Twitch is one of my top 5 albums of all time! Hearing any track on it brings me back to my late teen years spent in Chicago buying records from Wax Trax and going to a underground club called Medusa! Oh the memories! Thanks for this awesome breakdown of Al's early work! 👍
I remember when this dropped in 86. My friends and I were deep into British new wave and early Ministry. One of them just handed me this record with a disappointed look, but for me it was a revelation. A whole new world opened up and Twitch was the cornerstone for my musical journey. An amazing album. Not sure people can grasp how different Twitch was from anything back then. Of course, so many other records in the 80s can make a similar claim. Crazy and innovative decade!
I agree, the 80s was very innovative and very terrible all at once. So much innovation and creativity mixed with so much blandness and hair metal futures. Thankfully there was enough good stuff to cancel out the bad.
BTW, I followed the name Adrian Sherwood from the 'Twitch' cover straight to On-U-Sound. Artists such as Tackhead, African Head Charge, Mark Stewart & The Maffia, Singers and Players. I love all that dub reggae stuff. Great for smokin' a bowl!
I'm right there with you, pal. This was the first thing I had ever heard by Ministry/Al J. Changed EVERYTHING about the way I perceived music. Loved "Isle of Man" & "Everyday is Halloween" and still think they hold up every bit as much as the day they were released. For me, his best work.
Another one 😃... just recently went through all Ministry back catalogue... Twitch.. yeah Adrian Sherwood... how that even happened. There is a YT where AS talks about how they have recorded it... yeah as you might thought. Al said that AS taught him how to mix... probably one of the best people in the world to learn how to do it. I learned that just recently and my jaw dropped had no idea about this connection even knowing Twitch for years... but true that listened to it from a bootleg tape issued in East Europe 8n 90s lol... Super important album breakthrough and new music era started there...
All day is the best song from that excellent album. There is a live recording of all day on you tube and it is gold! I used to have the all day poster in my room.. memories.
TWITCH is an all time favourite desert island disc for me. Remember exactly where & when I was the first time I heard it. Total perspective changer on music & what music could be. Changed forever.
I'm really loving these videos, as a 21 year old guy from Scotland, I only got into metal back in 2019, with industrial metal being my favourite, I only just got into Ministry a few months back, so watching these is awesome to see what it was like back then for old Ministry, of course these older synth pop albums are not my kind of thing as much, but I still respect them and will definitely give them a listen at some point as well. Can't wait for more Ministry videos!
Thanks, man! I really appreciate your kind words! Some of my favorite bands are from Scotland - Primal Scream, KLF (half of them anyway), Mogwai….all kinds of great stuff there!
Did you watch "Fix: The Ministry movie"? I saw it recently, pretty hard core and give image of pretty extreme level at which Al has been... Surprising tbh that the man is still alive not a ordinary man could live that live style and be ok at his age where he is still going strong and recording awesome music as "Moral Hygiene" is very decent album with still avant-garde feeling...
twitch is one of the best minstry albums adrian sherwood's production also gave al a library of drum sounds he would use in everything for years after.
I thought I was getting another "With Sympathy." I was appalled at first, then curious, and then IN LOVE. Have been for 35 years now! 'Twitch' is based in funk, rather than metal. That's the biggest difference between 'Twitch' and material LORAH forward. I was big on the political themes and the paranoia. The Angel is one of my faves too. One reviewer scoffed at it and said it sounded like Phil Collins. LOL! It's kinda true, but that makes it even more fun! BTW, that's Al and Patti's daughter, Adrienne, cooing at the beginning of the song. My fascination with Side 2 presaged my love for electroacoustic music, such as Iannis Xenakis' electronic output. Al said he had this sound all worked out in 1981. You can hear similarities on early trax, such as "He's Angry," "I'm Falling," and "Overkill." All posted on YT. "Isle of Man" is as close as he got to a Fad Gadget song, 'Twitch' (tape/cd) and the "Over the Shoulder" single note it is Version 2 of "Isle of Man." The first version is similar, but more pared down. I don't like metal, so I have limited interest in subsequent albums. I do love the side projects PTP and Acid Horse. Acid Horse, of course, is pretty much one song, "No Name, No Slogan." I also had a very scary psychedelic experience with 'Twitch' on my headphones in 1988, but that's another story. The second British Invasion was in 1983, so I think that's what prompted the limey accent. Earlier, Ministry had a Chicago funk influence. Backing vocalists such as Shay Jones on "I Wanted to Tell Her." Those lyrics are much better than they sound at first blush, especially the remix with Shay as a feature vocalist. One thing on a personal note, I had a lot of enmity for Metal when I was in HS because long-haired metalheads beat on my New Romantic ass. I mean, a few kids in every suburban town were "punk." But that was aggro hardcore with studded leather and mohawks. New Romantic was JUST NOT A THING in mid-eighties U.S. suburbia. Little guy like me walking down the street dressed like Scritti Politti is fixing to get squished like a BUG! I was a DJ too for many years. Still am. Though I do more of a modern classical program today. Anyway, I sold tons and tons of promos to used record stores like that. On one condition, it had to be unsolicited. I got enough unsolicited shit shingles to buy me tons of Big Macs!
