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  Al Jourgensen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Al Jourgensen (born October 8, 1958 in Havana, Cuba), is an American musician best known as the hard drinking, chain-smoking founder and frontman of the industrial band Ministry.
He is sometimes credited as Alain Jourgensen, Alien Jourgensen, Hypo Luxa (his alias as a music producer), Dog, Alien Dog Star and Buck Satan.
Jourgensen formed Ministry in 1981 after he left the band Special Affect, which was a new wave/synth pop band (notably including Frankie Nardiello, founder of My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Al_Jourgensen   (268 words)

  
 Al Jourgensen: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Al Jourgensen (born October 8, EHandler: no quick summary.
The revolting cocks were a musical side-project for alain jourgensen (ministry) and luc van acker....
Pailhead was a short lived side-project of the industrial metal band ministry, which featured the vocals of ian mackaye, formerly of the teen idles and...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/al_jourgensen.htm   (263 words)

  
 Ministry - Release Music Magazine Spotlight
Al Jourgensen is in Europe for a two-week promotional tour and is calling from Berlin.
What Al Jourgensen speaks about is, obviously, the controversy surrounding the current President Bush and the war in Iraq, something Al Jourgensen is very conscious about.
Al Jourgensen and Paul Barker parted company as friends late last year, and the split was for the best.
www.releasemagazine.net /Spotlight/spotlightministry2.htm   (964 words)

  
 ministry
al was equally displeased with the musical direction of the debut and left arista to climb back into the sacred confines of the wax trax!
pailhead was a concoction of jourgensen, paul barker, a bassist in the BLACKOUTS and ian mackaye of FUGAZI fame.
rumors circulated that paul barker had left the band and that al jourgensen was dead, but all was cleared up with the release of 'dark side of the spoon.' in its creation, al and paul tried to rekindle some of yesteryear with the backwards approach of incorporating an electronic edge to their guitar rock.
www.djmaharaja.com /ministry   (1956 words)

  
 RonaldReagan.Com Message Board: Al Jourgensen, Idiot Who Urinated On US Flag, Protests Urban Outfitters
Jourgensen has manufactured a conspiracy claiming that the t-shirt is propaganda created by the Republican party.
Al Jourgensen is a 20 year multi-platinum recording artists and founder of post-punk industrial band Ministry, Lard and RevCo.
Al may believe he is getting more votes for the democrats but I believe it is a double edged sword as I know more conservative youg adults then I do liberals and I live in Los Angeles.
ronaldreagan.com /cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=001494;p=1   (4474 words)

  
 Ministry live at the Astoria
Al at first grips at the bony handles on his mike stand like he's revving up the fattest Harley in town.
At least when Al finally straps on a guitar for these songs, he isn't so static in his performance as he has been in the past, and actually moves about amongst the various microphones along the front of the stage.
Al supplies the vocals for this one, despite their original version having the pleading tones of one Trent Reznor behind the mike, which again gives a greater arguement for a live version of 'Jesus Built My Hotrod' sung by Al.
www.geocities.com /visionthingdave/ministry.htm   (872 words)

  
 Animal Liberation (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Al Jourgensen of Ministry served as a producer on the album.
Jourgensen doesn't perform on the album, but did produce all the links between tracks, news clips, quotes, etc., along with Bill Rieflin, Paul Barker, and Roland Barker.
Al Jourgensen - Civil Disobedience Is Civil Defence (0:58)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Animal_Liberation_(album)   (167 words)

  
 MINISTRY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Al Jourgensen’s evolution as a musician - and an individual - culminated in the critically-acclaimed 2004 release of Houses of the Molé which served as a vehicle to re-energize his sound and decry the political imbroglio of the administration governing the
Jourgensen remixed these along with other tracks, such as “Stigmata” and “Jesus Built My Hotrod,” to bring out their power and make them more accessible to new listeners.
Jourgensen decided to include several live tracks from Sphinctour for simple reasons, such as he liked the ending on “The Fall,” which for him is a summation of a lot of different things.
www.electricartists.com /ministry/bio.html   (1084 words)

  
 Sound Of The Fury // Extreme Metal Radio // WLUW 88.7 FM Chicago   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Al: U Tex (?) — I mean I’m not teaching there yet but we’ve met with the chancellor.
Al: I believe that you can achieve with that, but I also believe you can achieve it without it.
Al: Well, when it becomes debilitating to the point where the drug is no longer enlightening and it’s a self-imposed diabetes, then it’s not enlightening.
www.soundofthefury.com /core.php?mode=7&id=63   (967 words)

  
 Show & Tell - Ministry, a chat with Al Jourgensen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Al: I think the Democrats need somebody, like a Karl Rove, to fight fire with fire, as unfortunate as that may be.
Al: Well, you know, the loss of Paul Barker was neither here nor there for me. What was the real key was the loss of my heroin addiction and I was able… Y'know, you gotta remember I hired Paul into the band.
Al: This was my strength in the band, was to like write the songs on a guitar and to turn the amps up to 11 and to plough forward.
www.showandtellonline.com /_ministry/_interview_112804.html   (2953 words)

