MINISTRY "Revenge " (extract) live in Boston @The Chanel October 1984

[@jeromealexandre4162]

I’m not so convinced that Al didn’t enjoy this era of his career

[@GamingPusheen835YT]

Too bad cause that was his best

[@jogeetwigsgang1339]

He's spent the rest of his career in a tough guy front trying to throw the scent off this lol

[@a.champagne6238]

​@@jogeetwigsgang1339much like Dr. Dre and the World Class Wrecking Crew.

[@NITE_SHIFTING]

Looks like he's enjoying himself at this one.

[@jeromealexandre4162]

@@NITE_SHIFTING exactly

[@yanaeiriksson749]

It's 2024 and still this is the best Ministry song

[@JamesT_Rustle]

I can physically see the record company physically pressuring Al to gesticulate on stage

[@tonedecoder633]

lol

[@annahanguiano8931]

You don't know anything about what he dealt with back then.

[@m110cruiser5]

Ministry was one of the most underrated synthy bands...the songs were on Depeche Mode level or even better and still great...I am listening With Sympathy always in my car up and down and remember the good old days in the 80th, wow !

[@hooikaika69]

That is such a great album

[@steevski]

I can’t be the only one who preferred Ministry before they became just another metal band……. Don’t get me wrong,. I love metal too, but Ministry was a better dark pop/aggro group than metal imo.

[@anemonina]

Fucken' A 🤝🏻

[@m110cruiser5]

One of the best 80th group, for sure, classic songs !

[@Nominay]

Twitch for the win.

[@chriscollins343]

Agreed.

[@MonTube2006]

Ministry doesn't sound like "just another metal band". You're delusional and we won't buy such a claim

[@rochesterjohnny7555]

Sorry Al this is awesome

[@chi0245]

John Soroka on keyboards with the red hair

[@rivotrich7]

This is a full year after the release of With Sympathy album and Al looks like he’s really getting into singing this song from With Sympathy 🤔

[@luizmarcondesmusica]

There were girls in the audience, for crissakes, Al! It couldn't have been so bad! 😎

[@megwhite8624]

Just seeing this! Was totally at that show and a great glimpse of at least 2 people I was at the show with!

[@tedm8205]

I have no idea why he is so embarrassed about this time in his life. He made great music and evolved. He should feel good about it. Wouldn’t be where you are now without your unique past

[@rodgre]

I think it's possible that the embarrassment is sort of like the opposite of what a lot of us "alternative weirdos" went through where we might have started out as running with the crowd and being into these sort of "macho" and toxically masculine metal bands when we were young and then we open our minds and start to veer off into the underground and find bands like The Cure (which was a lot of people's gateway band in the 80s) and we eschew the sort of boneheaded metal thing and were therefore bullied and shunned by the metalheads in school. He did the opposite. He left the sort of "fey" synthpop scene behind to become massively aggressive and metal and so he's possibly emotionally bullying himself, or his "old" self, in a way. I guess that's one way to psychoanalyze it.

[@SyntheticFilms]

Awesome!! Epic Boston crowd - they know all the words.

[@johnfiero5679]

I was there with my brother! Heck yes, we sung the songs. Front 242 opened and left us speechless. Great evening!

[@chrisbryz1652]

@@johnfiero5679 do you know the line up for this show

[@SyntheticFilms]

@@chrisbryz1652Al Jourgensen (vocals), Patty Jourgensen (synth), John Soroka (synth), Brad Hallen (synth/bass), Stephen George (drums/percussion)

[@Billaki36]

What a voice!

[@anemonina]

That crowd was pure exquisiteness. Bravo you guys.

[@starinaplutonia5016]

Oh thank you so much for this, my fav from this era. At least I can hear it. He looks like he was having fun, no matter what he says.

[@perpetual61]

I agree he most certainly doesn't look like he's Miserable or isn't having any Fun doing his New Wave/Synth Songs from " With Sympathy." Why doesn't he just admit that he liked it and be done with it. I also loved his earlier stuff compared to the Industrial stuff he now does.

[@amphimixis]

@@perpetual61 His current music is metal, not industrial, but yeah Al looks like he's having a great time performing in this footage.

