This is and always has been one of my fav Ministry songs. Just can't stand how much I love this sound. The Whole of Twitch has just grown on me over the years - I like a lot of his later stuff but kind of stopped after Psalm 69. Thank you Ministry..
this was one of the best club songs when it played in the mid 80s before there was some "pre" ministry and some "post" ministry--they were just "Ministry." This video is so f-ing lame it isn't even funny. What do stealing grocieries and cars have to do with what this song is about??? It's about vast consumerism. What does that have to do with a couple of stupid kids who are stealing cars?? If I caught someone breaking into my car I would shoot them . . .
@crinklewing - absolutely....this was incredibly angry sounding when it came out, remember it distinctly the first time I heard it. Proceeded to record shop - BUY!
thanks for posting, i didnt know they used to sound like this. i like both the angry and the early. some people,as i have, get angrier with age. all good music
Cool this band reminds me of Ministry, try searching -who is barry soetoro? by Nomessiah- gotta listen to this awesome metal song about the fraud of Barack Obama!
Twitch is my favorite Ministry album and possibly their only pure "industrial" album. They went pretty metal pretty quickly after this. I think the guitar has a harder image than sounds that are "synthesized." Al seems to have wanted to distance himself from "With Sympathy" so badly that he went too far in the other direction. Personally I don't really see a steady evolution. After Twitch the guitar started to dominate their sound.
fix the audio on this PLEASE!!! There was a music video of the exact same song but it wasn't all muffled. But it's been taken off youtube for some reason.
Holy crap, I now am starting to think that it is Al singing this song. For almost 20 years, I was convinced this was a black vocalist, just has that sound.
I'll have to try to run this through a pitch shifter and see if it sounds more like Al a few notes lower.
Do a youtube search on "Crash and Burn Ministry" and you get to hear IMO the first aggro Ministry song in 1986. They were the last two tracks of that album and was almost an intro into their next album "The land of rape and honey" in 1988.
I always thought it was "Stigmata"...that was the first "angry" tune I heard by them...but I have to say, their album, "The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste" sealed the deal...
...BTW, does anybody know what happened to the actual video for "Burning Inside" ( not the homemade crap, the real video )??????
Al Jourgenson is undeniably the GODFATHER of Industrial-Techno-Metal. (Notice I DIDN'T use the word "Industrial" only??) Yeah, for all you clowns who are going to JUMP on me for saying Throbbing Gristle and the likes were "true industrial" before Al was even around.
I'm a fruitcake. I came out (gay) listening to "twitch" at Western Illinois University. YIKES! Saw Al live at Medusa's in Chicago w/ Revolting Cocks. Long live WaxTrax. and I love Chris and Cosey too
dude, this shit was the downfall of industrial-the true industrial bands-throbbing gristle, early spk, nurse with wound, monte cazazza, nocturnal emissions-now THATS industrial. This is synthpop with MINOR industrial elements.
I know the "history of industrial", you fuckin' wank. I was referring to the sound & aesthetic. Nothing is more industrial than jackhammering concrete & sheet metal while setting the stage on fire. WAY more industrial than NWW or SPK. You'd know that if you ever saw them.
Einsturzende Neubautenare indeed quite industrial, however, to dismiss throbbing gristle as "keyboard wankery" when throbbing gristle, for all basic intents and purposes, INVENTED industrial music, is madness. The artists I listed came first-making them closer to the original definition than einsturzende neubauten. So no, einsturzende neubauten are LESS industrial than the bands i listed-in the beginning industrial meant droning random noise, not pounding beats.
More alternative than thou? I never made that claim anywhere. Despite my earlier guesses, you do seem quite well-versed and experienced. However, I still simply think it does not make sense to claim that the bands that invented industrial aren't industrial.
That was an early '90s reference- thought you might remember. Anyway, I totally UNDERSTAND what you're saying- I just don't AGREE with it. It's like, who's more rock & roll- Chuck Berry or Hendrix? Berry originated it, but I'd be hard pressed to put him over Jimi, ya dig?
Okay, I'll grant your point there-I can't really claim Throbbing Gristle is MORE industrial than einsturzende neubauten. However, I can certainly dismiss the claim you seemed to be making earlier where you said that the bands i listed are not industrial. What you did earlier is more akin to saying that Chuck Berry isn't rock and roll. Whether or not he's more or less rock than jimi, the fact that he originated the genre makes it plain that he is a part of it.
TG, Cazazza, & NE are industrial. SPK, who I love, are more darkambient (some of Revell's solo stuff is more industrial than SPK). NWW I always thought of as noise/ experimental...
