There are so many levels to the music here, from the harrowing tales of junkydom in Just One Fix to the freakish religious extremism of the title track, that absorbing it all in one sitting is simply impossible it's easy to love, and hard to understand fully. Taking this occult reference in your stride, the exact meaning of Psalm 69 still depends on you, the listener, but it's a living, breathing, organic piece of music that manages to be both life-affirming and depressing at the same time. The album is actually entitled ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ, a Greek word meaning 'head' and, along with the subtext to the generally used title ( The Way To Succeed And The Way To Suck Eggs) is a reference to Aleister Crowley's Book Of Lies, where he devotes a chapter to the esoteric meaning of oral sex. ![]() Still, it's remarkable just how timeless Psalm 69 is. Of course, any discussion of the band these days is bittersweet due to their break-up I'd far more pay to see a dissertation of the Obama premiership thus far from Al Jourgensen than I would from any other commentator. ![]() It's the album which broke Ministry into the mainstream, earning them a Grammy nomination for N.W.O and remaining their best-loved full-length. Without a doubt the band's best album and one of the best pieces of Industrial Metal ever to be recorded, the legendary Ministry here proved that there was genius behind the infamy.
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