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SO WHO STILL THINKS AL JOURGENSEN IS SANE?

 Monday, December 14th, 2009 at 11:00am by

We just received the following press release here at the MetalSucks Mansion. I don’t usually like to just cut and paste press releases, but in this instance I feel like I need to do so in order to make my point. So:

Ministry’s Uncle Al Jourgensen is apparently in the Christmas spirit, having created a Christmas video “card” for you and his fans that is also his very first solo project.

Al and good buddy Mark Thwait (Mission UK, Peter Murphy, Mob Research), collaborated on “It’s Always Christmas Time,” a tribute to friend and band mate Paul Raven (Ministry, Killing Joke, Mob Research) on the two-year anniversary of his passing in 2007. With Christmas less than two weeks away, it’s Al’s way of spreading his very own brand of holiday cheer.

Okay. That all sounds fair enough. But then I watched the actual video in question:

Holy crap. When did Al Jourgensen turn into Ozzy Osbourne? I haven’t seen anyone fumble around like that since Stevie Wonder’s wife demanded he find her clitoris. And I could forgive the brain-dead rambling at the beginning, if the song wasn’t incredibly awful.

Maybe it’s a joke. Do you think it could all be a joke? It has to be a joke, right.

But I don’t get it.

-AR

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  • gnarlk

    heroin is a hell of a drug…

  • Moose_Knuckle

    I’m a big ministry fan and like a lot of other stuff that Al’s been involved in but this does seems really strange (and awful). You took too much man, you took too much, too much.

  • WowWee!

    MInistry have nothing to write about anymore since george w bush is no longer president.

  • Double D

    What the fuck is up with Jourgensen?

  • http://www.last.fm/user/groverXIII groverXIII

    Whoa… either Uncle Al is playing a huge joke on us, or he’s lost it. I hope it’s the former.

  • cougar party

    I read an artciled earlier this year where he mentioned he was clean and sober. Things have apparently changed.

    • justin

      i’m fairly positive that when he’s said “clean and sober” over the last few years, he means “heroin-free.”

  • justin

    i don’t know if ol’ uncle al is still “clean,” but it appears that he’d definitely drank his fair share of red wine before he got the bright idea of making this video card. last time i was up close and personal with him, it was in the direct aftermath of him being obliterated on red wine and tearing the speakers out of his tour bus… he seemed to be in an identical state of mind… the ramblings of a drunken al jourgensen are always forgivable.

    as for the song being bad… i’ll still take it ten to one over ever having to hear mariah carey sing “all i want for xmas is you,” or anything by the trans-siberian orchestra again.

    • NoNameNoSlogan

      yes…there are far more awful xmas songs out there than this one…..and I don’t think he’s rambling that much. He’s obviously fucked up on something, but I’ve seen recent interviews with him and he was completely normal and coherent. This video is obviously a joke that went right over Axl’s head.

    • http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/46e389eb8b79606050d3d447431ff6ac?s=80 Nate

      They play that fucking Mariah Carey song on the store radio station three-four times every day that I work. IT IS MADDENING.

  • http://myspace.com/northwestroyale Blake

    “I haven’t seen anyone fumble around like that since Stevie Wonder’s wife demanded he find her clitoris.”

    Holy shit, Axl – props.

  • Facebook User

    Usually you don’t make a promo for a song, THE ENTIRE SONG!! This has to be a joke…please??

  • attackmole

    Gotta be a joke. Thinking back to the “apply directly to forehead” Last Sucker ads, it doesn’t seem too far off from his sense of humour.

  • Sandman

    This is actually kinda funny. Al Jourgensen reluctantly makes a Christmas song for his wife so he makes it as generic as possible….all while giving a big fuck you to Christmas.

  • SHOCKTROOP

    definitely a joke. clearly making fun of ozzy with the glasses and the “my wife wants me to make a christmas song”. remember when ozzy did the christmas song with jessica simpson? gotta be a joke

    • cougar party

      Ozzy did a christmas song with Jessica Simpson? Good God…

    • nick

      you nailed it, it all makes sense now…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Daniel-Winnett/504952291 Daniel Winnett

    “I haven’t seen anyone fumble around like that since Stevie Wonder’s wife demanded he find her clitoris.”
    that might be the funniest thing i’ve heard all year

  • gnarlk

    joke or not, jourgenson ceased being interesting, relevant or good musically ages ago…

  • joshkid

    +1 on Stevie’s wifes clit!!!

  • pigchop

    HST would approve.

  • brosupre

    This is as bad as that Covers album ministry put out as their final album.

  • http://www.clcribnotes.com Chad Radford

    For nostalgia’s sake — if enough time goes by — sometimes you can forgive an artist like Al for his horrible personality, and in his case, the string of horrible albums he has wrought since Psalm 69.

    But he just keeps coming back and tainting those memories of rocking out to Ministry, Revco, Pailhead and so on…

    He wasn’t this bad when I was a teenager, was he? I need to go watch the “Stigmata” video and forget that I ever saw this :-(

  • Blarrrgg

    The cane is a nice touch

  • earthsherm

    i dont think it’s that bad, sounds like devin townsend meets santa

  • http://www.concatenationrecords.com Kodiak

    Christmas? How can it be Christmas when Everyday Is Halloween?

    Bop, bop bop

  • SWANSEVERE

    BEST FUCKING XMAS SONG EVER! THANKS 2 AL FOR SHOWING THE WHOLE WORLD THAT ITS POSSIBLE TO CREATE A HOLIDAY SONG THAT SOUNDS DIFFERENT AND ORIGINAL!! EXCELLENT TRACK! (MINISTRY RULES U BITCHES!)

  • Raffi

    thanks al, great xmas song, great message to the people. hahaha.