The mind is a terrible thing to taste

Alain Jourgensen and Paul Barker form what is known as Ministry. The mind is a terrible thing to taste is the name of their 1989 effort. Of course, if there were nothing more than a series of sociopathic outbursts to recommend Ministry, the only people keeping tabs on the band would be the police. For almost 15 years, though, Jourgensen and Barker, along with a shifting group of collaborators, have produced some of the most raucous politically-tinged music of the last two decades. Jourgensen and Barker have explored variants of the industrial sound while railing against religious fundamentalism, media manipulation and corporate criminals. Commercial success: Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs went platinum.