My Top 1000 Songs #967: So What
Time for an odd entry on the list. Because this song is downright evil. Just a nasty bit of business. From an album I bought and never played a second time. But it's also one of those songs I still sometimes hear playing in my nightmares, so I guess I'm stuck with it being a part of my life.
I was never a fan of Ministry's industrial club music, but back in law school, a time when I was still kinda searching aimlessly for music to fill the void after leaving my college radio gig behind, I'd make some random purchases during visits to that record store on the south side of Chicago. And for reasons I can no longer fathom, I snagged a copy of 1989's A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste. Upon cueing it up back in my apartment, my roommates immediately demanded that I never, ever play that damned thing again. And, in fact, I never have. I still have it, sitting in a box, and where it's probably one of the only CDs in my collection I never bothered ripping to my digital library (despite having literally thousands of records in the library which I rarely if ever play).
But "So What"... hmm, something about that one did lead me to replay it every few years, maybe checking out that live video (watch it below, it's so damn great). It's got a really cool beat and ambience, peppered with some spooky spoken word samples and creepy giggling, a palatable dance tune that intermittently breaks into death metal fury. Al Jourgensen's mad howling is something I can easily live without, but, still, the track's got something compelling that's stuck with me. Or at least in some of my nightmares.
Cool & frightening live version:
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