  
 Al Jourgensen of Ministry
Al: I had some constraints be/c Sanctuary limited the number of trax to be licensed from Warner Brothers, so it was a bit of math trying to get the Ministry catalog represented effectively.
Al: European and US Ministry audiences are pretty much the same – they are rowdy and like a good party, which is where I come in.
Al: It’s kind of culturally vapid where we live, but the trade-off is that it’s peaceful and geologically interesting.
www.undergroundmine.com /jc-jourgensen.htm   (679 words)

  
 ROCK N ROLL EXPERIENCE - AN interview with Al from Ministry!!!
Al: That is still a secret and will be announced closer to the tour.
Al: Most of the working titles end up being something else by the end, so that would be misleading.
Al: Every night on every tour, there's always a couple that I have some mental block or brain cramp, so I tape cheat sheets on the floor; but the majority of my songs are ingrained by now.
www.angelfire.com /rock/e4/ministryint.html   (891 words)

  
 Enterzone 7: Reviews: Ministry / Jesus Lizard
Ministry's de facto leader Al Jourgensen has always had a soft spot in his heart for the songs of Hank Williams, Marty Robbins, et al., and you can usually find yourself humming along to "Hey Good Lookin'" while waiting for Ministry to hit the stage.
Jourgensen and company telescope American cultural myth in a different way, to a different audience than the Dead, but the results are no less cathartic and ultimately positive; though transcendence (at least superficially) isn't a feature, or really even an issue, with Ministry.
Al stalked the stage in a full length, white-trash leather raincoat, swilling beer, playing guitar and mandolin, and screaming with all the demons of hell in his throat.
ezone.org /ez/e7/articles/goldman/minijliz.html   (1004 words)

  
 MINISTRY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The advent of Ministry brought Al Jourgensen the task of facing his personal demons during the primary stage of his career and exorcising those spirits through an aggressive musical soundscape which forever changed modern rock and metal.
With Rio Grande Blood, Jourgensen enters the vital second term of his musical journey with Ministry, he remains plagued by demons, though these devils have taken on a decidedly worse countenance: compassionate conservatism, fascism, war, countless intelligence failures, corporate hegemony, regime change, globalization, hate, greed, corruption, fear, terrorism, and more death.
In the midst of a vitally prolific stage of his career, Jourgensen has also reformed the Revolting Cocks with a new line-up and a new record, and is set up for a world tour with both bands this spring and summer, lovingly titled "MastabaTouR".
www.ministrymusic.org /bio   (852 words)

  
 ministry IE
Trudging down to meet Jourgensen and his partner-in-crime Paul Barker at a North Michigan Avenue hotel, the temperature was a mere nine degrees, which diverted my anxiety away from Ministry's scary image to the slippery streets.
Jourgensen is less pissed off with cops than he is with the press.
Jourgensen may be honest, but he seems to hide himself - behind sunglasses in pictures and behind vocal distortion on recordings.
condor.depaul.edu /~dweinste/cv/ministry.htm   (2387 words)

  
 To Rock the Vote, Knock It, or Block It?
That's the phrase on an Urban Outfitters t-shirt that's drawing Al Jourgensen's ire.
Al Jourgensen is the founder of the self-described "post-punk dance unit" -- i.e., band -- Ministry.
In a letter to company president Richard Hayne, Jourgensen writes that the shirt is "irresponsible" -- a mark of "recklessness." He writes: "Voting is the right and obligation of all voting age citizens.
www.strike-the-root.com /4/morris/morris5.html   (1068 words)

  
 BLABBERMOUTH.NET - MINISTRY's AL JOURGENSEN To Contribute To New LIMP BIZKIT CD
Jourgensen joins the likes of ex-HELMET man Page Hamilton, KORN's Head and WEEZER mastermind Rivers Cuomo on the upcoming effort, which is currently being recorded at a Los Angeles studio with producer Rick Rubin.
According to Al, he was celebrating his birthday on the night of Oct. 9 when he quite literally ran into BIZKIT frontman Fred Durst.
Jourgensen revealed that Durst asked him to contribute vocals, guitar and production to two songs on "Less Is More" after hearing a copy of MINISTRY's "Animositisomina" backstage at the KORN show.
www.roadrun.com /blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=7870   (3270 words)

  
 themusicedge.com :: Ministry: 25 Years at the Pulpit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The interesting thing about Ministry and more important, Jourgensen's approach to sonic creation, is that Ministry never lost sight of its message: irreverence, progression, simplicity passion and a good sense of humor (one of his bands is called Revolting Cocks!).
Of course, there were times during which Jourgensen stumbled, picked up a wicked addiction to the rock-star-killing-drug heroin and somewhat faded into obscurity.
When it comes to sitting down and writing or remixing songs, Jourgensen leaves us with the thought that “you have to be comfortable to make it.(in the studio).
www.themusicedge.com /moxie/news/featartist/ministry-25-years-at-the-.shtml   (660 words)

