The Last Sucker

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The Last Sucker
The Last Sucker cover
Studio album by Ministry
Released September 18, 2007
Recorded May 2007
Genre Industrial Metal
Length 56:00
Label 13th Planet Records
Producer Al Jourgensen, Dave Donnelly
Professional reviews
Ministry chronology
Rio Grande Dub
(2007)		 The Last Sucker
(2007)		 Cover Up
(2008)

The Last Sucker is the third and final part of Ministry's anti-George W. Bush trilogy, also including 2004's Houses of the Molé and 2006's Rio Grande Blood. It is Ministry's eleventh studio album, released on September 18, 2007. According to a May 2006 interview with mainman Al Jourgensen, it is also the band's last studio release of original material.[1]

Contents

[edit] Overview

Jourgensen told Billboard that he had "...other things to do. I just started a label (13th Planet Records), and I want to sign some bands and really build it up like I did with WaxTrax in the '80s, not just a vanity label. I think it's time, and I'll be leaving on the top of my game instead of hanging on too long and doing crappy Aerosmith and Rolling Stones albums thirty years later."

"That seems to be my muse; everyone seems to think I write real shitty music when a Democrat's in office. So we'll do that one, and then me and George Bush go riding off hand-in-hand, into the sunset."

Fear Factory frontman Burton C. Bell recorded some guest vocals for the album. [2]

On July 17th, 2007, a promotional copy of the album was leaked on the internet. A week earlier lyrics and full credits for the album were released by SureShotWorx on their official website.

A Best Buy exclusive version of the CD contains remixes of "Watch Yourself" and "The Last Sucker."

The final track, "End of Days Part Two", contains a lengthy sample from 34th President of the United States Dwight Eisenhower's farewell address, warning about the dangers of the "military-industrial complex". The end of the song also features a quiet sample of "O Fortuna" in the background. The same music was sampled at the beginning of the first album in the Bush Trilogy, Houses of the Molé.

[edit] Cover art

The limited edition digipack has an image of George W. Bush's face that morphs into a lizard creature's face and back when turned. The image is on a card that can be removed from digipack. Underneath the morphing image is the word "Behold!" followed by a message written in code. When decoded the message says:

The ancient bloodline rare
whose mystic portrait does declare
the image on the 33rd degree
fair for all to look and see
but few there are to whom he is known
though here he is so plainly shown

The picture would be a reference to the theory which is popular in the some conspiracy circles, that humanity is held in slavery by a race of extraterrestrial lizard men, who can morph their shape into human and back again. Amongst the lizards is supposedly a number of the leaders of the world, including George Bush, Dick Cheney, and the English queen. One of the most famous proponents of this theory is Englishman David Icke.

The inner cover art contains a parody of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, with Jourgensen in the center of the table and figures from the Bush administration around him; Bush himself is drawn in Philip the Apostle's place.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Let's Go" (Jourgensen/Quirin) - 4:53
  2. "Watch Yourself" (Jourgensen/Raven) - 5:29
  3. "Life Is Good" (Jourgensen/Quirin) - 4:15
  4. "The Dick Song" (Jourgensen/Quirin) - 5:50
  5. "The Last Sucker" (Jourgensen/Victor) - 5:59
  6. "No Glory" (Jourgensen/Victor) - 3:42
  7. "Death and Destruction" (Jourgensen/Quirin) - 3:31
  8. "Roadhouse Blues" (Morrison/Krieger/Manzerek/Densmore) (The Doors cover) - 4:26
  9. "Die in a Crash" (Jourgensen/Victor/Bell) - 4:03
  10. "End of Days (Part 1)" (Jourgensen/Victor/Raven/Bell) - 3:22
  11. "End of Days (Part 2)" (Jourgensen/Victor/Raven/Bell) - 10:25

Bonus Tracks

  • "Watch Yourself (The End is Here)" - 4:30 (found on Best Buy versions at track #23)
  • "The Last Sucker (Remix)" - 3:44 (found on Best Buy versions at track #69)
  • "Die in a Crash Remix" - 5:22 (iTunes exclusive)
  • "No Glory (Remix)" - 4:49 (Napster only download)

[edit] Credits

  • Alien Jourgensen - vox, guitars, bass, harmonica, drum programming, programming, production
  • Tommy Victor - guitars, bass, b/g vox
  • Paul Raven - bass, guitars, b/g vox
  • Sin Quirin - guitars, bass
  • John Bechdel - keyboards
  • Casey Chaos - vox ("Roadhouse Blues")
  • Burton C. Bell - vox ("Die in a Crash", "End of Days (Part One)", "End of Days (Part Two)" )
  • Angie Jay - add. b/g vox ("End of Days (Part Two)")
  • Erin Braswell - add. b/g vox ("End of Days (Part Two)")
  • Josh Bradford - add. b/g vox ("End of Days (Part Two)")
  • Kevin Spence - add. b/g vox ("End of Days (Part Two)")
  • Dave Donnelly - production
  • John Bilberry - engineering, drum programming[3]

[edit] Charting Positions

Album

Year Chart Position
2007 The Billboard 200 130
2007 Top Independent Albums 8
2007 Top Internet Albums 130

[edit] References

  1. ^ Gary Graff (May 26, 2006). Ministry Plots Final Disc. Billboard. Retrieved on 2007-02-24.
  2. ^ News Archive (March 4, 2007). Fear Factory Frontman To Guest On New Ministry Album. Blabbermouth. Retrieved on 2007-07-07.
  3. ^ SureShotWorx. Retrieved on 2007-07-19.
Ministry
Al Jourgensen
Tommy Victor | John Bechdel | Tony Campos | Aaron Rossi | Mike Scaccia | Sin Quirin
Paul Barker | Bill Rieflin | Chris Connelly | Kevin Ogilvie | Martin Atkins | Louis Svitek | Rey Washam | William Tucker | Max Brody | John Monte | Mark Baker | Stephen George | Paul Raven | Joey Jordison | Dave Ellefson | Jimmy DeGrasso
Discography
Studio albums: With Sympathy | Twitch | The Land of Rape and Honey | The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste | Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs | Filth Pig | Dark Side of the Spoon | Animositisomina | Houses of the Molé | Rio Grande Blood | The Last Sucker
Live, Remix and Compilation albums: Twelve Inch Singles | In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up | Greatest Fits | Sphinctour | Early Trax | Side Trax | Rantology | Rio Grande Dub Ya | Cover Up
Related Bands: Special Affect | Revolting Cocks | Pailhead | Lard | 1000 Homo DJs | PTP | Acid Horse | Pink Anvil | Lead Into Gold | Pigface | Skrew Society 1
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