The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste

The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste
Studio album by
Ministry
ReleasedNovember 14, 1989 (1989-11-14)
Recorded1988–1989
StudioChicago Trax Studios
GenreIndustrial metal[1]
Length50:18
LabelSire
Producer
Ministry chronology
The Land of Rape and Honey
(1988) 		The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste
(1989) 		In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up
(1990)
Singles from The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste
  1. "Burning Inside"
    Released: November 7, 1989
  2. "So What"
    Released: 1990[2]

The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste is the fourth studio album by American industrial metal band Ministry, released on November 14, 1989, by Sire Records. The music took a more hardcore, aggressively guitar-driven direction, with Jourgensen inspired by Stormtroopers of Death and Rigor Mortis to add thrash metal guitars to the album and subsequent Ministry releases.[3] As with most of Ministry's work, the album's lyrics deal mainly with political corruption, cultural violence, environmental degradation, nuclear war, drug addiction, and insanity.

  1. ^ Shuker, Roy (2004). Popular Music: The Key Concepts (2nd ed.). Routledge. p. 135. ISBN 0-415-34770-X. LCCN 2004-27956. OCLC 69243048 – via the Internet Archive.
  2. ^ "Ministry So What (Single)". Spirit of Metal. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
  3. ^ Jourgensen, Al; Wiederhorn, Jon (2013). Ministry: The Lost Gospels (2 ed.). Da Capo Press. p. 93. ISBN 9780306822186.