  
 Loudside.com :: Home to your latest trend
Ministry's Al Jourgensen wasn't the first person to utter the phrase, "The more things change, the more things stay the same." But when you look at the whole aural enchilada that makes up the electro-metal avatar's career, the boomerang effect is simply brutal.
Clearly, Jourgensen is both a wiseguy and wise beyond his years as the fulcrum of America's premiere industrial-rock unit.
These days, Jourgensen is feeling confident about his art, his role in today's music scene and the hopes of a new regime change in America.
www.loudside.com /bands?bandID=144   (849 words)

  
 WhatzUp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Al as in Al Jourgensen, the man largely responsible for Ministry, one of rock’s most underrated bands.
Recorded in El Paso with longtime collaborator Paul Barker, Animositisomina is the sound of Al writhing and bleeding in the gutter, exactly where he belongs.
When Jourgensen howls “The only world I know is drowning in rage / I’m underwater from my dreams to the stage,” it isn’t too difficult to take him at his word.
www.whatzup.com /Music/cd022703d.html   (434 words)

  
 AskMen.com - Ministry
lain Jourgensen was born in 1959 in Havana, Cuba, and moved to the U.S. at a young age with his mother.
Al worked as a DJ and even played with a band called Special Affect, before starting Ministry in 1981, as a one-man force in Chicago.
After 20 years of challenging himself, Al Jourgensen has taken Ministry to the next level, with the release of Houses of the Mol -- and you can bet that he's fueled by political frustration.
www.askmen.com /toys/interview_100/137_ministry_interview.html   (763 words)

  
 AAP - Vol 2 Issue 5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Al Jourgensen, front-man of Ministry and the brains behind an additional fifteen gazillion side projects, is surprisingly easy to talk to.
Jourgensen’s throat-shredded, sickeningly warped vocals decorating the package, you’d expect him to be the type of guy who’d invite you over to dinner, ask how your grandparents are doing, and maybe give you a backrub if you’re feeling tense.
Jourgensen starts to heat up as I try to push farther into any interest he may have had in dance music prior to going all “aggro.” His response is decidedly more “aggro” than it is “dancy,” giving perhaps some insight into exactly how candid he’s being.
www.annarborpaper.com /content/issue27/ministry_27.html   (1273 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
After 25 years of leading rock’s industrial revolution, Al Jourgensen of Ministry is fired up and ready to release Rantology on Sanctuary Records September 27, 2005.
Jourgensen’s personal interpretation and reflection upon the music his iconic band has created over the years.
Today, with more than 10 albums to its name and bands the likes of Nine Inch Nails and Rob Zombie citing Al Jourgensen’s influence, Ministry is the pre-eminent industrial rock band and we here at Grave Concerns E-zine got a call/e-mail from Al Jourgensen and his wife to talk.
www.graveconcernsezine.com /interview_ministry05.html   (487 words)

  
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Al Jourgensen an individual - culminated in the critically-acclaimed 2004 release of Houses of the Molé which served as a vehicle to re-energize his sound and decry the political imbroglio of the administration governing the United States.
On it, Jourgensen rewrote the operatic opening to sensational effect, utilizing the services of an opera singer who happened to be present during the studio session for RANTOLOGY.
What turned out to be the last Al Jourgensen/Paul Barker project of worthwhile note -- in Ministry or out of it -- was very much in keeping with the Revolting Cocks' self-proclaimed role as the joke band of the Wax Trax-associated scene.
www.lazonarosa.com /index.cfm?Fuseaction=EventDetail&EventID=2786   (1571 words)

  
 BLABBERMOUTH.NET - AL JOURGENSEN: New MINISTRY Album Is 'Fastest, Hardest, Most Maniacal Record I've Ever Done'
REVOLTING COCKS, the side project of MINISTRY mainman Al Jourgensen, have pushed back the release date of their new album, "Cocked and Loaded", to March 7, 2006 from the previously announced February 14.
AL is fuckin awsome, this will be a great bday present since my birthday is that month.
the dude says al is a moron and,as always,what the dude says goes....into the shitter.onto another topic:is it possible to read a blabbermouth thread without the words fag or homo in it?can't we move on,up,away,beyond or around and use other insults.
www.roadrunnerrecords.com /blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=46003   (1989 words)

  
 Nine Inch Nails Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Trent Reznor originally performed vocals on the song "Supernaut" on the album by 1000 Homo DJ's, but the version couldn't be released due to problems with Reznor's record company contract.
Al Jourgensen from Ministry re-recorded the new vocals for the final release.
The covered version of "Supernaut" originally was recorded with Trent Reznor on vocals but the version couldn't be released due to problems with Reznor's record company contract.
www.9inchnails.com /encyclopedia/list.php?loc=s   (1664 words)

  
 Revolting Cocks, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen was out for a hard night of drinking with some friends, so hard that the bartender threw them out, declaring them a bunch of revolting cocks.
The name was first applied to one of Jourgensen's many side projects in 1995, when he partnered with Luc Van Acker and Front 242's Richard 23 to bring art and the dancefloor closer together.
The album appeared on Jourgensen's 13th Planet label and was the first Revco release to not feature "the Three Guys" on the cover.
www.emusic.com /artist/11578/11578604.html   (514 words)

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