I should clarify that i was talking about SPK in their Information Overload Unit album-they changed their style after that quite a bit, becoming, among other things, yes, a darkambient band (though i haven't heard much later SPK, as what I have heard of their later material hasn't really impressed me. never driven to find more.) I personally tend to think of NWW as the most industrial band ever, but i realize that theres no real evidence to back this up.
Oh, for sure, regardless of how industrial he is or isn't, he's flat out fucking awesome.
Incidentally, sorry for my first response. But when someone says something like "throbbing gristle isn't industrial" (which is what I thought you said) I tend to immediately assume that im dealing with a rivethead retard. (even if they pretty much prove they DO, in fact, know their shit by mentioning Einsturzende Neubauten.)
what's the problem? why is every bodybody against nin? you should have a problem against pop or rap music nowdays! not to synthpop, belgian beat(new beat), ebm, industrial! ministry is great! but personal to me it's nin! i've been throu shit and nin was there for me!
Ministry, Cabaret Voltaire, Front 242, Revolting Cocks, Skinny puppies, Laibach, Clock DVA, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Einstürzende Neubauten, ect... @ Wax Traxx records in Chicago and the mixes of Adrian Sherwood! What a wonderful life! buy the way NIN sucks jaja
He is being sued by Jourguensen in fact (check wikipedia... there's a official link to the actual court case file). Too bad. They did work great together in Ministry's golden years. I wonder what made their work relation that bitter?
Yeh, it's funny. People say that they cant understand how this is Ministry or how this is Ministry before they got angry, but if you listem to them, they werent "HAPPY", they were already on the Neorotic path. If youve never been there, then you just dont understand. This isnt RADIO FRIENDLY dance music you know. It's fanatic, human rights, symbolic, neurotic stew. LISTEN!!!! ITS GREAT
Hehehehe. I agree on everything u said, that's it 'till the "80s being the best decade for music". Wrong. The most prolific, creative & important decade in music has been the 70s. All genres of the 80s originated in that era.
I love this video! It is so funny. Al looks hilarious in it...riding around in the shopping cart/trolley then with eggs and flour on him. And his fake English accent that I think was the record label's idea from what I remember.
I wish the sound was better. I like this song, but the video is not at all what I pictured when hearing it... I mean the visuals don't seem to fit the sounds.
This is the transitional album for Ministry between With Sympathy and the Land of Rape and Honey. One of the seminal Proto-Industrial albums, it's hard to imagine Nine Inch Nails being possible without this first.
Yes. I've heard all I need to. He ripped off a genre, and made it commercially viable. Being anti-bush has nothing to do with what his music sounds like. anyways, Ministry next year!
I really wish there was more of this sound other than Twitch and the 12" singles. This really is Ministry at its best. And Al's look in this video is perfect.
Hairstyle? Heh heh! He looks like Sideshow Bob! Glad to see this video is still up. How you ask? Drugs. And why bother to work hard making good music when your fans will lap up any toxic sludge that leaks out of your amps?
if it were connected, there would have to be some kind of bridge LP. NIN had broken, radiohead had OK computer. LORH just fucking happened overnight though
Actually this isn't as bad as I remember. When I first bought "Twitch", I was expecting to hear something like "Land of Rape..." and was so pissed at this electronic dance music. I had no idea they played different music before and found out the hard way. I never played "Twitch" again but I think I will give it another try.
Yes, me too. I have Twitch, LORH, and The Mind is.... all on cassette. I just upgraded and bought "Mind..." on CD. Plan to do the same with LORH but not sure if Twitch deserves that upgrade yet. LOL.
Thanx hobbit. I agree with returns this is connected and lets not forget the vast technological improvements in the last 20 years . anolog to digital recording alone allows musicians like Al to expand on their art.
One of my favorite albums "Twitch" Great work by Ministry. Haven't heard it in a Long time. I wish they would have gone in this direction rather then where they are now. He has it in him to do great work for example Skinny Puppy's Rabies which he had a hand in I will give him credit for his work I don't listen to the newer stuff anymore
Does anyone remember which Ministry track made it onto the 1st "Robocop" movie? just showes how far ahead of the techo/industrial curve Al & skinny puppy were at that time.
Twitch was the best! Thought I was the only one...I still get shit for it but Twitch is tops. After that it all sucks...too much heroin. With Sympathy is okay too.
The "Twitch" album (the best material that Ministry would put out)...an icon in the electro-industrial scene, set the standard for all those who followed. Unfortunately, what followed for Ministry was sort of a never ending obsession with the "speed metal thing"...never returning to the Twitch style (only as the Revolting Cocks). Afterall, KMFDM was better at the "speed metal thing" with all the Metallica samples. With Sympathy wasn't all that bad!
