Editing Filth Pig

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{{Infobox album
| name         = Filth Pig
| type         = studio
| artist       = [[Ministry (band)|Ministry]]
| cover        = Filth Pig Ministry.jpg
| alt          = A young man holding an American flag with raw meat dripping on his head and a badge on his chest that reads, "Don't blame me."
| released     = {{Start date|1996|1|30}}
| recorded     = 1994–1995
| studio       = 
| genre        = {{flatlist|
*[[Industrial metal]]
*[[sludge metal]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1996-02-07/lifestyle/9602060379_1_aimee-mann-songs-melrose-place | title=Rants, Rage And Regrets: Ministry - Filth Pig | work=[[Sun-Sentinel]] | date=February 7, 1996 | access-date=November 26, 2015 | author=Ruggieri, Melissa | archive-date=December 8, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208012448/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1996-02-07/lifestyle/9602060379_1_aimee-mann-songs-melrose-place | url-status=dead }}</ref>
}}
| length       = 54:24
| label        = [[Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros.]]
| producer     = {{flatlist|
* [[Al Jourgensen|Hypo Luxa]]
* [[Paul Barker|Hermes Pan]]
}}
| prev_title   = [[ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ]]
| prev_year    = 1992
| next_title   = [[Dark Side of the Spoon]]
| next_year    = 1999
| misc         = {{Singles
 | name        = Filth Pig
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = [[The Fall (Ministry song)|The Fall]]
 | single1date = December 1995
 | single2     = [[Lay Lady Lay#Ministry version|Lay Lady Lay]]
 | single2date = February 1996
 | single3     = Reload
 | single3date = July 1996
 | single4     = Brick Windows
 | single4date = January 1997
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
| noprose = yes
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="allmusic-review">{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/filth-pig-mw0000179032|title=Filth Pig - Ministry|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|work=[[AllMusic]]|publisher=[[All Media Network]]|access-date=February 25, 2018}}</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cash Box]]''
|rev2Score = favourable<ref name="Cash Box">{{Cite magazine|last=Baltin|first=Steve|date=February 10, 1996|title=Ministry: ''Filth Pig'' (Warner Bros. 45838-2)|url=https://archive.org/stream/cashbox59unse_18#page/8/mode/2up/search/al+jourgensen|department=Pop Reviews|magazine=[[Cashbox (magazine)|Cash Box]]|volume=LIX|issue=22|page=10|issn=0008-7289|access-date=April 10, 2018|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Christgau's Consumer Guide]]''
| rev3Score = C<ref name="CG">{{cite web|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=ministry|title=CG: Ministry|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|publisher=RobertChristgau.com|access-date=November 9, 2012}}</ref>
|rev4 = ''[[Martin Popoff|Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal]]''
|rev4score = 5/10<ref>{{cite book |last1=Popoff |first1=Martin |author-link1=Martin Popoff |title=The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties |publisher=[[Collector's Guide Publishing]] |year=2007 |location=[[Burlington, Ontario]], [[Canada]] |isbn=978-1-894959-62-9 |page=282}}</ref>
|rev5= ''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
|rev5Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|editor-last=Larkin|editor-first=Colin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|volume=5|date=1998|edition=3rd|chapter=Ministry|pages=3692–3693|isbn=1561592374|publisher=Muse UK Ltd|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[NME]]''
| rev6Score = 7/10<ref>''NME'' (1/27/96, p.43)</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev7Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/ministry/albums/album/230090/review/5942626/filth_pig|title=Ministry: Filth Pig : Music Reviews|last=Wiederhorn|first=Jon|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=February 2, 1998|issue=728|publication-date=February 22, 1996|access-date=June 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113154214/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/ministry/albums/album/230090/review/5942626/filth_pig|archive-date=January 13, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev8score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="Cross">{{cite book|last=Cross|first=Charles R.|author-link=Charles R. Cross|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|title=[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]]|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|chapter=Ministry|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/544 544-5]}}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
| rev9Score = 6/10<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|date=February 1996|pages=84–85|department=Spins|last=Norris|first=Chris|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=td2yO_T3DPEC&pg=PA84|title=Ministry, ''Filth Pig'', Sire/Warner Bros.|access-date=June 13, 2018|issue=11|volume=11|issn=0886-3032|via=Google Books}}</ref>
| rev10 = [[Wall of Sound (website)|Wall of Sound]]
| rev10Score = 79/100<ref>{{Cite web |last=Graff |first=Gary |author-link=Gary Graff |date= |title=Wall of Sound Review: Filth Pig |url=http://wallofsound.go.com/archive/reviews/stories/2164_35Index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010415123520/http://wallofsound.go.com/archive/reviews/stories/2164_35Index.html |archive-date=April 15, 2001 |access-date=March 11, 2023 |website=[[Wall of Sound (website)|Wall of Sound]]}}</ref>
}}
'''''Filth Pig''''' is the sixth [[studio album]] by American [[industrial metal]] band [[Ministry (band)|Ministry]], released on January 30, 1996, by [[Warner Bros. Records]]. The title was allegedly derived from a statement made in the British [[Palace of Westminster|Houses of Parliament]], in which the band's leader [[Al Jourgensen]] was described as a "filthy pig" for his onstage theatrics by MP [[Teddy Taylor]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Jenkins |first=Mark |date=May 22, 1996|access-date=June 13, 2018|title=The Bloody Pulpit|work=[[SF Weekly]]|url=http://www.sfweekly.com/music/the-bloody-pulpit/ }}</ref>