if you want to relly make peace with your aqua net spraying, liquid eyeliner wearing self, watch adam ant's "prince charming" video all the way to the end, and tell me if that doesn't chill your blood some
Loving this series, I heard Ministry when I was 14 on the Cool World soundtrack along with TKK, all of middle school was Ministry for me, I’m 20 now and have a huge ministry collection and still listening to them at least 2 a day.
You’ve got the order a little mixed up. First was “every day is Halloween” with the picture of Al on the cover, that was waxtrax007, then was “the nature of love”, waxtrax009 and finally the first record you showed: “Halloween remix/nature of outtakes” which was waxtrax020. All released in 1985, along with I believe the “over the shoulder” single from sire. Agree again with you- twitch is monumental in my collection, I still listen to it several times a year and love every minute of it.
Phenomenal record. Would cordially challenge that Front 242 and Cabaret Voltaire got a jump start on that sound with No Comment and Micro-Phonies before Twitch, but Twitch defineylu holds its own as one of the OG Industrial Dance classics.
even though i was born decades after you, twitch did similarly impact me, when i first heard it at 7 years old, i was pretty blown away and impressed too
@@occasionalfeelgood23 all 3 of us were fans. it was inevitable because he was so prolific. Hearing this on a weighty system in South London one night was very special. ruclips.net/video/dNwqfbTMOn4/видео.html
I really like weird, "edgy" or dark synthpop because I quite enjoy when a song has some of the sensibilities and melodic sound of pop music while also having a bit of moodiness or grittiness and aggression to it so as you can imagine I quite like a lot of songs from twitch even if a bunch of the tracks were too much like noise for my taste. I think the 12" extended remix of Over The Shoulder is probably one of my favorite songs to be honest, weird cheesy fake British accent and all, haha. The extended intro with the extra beats that many would justifiably view as unnecessary filler I personally really like and thought it gave the song some extra punch and impact as it felt like it was building up to something and it just sounds awesome when it all sort of "kicks in".
Thanks for watching! I do love “Over The Shoulder”, and the extended version is a really classic example of 80s remixes - not so much a remix but an extended working so DJs could easily mix in and out of. More like an edit than a remix. That song has grown on me over the years, I just like all the other songs better from that album. Not to say it’s bad, just my least favorite. “Twitch” is very noisy for sure, but also pop in its own way, which ensures the uniqueness of it.
@@occasionalfeelgood23 Oh, I guess that does make sense for there to be a long periods where the song is more "calm" and less "busy" if DJs wanted more breathing room and space to incorporate their own contributions to a track. I also probably enjoy Al's pseudo British accent a lot more than I care to admit on it too, it just seems to work, and compliment the vibe and energy of the song in it's own way.
Al Jourgensen's last great work. Used to love hearing Over the Shoulder, Just Like You and All Day on college radio shows of the day, next to Culture Club, The Cure, Yazoo, etal. My girlfriend at the time wanted to have a mock rape, so naturally we did it to Twitch.
Twitch is all kinds of amazing, not heavy or focused on bpm. Just enough menace to add something extra. I am hesitant to call it synth pop per se like Vince Clarke era Depeche Mode. Industrial and I get an old school Skinny Puppy vibe...
