Ministry 120 Minutes X-Ray

Interview with Al Jourgensen, Nivek Ogre & Martin Atkins

[@NurfHerderEclipse]

Ministry's early synth pop was really well written and produced music. Seeing the Land of Rape and Honey show in 1988 was a life changing experience. Ogre was also a guest performer.

[@drummondjwall9509]

I love all eras

[@brianshaner8865]

Skinny Puppy was my favorite band for a very, very long time in my teenage/early 20’s. I still have a few of their albums on cassette.

[@lonewolf8897]

With sympathy is one of ministry's best albums.

[@chrischristodoulou1582]

God, I miss this era of MTV...

[@rodrigorocha7282]

Yeah! Look at this host. Today it seems skinny plastic people that came from some Prada store.

[@mattrasbury7539]

80s era ministry is my favorite I cant get enough of it. The sound they had and front 242 as well was damn near perfect.

[@adrianaguilar6347]

1:06 What's that cap that Ogre is weating, the green one?

[@1002radio]

I was at the 2-3-90 show at the Ventura Theatre in Ventura, CA. KMFDM was the opening band. It was a truly chaotic atmosphere, and is still one of my favorite concert memories.

[@tommyt1971]

Saw KMFDM in 1995 -- that was a WILD show.

[@mattmontalto7511]

I like how the one guy having NOTHING to do with the interview is the coolest dude sitting there #OGRE

[@Skeebins]

you should watch Ogre and Martin together in Pigface..you're missing out if you haven't

[@DM12128]

He played live with them at the time

[@nobbynoris]

That was Nivek? Man, I thought it was Alannah Currie from The Thompson Twins!

[@peetrwilson]

Nivek Ogre flat brimmin' back in 1990

[@coreyfellows9420]

Good catch... I didn't realize that was him...

[@twistedviewlabs]

He was high af too.

[@drewm1808]

I miss cool. Remember when shit was cool?

[@8joshcar]

Damn so true... where you see cool like this??

[@541fletch]

vaguely

[@ganjah789]

I thought just about the same...Where The Fck that went? When the shit was cool, just the fact was more important than anything else and you didn't need anything else.

[@GarveyMustangMan]

It's long gone, Al Jourgensen was one of the few who had sleeves of tattoos.

[@luchalew2884]

Yes. 2019=not that cool.

[@niroshanfernando4784]

This trio (Uncle Al Jourgensen, Nivek Ogre & Martin Atkins) needs to comeback in the new year! Maybe, they can do the ultimate farewell supergroup tour- call it the KarmaDharmaDamneggedon Tour.

[@whitlowjohnonly1_2]

Al burned those bridges long ago. Saw Ministry on the LORAH tour with Ogre in tow, as they performed a week prior.

[@whitlowjohnonly1_2]

Kendall wouldn't someone's manbitch if it weren't fer MTV. Yet, dave how many labels have you run? How many legendary bands were you a participant? He, Dave? I mean, having a one hour time slot once a week on 1st wave sirius XM really doesn't hold credence to Martin Atkins career. A pretty decent guy to have a chat with as well.

[@mikeplarski6484]

Al is THE MAN!!!

[@Gonko100]

Ministry in the early 90s was something extremely special.

[@zeitok8]

love to see all the archive of mtv of these years.

[@rodrigorocha7282]

They should launch some kind of MTV Vintage channel. It would be awesome and probably would have good audience.

[@evanabbott2737]

@@rodrigorocha7282 yes! Why not? MTV likes making money, they should do it!🤔👍

[@twistedviewlabs]

That one time MTV was super awesome. Also, With Sympathy is a great album as well as the previous Wax Trax singles. Just my two cents.

[@Ytrearneindre]

There obviously is pro-shot footage from that The Mind show at The Ritz - someone should release an alternative "In Case..", preferably on blu-ray

[@erinwalker6185]

I can't believe Ministry started as a New Wave band.They sounded like Depeach Mode and the Thompson Twins,Oh my!

