Chris Connelly - 30 years of The Land of Rape and Honey

[@annak8313]

I love this man. Singing "So What" in the live Ministry video (you all know the one) still kicks my ass. His voice kills and makes this album incredibly intense and vaguely threatening. Perfect.

[@carljensen333]

My most played Ministry song after Angel.

[@JackPeloquin]

“This album…” He wasn’t on Land of Rape… Neither was So What.

[@JJONNYREPP]

Look Out The Window gene autry

[@Brian-ob9vf]

It would be epic if Al and Chris would produce an album together now. Maybe a little flashback of '88

[@Randomcorpse]

A flashback of 88 but only if they laugh like a motherfucker

[@tvacchino]

Bring back Paul too!!

[@paladro]

i'd be just as interested any collab they do, retro sound or something brand new.

[@tvacchino]

Chris's solo work was such a radical unexpected departure from what He was doing with AL that I was just blown away!! And I love his voice as it reminds me of BOWIE

[@williamjosephdunn5879]

Bowie with a LOT of Scott Walker thrown in. Walker was also a huge influence on Bowie as well

[@tvacchino]

Agreed!!

[@clvrswine]

Duh.

[@nichttuntun3364]

Both awesome singers, Scott and Chris. :)

[@13yelworC13]

Bowie AND Scott Walker (who influenced Bowie)

[@stevechartrand4362]

This album completely changed me and my musical tastes. The most out-there, insane, ahead of its time album I had ever heard. I STILL listen to it! Chris is a great artist I still follow, love his voice.

[@browngirlinaclownworld2077]

Easily one of the greatest albums of the 1980s. As heavy as anything the metal crowd was doing at the time, but much more fresh and imaginative. Right up there with Faith No More's 'The Real Thing'.

[@glenbellefonte9620]

I like everything you said until that last thing about Faith. I mean, no comparison. The Real Thing seemed commercial, typical, and marketed in contrast to Land. Land was like some weird dark secret that was coming from hell. I mean Deity and The Missing. Those horns in Deity seem almost mental and off the chain weird

[@ThePeter281]

Great album. I always remember about great bass line in "Golden Dawn"

[@francisbottoni6470]

This one changed everything...I discovered it in my 1st year of college and to the chagrin of my hippie girlfriend at the time, I incessantly listened to my LORAH CD...I was blown away & hooked to LORAH like a seductive obsession...it ravaged my mind and possessed my soul...well, eventually in the winter of 1988, Ministry performed in Farmingdale NY at now defunct Spize Nite Club...that concert in a word was a “Game Changer”...we went in as naive twerps and left as valiant Ministry disciples...sincere thanks to them all: Uncle Al Jourgensen & Paul Barker & the entire Ministry Camp, then & now...🕯💅🏼🌹💅🏼🕯💋

[@robertjohnson2290]

Was there, think it was called the Crazy Donkey after Spize switched ownership, with my bro in law. Insane intimate show as I recall. I also remember all his shows at the Ritz and other venues in NYC which were much more audience involved.

[@mykeadaptiv5828]

Every time Chris looks down, the light that's reflecting in his sunglasses makes him looks like he has reverse googly eyes. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.

[@MrGrimm-tz9gs]

Kickass!.. bit of a long time no see,, cool seeing Mr.connelly doing good..

[@johnmchugh8049]

Chris’s book is hilarious talking about the craziness of uncle Al , in the audio book he often breaks into uncontrollable laughter

[@tangibleblockofwisdom6386]

Ok you sold me. Take your salesman of the year award and get the hell outta heeeeer

[@williamkjwilliamkj1815]

You are truly an inspiration sir. Thank you for all of the music over the years.

[@vaughnmild4467]

So you so "So What" @ the Riviera in Chicago circa 17 or 18. You were GREAT! Thanks for doing what u do man

[@blueberry9696ify]

L.O.R.A.H is the best album of Ministry ! A masterpiece

[@carlhorowitz7570]

@@jayskade8350 Animositisomina does it for me.

