[Friday On The Turntable] Ministry - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste

Welcome to this week's Friday On The Turntable feature! For those of you that follow my blog on Facebook, you'll recall that each Friday I post a featured record that I'm currently enjoying. To enhance the experience, I've been filming short videos - discussing a brief history of the record, my favorite tracks and what it means to me. The video is embedded below - don't forget to subscribe to my youtube channel here.

This week's featured album is The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste, the fourth LP from Ministry. Please enjoy, and feel free to leave me your thoughts on this record. Cheers!

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Album Memories. Week #13. Ministry - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste

Welcome to Week #13 of my series entitled Album Memories. Normally I post these on the Life On This Planet Facebook Page, but realized that not everyone can participate if you aren't our friend on the FB. If not, head over there and click LIKE. Okay, let's move on.

I received this very un-Christmasy cassette on the morning of December 25th, as a gift from my parents back in my high school years. As a teenager, I really liked a lot of metal - bands like Metallica, Megadeth and Slayer - and with this album, Ministry wasn't that much of a departure. 1989's The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste was the band's fourth album and from the second the first track - Thieves - launched, I was feeling it. I've played this album on many road trips and tours - so if you are unfamiliar with this album, and need some good, intense driving music... this is it. Thieves, Burning Inside, Breathe and So What are just classic tracks, while Dream Song is trippy and creepy.

I remember seeing Ministry on September 8, 1992 (my birthday!) at the second Lollapalooza festival. They were pretty incredible. I'd love to hear your memories of The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste, so feel free to leave your comments below.

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Song Of The Day 1989: Ministry - Burning Inside

This week I am featuring 5 songs from the year 1989.

Christmas 1989/90.  I opened up a small present from my parents, and it was Ministry's The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste on cassette.  I love this album.  It's been the soundtrack in the van on many Audra tours, pushing the van's speakers to the limits.  Please enjoy Burning Inside.  So rad.  :)