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Rio Grande Dub Ya (Dig)

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Two points and I'll be brief:

1) Remember when Ministry played Industrial-Dance? Something with a beat and some degree of electronic manipulation vs. "all metal, all the time, with a few repetitive samples thrown in for kicks"? If you liked "Land of Rape and Honey" this may be your speed.

2) Enough with the Bush-bashing. You said your piece with "Houses of the Mole"; "Rio Grande Dubya" was -- lyrically -- a rather tired reiteration for those who didn't get your point the first time; "The Last Sucker" a last gasp (or should I say death rattle?), like an old hippie in a nursing home screaming into the void. Sorry, but why do I get the impression that Al's Bush-hatred functioned not so much as inspiration but a crutch as the wellsprings of creativity ran dry?

(I say this as a Ministry fan from the beginning).

Don't get me wrong rio grande blood is a great album, but I felt that it lacked industrial and it was all way too much overboard metal. This although having metal elements, has a more healthy dose of industrial. This my friends, shoulda been rio grande blood. Great album Al, but damn the "i hate Bush" thing is tired already....Great job to Raven and Tommy Victor too, and everyone else involved.

This album should be purchased by the most loyal of Minitry fans only, unless you are a fan of the more techno mixes of stuff from ministry. This album is a bit hasher for me to stomach. The original Rio Grande Blood is sheer brutality and industrial metal at it's best, and hands down you should purchase it first. As for this album, it's one for the back burner. Still great material, and great polital underpinnings, but just does not do it for me. Not for first time ministry fans

This album should be purchased by the most loyal of Minitry fans only, unless you are a fan of the more techno mixes of stuff from ministry. This album is a bit hasher for me to stomach. The original Rio Grande Blood is sheer brutality and industrial metal at it's best, and hands down you should purchase it first. As for this album, it's one for the back burner. Still great material, and great polital underpinnings, but just does not do it for me. Not for first time ministry fans

This album should be purchased by the most loyal of Minitry fans only, unless you are a fan of the more techno mixes of stuff from ministry. This album is a bit hasher for me to stomach. The original Rio Grande Blood is sheer brutality and instrial metal at it's best, and hands down you should purchase it first. As for this album, it's one for the back burner. Still great material, and great polital underpinnings, but just does not do it for me. Not for first time ministry fans

For nostalgic cultmetalheads who wait to hear again their dèja-vu
best-ever metalexperience....well forget it!! But for those who have
fun on NEW stuff, they'll enjoy the new BRAINTICKET STORM
of our beloved uncle AL(ien) Jourgensen. And as a politically uncorrect
person one must love also the original "Rio Grande Blood" and the "NOW"!
Ministry sounds still great, in fact it's still one of the greatest
Metal/Industrial acts...you posers out there! Don't stop AL, after
George W. there will be HILLARY - Cheers!!!