[@oliverhazard73]

masterpiece

[@douglasshankland751]

Paul and Chris formed Bells Into Machines and I believe presale vinyl is available. I've been really looking forward to getting this after hearing what they have released as previews... I had also read once that the debut would be a double album.

[@notsoeasy9487]

Game changing band , my favourites . And for the eighties they were magic . Exciting compared to anything back then .

[@nichttuntun3364]

I needed 30 years to finally dig the cover art work :) On the vinyl is even harder to see, as it's bigger. Still got all the records.

[@apawstate]

I've been listening to Ministry and industrial since the late 80s, and I didn't know until now that Chris Connelly was Scottish. I'd never heard him speak, only sing, and it wasn't mentioned in any interviews that I remember reading.

[@spike7038]

His vocals in Never Believe are pretty broad Scots but if you aren’t Scottish you wouldn’t necessarily notice. Being from only few miles away from where he was brought up I remember being ‘who the fucks singing’....good times

[@genevieveleblanc7910]

He was my director for a school of rock show. He directed David Bowie (:

[@NachtSchreck13]

I wonder if they dubbed the original versions of Pailhead tunes with Connelly on vox. I'd so love to hear them.

[@senateguard33]

They did. Here it is kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnTUp6NjZ9efhZo&ab_channel=SteveArra

[@miked3168]

I agree, remaster it. It needs to be played loud

[@kryptichands968]

Cannibal song still is a nail in my structure,

[@cristianfuentes6164]

Deity is one of my favorite songs on the album too.

[@Wickster-k6m]

After Chris, and eventually Paul left ministry, ministry hasn't been the same. Many claim Al for all the success, but I to disagree. Listen to ministry, Revolting Cocks, Pail Head, etc, Al was surrounded with talent. Once they left, ministry tanked. A few songs here and there, but nothing compared to the past.

[@jeffram68]

Agreed. Absolutely. No more than one or two really good songs per album for a while now. Paul, Chris, and Bill were the other three cornerstones that made Ministry and RevCo special. I'd love to see them re-unite.

[@MrPerattzi]

Time is a factor here. You cannot discount Uncle AL bc his output eventually declined, no one stays on top forever.

[@cartertheunstoppablefaxmac902]

Al brought the chaos and intensity, Paul brought the grooves, Chris brought the human warmth

[@cartertheunstoppablefaxmac902]

And not forgetting Bill who brought the rhythm

[@matts4750]

I totally agree. Al was surrounded by amazing musicians and even though there was all this insanity/clash of personalities it just worked musically. I like some of the newer ministry but it just isn't the same without guys like Paul Barker.

[@shanereynolds4276]

A mfing classic. Thank you Ministry

[@bucksatanII]

I hope one day Al, Paul, Chris & Bill get together in a studio and write something

[@masonbaker2377]

Ian .M no chance

[@maxcadey9223]

Al, paul and chris have settled their personal issues so who knows

[@rblfrmthewstdwn]

Unfortunately, Bill Rieflin passed away. He was such a unique musician even for Al Jourgensen's band of merry misfits. A polished professional skin man who will be missed. RIP

[@NachtSchreck13]

@@rblfrmthewstdwn whaaaaaat?? I had no fucking idea. Damn, that fucking sucks. That double drum solo with Rieflin and Atkins on the intro of Breathe on In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up is the most mind-blowing thing ever.

[@cynthianovoselsky3592]

Such a great voice

[@R_e_D-S_t_A_r]

My favorite album. 🤟🏻💗👹

[@nobbynoris]

Kind of surprising how positive Chris sounds talking about his time with RevCo and Ministry given that Al Jourgensen didn't have a good word to say about him in The Lost Gospels.

[@netenemy]

If you liked hearing about the behind the scenes stuff, check out Chris’s book, Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible & Fried: My Life as a Revolting Cock.