Another indepth review of Twitch, sadly this didn't pop up as a recommendation until a few weeks ago... I am also a fan of Adrian Sherwood, on-u sound, Gary Clail, Tackhead, ect. Another IK dj I also put In with Sherwood... J Saul Kane (Bomb The Bass, Depth Charge and Vinyl Solution label), would love to hear your musical knowledge on him.
@@occasionalfeelgood23 Nice! So I take it you was/is a dj? If, so, where.... you seem familiar, or at least someone I would of hung out at the clubs with.
@@soulaborter7797 I started DJing in Portland in 1990. I did that until the mid-2000s, went to grad school and stopped DJing, then started again around 2014-ish. Then Covid happened and I stopped again. I’m also a writer and have been freelancing doing music reviews and such since the 90s as well. Where are you from?
I love synth pop Al…I really could give a shit about the devil in the details concerning what happened…I’m sure he has great reasons to disown his past but as a hardcore fan, I reserve the right to enjoy even the stuff he’s ashamed of…in fact, I’m not reluctant to admit that a big part of me prefers the Gothy synth-pop Al above anything else he’s done….having said that, I do enjoy the harsh industrial metal Ministry very much
Land of Rape & Honey was my introduction to Ministry…it changed everything…my hippie girlfriend at the time fucking hated ministry and that in itself sold me instantaneously, lol
putting T'WITCH in context in the 1980s electronic music authoritatively challenged mainstream culture because robotic timing = logic, in the same way that sampling (the akai s1000) did later, flipping culture back at itself. but electronic music was generally available in two contexts - romantic new wave or rap. the appeal of twitch was dissent with a sound as hard as oppression itself - machines and anvils. before LOR&H t'witch was the ONLY record anyone talked about in tucson before revco and rabies. no one here has time for bullshit, life is hard, we want change. and you're crazy man over the shoulder is masterful. tucson was one of two cities in the u.s. with a public access cable channel and they played the video continuously. it's funk but cold and intellectual. the accent worked at the time because international appeal. i'm british but back then, so many people wanted to spend time with me so they could imitate my accent for whatever reason. that's what people did back then. tucson had a rare dynamic social mix for the era (which is why crash worship loved tucson enough to play here every halloween). nature of love is again such a fucking head trip. there was nothing like it. logic. al is a masterful agent of disaffection :) LOR&H was such a let down. stupid songs, all emotion. but 1988 was all about psychic t.v.'s acid house ("tune in, turn on"), front 242, the unparalled nation of millions, meat beat manifesto, and the burgeoning tech potentiated ideology shift (neneh cherry on the radio instead of whatever cocksuckers).. pauls' boutique.. the most amazing thing about the next few years would be not the eg. PWEI on the radio gen x summers of love but the fact that before NWA, american youth were fucking conscious because nation of millions was so hard. then suddenly everyone was a cocksucker again and gen x as any kind of reformative entity fizzled straight to shit. but it was cool. before al had everyone acting retarded for a few years you could go and talk to intelligent people about ministry. because whatever the truth is, t'witch was the single greatest intelligent sounding expression of dissent. it's neat to look at how al has devoted his life to the cause of keeping young americans questioning their presented life choices, though of course shit is twisted as fuck. no one was as direct or forthright.. (a lot of us had no idea what ogre was saying before rabies..) the only thing i can add.. (after twenty years of audio development and almost as many being a targeted individual i'm so over music, al is about the only artist i can tolerate) may seem off topic.. listen to twenty deadly diseases by severed heads. this encapsulates everything wrong with the direction artists have taken since the nineties, pocketing themselves within a genre instead of just using the medium available to them.. maybe there are modern versions of the butthole surfers i'm not aware of.. but the way i remember it.. in the eighties a club would play electronic dance music back to back with the cure's lovecats with its shitty acoustic kickdrum and it was all cool. clubs weren't designated by what kind of kickdrum they played. you guys are a bunch of fools man the masons just assfuck you all constantly and you are just all "hey these guys are cool" and nobody can do shit becuase they are too retarded. dude you are catching waaaay too much screentime or smoking waaaay too much weed. take a break, let your eyesockets heal holmes.
mad respect, first? person to make a video about the album that changed it all the same way jeff mcclintock's synthedit would save the world in the '00s
The only early Ministry track I ever liked was The Game is Over. After that, I thought Everyday is Halloween was also pretty good but for my taste, Twitch is THE best album Ministry ever recorded. I tried to get into their later stuff but it just didn’t do it for me.