[@david_post_punk]

​@@amphimixisr u aware that Industrial Metal is a thing too?

[@rochesterjohnny7555]

I really wish this didn't get cut at 0:18

[@francisbottoni6470]

This was heavy back then...fucking epic🚨💪🚨

[@KarolusMagnus]

Metallica put out Ride the Lightning in 1984, so this wasn't considered heavy even for the time, but it doesn't take away from the music still being good. I get a very New Order vibe from this.

[@jameswhitear645]

@@KarolusMagnus Heavy for this genre, not music in general. Awesome tune🎶🤙

[@corvideity]

​@@KarolusMagnusmetallica is nowhere near the industrial roots though

[@ElectroTiki]

They're incorporating elements of the 12"mix into this live version, fantastic!

[@antonyace2207]

I don't care.. all Ministry is amazing

[@PatriotSteve]

priceless video from Boston’s hardest rocking club

[@Stasis23]

all those hot ALT girls too!!

[@paoloamici7944]

Them are my Ministry ,i everything about 80 movies , music ,cars ,event, ect ect😍

[@4AL4LIFE]

This is techno before computers took over! Not the Ministry I am used to live lol but, wow!

[@felipedulz1032]

Incredible Ministry in 80's

[@rochesterjohnny7555]

3:26 Best Fan Ever

[@sharonbarry8878]

I completely forgot about their pre industrial work.

[@ModMokkaMatti]

Meanwhile, I'd like to forget about everything that came AFTER Twitch.

[@rochesterjohnny7555]

This is an amazing live version of one of my favorite songs ever who posted this is my hero for tonight hahaha

[@EricaFlipped]

Yo I’m sure glad more footage of this concert exists!!

[@corvideity]

just look at him go LMAO

[@alejandrorodriguez-do7rj]

Very cool footage. The person who hates this the most is Al himself. And Well is dressed like Madonna here.

[@rambro1stbud]

Ministry has gone through so many eras: -New wave -EBM/Industrial -Industrial metal -Thrash Metal -And whatever the new stuff is And every era has at least a few highlights. I checked out after Barker quit, for the most part, but The Last Sucker wasn’t bad.

[@deathlist94]

Al sounds like Gerard Way mimicking 80s The cure. I love it.

[@corvideity]

i hate that this is accurate lmao

[@bobthibodeau3823]

I was there

[@alvaroaguilera4175]

[@chriswalsh2481]

What was the crowd like? Gals in the front seem young

[@bobthibodeau3823]

@@chriswalsh2481 We were in high school. It was billed as an under-18 show.

[@siouxgerowsays]

@@bobthibodeau3823 yeah, some of the kids were really young teens, like 13ish. lots of punky kids with braces!

[@miguelrejas5034]

Simply awesome!!

[@alvaroaguilera4175]

pure gold!!!

[@IntoTheMindlessAbyss]

I've always wondered who was the one that broke that dude's heart to go from this to full on industrial speed metal. It's probably one of the craziest transitions I've seen within the music industry, but I've got no doubts there's way more to this than uncle Al is telling us... Who broke your heart brotha? Change just doesn't happen overnight like that especially in this case.

[@erikshtrom6195]

Hard drugs did the job.

[@Protolamna]

Ministry had a creative take on New Wave music. As they evolved to more of an industrial sound they hit peak creativity around the mid to late '90s. Then they started to become more and more metal and had a more derivative sound that is perhaps less creative than their original new wave stuff. Industrial is like new waves ugly cousin using pretty much a lot of the same instrument and style only with less friendly hooks. Metal is basically variations of distilled amped up electric guitar music. I just realized. I wrote the late '90s instead of the late '80s lol. They are most creative in the '80s where has the time gone?

[@ВладиславМегафрустрированнонер]

@@Protolamna industrial is ambient snd electropop

[@kamenwatcher]

According to stories that were told back then, The record company pressured him into making a synthpop album due to the Thompson Twins’ popularity at that time. But Al always wanted to make “hard music” so that eventually led to the transition to industrial then to metal although I don’t see them as a metal band.