Despite being the band's highest-charting album in the US, it was negatively received by reviewers,<ref>{{cite web |author=Andrew |title=Justify Your Shitty Taste: Ministry's 'Filth Pig' |website=Decibel Magazine |date=January 19, 2011 |url=https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2011/01/19/justify-your-shitty-taste-ministry-s-filth-pig/ |access-date=October 31, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=O'Hagar |first=Sammy |title=Album of the Day: Ministry's Filth Pig |website=MetalSucks |date=May 30, 2014 |url=http://www.metalsucks.net/2014/05/30/album-day-ministrys-filth-pig/ |access-date=October 31, 2016}}</ref> sharply divided the band's fanbase, and did not live up to the platinum-selling success of ''[[Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs|Psalm 69]].''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pissarmy.com/viewtopic.php?p=196456|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928030550/http://pissarmy.com/viewtopic.php?p=196456|url-status=usurped|archive-date=September 28, 2007|title=The Piss Army :: View topic - I come bearing a gift: Ministry's official soundscan numbers|date=September 28, 2007|access-date=March 6, 2020}}</ref> Despite poor sales, the album entered several charts, peaking at the highest positions Ministry has ever achieved. This would be the last Ministry album with [[Mike Scaccia]] on guitar until 2004's ''[[Houses of the Molé]]''.

== Background ==
''Filth Pig'' marked a major shift artistically for the band from their [[Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs|previous album]].  Jourgensen said everyone around him wanted him to continue making music similar to ''Psalm 69''.  However, he wanted to move away from using samples and focus on a slower, heavier sound.<ref>{{cite book|title=Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen|last1=Jourgensen|first1=Al|last2=Wiederhorn|first2=Jon|publisher=Da Capo Press|year=2013|isbn=978-0-30682-218-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/ministrylostgosp00jour/page/164 164–165]|url=https://archive.org/details/ministrylostgosp00jour/page/164}}</ref>  Jourgensen rejected any songs that sounded like their previous work.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sfweekly.com/music/the-bloody-pulpit/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613160523/https://www.sfweekly.com/music/the-bloody-pulpit/ |archive-date=June 13, 2018 |title=The Bloody Pulpit|author=<!-- Staff -->|work=[[SF Weekly]]|date=May 22, 1996|access-date=March 1, 2020}}</ref>  {{quotation|"Everyone hated [''Filth Pig'']. They all wanted ''Psalm 70'', and I gave them an electronic-free record full of gun-in-mouth dirges of nothing but pain. Aside from the cover art, the humour was gone. All that was left was misery. And I still had to tour the fucking thing - which went down in history as the interminable, intolerable, absolutely depraved ''[[Sphinctour]]''."|Al Jourgensen (2013)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jourgensen |first1=Al |last2=Wiederhorn |first2=Jon |year=2013 |title=Ministry: The Lost Gospels According To Al Jourgensen |url=https://archive.org/details/ministrylostgosp00jour |url-access=registration |publisher=Da Capo Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/ministrylostgosp00jour/page/173 173]|isbn=9780306822186 }}</ref>}}

