12" Singles

Ministry | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 19, 1993)
• Original Release Date: 1985
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Tvt
• ASIN: B000003REN
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,566 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #10 in Music > Indie Music > Alternative Rock > Goth & Industrial
  • #15 in Music > Alternative Rock > Goth & Industrial > Industrial > Industrial Dance
  • #53 in Music > Indie Music > Dance & DJ > General

Track Listings

1. Everyday Is Halloween

2. The Nature Of Love

3. All Day

4. Cold Life

5. Halloween (Remix)

6. Nature Of Love (Cruelty Mix B)

7. All Day (Remix B)

8. Cold Life Dub

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Ministry's early career is either a dirty secret or a case of abandoned potential, depending on how you see things--that is, depending on whether you're a dirtbag or a wimp. As a wimp with dirtbag tendencies, I can see both sides of the question. On one hand, while Ministry's early new wave radio hits were never quite as convincing as, say, Depeche Mode's or Blancmange's, or Men Without Hats', or whosever, Ministry were the only serious entries America had in the poof-wave sweepstakes (save the one-hit Combo Audio)--and they had great hooks besides. On the other hand, later Ministry rocked, which this stuff resolutely does not. Key tracks are missing, like "Work for Love" and "I Wanted to Tell Her"--so try the album, In Sympathy. --Gavin McNett

Product Description

Still their best work by far, this CD contains their ground-breaking material from Waxtrax!. Tracks included here are Everyday Is Halloween (2 mixes), All Day (2 mixes) and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cool Oddity to Own, March 3, 2004

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SandmanVI (Glen Allen, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 12" Singles (Audio CD)

This is just a remix of 4 early Ministry songs and not a full album so don't expect too much. If you don't know this, industrial metal pioneers Ministry started out making wussed out new wave synth pop complete with fake Brit accents. Looking back, this has to be the most dramatic transformation any band has gone through in history - if Celine Dion came out with hardcore gansta rap it would be less of a switch.

On to the content... "Everyday Is Halloween" is an underground dance classic that appealed to outcasts everywhere. It specifically reached out to dressed-up Goths with its mock derision "To me everyday is Halloween, oh you look so absurd, you look so obscene". This is the reason to get this single. "All Day" is also nice. We could live without "Cold Life".

For Ministry historians it's a must. For synth new wave fans, you need it just for "Halloween". For fans of their metal sound who have never heard this, beware - though it is fun to have as a comical artifact.

If you like this then you need to get the full disc 'With Sympathy' that has sveeral other very good dance tracks. I actually prefer "Revenge" to any others from this period of theirs. "Say You're Sorry" and "I Wanted to Tell Her" are solid too.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gems of the past, August 14, 2006

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V. Smith - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 12" Singles (Audio CD)

I write this review because so many people are getting it wrong. The founder of the group was raised in Chicago. At that time chicago house music was on fire. I remember going to lots of clubs (i.e. Dome Room and Club Neo)and ministry 12 inch tracks were played a lot. Neo still rocks this scene. Anybody who knows real chicago house will definitely know these tracks. Calling it synth pop is not accurate.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 4 Stars for their Wax Trax! Singles, 3 stars for this CD, August 27, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: 12" Singles (Audio CD)

This is a great collection of goth synth-pop. They talk about everything depressed people can relate to, yet almost every new wave fan will appreciate at least some of the songs on this CD. Songs like "Everyday Is Halloween", "The Nature of Love", and "All Day" (Remix B) are definitely some of the high points in their Wax Trax! years. However, Ministry did have their flaws as well. The synth-intro on "Halloween Remix" is just too long (it takes 3:30 minutes for the song to kick in) "The Nature of Love (cruelty mix)" just gets repetitive without all the lyrics sung, and "Cold Life Dub" has got to be the worst old era Ministry song ever written! This compilation is also missing 3 other songs that Ministry wrote for Wax Trax! "I'm Falling" (a punk new wave song that sounds kind of like latter era speed metal Ministry, only with the crunchy guitar replaced with a new wave guitar, and the shouting replaced with fake british accent singing), "Nature of Outtakes" (another remix of "The Nature of Love" which again sounds like latter-era Ministry only stripped from all crunchy guitars, but they actually shout and bark this time), and "Primental" (a voxless unfinished version of "I Wanted to Tell Her" from their "With Sympathy" album). But this is still a good buy since you still get some of their best work ever as a synth-pop band. In my humble opinion, a few of their goth synth pop songs are even better then Depeche Mode's best work. So cop this if your a Ministry fan or not and witness some of the best new wave music the top 40 charts have been hiding from you. As well as some underground oddities that will probably grow on you also.

Note to music fans who AREN'T into industrial metal: DON'T BUY ANYTHING AFTER TWITCH!!!!