[@ВладиславМегафрустрированнонер]

@@kamenwatcher al jourgensen wrote most songs from "LORAH" in 1982-1983

[@DavidJSullivan8]

I was there.

[@siouxgerowsays]

me too!

[@SamHaynesMusic]

Where can I see the whole concert this is amazing quality!!

[@rogerrabbitonpcp6021]

So fucking good

[@plasticflowerz]

Amazing!

[@МаксимСафронов-п4ф]

Жесть, 36 лет прошло

[@jackgahan149]

Super cool!!!

[@井桁卓真-b7t]

Cute!!! thanks for great movie!!!

[@paoloamici7944]

New wave new wave new wave😻

[@anastasias.7186]

I want to be there T_T

[@DJJezzebella]

I know thus since Ministry has of course become I should say an evolved into an industrial and even perhaps a straightforward metal band at times but nonetheless they deserve all the fame and notoriety they have! Because I have never seen or heard a pop band this tight before! Listen to them not even not a pause, no lag time needed. Just one, two, three, four - and BAM! Right on the beat of the next song! It sounded like it wasn't two separate songs at all, just continual single song... Dude, that is a tight set! That kinda flow you usually only see with rock bands that are all living together in one same room in total discomfort and they end up thriving on the Sunset Strip good show and don't show Uncle Al this because he hates this era of his career and he'll probably have this flagged and taken down just everybody shush but yes tight set!

[@rogerrabbitonpcp6021]

So good

[@marcelogalarza6866]

Cuando Al Jourgensen hacia buena música....

[@AKTIONAVANTGARDE]

Reminds me of early Dead or Alive. I love it!

[@AKTIONAVANTGARDE]

@@jadedsometimes true!

[@randolfo1265]

Yeah, but way better

[@fanoboss]

is that Rick Astley playing the keyboard ?

[@corvideity]

no you almost got it... it's dick assley who would go on to become a founding Member of the revolting cocks

[@thegiftedone]

He’s a poser and liar! He loved it

[@chrisbryz1652]

Aint got time

[@ranasneed451]

He wasn't uncle al then...😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤

[@felixrade13]

[@chrisbryz1652]

30 mins left use

[@rochesterjohnny7555]

AINT GOT TIME

[@chrisbryz1652]

Rip

[@djkenny1202]

After Twitch, they weren’t even the same band. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy Stigmata and Thieves, but after the two harder records.. I lost interest. It got downright speed metal. Blech. My favorite stuff will always be With Sympathy, to Twitch.

[@theendofthepast2229]

Super 10*

[@mournblade1066]

Ha ha what the hell is Al wearing?!?

[@brianoneil9662]

That's his techno-hobo, Dexys Midnight Runners meet Blade Runner work out clothes.

[@cyt1312]

proto rick owens

[@ModMokkaMatti]

A chainmail butchers gown

[@piercer7562]

Y terminaron haciendo crossover trash metal industrial que lo pario era mas sinc pop que los mismisimos depeche mode al menos el primer disco...

[@beermanbeer100]

тоді це було дуже круто знімаю капелюха

[@CristianGutierrezRodrigu-pi4zf]

Siempre lo e dicho, nada que ver con el Al actual.

[@SingularityMedia]

As long as this continues to embarrass Junkie Jourgensen then all is good.

[@annahanguiano8931]

Hey LOSER and troll, He's not a junkie anymore . He's also going to rerelease this early stuff, I guess he ISN'T embarrassed. Go find something else to hate on dude. 🖕

[@scusemewhileiwhipout]

hes definitely in his true, non-binary antifa form here.

[@jackgahan149]

When Ministry play and sing good music not the crap he play and sing today! Sorry today don't sing just bark like a dog!!🐩

[@shaunfossett]

Al was such a phony

[@Fukyourfeelingslol]

You've accomplished nothing in life.

[@twelvespace646]

lol the over-rated nobody runs his mouth.

[@peloquin5652]

lol

[@markkevorkian]

That fake British accent makes me cringe

[@rogerrabbitonpcp6021]

So good

[@chi0245]

Is that Doug Chamberlain with the red hair playing keyboards?