The 2002 live album ''[[Sphinctour]]'' was generally well received by critics.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kaluza |first1=David |title=Ministry - Sphinctour (CD) |url=http://www.metal-temple.com/site/catalogues/entry/reviews/cd_3/m_2/ministry_-_sphinctour_2.htm |website=Metal Temple |access-date=April 8, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Reed |first1=Mark |title=Ministry - Sphinctour |url=http://drownedinsound.com/releases/2893/reviews/3534- |website=Drowned In Sound |access-date=April 8, 2019 |archive-date=April 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408070201/http://drownedinsound.com/releases/2893/reviews/3534- |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Track listing==
{{track listing
| title1          = Reload
| writer1         = [[Al Jourgensen]], [[Paul Barker]]
| length1         = 2:26
| title2          = Filth Pig
| writer2         = Jourgensen, Barker
| length2         = 6:20
| title3          = Lava
| writer3         = Jourgensen, Barker
| length3         = 6:30
| title4          = Crumbs
| writer4         = Jourgensen, Barker, [[Mike Scaccia]], [[Louis Svitek]], [[Rey Washam]]
| length4         = 4:15
| title5          = Useless
| writer5         = Jourgensen, Barker, [[William Rieflin]], Scaccia
| length5         = 5:55
| title6          = Dead Guy
| writer6         = Jourgensen, Barker, Washam
| length6         = 5:15
| title7          = Game Show
| writer7         = Jourgensen, Barker, Scaccia, Svitek, Washam
| length7         = 7:46
| title8          = [[The Fall (Ministry song)|The Fall]]
| writer8         = Jourgensen, Michael Balch
| length8         = 4:55
| title9          = [[Lay Lady Lay#Ministry version|Lay Lady Lay]]
| writer9         = [[Bob Dylan]]
| note9           = [[Bob Dylan]] cover
| length9         = 5:44
| title10         = Brick Windows
| writer10        = Jourgensen, Barker
| length10        = 5:23
| total_length    = 54:24
}}

==Personnel==

===Ministry===
* [[Al Jourgensen]] – vocals, keyboards, mandolin, harmonica, pedal steel, piano, production
* [[Paul Barker]] – bass, vocals (5), programming, production

===Additional personnel===
* Esther Nevarez, [[Stella Katsoudas]] – backing vocals (5)
* [[Louis Svitek]], [[Mike Scaccia]] – guitars
* [[William Rieflin]], [[Rey Washam]] – drums
* Duane Buford – programming (uncredited)
* Michael Balch – programming (8, uncredited)

===Technicial personnel===
* [[Marz (rapper)|Zlatko Hukic]] – engineer
* Brad Kopplin – engineer
* Bill Garcelon – assistant engineer
* Jamie Duffy – assistant engineer
* Matt Gibson – assistant engineer
* Ed Tinley – assistant engineer
* Whitney O'Keefe – assistant engineer
* Paul Elledge – art & design

