13th Planet/Megaforce
2007
The Last Sucker
About This Album
With The Last Sucker Al Jourgensen not only brings his anti-Bush Jr trilogy of albums to a close, but he also shutters the Ministry band/project/death machine for good. Of course Ministry has always been a free-flowing thing -- a dark synth pop outfit that eventually morphed into an aggressive, guitar-heavy beast with a few genre jumps in-between. Jourgensen's side project Revolting C**ks could have been mistaken for Ministry on their 2006 album Cocked and Loaded so there's a good chance that whatever this crazed Texan throws his name on might as well be Ministry, barring any future side projects that are as far out as Acid Horse or Lard. Ministry fans are really Jourgensen fans, but it's the name recognition that gives the announcement some weight, especially in the U.S., the country that re-elected "that guy." With that in mind, The Last Sucker is a jettisoning of all that was big and in-your-face-American about Ministry with little of the hot rod worship or unabashed gluttony of earlier albums. They still sound huge, they still sound like Jourgenson on a rampage, but gone is the ironic redneck idiocy -- too close to home, maybe -- and even the balls out cover of "Roadhouse Blues" is announced with "All I wanna do is get my kicks before this whole sh*thouse goes up in flames.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and 8)

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