Videos and Memories (a series, part 1)

[christopher575]

When I used to see this video on Thursday Beat, the public access music video show, it made me afraid of concerts. Most of the concerts I ever went to turned out to be pretty tame, though. Two notable exceptions were Thrill Kill Kult with Lords of Acid, where I was shocked to see so many glass bottles in the crowd, and Parade of Losers during Edgefest, where my sunglasses were knocked off my face by a flying plastic water bottle, thus making me worry about what a glass one could do for the rest of my life.

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[tiff-seattle.livejournal.com]

oh this brings back some memories!

[cmorley.livejournal.com]

Ahh, some old school Ministry. Off the Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste I believe. (I'm on dialup right now, so this is about halfway through.) I used to own that and Pslam 69. I wonder what ever happened to those.

Heh. I guess I'm not the only one going on a '90s kick right now.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

Land of Rape and Honey is required listening along with The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste. The rest is good, but those two are the standouts. I'd like to go back in time and see them live back in the day. I'm jealous of Alan; he saw them in a JUNKYARD.

PS-my entire life is a '90s kick.

[cmorley.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen this video since... '93? Wow. I have seen NIN's "Wish" (I think it's Wish, that or "Last") again recently, and it's similar. Rowdy concert kind of thing with cages.

The only industrial band I ever saw was Skew. Who, you ask? Yes, who indeed. I saw them in some nightclub in Seattle sometime in the mid-'90s.

Actually I could count the concerts I've been to on both hands. Maybe one, though I think I'm forgetting someone.

[emramesha.livejournal.com]

I got into Ministry in 1991 and loved the three albums LORAH, TMIATTTT, and Psalm 69. I had never seen any videos by them though; I never realized what a debt Nine Inch Nail's "Wish" owed to this video. Incidentally, do you know if this video is an H-Gun production? It seems to have that sensibility...

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

I don't really know who directed any of these videos. The NIN video for "Head Like a Hole" also uses some of the same images from this one. But maybe this and "Wish" are just copies of "Rock You Like a Hurricane" by Scorpions.

Just kidding.

Oh and speaking of NIN videos, if Joel Peter Witkin wasn't involved in the making of "Closer" he should have sued.

[emramesha.livejournal.com]

If I recall "Head Like A Hole" was indeed made by the H-Gun production house and so the similarities (if this Ministry video was the same). And nope, the video director for "Closer" was Mark Romanek and in a "Making Of" about the video I don't believe he mentions Joel Peter Witkin. And having just went and looked at some of his photos courtesy of Wikipedia I am shocked that the obvious influence hasn't been acknowledged!

[mika-says.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, the loudest show I ever saw was a Ministry show. Wait, scratch that, SRL left me almost deaf and deeply disturbed in a way no mere band could ever achieve (shudder).

But for sheer intensity and weirdness apparently you can't top a Crash Worship show. I can't say, as I avoided them.

[filarabit.livejournal.com]

When I went to see Ministry, they played country music the whole time for the crowd before the opener came out, then they had a totally inappropriate opener... presumably to piss the crowd off enough to make them all nice and rowdy before they came out. It was great!