Back in 86' this stuff was considered heavy alternative. Course if you ever listened to "with sympathy" album, you can see where all the pop synth comes from.
Twitch was one of the best, Even if Al(ien) disagrees. Ministry and Puppy were way ahead of the game. 69 was the last ministry album I could really get into. Sympath was crap, but this was a fun album. Last Ministry concert I bothered with was Mind, Lolla doesn't count
I am so happy to see so many of you also love Twitch. I think Ministry did several different kinds of industrial sounds really well, and I must say that I also love Rape & Honey and The Mind... so many people I know are dismissive of Twitch and prefer the metallic stuff, but I like both types of sound, and I think Twitch is simply an awesome album!
No, I was there in early '92, before I moved out of state. I actually moved back to Dallas in January .. but haven't even thought of going down there again.
This video came out after Al got completely pissed off with the lable trying to mold him into a Depeche Mode rip knock off with Ministry's first album "With Sympath." The sound was so much different than that of "Effigy" and the other cuts on the first album. I'd say Al was definitely angry by this time!
Al still thought he was British for a while when he got "angry"...check some of the vocals on TLORAH, especially Stigmata. "Twitch," while not a guitar album, is much harsher and darker than "With Sympathy." Twitch had Luc Van Acker (Revolting Cocks) and Richard 23 (Front 242) as guest vocalists.
Does anybody know if there are any more music videos or concert videos from Twitch besids this one? It amazing what people dig up here. (See "Ministry1983"'s entries)
heh, "before they became angry"? like Al wasn't angry here?! just look at him! later on, he was just flat out pissed. i LOVE Twitch though!!! i wished he had made at least 2 other albums like it, though i still love the 2 albums after this.
I think the last good songs by Ministry were on the Land of Rape and Honey(Stigmata). After that they were a different band. Al was a cool dude. too many chemicals but he never forgets a face(mine anyway)!
I introduced a 'rave' girl, who was also a stripper at the time, to 'Twitch' and told her 'this is the grandfather of techno!!" and she said 'no way'. ... needless to say, she converted pretty easily. she loved it. I told her ':P told you so!!'
ministry is awesome from their beginnigns till now and erveryboby who say's the opposite don't knows what he's talking about!!!thank you good night...
I Miss The Sound and look of the Twitch era songs. I wish that Ministry made more songs like those on Twitch and their 12" singles, and still did now.
I have to agree, I lost interest when Al went Industrial, but you can see his genious nevertheless very early. I bought with sympathy like four times(some friends keep stealing my albums) Never regret this music.
this song is awesome.
TheBrigadierPudding 1 month ago
This was definitely angry club music back in the day!!
g1a1h1 2 months ago
This is and always has been one of my fav Ministry songs. Just can't stand how much I love this sound. The Whole of Twitch has just grown on me over the years - I like a lot of his later stuff but kind of stopped after Psalm 69. Thank you Ministry..
Lucien86 2 months ago in playlist Cool Video's, Music Vids, etc
wtf is up w/ this terrible audio????
meeces13 4 months ago
that's the Ministry I loved and danced to at the industrial-new wave clubs in the 80's. After land of rape and honey... we disconnected.
tdoesntmatter 5 months ago 2
this was one of the best club songs when it played in the mid 80s before there was some "pre" ministry and some "post" ministry--they were just "Ministry." This video is so f-ing lame it isn't even funny. What do stealing grocieries and cars have to do with what this song is about??? It's about vast consumerism. What does that have to do with a couple of stupid kids who are stealing cars?? If I caught someone breaking into my car I would shoot them . . .
rundbaum 6 months ago
Take one Cabaret Voltaire's Kino and one Front 242's Commando mix , mix the FUCK outta them and what do you get? OVER THE SHOULDER!
v73k1 6 months ago
@crinklewing - absolutely....this was incredibly angry sounding when it came out, remember it distinctly the first time I heard it. Proceeded to record shop - BUY!
device222 6 months ago
thanks for posting, i didnt know they used to sound like this. i like both the angry and the early. some people,as i have, get angrier with age. all good music
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v73k1 8 months ago
This song is about waste and seems to be quite angry to me...
nickgash 8 months ago
YES !!!! This is when I liked them !!!!!!!
midactsD 9 months ago
Apparently this song is about car theft, chickens, and grocery stores.
TurkBack2 9 months ago 6
@TurkBack2
damn right it is
AJtheory 3 months ago
@TurkBack2
yes, if you're a fag who doesn't comprehend lyrics.
