Ministry "Twitched" -- the outtakes from "Twitch" -- WTF?!

this album probably meant as much to me as you donut bitch.it totally ruled my life for several years. so much so, that to this day i still dj under the 'twitch' moniker. it's pretty sad that it has been rehashed in such a thoughtless manner. i guess sire sold the rights off dirt cheap as they couldn't be bothered / didn't think it would sell very much. still, i would have though al would have more concern for his past history.

hopefully this won't make it over this side of the pond.

i just remembered the day i bought this along with 'big sexy land' by rev co. and 'major malfunction' by keith le blanc. the future had arrived.

_Twitch_ is one of the greatest CDs ever recorded and stands to this day as the best thing Ministry ever put out.

But yeah, Major Malfuction, all those Tackhead 12"s, it's all coming back to me..

Dan OTM about Twitch.

aren't there two versions of isle of man already available?

I'm sad that Al uses the really weird feminine voice only on "Over The Shoulder". He really should have gone with that instead of the sinister distorted voice.

for me, 'attack ships on fire' was / is the greatest revco moment.

i co promoted them in glasgow in around '89 and they practically cleared out the whole supply of drugs in the entire city.

I'm sad that Al uses the really weird feminine voice only on "Over The Shoulder"

for some reason, it alwways sounded like a michael jackson pastiche to me.

That's why I liked it! This was the very first Ministry song I ever heard, and I thought it was a weird old woman imitating the King Of Pop at first. (Hey, I was a sheltered 15 year old.. my mind wasn't quite as open yet)

You're missing my point: "TWO VERSIONS OF ONE OF THE GREATEST SONGS EVER ON ONE ALBUM OMG OMGOMGOMG"

'angel' was the first one i heard. darn it, i need to go to zzzz but this thread has compelled me to dig it out,

Am I missing out?

Al has never been more wrong about anything than he was when he decided to completely dismiss his pre-_Land Of Rape And Honey_ catalogue.

from my fading memory of magazine articles way back when, i think adrian sherwood really went to town as producer on this, and even when it was released jourgenson didn't like the direction things had taken?? but maybe i'm on crack....

In general, don't ever listen to Al's advice on what music made by Al to get. This means that Pailhead's entire catalog is "not worth shoplifting" by definition, which is just plain stupidity, given those songs were the prototypes for Al's "bad ass" phase. (also, to further underscore Dan's comment above).

Since The Land Of Rape And Honey, Ministry have always been a FAR better backing band than they have been their own band. Pailhead & Lard & 1000 Homo DJS & PTP & Acid Horse & certain moments of Revco from 1988 and on far outshine anything released under Ministry proper... Al and Paul should have just been committed to being great sessions musicians with different frontmen their entire career. They've actually shown more looseness and creativity through their outlets that way. The only RAWK Ministry that's tolerable is "Jesus Built My Hotrod"... with Gibby Haynes as the singer. I arrest my case.

Where does the “Frighten me? No, Frank, I think startled is a better word” sample come from?

Listened to this for the first time in many forevers. More lethargic than I remembered cept for the dynamite closing triptych. One could claim that this is their/his Riot/Exile in an effort to resuscitate it. But that wouldn't quite work with such a belligerent band/project. It still gets me off vertically (all those radio transmission-like samples and weird, vaguely Human Leaguey sound effects) but horizontally it's a touch too slow and soft for me. And "My Possession" sounds like a confused cover of Prince's "Sexuality."

Great album cover, though.