that the singer were Alien Jouergensen! It´s true?

[MANGUITRONN]

it`s an old, old madness

[bigbadchang]

I love me some weak new wave MINISTRY. Al should go out sometime and do JUST the songs from With Sympathy. I'd go see that show for sure.

[ukusapillage]

its te frist time i hear ministry from yearly years and im shoked, i mean what is this, i firsthear ministry in 94 when a teen and it was heacvy as hell and this is so underground gay black leather type music, but its still cool i like the synth and the vibe

[cman7142000]

@ukusapillage why gay?no gay!!!

[MrMethadrine]

decay..

[voodoodrew23]

i liked Ministry's early stuff, as well as their aggro stuff...i'm astonished at the people who dog NIN for their lighter sounding synth stuff, while praising Ministry and Skinny Puppy...apparently, those fans forgot about this, and have also forgotten about Cevin Key's (from Skinny Puppy) tenure in Images In Vogue

[PoppyRiot]

Al looks incredibly hot in this vid!!

[machtlos]

Even back then, while it had elements of synthpop on the surface, it also had that sinister ministry feel to it....I think "Twitch" a few years after this was an utterly astounding moment in music history. I remember when Over the Shoulder rolled out to the clubs in 86. The sonic rawness and layered, intricate production both scared the shit out of us and really made us expect more out of electronic music ever after.

[syderwarp]

If he's ashamed of this its not shocking since the "metal/Agro" years are just fueled by crack,heron,etc. If he thinks being a addict to crack is better for music I'd like to here some good stuff already. the new Tour tickets are @ $132ish last I looked for what? Please Morrisey is at like $40 at a good venue!

[prunepurple]

amazing

[XenBuddhist]

I like this and their heavy industrial stuff, it's amazing how much they changed from this to say, 1984's "He's Angry" only a couple of years later. I use to have no idea they made music like this just like Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails started out playing music like this, but in a different band b4 nin.

[BeautyinDiatoms]

It's a pity Al's ashamed of this period. I could have equally enjoyed a lengthier new-romantic-ish style for years therein...

[Silks]

@BeautyinDiatoms I think he's more ashamed of the album "With Sympathy" and not technically this early Ministry period. It's not like they weren't playing stuff like this song live before that crappy album was recorded.

[tapanipaul]

I feel sorry for the multitudes that just don't get the lack of metal guitars... BONERS! I was surprised by the level of talent exhibited in these early recordings.

[calamitycrush9]

@nothingconnects - no! I couldnt afford the retrospectacle unfortunately! But hey, I have another theory and if anyone knows the truth, I will be eternally grateful - i'm almost POSITIVE that the carousel/carnival scenes in this video were taken at Kiddieland in Melrose Park, IL... I'd ask Al myself but I don't want to get hurt!

[theWytch]

same old AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!

[a090006]

love this song so much,thanks for posting this one,it is like going back in time!!

[csmackus]

Have you ever felt like just breaking out of your current reality and just going out in leather and finding a carousel? I have.

[MrLiberty1972]

@csmackus haha. good idea. i'll give it a go at Luna Park (in Melbourne) just to see the reactions.

[perpetual61]

I absolutely Loved the Early 80's era of Ministry. Before Al felt that in order to be taken seriously he had to go Industrial. I take his New Wave Period over any of that.

[supersoulrecs]

This is sooo good. Shame it never was released...

[sithlords666]

He can be synth pop, or more hard core...It's cool either way ;) I prefer to just enjoy music and have fun...

[calamitycrush9]

at 3:01 - is that the Cabaret Metro? lol

[nothingconnects]

@calamitycrush9 YES, that is most def the metro! good call : )))) were you at retrospectacle?

[kidneepunch1]

This stuff and prior to The Land Of Rape And Honey are at least far more interesting than the generic thrash band they would become.

[Vehement78]

1:55 PROPER GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY ELAINE! Thank fuck uncle Al locked you back in that closet.