Be great if Uncle Al could bring All Day, Every Day is Halloween, Over The Shoulder & Same Old Madness back into the setlist!!! How fucking cool would that be?!?! “I’m Falling” is so {Cure} sounding…really cool 1st generation darkwave synth-pop…like Uncle Al was Gothing Out and it fucking ruled WaxTrax Records taking the label into a whole new world of Avant-Garde underground pop music…My Possession & We Believe rules too🦾
New subscriber. Damn, I am looking forward to your Kraftwerk vids later, too. And Depeche Mode. But how about Revco? Any videos coming on that? Or even Laibach? What did you think when you first heard LORAH Do you like any of the works or songs better than regular Ministry? And I always thought that was a weird album cover. Thought it was like some obscure ancient statue. But no. Was just ol' Uncle Al....thanks again. Great channel
Thanks a lot for your kind words, and your time! I definitely have been thinking about a Cocks video, but not so much Laibach. I was kinda thinking of doing a video based on my ten favorite “industrial” albums. That term gets stretched and bastardized, but so does the music, so fuck it, ya know? I’ll do my best with it and see what shakes out once I’m done. It’s just fun talking about these albums, so any excuse to do it is a good excuse!
@@occasionalfeelgood23 yea sir I agree. And Laibach-is it politics or so you just not care for em.. And lately been into My Life Thrill Kill Kult. And do you think KMFDM sums up our "industrial" more thouroghly or Front 242 instead?
@@glenbellefonte9620 No, nothing to do at all with politics, I just didn’t get into their sound. There’s something one-dimensional about their sound I just could never get on board with. I always felt they were more straight up metal in a way or something - I never felt they were all that experimental. Just an opinion of course. Hmm, I guess I’d say I think Front 242 is more industrial than KMFDM, but that’s a tough one. KMFDM have changed their sound the past 25 years where it sounds like straight up disco. That’s no bad thing, of course. Front 242 always had that disco angle too, but they seem to have a certain rigidity to their approach that makes them sound more intense, where KMFDM music has always sounded like a party in many ways. If that makes any sense, ha!
@Occasional Feelgood yes sir it does. Also, TKK has/had that disco sound. Laibach is one of those I just recently started getting into after years and I gotta say the opposite. I thought my God these dudes are strange and they sound exactly how I would describe European industrial. The Revco concert videos we see from the 80s are mostly filmed in Chicago and I remember living there at that very time and people I knew talking about Skinny Puppy and to think now, like 35 years later and so many miles away that I was standing down the street from those shows while they were happening makes me regret not going
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Best Ministry Album IMO!
Twitch is one of my top 5 albums of all time! Hearing any track on it brings me back to my late teen years spent in Chicago buying records from Wax Trax and going to a underground club called Medusa! Oh the memories! Thanks for this awesome breakdown of Al's early work! 👍
Thanks a lot, I really appreciate that!
Wax Trax, Medusas, the Metro, you’re speaking my language!
I remember when this dropped in 86. My friends and I were deep into British new wave and early Ministry. One of them just handed me this record with a disappointed look, but for me it was a revelation. A whole new world opened up and Twitch was the cornerstone for my musical journey. An amazing album. Not sure people can grasp how different Twitch was from anything back then. Of course, so many other records in the 80s can make a similar claim. Crazy and innovative decade!
I agree, the 80s was very innovative and very terrible all at once. So much innovation and creativity mixed with so much blandness and hair metal futures. Thankfully there was enough good stuff to cancel out the bad.
It was 90's music being written and recorded in the 80's. Way ahead of its time.
Awesome, awesome, awesome, thank you for these videos. So many memories and highly agree about The Angel , that track is simply magic!
BTW, I followed the name Adrian Sherwood from the 'Twitch' cover straight to On-U-Sound. Artists such as Tackhead, African Head Charge, Mark Stewart & The Maffia, Singers and Players. I love all that dub reggae stuff. Great for smokin' a bowl!
I'm right there with you, pal. This was the first thing I had ever heard by Ministry/Al J.
Changed EVERYTHING about the way I perceived music. Loved "Isle of Man" & "Everyday is Halloween" and still think they hold up every bit as much as the day they were released.
