With Sympathy
With Sympathy was the first album released by Ministry. It was was released on May 10, 1983 through Arista, Ministry’s band mambers at the time were Alain Jourgensen and Stephen George. Jourgensen was supposedly pressured into making the album with “synth pop” style by Arista management, and it is in contrast to the harder sound he played as his career progressed. However there are several reports of Jourgensen saying in the eighties how he discovered “hardcore”, which changed his musical direction, and became ashamed of putting out a “synth-pop” album. Jourgensen assumes a false British accent for all of the songs. This album was also released as Work for Love under BMG in Europe (with the same cover). There is a nysuc video available for “Revenge”, which was one of three singles pulled from the album, the others were “Work for Love” and “I Wanted to Tell Her”.
Track List
“Effigy (I’m Not An)” – 3:51
“Revenge” – 3:48
“I Wanted to Tell Her” – 5:29
“Work For Love” – 4:44
“Here We Go” – 3:21
“What He Say” – 4:04
“Say You’re Sorry” – 4:18
“Should Have Known Better” – 4:31
“She’s Got a Cause” – 3:33
