Ministry

Just a few more weeks and Mr Bush will be president no more, so I’m just in time to discuss some music related to the Bush administration. It’s been often said that music actually gets better the worser the situation is (in people’s perspective of course, think about: vietnam anti-war music, Reagan/Thatcher era and now Bush). The same is true for Ministry who made their best albums during Republican leadership and they gave that as reason to let their 2008 album be their final album in an interview, as it cannot get any worse than Bush.

Ministry made an anti-Bush trilogy of albums and for as far as I am aware it’s easily the most hatefilled music about the Bush presidency produced. I love it. It’s filled with samples of Bush speeches and other people and it’s amazing to see how they fit in a different context. It’s rather powerful to hear Bush say “By our actions we have shown…. what kind of nation we are.. we have shown the noble aims and good hearts of Americans…” with an incredibly aggressive up-beat tempo under it. Let the fool speak for himself, right? There are a lot of gems like that. They also go into Loose Change and the whole New Order conspiracy stuff, of which I’m not a big fan, but it’s interesting nonetheless.

And ending with the final song “End of Days Part Two” is magnicifent. It uses the full sample of President Eisenhowever’s farewell speech, where he warns for the “military-industrial-complex”, which is probably more fitting than ever today.

Anyway. Here’s a song for you all. It’s about TV influences people. Make sure to not miss the Bush samples in the middle.

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