For me, his best work.
Another one 😃... just recently went through all Ministry back catalogue... Twitch.. yeah Adrian Sherwood... how that even happened. There is a YT where AS talks about how they have recorded it... yeah as you might thought. Al said that AS taught him how to mix... probably one of the best people in the world to learn how to do it. I learned that just recently and my jaw dropped had no idea about this connection even knowing Twitch for years... but true that listened to it from a bootleg tape issued in East Europe 8n 90s lol... Super important album breakthrough and new music era started there...
Fuck yes! Dude I absolutely love your channel, and now that you’re doing these Ministry videos! So good! Keep it up man! Amazing!
Thanks, man! I appreciate that.
All day is the best song from that excellent album. There is a live recording of all day on you tube and it is gold! I used to have the all day poster in my room.. memories.
TWITCH is an all time favourite desert island disc for me. Remember exactly where & when I was the first time I heard it. Total perspective changer on music & what music could be. Changed forever.
Always an angel there.
Should have been the single from the album in my opinion.
Great video, excited to see the next breakdown on Ministry. Have to say, I love Over the Shoulder :)
Great song for sure.
I'm really loving these videos, as a 21 year old guy from Scotland, I only got into metal back in 2019, with industrial metal being my favourite, I only just got into Ministry a few months back, so watching these is awesome to see what it was like back then for old Ministry, of course these older synth pop albums are not my kind of thing as much, but I still respect them and will definitely give them a listen at some point as well. Can't wait for more Ministry videos!
Thanks, man! I really appreciate your kind words! Some of my favorite bands are from Scotland - Primal Scream, KLF (half of them anyway), Mogwai….all kinds of great stuff there!
Did you watch "Fix: The Ministry movie"? I saw it recently, pretty hard core and give image of pretty extreme level at which Al has been... Surprising tbh that the man is still alive not a ordinary man could live that live style and be ok at his age where he is still going strong and recording awesome music as "Moral Hygiene" is very decent album with still avant-garde feeling...
twitch is one of the best minstry albums adrian sherwood's production also gave al a library of drum sounds he would use in everything for years after.
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Glad you mentioned Coil.
I thought I was getting another "With Sympathy." I was appalled at first, then curious, and then IN LOVE. Have been for 35 years now! 'Twitch' is based in funk, rather than metal. That's the biggest difference between 'Twitch' and material LORAH forward. I was big on the political themes and the paranoia. The Angel is one of my faves too. One reviewer scoffed at it and said it sounded like Phil Collins. LOL! It's kinda true, but that makes it even more fun! BTW, that's Al and Patti's daughter, Adrienne, cooing at the beginning of the song. My fascination with Side 2 presaged my love for electroacoustic music, such as Iannis Xenakis' electronic output. Al said he had this sound all worked out in 1981. You can hear similarities on early trax, such as "He's Angry," "I'm Falling," and "Overkill." All posted on YT. "Isle of Man" is as close as he got to a Fad Gadget song, 'Twitch' (tape/cd) and the "Over the Shoulder" single note it is Version 2 of "Isle of Man." The first version is similar, but more pared down. I don't like metal, so I have limited interest in subsequent albums. I do love the side projects PTP and Acid Horse. Acid Horse, of course, is pretty much one song, "No Name, No Slogan." I also had a very scary psychedelic experience with 'Twitch' on my headphones in 1988, but that's another story. The second British Invasion was in 1983, so I think that's what prompted the limey accent. Earlier, Ministry had a Chicago funk influence. Backing vocalists such as Shay Jones on "I Wanted to Tell Her." Those lyrics are much better than they sound at first blush, especially the remix with Shay as a feature vocalist. One thing on a personal note, I had a lot of enmity for Metal when I was in HS because long-haired metalheads beat on my New Romantic ass. I mean, a few kids in every suburban town were "punk." But that was aggro hardcore with studded leather and mohawks. New Romantic was JUST NOT A THING in mid-eighties U.S. suburbia. Little guy like me walking down the street dressed like Scritti Politti is fixing to get squished like a BUG! I was a DJ too for many years. Still am. Though I do more of a modern classical program today. Anyway, I sold tons and tons of promos to used record stores like that. On one condition, it had to be unsolicited. I got enough unsolicited shit shingles to buy me tons of Big Macs!
if you want to relly make peace with your aqua net spraying, liquid eyeliner wearing self, watch adam ant's "prince charming" video all the way to the end, and tell me if that doesn't chill your blood some
and btw free west papua mfers
Just got Twitch on vinyl. Sounds brilliant.