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Cool this band reminds me of Ministry, try searching -who is barry soetoro? by Nomessiah- gotta listen to this awesome metal song about the fraud of Barack Obama!
watch?v=hXO6TZJR3XM
pussyfaceize 9 months ago
Dance music capital of the world.
g1a1h1 10 months ago
Twitch is my favorite Ministry album and possibly their only pure "industrial" album. They went pretty metal pretty quickly after this. I think the guitar has a harder image than sounds that are "synthesized." Al seems to have wanted to distance himself from "With Sympathy" so badly that he went too far in the other direction. Personally I don't really see a steady evolution. After Twitch the guitar started to dominate their sound.
tachyonblade 11 months ago
Is it just my player, or is this playing completely out of phase.
It sounds like someone is playing it in a car ... outside my apartment.
TheCIAsucks 11 months ago
6:11 Al probably hated this shot more than singing "revenge"
fraterwolf 3 years ago
fix the audio on this PLEASE!!! There was a music video of the exact same song but it wasn't all muffled. But it's been taken off youtube for some reason.
NecroWhore 3 years ago
You can hear the Front 242 influence here. Good song.
gothic1hobbit 3 years ago
@gothic1hobbit It's hard to say, I think both bands influenced bewteen each other, Front 242 was in Watrax, and before Front we had DAF.
das81 9 months ago
Probably in my top ten, all time. Love this song
Burnsengine 3 years ago 2
I think this is the best of Ministry
infantcidelust 3 years ago
I love this song! The video is great, Al is the man!! A real jerk in person, but he is a great musician. That makes up for it.
pyroleague 3 years ago
Adrian Sherwood, is the master behind!
aereone 3 years ago
Holy crap, I now am starting to think that it is Al singing this song. For almost 20 years, I was convinced this was a black vocalist, just has that sound.
I'll have to try to run this through a pitch shifter and see if it sounds more like Al a few notes lower.
Exitof99 3 years ago
hey damn thanks this must be perrdy old ..
L3dtube 3 years ago
love his hair. so... al
maddlysane 3 years ago 3
When did they become angry?
I wanna hear their first agressive tune.
katten838 3 years ago
Do a youtube search on "Crash and Burn Ministry" and you get to hear IMO the first aggro Ministry song in 1986. They were the last two tracks of that album and was almost an intro into their next album "The land of rape and honey" in 1988.
d00derman 3 years ago
I always thought it was "Stigmata"...that was the first "angry" tune I heard by them...but I have to say, their album, "The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste" sealed the deal...
...BTW, does anybody know what happened to the actual video for "Burning Inside" ( not the homemade crap, the real video )??????
AJtheory 3 years ago
I think Ministry was already angry on Twitch. They were just expressing their anger differently.
crinklewing 3 years ago 14
@crinklewing indeed
rikbrown 1 year ago
This is certainly one of the tracks that made what I loved about Ministry.
ThePoisonDoor 3 years ago
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I've got to say it.......this SUCKS! Not angry enough for my taste. Where's the SPEED METAL?!?
uofm97 3 years ago
Al Jourgenson is undeniably the GODFATHER of Industrial-Techno-Metal. (Notice I DIDN'T use the word "Industrial" only??) Yeah, for all you clowns who are going to JUMP on me for saying Throbbing Gristle and the likes were "true industrial" before Al was even around.
I have fend off you fruitcakes. lol
TheGringoLoco 3 years ago 2
I'm a fruitcake. I came out (gay) listening to "twitch" at Western Illinois University. YIKES! Saw Al live at Medusa's in Chicago w/ Revolting Cocks. Long live WaxTrax. and I love Chris and Cosey too
stinky242 3 years ago
Video added to playlist.
industrialvideos 3 years ago
I love this song. Hard but dancy.
x0n1c64 4 years ago 2
jorgensen in his morrissey phase
Andre2010 4 years ago
it's so repoman!
chicanobrown 4 years ago
Uno de mis videos preferidos en el Koko Loco, Monterrey en el 87. Gracias por ponerlo.
riverajet62 4 years ago
awesome!
jeepee2 4 years ago 2
repo man sound!
chicanobrown 4 years ago
The transition period. In the San Diego 80's club scene this sound was known as "industrial". Downhill from here, IMO.
faterikcartman 4 years ago
dude, this shit was the downfall of industrial-the true industrial bands-throbbing gristle, early spk, nurse with wound, monte cazazza, nocturnal emissions-now THATS industrial. This is synthpop with MINOR industrial elements.
vincentchrist 3 years ago
No, Einsturzende Neubauten is industrial.