==Chart positions==
{{col-begin}}
{{col-2}}
;Album
{|class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
!scope="col"|Chart (1996)
!scope="col'|Peak<br>position
|-
!scope="row"|Australian Albums ([[ARIA Charts|ARIA]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Ministry&titel=Filth+Pig&cat=a|title=Australian chart positions|access-date=June 5, 2010|publisher=australian-charts.com}}</ref>
|align="center"|9
|-
!scope="row"|Austrian Albums ([[Ö3 Austria Top 40|Ö3 Austria]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://austriancharts.at/showitem.asp?interpret=Ministry&titel=Filth+Pig&cat=a|title=Austrian chart positions|access-date=June 5, 2010|publisher=austriancharts.at|language=de}}</ref>
|align="center"|47
|-
!scope="row"|Finnish Albums ([[The Official Finnish Charts|Suomen virallinen lista]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://finnishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Ministry&titel=Filth+Pig&cat=a|title=Finnish chart positions|publisher=finnishcharts.com|access-date=June 5, 2010}}</ref>
|align="center"|17
|-
!scope="row"|German Albums ([[GfK Entertainment charts|Offizielle Top 100]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.offiziellecharts.de/album-details-2254|title=Offizielle Deutsche Charts|publisher=offiziellecharts.de|language=de|access-date=October 31, 2021}}</ref>
|align="center"|28
|-
!scope="row"|New Zealand Albums ([[Official New Zealand Music Chart|RMNZ]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://charts.nz/showitem.asp?interpret=Ministry&titel=Filth+Pig&cat=a|title=New Zealand chart positions|publisher=charts.nz|access-date=June 5, 2010}}</ref>
|align="center"|16
|-
!scope="row"|Norwegian Albums ([[VG-lista]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://norwegiancharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Ministry&titel=Filth+Pig&cat=a|title=Norwegian chart positions|publisher=norwegiancharts.com|access-date=June 5, 2010}}</ref>
|align="center"|38
|-
{{album chart|Scotland|63|date=19960204|rowheader=true|access-date=October 31, 2021}}
|-
!scope="row"|Swedish Albums ([[Sverigetopplistan]]0<ref name="swe">{{cite web|url=http://swedishcharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Ministry|title=Swedish chart positions|publisher=swedishcharts.com|access-date=June 5, 2010}}</ref>
|align="center"|7
|-
!scope="row"|Swiss Albums ([[Swiss Hitparade|Schweizer Hitparade]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?interpret=Ministry&titel=Filth+Pig&cat=a|title=Swiss chart positions|publisher=hitparade.ch|access-date=June 5, 2010}}</ref>
|align="center"|50
|-
!scope="row"|[[UK Albums Chart|UK Albums]] (OCC)<ref name="uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.zobbel.de/cluk/CLUK_M.HTM|title=Chart Log UK: M - My Vitriol|publisher=Zobbel}}</ref>
|align="center"|43
|-
!scope="row"|US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/ministry/chart-history/tlp/|title=Ministry Chart History (Billboard 200)|publisher=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date=October 31, 2021}}</ref>
|align="center"|19
|}

{{col-2}}
;Singles
{|class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
!scope="col"|Year
!scope="col"|Song
!style="width:3em;font-size:75%"|[[Hot Dance Club Play|US<br>Dance]]<br><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/ministry/chart-history/dsa/|title=Ministry Chart History (Dance Singles Sales)|publisher=Billboard|access-date=October 31, 2021}}</ref>
!style="width:3em;font-size:75%"|[[Swedish Singles Chart|SWE]]<br><ref name="swe"/>
!style="width:3em;font-size:75%"|[[UK Singles Chart|UK]]<br><ref name="uk"/>
|-
|1995
!scope="row"|"[[The Fall (Ministry song)|The Fall]]"
|align="center"|18
|align="center"|46
|align="center"|53
|-
|1996
!scope="row"|"[[Lay Lady Lay#Ministry version|Lay Lady Lay]]"
|align="center"|—
|align="center"|—
|align="center"|128
|}
{{col-2}}
{{col-end}}

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==External links==
{{Discogs master|7396}}
{{Ministry (band)}}

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[[Category:1996 albums]]
[[Category:Ministry (band) albums]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Al Jourgensen]]
[[Category:Warner Records albums]]
[[Category:Sludge metal albums]]
[[Category:Heavy metal albums by American artists]]