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Twitch (Ministry album)

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Released
  
July 8, 1986

Release date
  
8 July 1986

Genre
  
Electronic body music

Artist
  
Ministry

Label
  
Sire Records

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Recorded
  
1985 at Southern Studios, London

Length
  
45:41 (Original LP) 57:00 (CD release)

Twitch (1986)
  
Twelve Inch Singles (1981–1984) (1987)

Producers
  
Adrian Sherwood, Al Jourgensen

Similar
  
Ministry albums, Industrial music albums

Ministry twitch 1986 full album


Twitch is the second studio album by industrial metal band Ministry, released in 1986. The album stepped away from the pop-oriented form of their previous album With Sympathy and moved toward a darker, more aggressive sound in the form of EBM. Released by Sire Records, Jourgensen was granted more artistic control over the production than under Arista/BMG. Twitch was re-released in 1990 with two additional tracks.

Contents

The album was named after a drug called Wiz, which was prevalent in England and Jourgensen was addicted to it at the time.

Twitched, an unauthorized 2003 release by Radioactive Records, is a remastered version of Twitch, featuring the track listing that the band is said to have intended it to have before the intervention of the record company. It includes previously unreleased alternative versions of tracks from the album.

"Over the Shoulder" was the only single from the album.

Original 1986 track listing

All tracks written by Alain Jourgensen.

  • Features samples from "Twitch (Version II)"

    • 2003 "Twitched" track listing

  • Tracks 9-12 are bonuses added to the CD version; b-sides and remixes, they do not comprise the original album.
  • Track 7 is a different version than the one featured on The Land of Rape and Honey as track 11

    • Ministry

  • Alain Jourgensen – vocals, production & engineering (3, 7a, 7b)

    • Additional personnel

  • Adrian Sherwood – production & engineering (1-7a, 7c)
  • Gareth Jones – engineering (1)
  • Keith LeBlanc – percussion & programming (4)
  • Patty Jourgensen – additional vocals (3, 4)
  • Brad Hallen – bass (3)
  • Stephen George – percussion (3)
  • Luc van Acker – vocals (7a)
  • Brian Shanley – album cover design, photography

    • Songs

    1Just Like You5:00
    2We Believe5:56
    3All Day (remix)6:02

    References

    Twitch (Ministry album) Wikipedia
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