From: cmoore@lab1.smcm.edu (Christopher Moore)
Newsgroups: rec.music.industrial
Subject: Re: "With Sympathy" is Ministry's BEST EVER!!!!
Date: 22 Nov 92 19:04:09 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.161958.36998@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>  
jvc0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (James Carrier) writes:
> josh, er "chrisx" (possibly related to nat x, malcolm x etc.) has such  
command
> of his text editor.  i bet everyone wanted to read that piece of shit  
twice.

 i guess you can't quite figure out that there were three different people  
who wrote that original letter.  i was one of them , and i wrote that  
reply to you myself.  i'm not josh, and the silent "x" is a little inside  
joke; sorry if you can't handle a little humor, james "new wave"
 
> >just because you think a certain type of music has substance doesn't  
mean that
> >everyone in the world has to like it.  what if i want to listen to
> >something that's hardcore and/or industrial? am i going to be forced to
> >listen to prince twenty-four hours a day?  ooh there's someone with
> >substance!!! i can't possibly hope to listen to songs with as much
> >substance as "raspberry beret" or "batdance"!!!
> 
> i never said you had to like it.  you're the one who said with sympathy
> sucked, presumably because it's wimpy and lacks substance.  if that's  
the
> case, explain their latest album.  i know, i know.  "that album has  
BALLS!!"
> explain why they need 10 people onstage to play their power chords?   
even
> comparing prince's best work to ministry's best work is an insult to  
prince.
> i'd like to see al play the guitar solo at the end of "let's go crazy",  
or
> write a lyric as good as "1999" or "controversy" or "purple rain".

it's real fucking hard to compare an industrial band with any other sort  
of band, maybe al would have trouble creating prince's music, but prince  
would have just as much trouble creating industrial music. i never said  
you had to like ministry either.  i like rape and mind and the live album  
much better than psalm 69, but with sympathy still bores the hell out of  
me.  so what if ministry needs "10 people to play their power chords"? i  
seem to recall seeing about fifty people in prince's live band.  i'd like  
to see prince record something that's not made-for-everyone's-consumption  
(like with sympathy).  i just can't find any "substance" in songs that are  
made just to sell billions of copies and get played in every top forty  
club in the universe.  that's why i dislike prince, that's why i dislike  
with sympathy. 
 
> >if you can't tell the difference in style between with sympathy and  
rape and
> >honey, you're less intelligent then i thought.
> 
> i know there's a difference, i just want to know why ministry fans can't
> accept the fact that al was a new wave guy.

i accept the fact that al was a new wave guy, i just don't like that  
album.  i see no need to buy every ministry album just because it's a  
ministry album.  i'll listen to the ones i like.

i had to delete most of the original
> >letter because this computer system is fucking with me, and not letting  
me
> >post the whole thing.
> >
> >chrisx
> 
> boy, i guess everyone likes fucking with you.

yeah, that's one of the drawbacks of expressing your own opinion. 

c.morpheus
no consicence self-confidence
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