[shawnrudiman]

al may hate this shit but this song is sweetness. fuck that metal crap. it takes more balls to do this than to be a angry meathead whiteboy.

[ewconnection]

Ministry evolved from electronica to an influential industrial band to a fantastic hard core thrash band.

Not sure about the merry go round, but then us Ministry fans pay attention to the music and not what lies on the periphery, e.g., talking on Oprah.

[dalmanation]

I could imagine these guys touring with the Cure

[korndud]

lol @ 2:37

[korndud]

he looks so homosexual. i love it.

[OvercookedSoul33]

@korndud korn is for homosexuals

[mparusz]

al Yourgensen dancing! Massacre. :), I prefer the metal incarnation of Psalm 69 :)

[thefatbros]

this is really al jourgensen singing????

[lolliwag]

Somebody Post the Lyrics up there w/video so I can sing along...it's so cool that I can understand every word in his industrial noisy songs like NWO & Just One Fix but in this otherwise clear, cleaner & crisp number, I can't understand a fucking word he's singing aside from the chorus which is the song title.

[lolliwag]

This song rules...synth-pop Ministry is absolutely delicious! Fuck that Industrial Metal Noise...these is the phat jams, kiddies! Gothy Nuwave Dance Music...and Al Jourgensen was the innovator; the Quincy Jones of his day, the pioneer of a wonderful sub-culture genre comprised of Goth Chics, apple martinis & wicked cool freaky haircuts!!! Bring it back, bitch...More Nuwave Ministry, Pleeease (picture commercial-"More pork sausages, Mom...pleeease"!

[cman7142000]

@lolliwag All Ministry is great,from the beginning through their latest...

[drogheda1966]

This must be the link between With Sympathy and Twitch...

[skatetolive34]

I was seven years old. I was seven years old. seven. That is hard to compute. Which revolting cocks are present, other than Al? Everyone is too young for me to i.d....

[idaho33100]

dude that's not a rare album, look up antimuzick, he should have alot of rare ministry as well as other groups.

[TheNecromancer8000]

holy shit, thats Al! fuck he looks waaaaay different

[salcerna1960]

still sounds goooooooooood!!

[mortician99]

Fantastic track...I really enjoy Ministry's early work (despite Al's abhorrence to it) thank you for posting!

[Larssfz]

I like :-))) hmmm Hysteria by Muse 2009 it sounds like the same bass line intro.

[mike2953]

It looks like a portion of this video was shot at the Metro.

[lolliwag]

this song is synth-pop bliss...unique & delicious!

[siness1234]

industrial legacy Vol. 6 This song is on this Album....I'm so glad I can listen to this in my car now.

[siness1234]

I want this song on CD....:( Al was so hot there.

[Ojma666]

I love this track ;]

[aerykaadamss]

Thank FUCKING whomever you worship this was made! Or else, sadly, we may not have had even half of what we listen to now.........

[aerykaadamss]

I love this video. This was made the year I was born! I have been listening to the Revolting Cocks, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Pigface, Bile, Frontline Assembly and Fear Factory for at least 15 years now! All of them are gods! It doesn't matter if you don't like this song, most of you were not even born, and some of you discovered this vein in high school, but the factbof the matter remains, everyone starts somewhere,

[METALHEAD975]

i enjoy bit's from all ministry albums

[cman7142000]

i wouldnt say all his industrial is shit.up to 94 is great.even this snthy pop...

[Achtungmiche]

looks like it was filmed at Metro too!

[carterharrington]

god this is great fuck his new piss metal shit

[Silks]

no doubt. This blows away everything Al has done since Paul left Ministry.

[junkyturd]

@carterharrington both are good in their different way

[TheBoilin]

@carterharrington

Well - I like it all! 

[Chuckybrent]

Jourgensen and barker better thank god for all the metal muscians they hired later on this sucks.

