Advantages: Classic dance music from the best of the best! Disadvantages: Already have a lot of this music on CD so a bit of a waste of money
What Is It?
The Ministry of Sound 'Anthems 1991- 2008' is a CD set which is a mixture of the best dance songs, mixed by the Ministry of Sound, over the last 17 years. This is a 3 CD box set which contains 63 famous dance anthems of the last 2 decades.
Why Buy It
I bought this as I have always been a huge fan of the Ministry of Sound. I am not old enough to have heard the stuff before around 2000 as I only got into dance music in the last 5 years and am only 15 so it adds up. Anyway I had heard a lot of the material on this CD on the radio and really enjoyed it, but I wanted now to be able to listen to it in the space of my own home on my i-pod of CD player.
Also the adverts on TV as well, they really intrigued me and after listening to the snippets of songs. It made me want to listen to dance music and the advert had ...
Advantages: Mind-blowingly heavy (if you like that) Disadvantages: Some very dodgy early albums
It's probably best to summarise this band before going into the detail- Ministry are a heavily influential industrial-dance-metal band (or one man- Al Jourgensen- with various musicians). Combining hoarse, venomous vocals with pounding drums, atmospheric loops and feedback and huge, often fast guitar riffs, this isn't everyone's cup of tea, but the band has an interesting history which I'm sure most of you will find interesting.
Visually, Ministry are far more interesting than most industrial bands, who tend to be shadowy people working behind their walls of sound with rarely any acknowledgement of the audience. Al Jourgensen's almost Mad Max-like biker-cowboy-outlaw look (which reminded many of Carl McCoy of Fields of the Nephilim) certainly sets them apart when they play live.
The Ministry you will hear if you pick up any ...
bagoproverbial 11.12.2004
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Advantages: Great sound, sturdy, easy to use Disadvantages: Only runs off mains power
Before I got my iPod and sounddock, I was one of those who refuses to subscribe to the technological revolution. Prefering hi-fi and compact disc to the digital music phenomenon. However, within a week (once I'd worked out how to use it), I was hooked on my iPod and once I got the sound-dock, there was no turning back. I think it's fairly safe to say that the era of compact disc players and tape decks is over... The only reason I still have a normal cd player in my house is to listen to the radio, and those few albums that I just haven't got around to putting on my iPod yet.
The Bose sound-dock is a piece of mastery in the area of audio technology. Beautiful, sleek and streamlined; it's large frontal speaker provides both volume and sound quality. The music I play on the sound-dock sounds almost incomparably better than CDs ...
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