#william rieflin

[myvinylplaylist]

Ministry: The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste (1989)

Sire Records

[postpunkindustrial]

Ministry - In case you didn’t feel like showing up (Live) VHS

The record is good and all but the full live video is the best.

Here it is ripped from a laser disc so the quality is as good as you are gonna find anywhere. 

You it from my Google Drive HERE

[spilladabalia]

Revolting Cocks - (Let's Get) Physical [Original Banned Mix] [Epilepsy Warning] - Fan Video

[rainingmusic]

ohGr - wateR

[monotropauniflora]

Cleopatra Records is re-releasing Pigface's Gub on Bancamp in March 👀

[shadow27]

Bill Rieflin, one of the most fascinating, complicated and creative drummers we’ve had the pleasure of watching evolve, is dead. Just died, confirmed by his friend Robert Fripp. As if 2020 wasn’t bad enough already. Fuck me. —Jared Larouche (Chemlab)

Rieflin played drums for: Ministry, The Revolting Cocks, Lard, KMFDM, Pigface, Swans, Chris Connelly, and Nine Inch Nails. He worked regularly with R.E.M. following the retirement of Bill Berry in 1997. He was a member of King Crimson 

[omegaplus]

# 2,785

1000 Homo DJs Supernaut e.p. (1990)

The 1000 Homo DJs project is as much an urban legend as it is real. These are Ministry’s outtakes from 1988’s The Land Of Rape And Honey and were almost never green-lighted by Wax Trax / TVT co-founder Jim Nash, who famously said that “no one's gonna’ buy this…it'll take one thousand homo dee-jays to play this for one person to buy it" (1994’s Black Box label compilation otherwise stated that Nash said that to Jourgensen over The Revolting Cock’s unapproved remix of “We Shall Cleanse The World”). No real names were used for this release, only aliases for all guilty parties: Buck Satan (Jourgensen), Officer Agro (Jeff Ward), Ike Krull (Mike Scaccia), Wee Willie Reefer (William Rieflin), Viva Nova, Count Ringworm (Dead Kennedys’ Jello Biafra) and an uncredited Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. Related to Ministry, it’s a Hypo Luxa / Hermes Pan (Jourgensen / Paul Barker) production produced at The Palace of Reid (Chicago Trax Studios) “where it's not just a way of life but a toxic adventure & 60's style love-in.” If you say so...

Speaking of Reznor, it’s been long argued where his vocals were used for which version of “Supernaut”. In a 2003 20-questions interview, Jourgensen finally dispelled the mystery stating that Reznor’s vocals are found in the Black Box version. Reznor was to be found on the official releases but Wax Trax disallowed them, so he gave the go-ahead for Jourgensen to record his and you have history. With only two e.p.’s combined into a single release you see here, it’s become one of industrial music’s most memorable releases. A spoken dialogue taken from Art Linketter’s anti-drug speech to Richard Nixon (made after his daughter’s death contributing to LSD) was just another nod to chemical abuse rampant in Ministry’s world, and who is not surprised? It leads up to that famous Black Sabbath cover everyone remembers. 1000 Homo DJs successfully stay faithful to the original (1972); melody, structure, and all. Jourgensen’s or Reznor’s growling vocals (depending on what version you listen to) tears up the action mercilessly and leaves nothing behind.

The immense power that the remainder of this e.p. has is still consistent all throughout. “Hey Asshole” is a riverthead’s wet dream with some of the hardest-hit hammer-smash rhythms ever laid on any surface. It’s a brutal anti-police anthem with Officer Aggro making you feel pathetic in every possible way. Rounding out the e.p. are both “Apathy” and “Better Ways”, heavily processed, distorted, and polluted with all varieties of radiated dirty guitars and bad noise. The aforementioned two were the first half to be released from them. Their song structures were far apart from the Land Of Rape And Honey metagame that they never made it but ultimately on this e.p. they stand on their own. Chalk this up as another chapter in the golden days of the Wax Trax / TVT era.

[spilladabalia]

Revolting Cocks - Beers, Steers & Queers (Take 'Em Right off Mix)