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Filth Pig by Ministry
Filth Pig is an album by Ministry, released in 1996. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 2 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Lay Lady Lay”, on 2 lists with a best position of #43.
Filth Pig, Ministry's sixth album, lurched out on Warner Bros. on January 30, 1996, and anyone expecting another Psalm 69 got a slow, sludgy shock instead. Al Jourgensen and Paul Barker produced it themselves, and the Chicago band traded the old machine-gun industrial blitz for heavier, grinding metal, a real stylistic swerve, with Mike Scaccia still on guitar for what would be his last Ministry album until Houses of the Molé in 2004. The title reportedly traces back to the British Parliament, where MP Teddy Taylor branded Jourgensen a filthy pig over his stage antics.
It gave Ministry their highest Billboard 200 placing, at number nineteen, yet it split the fanbase down the middle, critics were far from sold, and sales never came close to the platinum run of Psalm 69. In hindsight it marked the start of the band's commercial slide.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Filth Pig on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lay Lady Lay | 2 | #43 | – | 1996 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.