[Aggiechilds]

Paul Barker didn't start working with Al untill '86/'87. He helped turn Ministry into a monster starting with The Land of Rape and Honey. (Which I think you'll agree, took a slightly heavier approach to things.)

[rongrelio]

Temazo.

[davidsldennis]

WOW, Look at how young uncle Al is here. I've been a huge fan of Ministry and Al for over twenty years. I've never heard this song before, I like it.

[bigbrownheapof]

Mr. Al: don´t mind all that stupid jabber about this great piece of music. I like all what "Ministry" has produced, but this here is really something special. Since I´ve first heared this song, I can´t get it out of my head. Because it´s so true. All these documentals i watched and weird films, always this song brought me down to sleep afterwards. It canalized my energy

[bolaspace]

now i know why uncle al is embarrassed about this years /album ...

[salcerna1960]

this song still sounds excellent.

[kombikrajsta]

Best Ministry song

[mrshef666]

ive been a fan since Pslam 69 came out onwards and i love their early stuff,i think the earliest i heard before this was twitch :) this is awesome love it thanks for the upload

[mrshef666]

infact no the first thing i saw of Ministry was "incase ya didnt feel like showing up live" video AWESOME!

[cman7142000]

you can hear the industrial Ministry in this song.geat song.ALL Ministry is good from 1982 on...

[TheUndert0ker]

He was using AutoTune in the 80s!

[thetimefly]

@TheUndert0ker It's called a Vocoder

[vootman]

fucking gay(not that theres anything wrong with that!), but cool at the same time!

[mobyboy]

this band had so many different forms, the new wave style was my favorate

[sieeersciuch]

mistrzostwo!!!!

[apple4935]

Absolutely unbelievable. Al looks like a disciple of Freddie Mercury in this one. It's definitely a product of its time, so he shouldn't be too ashamed. I particularly love that "move" he makes at 1:55. His buddy does it half-heartedly as if to say "Just a few more years and we're done with this..."

[sonuvabix]

"Just a few more years and we're done with this..."

I checked that out yesterday and initially I thought your comment on 1:55 was good for a little laugh.

However, later on the day, I started to think about it even more and realized that your description of that "move" is seriously one of the funniest things I've read in a while. Genius.

Great song!

[michello2900]

;D ;D!! fuuuck.. i cant stop smiling looking at this lovely video!as a hugh ministry fan i thank u for posting this vid.<3 i havent seen this before Al is a real synth pop - future wave diva no doubt about it! even if now looks like oZZY :p

[leftran]

thats ministry , shiit

[Problembeing]

can't stop listening to it :P

[Problembeing]

Very influenced by Killing Joke here, definitely.

[michello2900]

hehe... jaeer.. thats pretty cool:p

they did kind of the same transformation from 80es new wave rock to more industrial metal albums in the 90es..

try KILLING JOKE brighter than a thousend suns album.. very melodic and poppy.:D

[Problembeing]

I'm not a great fan of that album, I have to say. I'm more into KJ's early stuff, and anything post 1990.  Although, having said that, 'Night Time' was a good album.

[michello2900]

woRd ma Friend! .. :):)

[Maxander2001]

Ministry has become more blunt in their political messages and more aggressive in their artistic expression, but they still are good imo, up until and including Adios...

[cornwallstone]

I love the early ministry tracks. Wish Al had incorporated more of the synth pop sound in the later years. I'm not suggesting that I'm not a fan of his newer work but like the old stuff better.

[DerKosmonaut1972]

The best Ministry album is The Land Of Rape And Honey. That is the most revolutionary album of all time. Period.

[WillSellari]

@DerKosmonaut1972 I guess you'd better stop listening to anything else, in fact, I'm confused why you'd even click on a video of Ministry's that wasn't off Rape and Honey?

[molonlave2010]

That was the Ministry I loved

Today, there shit!

[cbtgr]

This song actually sounds similar to Berlin's "The Metro". Same keyboard and drum tempo.

Anyway, I personally think that Psalm 69 was Ministry's best album ever.