[@michaelstilger8410]

How is Al not so greatly revered for the body of work....because he’s still alive.

[@oliverhazard73]

we r talking about him right now. REVERED

[@DadalorianCreates]

I saw him live first with Ministry on the Revco KMFDM Ministry leg of The Mind. the tour that spawned Pigface, so many people on that tour. It was Mike S. ( RIP) first tour and I knew him through and uncle and Rigor Mortis out of Dallas. At the time I was the only one in my group who knew KMFDM or RevCo and had been following ministry since Twitch. by that time i had Fini Tribe on record, when he released "whiplash boychild" I loved it from the click of PLAY of my cassette deck. Got to sit and have tea and BS for a few minutes with Chris before a Pigface show up in c-attle. A mate of mine was on tour with them at the time - it was so amazing to me to get to meet Groovy Mann and Buzz McCoy (who informed me that removing the trash from the tour bus was therapeutic) , the bomb gang girls, all of the folks tour with pigface, have Martin accuse my GF of sneaking some one in as she was 8 months pregnant ... an all around killer night... Land was (at the time) and is such an amazing album. starts of nice and hard and in your face, as Chris points out - there is no flashing, no excess garbage. there is a reason why they chew up so much studio time --- i mean , yes part of it is the fact they used it to record other things... and THANK YOU for it... Pailhead is amazing, 1000 Homo DJs fantastic and well Revco is Revco is Revco.... "What'd they call it?" "The Revolting Cocks"..... Thank you sir for all of your amazing contributions to music and my teens, twenties and beyond. The Hawker, the Butcher, the Killer of Beauties, Daredevil, your version of The Amorous Humphry Plug... WhipLash BoyChild is still in regular rotation around here.

[@rleeroberts6350]

Chris is so fukkin epic

[@MrGrimm-tz9gs]

..but,, I wish he woulda said what was on the album art of the rape and honey 🍯 sleeve.. can anyone inform me?. I've tried to figure it out for years lol. I thought it might be a tank with an explosion or something. But I'm not sure.

[@juliojhfhiraldo777]

The album cover is an electronically processed image of a burned corpse in the Leipzig-Thekla subcamp of Buchenwald.

[@NoOne-jg4ez]

Turn it sideways to the left and hold it as far from your face as you can. It's a burned out skull from buchenwald.

[@mattdag69]

It would be nice to hear some early 80's style ministry but with als real vocals lol

[@BigStevie]

LEGEND!!!!!

[@shedtalksrecovery]

El Paso misses you, Al

[@papersack4290]

He walked into an interview wearing a cowboy hat with a piece of staw in his mouth and said, "you boys got something against Texas?" Everyone in the room started laughing and almost fell out if their chairs.

[@soonerfanjim]

I would love a remaster for better sound.

[@williamhollaway1960]

I hope Paul atleast comes back as luxa/pan productions...... sometimes to get something new. you have to break the formula and revisit the past..... MINISTRY knows their fans would be interested it's been twenty years since we've heard a luxa/pan collaboration but if Paul produced he wouldn't have to worry about touring he could still have his company etc. and ministry would have a new record that would atleast have the fans attention again and their touring new former tool guy could still play bass while letting the luxa/pan sound reguvinate

[@maxmatson1578]

Hey I'm glad this came out but my dates a little wrong didn't twitch come before land of rape and honey and didn't Chris Connelly work on "you know what you are" instead¿?

[@maxmatson1578]

@Narrow Deep narrow deep yeah thank you that's what I thought and plus I didn't think that he worked on deity precisely?

[@glenbellefonte9620]

He said it didn't come before

[@belladonna131]

MY SISTER AND I SAW YOU PLAY. I CAN'T REMEMBER IF YOU WILL BILLED WITH MINISTRY OR... "WHIPPING BOY"? THAT CAME LATER? THERE WERE SO MANY OFF SHOOTS AND PROJECTS, CONFUSING.

