Song · Ministry
“Lay Lady Lay” by Ministry
From the album Filth Pig (1996)
“Lay Lady Lay” by Ministry appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations in 1996. It was first released in 1996 on the album Filth Pig. Its best result is #43 on the WBER Listener Countdown 1996. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #139 alternative song of 1996.
Ministry reached for a Bob Dylan song on Filth Pig, their sixth album, which Warner Bros. put out in January 1996: Dylan holds both the music and the lyric credit on "Lay Lady Lay". Al Jourgensen and Paul Barker produced it themselves, with Zlatko Hukic and Brad Kopplin engineering and a squad of five assistants behind them in Jamie Duffy, Bill Garcelon, Matt Gibson, Whitney O'Keeffe and Ed Tinley.
The album supposedly took its name from British MP Teddy Taylor, who called band leader Jourgensen a filthy pig in Parliament over his stage antics. It became Ministry's highest-charting album in the US, yet reviewers turned on it, the fanbase split hard over it, and it never matched the platinum run of Psalm 69. It was also Mike Scaccia's last Ministry album on guitar until Houses of the Molé in 2004.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 43 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 1996 | 100 |
| 1996 | 74 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1996 | 100 |
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