…ministry – with sympathy…

 

okay, so I’m a fan of ministry already, but i finally got ahold of a very special CD titled With Sympathy by Ministry. This is way different from every album they’ve done. This is the only CD that doesn’t have anindustrial sound, but more of am early gothic/new wave-ish sound. very poppy. very danceable. the Cd is great actually, and I think that maybe they were on too something with this sound, but they went into a different sound, which is still great and probally suited the band much more.  i’m going to really look into the band a lot more and see if there is any more music with this tone available, but considering the difficulty in getting this one, I could use the help…

heres what someone on amazon said about this album:  (Ken Garrett) I had a buddy who met Alan Jorgensen on the first Revolting Cocks tour, and here is the story he was told. The With Sympathy album was made solely to get Ministry a record deal. The band was already doing the up and coming Chicago industrial sound way back in, what was it 82 or 83 when this album first came out. Alan said that he was forced to do new wave for the first album or no deal. Al also was rumored to break copies of With Sympathy if he ever saw one in someone’s record collection. My buddy had heard this and hid his copy when Alan was at his house. My friend said that Alan did look through his records while he was there but since With Sympathy was hidden there was no record breaking episode.

sounds pretty interesting and somwhat believable!

I would reccommend this album to other goth/new wave/dark wave lovers of the 80’s, but for industrial music fans unless your open to something much more poppy and reflective of the early 1980’s sound then you might not like it very much.