MINISTRY — Twelve Inch Singles: 1981-1984 (review)

MINISTRY — Twelve Inch Singles: 1981-1984 album cover Boxset / Compilation · 1985 · Non-Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
Warthur
This album-length compilation is, arguably, really more of an EP with a bonus remix EP tacked onto the end, since you are presented here with four original songs - each of them a significant early Ministry single - along with four remixes of them, and to be honest I tend to stop listening before the remixes kick in.

By far the best song on here is Everyday is Halloween, a far more successful goth anthem than anything on Ministry's uncharacteristic debut album With Sympathy. (Yeah, Al and pals are still mimicing the British goth pioneers, but they do a better job of capturing the scene's attitude and producing something which might have done heavy duty on turntables at the Batcave club back in the day.) The other songs on here are more transitional pieces towards Ministry's more well-known industrial style.
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