Loving this series, I heard Ministry when I was 14 on the Cool World soundtrack along with TKK, all of middle school was Ministry for me, I’m 20 now and have a huge ministry collection and still listening to them at least 2 a day.
You’ve got the order a little mixed up. First was “every day is Halloween” with the picture of Al on the cover, that was waxtrax007, then was “the nature of love”, waxtrax009 and finally the first record you showed: “Halloween remix/nature of outtakes” which was waxtrax020.
All released in 1985, along with I believe the “over the shoulder” single from sire.
Agree again with you- twitch is monumental in my collection, I still listen to it several times a year and love every minute of it.
Phenomenal record. Would cordially challenge that Front 242 and Cabaret Voltaire got a jump start on that sound with No Comment and Micro-Phonies before Twitch, but Twitch defineylu holds its own as one of the OG Industrial Dance classics.
That’s Patty Jourgenson (Al’s first wife) on the cover of nature of love. She did the backup vocals on that song as well as angel
even though i was born decades after you, twitch did similarly impact me, when i first heard it at 7 years old, i was pretty blown away and impressed too
Just wanted to tell You that Your videos are great, man!
You have a crazy collection my dude you should do full discography run throughs of each artist you have. Would love to your full autechre discography
Oh man, I’d love to do that. Will definitely think that one over.
@@occasionalfeelgood23 nice, cheers for the reply. Btw, is your username from the DJ sprinkles track?
@@bl33p83 Yes, indeed! I was wondering when someone would ask me that, haha. Sprinkles is one of my all time faves.
@@occasionalfeelgood23 oath man same! Shame midtown 120 blues never got pressed to wax, i'd buy it in a heartbeat. I'm glad I found your channel!
love this LP
Adrian Sherwood goodness. I actually hear the connections to Conemelt with a lot of Sherwood’s stuff!
@@occasionalfeelgood23 all 3 of us were fans. it was inevitable because he was so prolific. Hearing this on a weighty system in South London one night was very special. ruclips.net/video/dNwqfbTMOn4/видео.html
The reason he sounded so funny on the Over The Shoulder track was he wanted to emulate Richard.H.Kirk from Cabaret Voltaire R.I.P*
I really like weird, "edgy" or dark synthpop because I quite enjoy when a song has some of the sensibilities and melodic sound of pop music while also having a bit of moodiness or grittiness and aggression to it so as you can imagine I quite like a lot of songs from twitch even if a bunch of the tracks were too much like noise for my taste. I think the 12" extended remix of Over The Shoulder is probably one of my favorite songs to be honest, weird cheesy fake British accent and all, haha. The extended intro with the extra beats that many would justifiably view as unnecessary filler I personally really like and thought it gave the song some extra punch and impact as it felt like it was building up to something and it just sounds awesome when it all sort of "kicks in".
Thanks for watching! I do love “Over The Shoulder”, and the extended version is a really classic example of 80s remixes - not so much a remix but an extended working so DJs could easily mix in and out of. More like an edit than a remix. That song has grown on me over the years, I just like all the other songs better from that album. Not to say it’s bad, just my least favorite. “Twitch” is very noisy for sure, but also pop in its own way, which ensures the uniqueness of it.
@@occasionalfeelgood23 Oh, I guess that does make sense for there to be a long periods where the song is more "calm" and less "busy" if DJs wanted more breathing room and space to incorporate their own contributions to a track. I also probably enjoy Al's pseudo British accent a lot more than I care to admit on it too, it just seems to work, and compliment the vibe and energy of the song in it's own way.
The Angel is gorgeous…be cool as an encore to even a current Ministry setlist
Al Jourgensen's last great work. Used to love hearing Over the Shoulder, Just Like You and All Day on college radio shows of the day, next to Culture Club, The Cure, Yazoo, etal. My girlfriend at the time wanted to have a mock rape, so naturally we did it to Twitch.