Everything else is keyboard wankery.
planetery 3 years ago
please learn the history of industrial.
vincentchrist 3 years ago
I know the "history of industrial", you fuckin' wank. I was referring to the sound & aesthetic. Nothing is more industrial than jackhammering concrete & sheet metal while setting the stage on fire. WAY more industrial than NWW or SPK. You'd know that if you ever saw them.
planetery 3 years ago
Einsturzende Neubautenare indeed quite industrial, however, to dismiss throbbing gristle as "keyboard wankery" when throbbing gristle, for all basic intents and purposes, INVENTED industrial music, is madness. The artists I listed came first-making them closer to the original definition than einsturzende neubauten. So no, einsturzende neubauten are LESS industrial than the bands i listed-in the beginning industrial meant droning random noise, not pounding beats.
vincentchrist 3 years ago
LOL- Are you really trying to play "More Alternative Than Thou?" REALLY?
All I'll say is it's specious reasoning to say that chronology equals veracity...
planetery 3 years ago
More alternative than thou? I never made that claim anywhere. Despite my earlier guesses, you do seem quite well-versed and experienced. However, I still simply think it does not make sense to claim that the bands that invented industrial aren't industrial.
vincentchrist 3 years ago
That was an early '90s reference- thought you might remember. Anyway, I totally UNDERSTAND what you're saying- I just don't AGREE with it. It's like, who's more rock & roll- Chuck Berry or Hendrix? Berry originated it, but I'd be hard pressed to put him over Jimi, ya dig?
planetery 3 years ago
Okay, I'll grant your point there-I can't really claim Throbbing Gristle is MORE industrial than einsturzende neubauten. However, I can certainly dismiss the claim you seemed to be making earlier where you said that the bands i listed are not industrial. What you did earlier is more akin to saying that Chuck Berry isn't rock and roll. Whether or not he's more or less rock than jimi, the fact that he originated the genre makes it plain that he is a part of it.
vincentchrist 3 years ago
TG, Cazazza, & NE are industrial. SPK, who I love, are more darkambient (some of Revell's solo stuff is more industrial than SPK). NWW I always thought of as noise/ experimental...
Meh.
Labels.
planetery 3 years ago
I should clarify that i was talking about SPK in their Information Overload Unit album-they changed their style after that quite a bit, becoming, among other things, yes, a darkambient band (though i haven't heard much later SPK, as what I have heard of their later material hasn't really impressed me. never driven to find more.) I personally tend to think of NWW as the most industrial band ever, but i realize that theres no real evidence to back this up.
vincentchrist 3 years ago
Dude, Graeme Revell's a genius, even if he's not strictly "industrial"...
planetery 3 years ago
Oh, for sure, regardless of how industrial he is or isn't, he's flat out fucking awesome.
Incidentally, sorry for my first response. But when someone says something like "throbbing gristle isn't industrial" (which is what I thought you said) I tend to immediately assume that im dealing with a rivethead retard. (even if they pretty much prove they DO, in fact, know their shit by mentioning Einsturzende Neubauten.)
vincentchrist 3 years ago
gay
hardmous 3 years ago
No, GAY is "Re: A Bird Just Sucked My Dick"
sorry, Freudian slip. you just look so fucking gay in that video...
planetery 3 years ago
so? at least i don't try to make myself sound rad by being an elitist.
hardmous 3 years ago
I wasn't the one who made a thing out of it.
And you do, by the way. Being dismissive is being superior and therefore elitist.
Way to use that big grey thing on top of your spine.
planetery 3 years ago
Way to open a can of green beans and then get hit by the Jolly Green Giant.
hardmous 3 years ago
Don't you have anything better to do?
Goodbye.
planetery 3 years ago
I could ask you the same question.
hardmous 3 years ago
YOU are gayer than Al Jourgenson in the video above these comments.
planetery 3 years ago
Did you ever MEET Rozz Williams? How about Neubauten (back in the day)? I speak from direct empirical observations, son.
planetery 3 years ago
ah man i LOVE old ministry
the ending of this video cracks me up
maxeypad 4 years ago
now we know how to steal a car
sopostelnik 4 years ago
LOL yeah we do XD
joe101c 4 years ago
This is AWESOME!!! My favorite Ministry song!!
llwittwer 4 years ago 3
old school! amazing
Sadistica 4 years ago
they use you a while then it's over the shoulder - big size small size any size round and round
LegledTrepteg 4 years ago
this song rox!
toluemail 4 years ago
ebm was never clubstyle!ebm togheter with new beat was like punk nowdays. learn music history assholes!
you could feel the agressivenes in old al! even here in this ebm-music.
and bay the way............FRONT242....rulez!!!!!!! stupid fuck's
judowimp 4 years ago
what's the problem? why is every bodybody against nin? you should have a problem against pop or rap music nowdays! not to synthpop, belgian beat(new beat), ebm, industrial! ministry is great! but personal to me it's nin! i've been throu shit and nin was there for me!
