{"id":2448869,"date":"2019-09-18T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=886020"},"modified":"2019-09-18T08:00:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T14:00:07","slug":"ministry-prep-new-photo-book-talk-revisiting-every-day-is-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/ministry-prep-new-photo-book-talk-revisiting-every-day-is-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry Prep New Photo Book, Talk Revisiting \u2018(Every Day Is) Halloween\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ministry\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ministry\" data-tag=\"ministry\">Ministry<\/a> released their debut album, the major label synthpop LP <em>With Sympathy<\/em>, they attempted to return to their roots with 1985\u2019s \u201c(Every Day Is) Halloween\u201d a single that celebrated all things goth. It\u2019s a fairly straightforward New Wave number on which frontman Al Jourgensen ruminates on how people would stop and ask him why he\u2019s dressed like it\u2019s Halloween, \u201cYou look so absurd, you look so obscene.\u201d It became something of an underground anthem, but Jourgensen abandoned it shortly after pushing the band in an industrial direction on the next year\u2019s <em>Twitch<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>After decades of leaving it out of his set lists, Ministry played it again for the first time in more than three decades as an acoustic number, with Jane\u2019s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro as a special guest, last year on the promotional tour for the film <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-features\/wax-trax-doc-interview-830101\/\">Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records<\/a><\/em>. A recording of it will appear as a bonus seven-inch to the upcoming new book, <em>Ministry \u2014 Prescripture: The Visual History<\/em>, and Jourgensen says revisiting the song was surprisingly pleasant for him.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/513W03-cCbQ?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDave brought everything, and I would have never thought of doing it if I had not been prompted by him (and Dan Cleary) on their podcast,\u201d Jourgensen tells <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s a period of my career I never thought I would revisit, but in the end it was cathartic. After playing it a few times both in North America and in Europe on Ministry\u2019s latest tours, I\u2019ve come to realize what a call to arms it is for teens everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also enjoyed the general nostalgia of looking through <em>Prescripture<\/em>, by author Aaron Tanner. The book, due out December 6th and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.melodicvirtue.com\/collections\/ministry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">available for pre-order<\/a>, pairs quotes from Jourgensen\u2019s peers and admirers with photos from his personal archives. Former Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra wrote the intro, and members of ZZ Top, Smashing Pumpkins, Butthole Surfers, Devo, Slayer, Megadath, and Rammstein, among many others, offer their musings on Ministry\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of the passages were very flattering and at the same time somewhat embarrassing,\u201d Jourgensen says. \u201cBut growing up seeing ZZ Top at an early age, I never thought that Billy Gibbons would be writing an eloquent quote about my band for a visual history book all these years later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The photos, he added, transported him back. \u201cIt was really fun seeing the photos of me and Bill Burroughs again from the \u2018Just One Fix\u2019 video shoot,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-886151\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Melodic-Virtue-Ministry-Book-Spread-1.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"><\/p>\n<p>Overall, he says the book is \u201ca snapshot of a historical time in music, which Ministry was a part of, that no longer exists as we know it today\u201d and adds, \u201cit\u2019s a great book to spill your coffee on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But does reliving the past give him pause and make him want a do-over? \u201cI have no regrets really,\u201d he says. \u201cIt is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ministry-al-jourgensen-photo-book-everyday-halloween-886020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years after Ministry released their debut album, the major label synthpop LP With Sympathy, they attempted to return to their roots with 1985\u2019s \u201c(Every Day Is) Halloween\u201d a single that celebrated all things goth. 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