Twitch is all kinds of amazing, not heavy or focused on bpm. Just enough menace to add something extra. I am hesitant to call it synth pop per se like Vince Clarke era Depeche Mode. Industrial and I get an old school Skinny Puppy vibe...
You have amazing taste in music, Broheme
I was visiting the same side of the record store as you. I have a request, "Nail" by Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel.
Another indepth review of Twitch, sadly this didn't pop up as a recommendation until a few weeks ago... I am also a fan of Adrian Sherwood, on-u sound, Gary Clail, Tackhead, ect. Another IK dj I also put In with Sherwood... J Saul Kane (Bomb The Bass, Depth Charge and Vinyl Solution label), would love to hear your musical knowledge on him.
I love J Saul Kane, especially his Depth Charge and Octagon Man stuff. I'd totally do a video on him!
@@occasionalfeelgood23 Nice! So I take it you was/is a dj? If, so, where.... you seem familiar, or at least someone I would of hung out at the clubs with.
@@soulaborter7797 I started DJing in Portland in 1990. I did that until the mid-2000s, went to grad school and stopped DJing, then started again around 2014-ish. Then Covid happened and I stopped again. I’m also a writer and have been freelancing doing music reviews and such since the 90s as well. Where are you from?
I love synth pop Al…I really could give a shit about the devil in the details concerning what happened…I’m sure he has great reasons to disown his past but as a hardcore fan, I reserve the right to enjoy even the stuff he’s ashamed of…in fact, I’m not reluctant to admit that a big part of me prefers the Gothy synth-pop Al above anything else he’s done….having said that, I do enjoy the harsh industrial metal Ministry very much
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I remember meeting peeps at goth clubs who had the Jourgensen bug…sporting their phony Brit accents…priceless 😂
All Day is a masterpiece
I've talked to you on the ministry fb page many times lol,hope u do the other classic ministry albums, cheers!
Definitely not me on the Ministry FB page, but thanks for watching!
@@occasionalfeelgood23 lmfao oh ok. My bad, good videos tho bro
In the All day Remix the only difference is he distorted his vocals from the original mix to sound a little more menacing.
Used to have that Halloween vinyl…I’m so stupid to let it go 😑
Reissue is by music on vinyl.
Land of Rape & Honey was my introduction to Ministry…it changed everything…my hippie girlfriend at the time fucking hated ministry and that in itself sold me instantaneously, lol
putting T'WITCH in context
in the 1980s electronic music authoritatively challenged mainstream culture because robotic timing = logic, in the same way that sampling (the akai s1000) did later, flipping culture back at itself. but electronic music was generally available in two contexts - romantic new wave or rap. the appeal of twitch was dissent with a sound as hard as oppression itself - machines and anvils. before LOR&H t'witch was the ONLY record anyone talked about in tucson before revco and rabies. no one here has time for bullshit, life is hard, we want change. and you're crazy man over the shoulder is masterful. tucson was one of two cities in the u.s. with a public access cable channel and they played the video continuously. it's funk but cold and intellectual. the accent worked at the time because international appeal. i'm british but back then, so many people wanted to spend time with me so they could imitate my accent for whatever reason. that's what people did back then. tucson had a rare dynamic social mix for the era (which is why crash worship loved tucson enough to play here every halloween).
nature of love is again such a fucking head trip. there was nothing like it. logic. al is a masterful agent of disaffection :)
LOR&H was such a let down. stupid songs, all emotion. but 1988 was all about psychic t.v.'s acid house ("tune in, turn on"), front 242, the unparalled nation of millions, meat beat manifesto, and the burgeoning tech potentiated ideology shift (neneh cherry on the radio instead of whatever cocksuckers).. pauls' boutique..
the most amazing thing about the next few years would be not the eg. PWEI on the radio gen x summers of love but the fact that before NWA, american youth were fucking conscious because nation of millions was so hard. then suddenly everyone was a cocksucker again and gen x as any kind of reformative entity fizzled straight to shit.
but it was cool. before al had everyone acting retarded for a few years you could go and talk to intelligent people about ministry. because whatever the truth is, t'witch was the single greatest intelligent sounding expression of dissent. it's neat to look at how al has devoted his life to the cause of keeping young americans questioning their presented life choices, though of course shit is twisted as fuck. no one was as direct or forthright.. (a lot of us had no idea what ogre was saying before rabies..)