judowimp 4 years ago
Sorry to hurt your fellings flower!
aereone 4 years ago
What a fucking poseur this guy is.
tattypatty 4 years ago
Ministry, Cabaret Voltaire, Front 242, Revolting Cocks, Skinny puppies, Laibach, Clock DVA, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Einstürzende Neubauten, ect... @ Wax Traxx records in Chicago and the mixes of Adrian Sherwood! What a wonderful life! buy the way NIN sucks jaja
aereone 4 years ago
He is being sued by Jourguensen in fact (check wikipedia... there's a official link to the actual court case file). Too bad. They did work great together in Ministry's golden years. I wonder what made their work relation that bitter?
KronnangDunn 4 years ago
rip paul miss you
lynmch 4 years ago
Yeh, it's funny. People say that they cant understand how this is Ministry or how this is Ministry before they got angry, but if you listem to them, they werent "HAPPY", they were already on the Neorotic path. If youve never been there, then you just dont understand. This isnt RADIO FRIENDLY dance music you know. It's fanatic, human rights, symbolic, neurotic stew. LISTEN!!!! ITS GREAT
crazyinjun197169 4 years ago 2
Hehehehe. I agree on everything u said, that's it 'till the "80s being the best decade for music". Wrong. The most prolific, creative & important decade in music has been the 70s. All genres of the 80s originated in that era.
KronnangDunn 4 years ago
I love this video! It is so funny. Al looks hilarious in it...riding around in the shopping cart/trolley then with eggs and flour on him. And his fake English accent that I think was the record label's idea from what I remember.
Katalyste 4 years ago
I wish the sound was better. I like this song, but the video is not at all what I pictured when hearing it... I mean the visuals don't seem to fit the sounds.
1DangerMouse1 4 years ago
This is the transitional album for Ministry between With Sympathy and the Land of Rape and Honey. One of the seminal Proto-Industrial albums, it's hard to imagine Nine Inch Nails being possible without this first.
kemicon 4 years ago 12
Nine Inch Nails used to be an opener for Ministry, hehe...
KronnangDunn 4 years ago
nin is commercial gargabe. this is real industrial. ;)
rovingstarone 4 years ago
Pretty much agreed, but in the late '80s NIN sucked less. Granted I just watched some old NIN videos and the songs weren't as good as I remembered.
kemicon 4 years ago
Hahaha... Gimme a break... All that anti-Bush stuff & u call NIN commercial garbage? U should listen the new album a bit...
KronnangDunn 4 years ago
& I'm talking about NIN's Year Zero... NOt Ministry's Rio Grande Blood, ok?
KronnangDunn 4 years ago
Yes. I've heard all I need to. He ripped off a genre, and made it commercially viable. Being anti-bush has nothing to do with what his music sounds like. anyways, Ministry next year!
rovingstarone 4 years ago
I really wish there was more of this sound other than Twitch and the 12" singles. This really is Ministry at its best. And Al's look in this video is perfect.
M0L3CH 4 years ago 2
that omelet would be seriously painful to eat! Love Al's old stuff! "I'm not an effigy!" Great 80's flashback.
StrakerTube99 4 years ago
oh my god. i remember sitting up at night watching 120 minutes WAITING for this video..
i still have a crush on al
firecracker187 4 years ago
Bizzare video!
Man, Al looked freaky...
Love the hair.
theledzeppguy 4 years ago
Hard to believe it's been over 20 years.....
danny9312 4 years ago
i can't believe al is going to do some new music with depeche mode soon. that should be pretty crazy. al always said he was depeche mode's evil twin.
peace0ff 4 years ago
lol "This is Ministry before they became angry"
Meggadezz 4 years ago
Ahhh yes this is great song in a club - TWICTH is an excellent album, if you like this song GET THE ALBUM!!!
ALPHAJUS 4 years ago 2
Hairstyle? Heh heh! He looks like Sideshow Bob! Glad to see this video is still up. How you ask? Drugs. And why bother to work hard making good music when your fans will lap up any toxic sludge that leaks out of your amps?
SweetSweetWaldo 4 years ago
Greatness from the crispy late 80'z.
