Twitch | 
| Artist: Ministry
Label: Sire / London/Rhino
Category: Music
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Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 124922
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 25309
UPC: 075992530927
EAN: 0075992530927
ASIN: B000002L84
Release Date: February 22, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | Just Like You | | • | We Believe | | • | All Day [Remix] | | • | Angel | | • | Over the Shoulder | | • | My Possession | | • | Where You at Now?/Crash and Burn/Twitch [Version 2] | | • | Over the Shoulder [12" Version] | | • | Isle of Man [Version 2] |
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This was Al Jourgensen's first full-length venture into the darker possibilities of electronic music. Harsh synthesizers, brutal drums and cynical lyrics defied the easy classification of "techno-dance" when this album was released in the mid'80s. The programming is proficient and creative, taking the limited sound technology of the time into new areas. "Just Like You" and "All Day" make early use of processed vocals and cryptic spoken-word fragments. In "We Believe" and "Over The Shoulder" Jourgensen renders ominously driving bass lines and metallic percussion to project pessimistic visions of a cold, technocratic society. The album's second half is dominated by a long drum & noise piece: an interesting experiment that would lead to intriguing sound collages on subsequent albums. --Mark McCleerey
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| Customer Reviews: Read 37 more reviews...
 Love it or Hate it.. February 4, 2006
Thrill Kill (Baton Rouge)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This album has a special place in my heart. Forget what you know about present day Ministry and listen musically. Its very much an 80's sound, but even so it still was ahead of it's time.
This is one of my essential albums of all time. For the price of this album you would be a fool not to own a copy. I have this, and the 'Twitched' album version myself, and plan to buy both cd copies also. Some say that there's only a few good tracks on here, but i disagree fully. "Good" is a relative term based on different criteria, but i feel each and every track has something to offer, and has it's place on this album. I hesitate NOT one second to give it a 5 for that reason. I love this album!
Twitch ~ Ministry April 29, 2005
Bjorn Viberg (European Union)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Twitch sound nothing like Jourgensens later forays into industrial metal and sounds more like a mix between pop and heavy electronic music. Considering it was recorded and produced back in 1986 one can easily hear influence from bands like Nitzer Ebb, Front 242 and even withouy the guitars this is a very aggresive and heavy album. Jourgensen uses his fair share of voice treatments and the end result is very much like the sound used by FLA and Skinny Puppy. The cover art is confusing and I have no idea what it is supposed to convey. The lyrics are well written and Jourgensen is a much better vocalist the people give him credit. The book-let is sparse and there is not much of anything it besides some credits and the list of tracks.
 A Good piece of Dance Music August 3, 2000
spartillon
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Twitch is a sort of "middle ground" in the Ministry catalogue of albums. Pre-Twitch, you have the catchy, breezy, euro-synthpop of With Sympathy and The Twelve-inch Singles. Post-Twitch, Ministry is darker, harsher and heavier, beginning with the landmark industrial album The Land of Rape and Honey. On Twitch, Al Jourgensen begins to move away from the melodic synth-pop and into a slightly more grating, unconventional approach. The breezy pop stylings of previous works can still be found in tracks such as The Angel, Over the Shoulder and the All Day remix, however the rest of the music, for the most part, takes on a darker direction. Twitch showcases Al Jourgensen's talents as an electronic artist before he fell in love with the guitar riff.
 Their 3rd best, even ahead of Psalm 69 October 3, 2004
Rocky IV (Loveland, CO United States)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Okay, so this album may seem dated and not as refined as 'Land of Rape and Honey' or 'Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste', but this a very important album in Ministry's evolution. Without the guitars as demonstrated on later albums this album doesn't lack any intensity. This is still Ministry demonstrating their emotion and attitude, but with different instruments. This album shows the descent into a much darker and sinister side of Al Jourgensen. Without this album what would you do, try and make sense of the transition between 'With Sympathy' and 'Land of Rape and Honey'? It wouldn't make sense at all. Maybe this was Al's way of trying to convert earlier synth-pop fans into fans of harsher industrial metal. Who knows? Anyway, I think this is great album despite your taste in Ministry. It's still one of my favorites.
power lies in its unusual presentation September 21, 2000
Mr. Egregious
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
not confronting as with most of their later work, this is eerie, that is all i can say, eerie
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