Somehow, this came up at work today. Anybody remember the Ministry song"Jesus Built My Hotrod"? Awesome song to listen to while you’re taking a whole bunch of speed and driving really, really fast. Or at least, that’s how I used to listen to it.
But that’s another thread, isn’t it?
The long version of the song had a sample of a male voice saying something like “No man with a good car needs to be justified. Where you were coming from ain’t there no more. Where you were going weren’t never there, and where you’re at ain’t no good unless you can get away from it.” Does anybody know a) where that sample came from and b) what the exact words were? For some reason, I believe it was Dennis Hopper, but my memories of that period in my life are–how to put this–a little sketchy and filled with things that may not have actually happened. Like the time the nine-headed Budda parachuted down from that UFO with a grocery bag full of snakes…
I always thought it to be Brad Dourif, the man who will be playing Grima Wormtongue in Two Towers, but I guess it could be Hopper too. Cant figure out where the sound bite came from though. Always wondered that myself.
And by the way, it wasn’t a bag full of snakes, it was a bag full of really big Udon noodles.
Oh yeah - the lines are loosely edited together from this exchange between Dourif and Harry Dean Stanton:
Dourif: “Listen, dig this! Nobody with a good car needs to worry about nothin’, do you understand? Nobody with a good car needs to be justified. And I’ll tell you why. I come a long way since I believed in anything and I come halfway around the world.”
Stanton: “What are you talking about?”
Dourif: “Where you came from is gone, where you thought you were going weren’t never there and where you are ain’t no good unless you can get away from it…”
One of my favorite John Huston movies - I highly recommend it.
It’s weird that you bring this up now. I was just listening to that song the other day and thinking about how much it applies to my life right now and it helped me decide to finally get the hell out of Galveston. The only thing left for me to do is to ding-a-ding-dang my dang-a-long-ling-long.
I’m also scratching my head over the timeliness of this thread - having not heard the song in probably seven or eight years, I dropped into my sister’s house two days ago and she was cranking it out, reliving the good ol’ days - I’m tempted to drag out the video which has the excellent film clip for it.
I’d have to agree it was something of a high point for a very strange genre of music (industrial with lots of heart and humour).
Add me to the list of people who think the timing on this thread is interesting. I listened to it again about a week ago after acquiring it online (yes, I do have the cd) and have listened to it a lot of times since. It’s at the top of my most-played songs in iTunes now. I didn’t know there was a long version, either, apparently I’ll have to dig around for it since I’m officially intrigued now.
In the early 90’s I was in a band in Orlando called the Sigmund Experiment. We opened for Die Warzau and Dessau once, and DW had Paul Barker touring with them. I ended up onstage with Paul for about 15 minutes running wires for the show, and figuring out how we were going to make it work (4 bands were playing that night with associated tons of electrified equipment to plug in). He was a really cool guy and very accommodating. When I asked him about Al Jourgenson’s legendary partying status, he confirmed that Al is one wild mofo. When I saw Ministry later that year, I went backstage and no, you never saw Al, he had sequestered himself upstairs with women and cocaine in order to suitably prepare himself for their show. I couldn’t play a note after that, probably, but it sure worked for him.
Add me to the list of people who think the timing on this thread is interesting. I listened to it again about a week ago after acquiring it online (yes, I do have the cd) and have listened to it a lot of times since. It’s at the top of my most-played songs in iTunes now. I didn’t know there was a long version, either, apparently I’ll have to dig around for it since I’m officially intrigued now.
In the early 90’s I was in a band in Orlando called the Sigmund Experiment. We opened for Die Warzau and Dessau once, and DW had Paul Barker touring with them. I ended up onstage with Paul for about 15 minutes running wires for the show, and figuring out how we were going to make it work (4 bands were playing that night with associated tons of electrified equipment to plug in). He was a really cool guy and very accommodating. When I asked him about Al Jourgenson’s legendary partying status, he confirmed that Al is one wild mofo. When I saw Ministry later that year, I went backstage and no, you never saw Al, he had sequestered himself upstairs with women and cocaine in order to suitably prepare himself for their show. I couldn’t play a note after that, probably, but it sure worked for him.
Do not, under any circumstances, add me to the list of people who think the timing of this thread is interesting. The punishment for violating this rule is death.
That’s why I love this message board–your question answered in thirty minutes or your pizza is free.
I’m glad to be on the forefront of some kind of synchronistic event revolving around Ministry which stretches from Memphis to Galveston and points unknown but which, for some reason not adequately explained, excludes Snooooopy . I would share my own personal story about how Ministry saved my life, except for the fact that my Ministry fandom damn near killed me on a number of occasions, which I can now remember fondly. I was forceably ejected from a dance club once for…exhibiting too much enthusiasm when the DJ played “Stigmata.” And then there was the time I was wearing my “Jesus Built My Hotrod” t-shirt (you know the one–with the single cover on the front) and I was approached by a prim-looking older lady who congratulated me on witnessing for Jesus. Apparently she took the word “Ministry” in the PTL sense. Ahh yes, the good old days, when my liver was spongey and operating at peak efficency…
Oh my God, Bomzaway , you were there? Sorry I didn’t recognize you. Were you the one with the big chicken head?
Add me to the list of people who, just yesterday, was listening to the Gang of Four EP Hard(1983), specifically the song A Man With A Good Car (“A man with a good car needs no justification” and “I don’t have wise blood”) while wearing my Ministry t-shirt and doing my novenas, when suddenly an indigo rhinoceros wearing a black blazer with lapel pins…
A bit off-topic, but does anyone remember the 1000 Homo DJs cover of the Black Sabbath song “Supernaut” that came out around the same time? That and “Jesus Built My Hotrod” opened up a whole new world to me. Friggin brilliant.
Melon Farmer, I found that 1000 Homo DJs EP a little while ago, and that song’s made it’s way onto lots of mixed tapes. There’s also a version of Supernaut by Ministry on their best of, and it sounds like a remix of the 1000HDJs one, but then, I could be wrong.
And Snooooooopy, I really had you pegged as someone who would want to be part of our excitement at Ministry synchronicity (try saying that five times quickly when drunk ;)).
- I’m tempted to drag out the video which has the excellent film clip for it.