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that site sucks dick and you are a faggot for not getting real pussy. Go get a life you computer nerd piece of shit
bookofthoth 4 years ago
ministry the best
elduce77 4 years ago
if it were connected, there would have to be some kind of bridge LP. NIN had broken, radiohead had OK computer. LORH just fucking happened overnight though
AOCRkid 4 years ago
i was a very fan of Ministry @ this era synthpop+industrial they where ORIGINAL and GREAT now they look sound and behave like a BUNCH of REDNECKS
aereone 4 years ago
oh c'mon, dude don't say that cause you know that's not true. They definitely don't sound like a bunch of rednecks these days!
robbyled 4 years ago
Actually this isn't as bad as I remember. When I first bought "Twitch", I was expecting to hear something like "Land of Rape..." and was so pissed at this electronic dance music. I had no idea they played different music before and found out the hard way. I never played "Twitch" again but I think I will give it another try.
robbyled 4 years ago
Twitch is still their best album, with LORH just behind.
But then I'm an old fart who still has his casettes from when they were new. =p
cephal0p0d 4 years ago 2
Yes, me too. I have Twitch, LORH, and The Mind is.... all on cassette. I just upgraded and bought "Mind..." on CD. Plan to do the same with LORH but not sure if Twitch deserves that upgrade yet. LOL.
robbyled 4 years ago
Yeah, I am old school, thanks for reminding me to upgrade "Mind is a terrible thing...." ha ha!
Still, it is my favorite, that and the cool-ass live videotape!
chickenblaster 4 years ago
It's so hard to believe this was the same band that did Pslams 69, Mind is...etc. Very night & day. Very cool though.
ProjectKram 4 years ago
Thanx hobbit. I agree with returns this is connected and lets not forget the vast technological improvements in the last 20 years . anolog to digital recording alone allows musicians like Al to expand on their art.
fanoflacrosse 4 years ago
man I'm glad ministry doesn't sound like this anymore... this is lame
ospididious 4 years ago
You don't like the industrial electro they did before trashy guitar ? My god it was great and widely underated.But more power to you..
throughtime 4 years ago
it wasnt industrial at all though.
AOCRkid 4 years ago
man i'm glad most douchebags are their own worst enemies.. you're lame
cephal0p0d 4 years ago
One of my favorite albums "Twitch" Great work by Ministry. Haven't heard it in a Long time. I wish they would have gone in this direction rather then where they are now. He has it in him to do great work for example Skinny Puppy's Rabies which he had a hand in I will give him credit for his work I don't listen to the newer stuff anymore
industrialonego 4 years ago
In the Beginning...Over The Shoulder....
cretancooper 4 years ago
Does anyone remember which Ministry track made it onto the 1st "Robocop" movie? just showes how far ahead of the techo/industrial curve Al & skinny puppy were at that time.
fanoflacrosse 4 years ago
PTP - Show Me Your Spine
gothic1hobbit 4 years ago
I Agree!
rivotrich7 4 years ago
FUCKEN A 1111111111111111111
Nickster987654321 4 years ago
Just Like You is the best song from Twitch!
a7xSyNyStErGaTeSa7x 4 years ago
Twitch was the best! Thought I was the only one...I still get shit for it but Twitch is tops. After that it all sucks...too much heroin. With Sympathy is okay too.
CurtisTuch 4 years ago
These kids seriously suck at breaking into cars...
rockasoo 4 years ago
I got into ministry via an older sibling and didn't really like them until i heard every day is halloween. Such a top track.
peace0ff 4 years ago
Are those lyrics to this song?
I never followed the lyrics for this record. Maybe i should.
btw I like the sounds but al's voice is weak. You can't really blame him though, he's a short cuban.
peace0ff 4 years ago
one of my all time favorites!!!!
replicas79 4 years ago
LOVE THIS SONG.
Nickster987654321 4 years ago
The "Twitch" album (the best material that Ministry would put out)...an icon in the electro-industrial scene, set the standard for all those who followed. Unfortunately, what followed for Ministry was sort of a never ending obsession with the "speed metal thing"...never returning to the Twitch style (only as the Revolting Cocks). Afterall, KMFDM was better at the "speed metal thing" with all the Metallica samples. With Sympathy wasn't all that bad!
djWAXTURNAL 4 years ago
Back in 86' this stuff was considered heavy alternative. Course if you ever listened to "with sympathy" album, you can see where all the pop synth comes from.
losghost 4 years ago
Twitch was one of the best, Even if Al(ien) disagrees. Ministry and Puppy were way ahead of the game. 69 was the last ministry album I could really get into. Sympath was crap, but this was a fun album. Last Ministry concert I bothered with was Mind, Lolla doesn't count
nine4t4 4 years ago
I am so happy to see so many of you also love Twitch. I think Ministry did several different kinds of industrial sounds really well, and I must say that I also love Rape & Honey and The Mind... so many people I know are dismissive of Twitch and prefer the metallic stuff, but I like both types of sound, and I think Twitch is simply an awesome album!
guigne01 4 years ago
Twitch has endured in part because it's dark and atmospheric. It lacks the ego of their latter rock sound.