[@leodougherty2777]

Much of Psalm is STILL my FAVORITE music from back when.

[@rockymoore6859]

Yr correct in the sound alike - it was sorta like David Gahan really really po'd and couldn't do anything about it. Yr welcome to my CD copy of With Sympathy if you like.

[@tobybeasley2079]

- with sympathy was their Best album \ music by far ! - - - The new stuff is awful......the original club music was Not at all like the Thompson Twins....and not like Depesh either....but what is wrong if they did sound like Depesh M. anyways ? - - I do not like all of any bands music ....very rare to like it all...but Depesh mode is really good....if you can just not look at the guy and get around his ugly arrogance - - - -The music back then was the best.....along with all the great classic rock ....my taste in music goes across the board - - - -CHeers ! -

[@tobybeasley2079]

- Ministry was not new wave....at all....lol....your thinking of flock of seaguls or gary newman ....lol

[@current81]

@@tobybeasley2079 Twitch is their best. With Sympathy is boring and only had one really good song (Effigy). I agree that their new stuff sucks though. IMO they haven't released anything decent since 1992.

[@Caffeine_Club]

2:42 Ogre says F-this, I'm bored. Time for a smoke.

[@katarinavantriese930]

Thanks for posting this.

[@alexisgonzales9026]

Febrary 1990. You are welcome.

[@lb8141]

Ahh when MTV was a music channel.

[@flinchey6962]

Martin some of the best drumming on flowers of romance

[@firecracker187]

I LOVE YOU AL

[@markg0410]

2:18 - "I'd be a mass murderer if I wasn't a drummer..." Ohhhh, you're so dark, Martin Atkins. What a soft boy!

[@skawashers]

Whats going on with Martin Atkins hair. He`s looking like Hey Arnold

[@itsafridayonceagain7192]

Arnold's design had to come from somewhere

[@user-chillvill]

Mind is a terrible thing to taste was one the greatest albulms ever put out for industrial music So what is the anthem of industrial....NIN wouldnt be a here without that albulm

[@BootlegFightVideo]

I will never forget seeing Ministry in a hockey rink. That mosh pit from board to board made hockey players seem like dainty old ladies.

[@saraivatoledo1842]

* Ohgr doing some introspection during this interview: "Perhaps Cevin is on point ,and I really should start reconsidering the things I´m currently doing for the gear ..."

[@tommanserable]

But do you know what? That first album is actually good! And the second, Twitch. I like them both.

[@williamkjwilliamkj1815]

Ogre on the left!

[@terridactyl]

Fucking hell man that was great; thanks for uploading

[@cynthianovoselsky4772]

SMART TY Unkle AL!!!

[@davidwinn8269]

That last housewife remark- ouch. Uncalled for. I thought he'd just make a Beetlejuice joke at least.

[@d3r371ct]

i have a pair of the glasses al is wearing.. found 'em on ebay a while back

[@bertobarto]

Had no clue the Uncle Al moniker existed that far back.

[@theheartlandgroup757]

Damn, what was up with the dig at the end about Martin Atkins, Dave?

[@coreyfellows9420]

I would of killed to be at that show

[@twistedviewlabs]

Chris Connelly getting it! Hell yes! Also, am I the only one who thought Al looked a bit like Nivek in that video for Revenge? Speaking of which, I don't know why everyone shits on that album or that era even (1981-1984). Sure, it sounds weak in comparison to even the Twitch album (which was a real banger btw) but I don't think personally it was all that bad. They were a way different band signed to a big label. Arista probably instructed them on how to sound to make the label money. When Ministry went to Sire tho, the gloves came off and it's been balls to the wall ever since. I'm more put off by Al deciding to cover Dylan's Lay Lady Lay (all around I can't stand that song) than their synth heavy era (With Sympathy & those amazing Wax Trax! singles).

[@rustyvkane3471]

Controlled bleeding,kmfdm,ministry live ritz nyc .....it was a different world!!!!

