Album · Ministry
With Sympathy by Ministry
With Sympathy is an album by Ministry, released in 1983. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 22 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Work for Love”, on 18 lists with a best position of #112.
With Sympathy, Ministry's debut, came out on Arista on May 10, 1983, and anyone who only knows the band's later industrial fury is in for a jolt. This is the Chicago outfit as Al Jourgensen first built it in 1981: a synth-pop act, with Jourgensen singing and playing a pile of instruments and Stephen George on drums.
The keyboards are bright and chilly, the beats snap, and "Work for Love", "I Wanted to Tell Her" and "Revenge" are pure new wave dance-floor material, sleek and a little melodramatic. Overseas the record briefly turned up under a different name, Work for Love. Within a few years Jourgensen would tear the whole sound down and help pioneer industrial rock and metal, which makes this one a fascinating before picture.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from With Sympathy on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Work for Love | 18 | #112 | – | 1988–2003 | |
| 2 | I Wanted to Tell Her | 1 | #98 | – | 1999 | |
| 3 | Revenge | 1 | #185 | – | 1988 | |
| 4 | Effigy | 2 | #194 | – | 2023 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.