Nominay 4 years ago
No, I was there in early '92, before I moved out of state. I actually moved back to Dallas in January .. but haven't even thought of going down there again.
Nominay 4 years ago
I remember those days when you sneek in a club just to hear this musik : (#'s HT)
minamitcha 4 years ago
Al has always been incredible! I love Ministry then and now! Thanks for remembering~
yeahmydad 5 years ago
This was one of my favortes back in 84... I have this vid on BETA!
PlumeN 5 years ago
from '86
Nominay 5 years ago
hilarious
morrissuedehead 5 years ago
Those poor pecking chickens!
Nominay 5 years ago
Yea, Al said he's embarrassed about "With Sympathy".. I love it!
DivaXMachina 5 years ago
i dont thin the issue is about how angry al was. i think we should be more concerned about that hair :P
sj2150 5 years ago
This video came out after Al got completely pissed off with the lable trying to mold him into a Depeche Mode rip knock off with Ministry's first album "With Sympath." The sound was so much different than that of "Effigy" and the other cuts on the first album. I'd say Al was definitely angry by this time!
brewcitytony 5 years ago
This is not before Ministry was Angry....This is from when Al thought he was British....
Theodora25 5 years ago
Al still thought he was British for a while when he got "angry"...check some of the vocals on TLORAH, especially Stigmata. "Twitch," while not a guitar album, is much harsher and darker than "With Sympathy." Twitch had Luc Van Acker (Revolting Cocks) and Richard 23 (Front 242) as guest vocalists.
abangthebeat 5 years ago
Does anybody know if there are any more music videos or concert videos from Twitch besids this one? It amazing what people dig up here. (See "Ministry1983"'s entries)
rivotrich7 5 years ago
heh, "before they became angry"? like Al wasn't angry here?! just look at him! later on, he was just flat out pissed. i LOVE Twitch though!!! i wished he had made at least 2 other albums like it, though i still love the 2 albums after this.
pessimystica 5 years ago
I think the last good songs by Ministry were on the Land of Rape and Honey(Stigmata). After that they were a different band. Al was a cool dude. too many chemicals but he never forgets a face(mine anyway)!
jnmunsey 5 years ago
Teh Best Ministry Song EVAR!!!
mahmut0815 5 years ago
I introduced a 'rave' girl, who was also a stripper at the time, to 'Twitch' and told her 'this is the grandfather of techno!!" and she said 'no way'. ... needless to say, she converted pretty easily. she loved it. I told her ':P told you so!!'
thunderwolf19 5 years ago
Al Jorgeson's hair rocks here!
Nominay 5 years ago
Same here, except I was more '91-ish. I'm assuming you mean Dallas, TX.
Looks like we're of like minds politically.
Nominay 5 years ago
ministry is awesome from their beginnigns till now and erveryboby who say's the opposite don't knows what he's talking about!!!thank you good night...
Skifnat 5 years ago
I love this album. Is there a video for My Possession? It is also on Twitch.
zeelog1 5 years ago
Thanks for posting this. The chorus from this song runs thru my head a lot. I think this wass the first time I saw the video.
cruzada0 5 years ago
ministry is part of my generation
mariano420 5 years ago
If only he did a duet with Tina Turner on this track...
LowLife81 5 years ago
Twitch era Ministry Rules!!
rivotrich7 5 years ago
Yes it does.
zeelog1 5 years ago
that's what i'm saying.
pessimystica 5 years ago
I Miss The Sound and look of the Twitch era songs. I wish that Ministry made more songs like those on Twitch and their 12" singles, and still did now.
rivotrich7 5 years ago
This is awesome!! I've never heard ministrys older stuff until now!
420dAn 5 years ago
Thats a kickass beat. Personally I like the newer Ministry more. But the early stuff still kicks ass
JayjayAbnormal 5 years ago
Thanx - never got to see this. Great track... fuck, great album. Twitch=Amazing
godlesswonder 5 years ago
he said with sympathy was the only one he didn't like.
suckmyassitsmells 5 years ago
I have to agree, I lost interest when Al went Industrial, but you can see his genious nevertheless very early. I bought with sympathy like four times(some friends keep stealing my albums) Never regret this music.
jlmarc01 5 years ago
he often refers to Sympathy as "The Abortion"
yourmomisthebest 5 years ago
sweet, thanks for uploading this.
i know al despises the early ministry stuff, but to be honest i'm not into heavy metal and they lost me when they took that route.
this old dance club/industrial is the shit!
annatopia 5 years ago