Ministry “Greatest Fits” 2001/2018, double LP reissue on Run Out Grooves, blue and grey marbled vinyl. A great collection of Ministry’s hard industrial dance/metal singles from 1988 to 2001. Despite seeing Ministry’s somewhat disappointing show about a couple years ago, I still really love Ministry. This comp has some of their best including “Stigmata” and “The Land of Rape and Honey” (from the 1988 Land of Rape and Honey), “Thieves” and “So What” (from 1989′s The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste – the version of “So What” on this comp is a live version from a performance in 1994) and three tracks from their hit album 1992 LP Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs including the Grammy-nominated “N.W.O.,” “Just One Fix” and “Jesus Built My Hotrod” which features Butthole Surfers’ Gibby Haynes. (Sidenote: Ministry recorded Psalm 69 at studios in both Chicago and in a small town not that far from Milwaukee – Lake Geneva – which makes me laugh because it’s one of those bucolic Wisconsin communities full of tourists, cheese shops, fudge….and Ministry!) From the less-successful Filth Pig (1996) are Ministry’s cover of Bob Dylan’s “Lay Lady Lay” (hilarious, mainly because I really don’t like Dylan’s original) and the 12″ single version of “Reload.” “Supermanic Soul” and “Bad Blood” are included from 1999′s Dark Side of the Spoon. Two non-Ministry album tracks are also on Greatest Fits: “What About Us?” from the 2001 movie A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, directed by Steven Spielberg and a cover of Black Sabbath’s “Supernaut,” a song much more in line with Ministry’s sound than Dylan’s.  Both the Dylan and Sabbath cover songs were later included on Ministry’s all-cover song album Cover Up (2008).