the only thing i can add.. (after twenty years of audio development and almost as many being a targeted individual i'm so over music, al is about the only artist i can tolerate) may seem off topic.. listen to twenty deadly diseases by severed heads. this encapsulates everything wrong with the direction artists have taken since the nineties, pocketing themselves within a genre instead of just using the medium available to them.. maybe there are modern versions of the butthole surfers i'm not aware of.. but the way i remember it.. in the eighties a club would play electronic dance music back to back with the cure's lovecats with its shitty acoustic kickdrum and it was all cool. clubs weren't designated by what kind of kickdrum they played. you guys are a bunch of fools man the masons just assfuck you all constantly and you are just all "hey these guys are cool" and nobody can do shit becuase they are too retarded.
dude you are catching waaaay too much screentime or smoking waaaay too much weed. take a break, let your eyesockets heal holmes.
mad respect, first? person to make a video about the album that changed it all
the same way jeff mcclintock's synthedit would save the world in the '00s
British accent? I was thinking the same thing! Funny!. Peace!.
I just subscribed to you….you are super Fucking cool, man 💃🏾🕺🏿🧘🏻♂️🧘🏻♀️
...now this is the record.
Do one for FILTH PIG 🙏🏼
The only early Ministry track I ever liked was The Game is Over. After that, I thought Everyday is Halloween was also pretty good but for my taste, Twitch is THE best album Ministry ever recorded. I tried to get into their later stuff but it just didn’t do it for me.
Be great if Uncle Al could bring All Day, Every Day is Halloween, Over The Shoulder & Same Old Madness back into the setlist!!! How fucking cool would that be?!?!
“I’m Falling” is so {Cure} sounding…really cool 1st generation darkwave synth-pop…like Uncle Al was Gothing Out and it fucking ruled WaxTrax Records taking the label into a whole new world of Avant-Garde underground pop music…My Possession & We Believe rules too🦾
Didn't Darby Crash affect a fake British accent when he came back from England
Great fn album
You look like a cross between Joaquin Phoenix and David Harbour.
I’ve gotten the Joaquin comparison before, I had to Google David Harbour, haha. I don’t see it, maybe it’s the beard.
New subscriber. Damn, I am looking forward to your Kraftwerk vids later, too. And Depeche Mode. But how about Revco? Any videos coming on that? Or even Laibach? What did you think when you first heard LORAH Do you like any of the works or songs better than regular Ministry? And I always thought that was a weird album cover. Thought it was like some obscure ancient statue. But no. Was just ol' Uncle Al....thanks again. Great channel
Thanks a lot for your kind words, and your time! I definitely have been thinking about a Cocks video, but not so much Laibach. I was kinda thinking of doing a video based on my ten favorite “industrial” albums. That term gets stretched and bastardized, but so does the music, so fuck it, ya know? I’ll do my best with it and see what shakes out once I’m done. It’s just fun talking about these albums, so any excuse to do it is a good excuse!
@@occasionalfeelgood23 yea sir I agree. And Laibach-is it politics or so you just not care for em.. And lately been into My Life Thrill Kill Kult. And do you think KMFDM sums up our "industrial" more thouroghly or Front 242 instead?
@@glenbellefonte9620 No, nothing to do at all with politics, I just didn’t get into their sound. There’s something one-dimensional about their sound I just could never get on board with. I always felt they were more straight up metal in a way or something - I never felt they were all that experimental. Just an opinion of course. Hmm, I guess I’d say I think Front 242 is more industrial than KMFDM, but that’s a tough one. KMFDM have changed their sound the past 25 years where it sounds like straight up disco. That’s no bad thing, of course. Front 242 always had that disco angle too, but they seem to have a certain rigidity to their approach that makes them sound more intense, where KMFDM music has always sounded like a party in many ways. If that makes any sense, ha!
@Occasional Feelgood yes sir it does. Also, TKK has/had that disco sound. Laibach is one of those I just recently started getting into after years and I gotta say the opposite. I thought my God these dudes are strange and they sound exactly how I would describe European industrial. The Revco concert videos we see from the 80s are mostly filmed in Chicago and I remember living there at that very time and people I knew talking about Skinny Puppy and to think now, like 35 years later and so many miles away that I was standing down the street from those shows while they were happening makes me regret not going