“Revenge” by Ministry

"Revenge" comes off With Sympathy, the debut album Ministry released on Arista in 1983. Al Jourgensen composed it and sings it with Marybeth O'Hara, and he plays keyboards alongside Robert Roberts while Stephen George, the most notable name in that first lineup, sits behind the drums. Vince Ely and Ian Taylor produced.

It's a snapshot of where Jourgensen started out. He had formed the group in 1981 in Chicago, where he ran with the city's underground scene and wrote songs in his apartment on a freshly bought ARP Omni, backed by a drum machine and taped on a reel-to-reel. A demo got the attention of Jim Nash, co-founder of Wax Trax! Records, who offered to get the songs properly recorded and pull together a live band, and Jourgensen called that band Ministry. Overseas, the album briefly turned up again under the title Work for Love.

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