[ollieroks]

LOL,YA IT IS BUT THIS WAS DONE BEFORE.

[vexxan]

I LOVE THIS SONG

ENERGY AND ATTITUDE

[caminaljuyu]

WELL SAID is the combination of ALain Jourgensen and Adrian Sherwood TWITCH rules!

[sovietnimrod]

The 'problem' with Ministry it was basically three or four different bands or styles playing under the same name - the only common denominator being Al. If Al disowned his early stuff, I'm surprised he kept the Ministry name when he went all hardcore. Anyways I think Twitch is by far the best Ministry album - one of the landmark albums from the 1980s which doesn't the attention and respect it deserves.

[oattoaster]

I read that Al was embarrassed by Twitch when speculating on his past. All Ministry and sideprojects kick ass!

[LordNothing]

Well, I have the opportunity to met Al on a concert in El Paso and he signed all my Ministry Albums, except for "With Symphaty"; he told me literally that "it is a piece of crap" . Anyway, I ilke all of Ministry eras, specially Psalm69 due to nostalgia issues, of course!

[dwilla]

That is hilarious that he wouldn't sign "With Sympathy"!! I have to agree with Al on that one. I've owned on a couple of occasions and ended up giving it away simply because I never listened to it!! And I'm a HUGE MINISTRY FAN!!! It's pure memorabilia!

[Deathkill06]

He's not embarrassed by Twitch, he just wasn't entirely happy with it. he gave it a 6/10 and With Sympathy got a -10000000 out of 10. Honestly Land of Rape and Honey is just Twitch with guitars and more aggression.

[thetimefly]

@Deathkill06 How can you say that about the Rape and Honey album being "just Twitch with guitars and more aggression"? It is it's own animal all together. It is one of the most raw sounding records of the genre.... truly punk industrial, if there was ever such a thing.

[Deathkill06]

No, I absolutely agree...and I didn't mean it as any kind of diss to the album, I just meant to say it was basically what twitch was, turned up towards a metal/punk attitude. It was still when Ministry was in the phase of using heavy synths for entire songs. Something that faded on the next album.

[shutupstupid9]

twich was more dance funky pop on coke ! rape and honey was just more

insane !

[zak21isr]

Didn't realy get it. Is this Ministry or Revolting Cocks?

Still funny to see...

[ReeferCore]

Al kinda of moves and looks like Rob Halford but doesn't quite sing as good as Halford. (LOL) With Sympathy rocks imho

[Synthpappa]

Al's wearing makeup!

[spiralmedula]

aaah, the 80's!;)

[thegame890]

Uncle Al sure can sing after listening to songs like NWO, Stigmata and The Last Sucker this one's hilarious

[sixstringpsyco]

Say it isnt so uncle Al

[blastik1000]

where the hell did this come from?? I thought I'd heard every Ministry song ever, but this confounds me. Was this ever released?

[Autolycus01]

No, this was never released on any album nor as a single. From what I've heard and read, Al used this to catch the attention of record companies.

[blastik1000]

thanks for the info, Autolycus. I know Al dismisses his old stuff, but it definitely has merit. This song, as a piece of 80's pop, is pretty good!

[Autolycus01]

No problem, Blastik. I think Al dismisses "With Sympathy" more so than the others. Besides, "With Sympathy," in the words of Al, was basically taken over by the producers. So, if that's true, I can understand dismissing something he didn't have control over. Although as I said before, this is an independent video (from the grapevine), so there's no way in hell Al can reject this without saying, "Yeah, I did this." Either way, its a great song.

[blastik1000]

yeah, I know Al doesn't acknowledge anything that's pre-Twitch, but I still think With Sympathy is good as far as 80's synth-pop goes. I think it's FAR better than the past three or four albums he's done, as well. But, nothing will ever compare to Twitch and Land of Rape and Honey. Those two will always be his best, in my humble opinion.

[TransAMGTA1988]

Love it!!!