[@brettwho7881]

Martin Atkins looks like Martin Short dressed up

[@eduardovargas6394]

Damn

[@daimonprice2]

I never knew ogre was in ministry at one time

[@markusantonio4866]

Dave Kendall

[@twistedviewlabs]

"Dive Kindull"

[@adrianaguilar6347]

1:06 What's that cap that Ogre is weating, the green one?

[@ktiitfa2491]

wonder if martin atkins was inspired by alex h

[@lastgreathand-drawnproduct3843]

1:12 It almost sounds like the genesis of TV Song.

[@solinvictus39]

I saw Ministry on the Land of Rape and Honey tour, as well as the Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste tour. I really couldn't get into them after "Mind", and I think Ministry started to really suck after the early '90s. Sad, as they were kicking ass in 1990 and I was a huge fan...

[@corpsie666]

@3:00 Detroit gonna Detroit 😅. Yes, I'm from Detroit.

[@selectronium]

awesome interview. anyone know the year?

[@Trainy2]

Beginning of 1990 I'd say because the host mentioned it was a few weeks into the new decade.

[@mbjasondify]

Marteeeeeeen!

[@twistedviewlabs]

I'm gonna presume early 1990 since Dave Kendall pointed it out when he said "the beginning of this decade".

[@twistedviewlabs]

Also, FUCK IT UP PIGFACE!

[@NITE_SHIFTING]

OGRE!!!!

[@firecracker187]

Omfg

[@rossmotus669]

Best thrash punk band ever (Ministry last '80s/early '90s era). In my opinion, the first 2 album are horrendous, otherwise the albums from "rape and honey" to "psalm 69" that are stunning awesome instead, never repeat later, except to "rio grande blood" album and some single tracks subsequently (sorry for my english).

[@davidcross701]

A lot of you have forgotten how we, in the alternative music underground scene, LOATH MTV. They had to... we had to... sucked for the 1990s.

[@jaykidd5789]

keep the Brown Eye open...

[@uncooldispatch5438]

Lol 💩

[@jasonwilson4511]

I went and saw Ministry over the weekend, and was saddened by how crappy the show was. Paid 45 for a 13 song setlist. Al has really gone downhill. It’s even more tragic considering his vast catalog he has at his disposal.

[@soundmagick]

Jason Wilson pussyassbitch!! thanks for the delay in responding to the sacred heart Church of the time to get the same as the one that I can get a chance to get the same as the one that I can get

[@DM12128]

Dude he’s in his 60s.

[@RatatRatR]

@@DM12128 Right, but he should have just stopped quite some time ago.

[@solinvictus39]

@@RatatRatR A sane man would do that, but Al's not sane. LOL He probably also needs money... drugs aren't cheap!

[@RatatRatR]

@@solinvictus39 I actually saw them the other night, opening for Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie. They're doing a greatest hits set these days that sounds basically like playing all those late 80s / early 90s tracks on the world's loudest stereo. It's fine, it's good. I wish they would slip in just one weird curveball -- like even those Big 3 albums all have odd tracks on them, and I'd love to have heard one of those. But it's just sort of a "here are our songs that people remember," followed by a kind of sheepish performance of their completely forgettable new single from some crappy album I guess they're releasing soon.

[@jackglez7982]

The drugs make him to do the shit he still doing! Al die after the twitch album for all the new wavers and synthpop lovers is a shame he didn't continue to do good music!!!

[@twistedviewlabs]

All eras of Al are awesome!

[@twistedviewlabs]

But you're right in a sense. He's like the Keith Richards of the industrial scene. I ran into him very briefly when I lived in Chicago. Really nice guy!

[@jordonleigh174]

I loved 120 minutes, but Dave Kendell was such a poser.

[@soundmagick]

#PISSARMY #ANTIFA

[@frog_king8383]

Tell me your a cuck without telling me your a cuck

[@sexobscura]

*[ wearing a sid + nancy t-shirt - i'll hate them forever for that - you can't get much crueler than that, can you ]*