[@Sklang32]

One of the baddest mofukkaz on the planet! Love you Mr. C!

[@CorneliusDoomsDay]

I live in The Town of Rape and Honey, but unfortunately it changed it's motto and is now Opportunity Grows Here which would make a real shitty album name.

[@multaniloverofbeer]

Tisdale Drove through it once or twice.

[@glenbellefonte9620]

Not if it's a Taylor Swift album

[@carlhorowitz5916]

A fine Scotsman. And a very hardcore musician.

[@reanimate21]

Brian Shanley designed that cover

[@amc7185]

The Land of… defines “landmark”. An album that took this post-punk/goth type in a different, but sensible, direction. If you were hitting the

[@ceef8688]

4:30 "When you realize what it is (on the cover), it's really quite shocking." After twenty years of loving this album, for the first time I discerned the cover, which I somehow never believed to be an image of anything specific.

[@GardenofEyesNL]

Ha.. same here. It took me many years to realise what I was actually looking at. I always thought it was some sort of static, empty landscape with some kind of skeletal figure hovering inside of it.

[@ceef8688]

@@GardenofEyesNL hah that's exactly how I might have described it! Off the top of my head, probably worse. Purple... just mostly purple, with some desert ground near the bottom. Maybe like a floating ghost pyramid.

[@angusdf_versus]

He is my dad

[@hammerhorrible]

Then I am your brother. No not really. Cool Dad, if he's really your Dad.

[@clvrswine]

@@hammerhorrible Chris Connelly's dad drowned.

[@salasg]

⚡📈⚡📈

[@ClubNoiseband]

Ok but who were the fake Revco faces on the albums lol

[@glenbellefonte9620]

Somebody to do with albums family in West Virginia. I think art director or something

[@HBrooks]

you have been found guilty of commerce with the devil! one of the best Ministry albums. This one, Psalm 69, Mind is a Terrible Thing are the top three. Filth Pig and Dark Side rounding out the top five. ive seen ministry and/or revco about twelve or so times over the years. the late 80's/early 90's was the best, but revco (with paul barker) in the past few years was kickass. al seems to have lost his magic lately. unfortunate, but so has Jello, who was great in this album's live show videos. thanks Chris, for 'crackin' me up over the years!

[@holdinmcgroin8639]

Chris looks like Johnny Knoxville in this interview

[@davidl570]

Is it just me, or does he kind of resemble Vince Clarke?

[@JSHaivas]

Was this filmed in Wicker Park? Looks familiar...

[@carlosmiguelpalacioscastan3592]

Johnny knoxville..???

[@holdinmcgroin8639]

lol thought the same

[@LMB222]

I can hear the Belgian influence. Or perhaps some Ministry influence on Belgians.

[@devixszell]

i always knew that was him on the missing - ha!

[@ennbee2051]

He can do no wrong.

[@alloybust3842]

Golden Dawn is the best for me

[@General_Proton]

Al Jorgensen for President 2024 .

[@miked3168]

I agree with Chris, this album totally needs to be remastered, it sounds kind of flat and quiet when played loud. Same goes for Skinny Puppy's Rabies album (since Al was on that album)

[@clvrswine]

OK, expert.

[@glenbellefonte9620]

@ClvrSwine he don't know shit

[@MrEyeM]

looked like an old johnny knoxville in the preview

[@777-p2t]

Hahaha nice

[@levithanmcknight2038]

665 ✌️💉😘

[@uncooldispatch5438]

794 😈

[@genewest8426]

RIP Chris

[@uncooldispatch5438]

What ?

[@genewest8426]

@@uncooldispatch5438 He died years ago

[@glenbellefonte9620]

@@genewest8426 No sir. He's still around. You're the one who's gone, meat-munch.

[@OBFLife]

@@genewest8426 lol you're so full of shit

[@fuckgoogle8661]

@@genewest8426Chris isn’t dead.

[@jaykong1128]

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