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| 4.0 excellent | StonedManatee | July 24th 20 |
Extremely underrated synth album that is unfairly ranked low because most people know Ministry as an Industrial outfit instead of making synthpop more akin to The Human League and New Order. Revenge is arguably their catchiest song besides Everyday is Halloween for this time period.
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| 3.0 good | Alabaster Jones | December 17th 15 |
Before Ministry was the angry, thrashy, pounding industrial metal band we know them as today, they were an electro-industrial group similar to Skinny Puppy. Before Ministry was that, though, they were a synthpop/new wave band that contrasts very heavily with their later selves, not only in style, but in aesthetic as well. A lot of people love to give Ministry crap for this record, but I've never thought that way about it. The album is predominantly just cheesy 80's synthpop with one brilliant song ("Revenge") and one pretty good one ("Effigy"). The rest of the songs I'd be hard pressed to call "bad", but a couple of moments are pretty cringeworthy. That being said, the record does have really good moments too. Sure, it's not the greatest thing in the world, but in no way is this album a bad one and in no way does this album deserve the ire it draws from people. It's Ministry before they were truly Ministry, but as it stands by itself, it's a decent album.
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| 2.5 average | ThePalestMexican | February 3rd 10 |
There's occasionally a catchy beat to be heard, but it's definitely NOT the Ministry I grew up with, it's more of a light-pop laden Depeche Mode wannabe. My rating is higher then most cause I actually liked it, but was distraught when I found out this was Ministry.
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| 3.5 great | Snuron | April 12th 24 |
| 2.0 poor | doofy | January 7th 24 |
| 3.0 good | heck | May 22nd 23 |
| 2.0 poor | Timmy | January 24th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Cam | January 31st 22 |
| 2.5 average | teo | July 2nd 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Yep321 | June 9th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Adol | January 14th 21 |
| 2.5 average | gk1979 | August 12th 19 |
| 3.5 great | xxm | June 24th 19 |
| 2.5 average | skronk | March 28th 18 |
| 2.0 poor | bSmith | December 10th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | KOZAKY | October 17th 17 |
| 3.0 good | AriDoe | August 23rd 17 |
| 3.5 great | Sebe | February 18th 17 |
| 1.0 awful | md5 | September 20th 16 |
| 2.5 average | Simon K. STAFF | March 9th 16 |
| 2.5 average | Luizzz | June 13th 15 |
| 2.0 poor | Lassie | March 25th 15 |
| 3.5 great | Yusuf | March 14th 15 |
| 3.0 good | Dav85 | February 1st 15 |
| 5.0 classic | qiblas | January 23rd 15 |
| 1.5 very poor | Abraxas | January 16th 15 |
| 1.5 very poor | fuzzbutt | December 29th 14 |
| 2.0 poor | Crimea | December 8th 14 |
| 1.0 awful | Curse. | February 19th 14 |
| 1.5 very poor | Sithese | January 3rd 14 |
| 2.5 average | Mootgut | December 12th 13 |
| 1.0 awful | Zeg | August 30th 13 |
| 2.5 average | CK | June 7th 13 |
| 1.5 very poor | YUJOS | May 25th 13 |
| 2.5 average | Mancyst | February 9th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Atheus | December 11th 12 |
| 1.0 awful | MrElmo | June 10th 12 |
| 1.0 awful | ZKG777 | December 10th 11 |
| 2.5 average | gazanga | November 23rd 11 |
| 2.5 average | Trey STAFF | November 10th 11 |
| 1.5 very poor | stotty | September 25th 11 |
| 1.0 awful | Oceans | October 29th 10 |
| 1.0 awful | IAJP | August 19th 10 |
| 2.5 average | aeuk | November 16th 09 |
| 2.5 average | Mach | May 30th 09 |
| 2.0 poor | jk2two | September 5th 07 |
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