In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up

In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up
Live album by Ministry
Released	September 4, 1990
Recorded	February 22, 1990, Merrillville, Indiana at the Holiday Star Theatre [1]
Genre	Industrial metal
Length	39:47
Label	Sire ; Warner Bros. ;
Producer	Hypo Luxa ; Hermes Pan ;
Ministry chronology
Alternative cover
	2017 rerelease

Last updated April 09, 2019

In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up is the first live album by American rock band Ministry, released by Sire and Warner Bros. Records on September 4, 1990. On July 7, 2017, 14 tracks from the same show were released through the band's Bandcamp page under the title Live Necronomicon^[2].

Ministry is an American rock band founded in 1981 by Al Jourgensen in Chicago, Illinois. Originally a synth-pop outfit, Ministry's sound changed as they became one of the pioneers of industrial metal in the late 1980s. The band's lineup has frequently changed throughout its history, with the exception of Jourgensen who is the band's main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist. Notable musicians who have contributed to the band's studio or live activities include Paul Barker, Martin Atkins, Bill Rieflin, Chris Connelly, Nivek Ogre, Mike Scaccia, Rey Washam, Paul Raven, Tommy Victor, Roy Mayorga, John Bechdel, Jason Christopher, Tony Campos, Burton C. Bell and DJ Swamp.

Sire Records is an American record label that is owned by Warner Music Group and distributed by Warner Bros. Records.

Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group and headquartered in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1958 as the recorded music division of the American film studio Warner Bros., and was one of a group of labels owned and operated by larger parent corporations for much of its existence. The sequence of companies that controlled Warner Bros. and its allied labels evolved through a convoluted series of corporate mergers and acquisitions from the early 1960s to the early 2000s. Over this period, Warner Bros. Records grew from a struggling minor player in the music industry to one of the top record labels in the world.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[4]
Entertainment Weekly	B^[5]
MusicHound Rock	^[6]
Q	^[7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[8]
The Village Voice	A–^[9]
Spin Alternative Record Guide	8 / 10^[10]

In 2005, In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up was ranked number 328 in Rock Hard magazine's book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time.^[11]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Missing"	3:35
2.	"Deity"	3:38
3.	"So What"	11:29
4.	"Burning Inside"	6:23
5.	"Thieves"	5:09
6.	"Stigmata"	9:31

Live Necronomicon

This 2017 re-release features more songs including covers from side-projects & bands like Lard, a Jourgensen and Barker side project featuring Jello Biafra, and Skinny Puppy with their frontman Nivek Ogre on vocals. In addition, the songs that had already appeared on In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up (eg. The Missing) are presented raw and without any of the overdubbing present on the initial release.

Lard is an American hardcore punk/industrial band founded in 1988 as a side project by Jello Biafra, Al Jourgensen, Paul Barker, and Jeff Ward .. Over the years, several other members of Ministry played with Lard, namely Bill Rieflin, Mike Scaccia, and Rey Washam.

Jello Biafra American singer and activist

Eric Reed Boucher, better known by his professional name Jello Biafra, is the former lead singer and songwriter for the San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys. He is a musician and spoken word artist.

Skinny Puppy is a Canadian industrial music group formed in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1982. The group is widely considered to be one of the founders of the electro-industrial genre. Initially envisioned as an experimental side project by cEvin Key while he was in the new wave band Images in Vogue, Skinny Puppy evolved into a full-time project with the addition of vocalist Nivek Ogre. Over the course of a dozen studio albums and many live tours, Key and Ogre have been the only constant members. Other members have included Dwayne Goettel (1986–1995), Dave "Rave" Ogilvie, Mark Walk (2003–present), and a number of guests, including Bill Leeb, Al Jourgensen (1989), and many others.

Disc 1

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Breathe"	Al Jourgensen, Paul Barker, William Rieflin, Chris Connelly, Kevin Ogilvie	8:37
2.	"The Missing"	Jourgensen	3:37
3.	"The Deity"	Jourgensen	3:29
4.	"Man Should Surrender"	Jourgensen, Barker, Rieflin, Ian MacKaye	3:54
5.	"No Bunny"	Jourgensen, Barker, Rieflin, MacKaye, Eric Spicer	6:15
6.	"Smothered Hope" (Skinny Puppy cover)	Ogilvie, Kevin Crompton	5:11
7.	"So What"	Jourgensen, Barker, Rieflin, Connelly	11:19
8.	"Burning Inside"	Jourgensen, Barker, Rieflin, Connelly	6:38

Disc 2

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Thieves"	Jourgensen, Barker, Connelly	5:09
2.	"Stigmata"	Jourgensen	9:52
3.	"Public Image" (Public Image Ltd cover)	John Lydon, Keith Levene, Jah Wobble, Jim Walker	2:47
4.	"The Power of Lard"	Jourgensen, Barker, Jeff Ward, Jello Biafra	8:11
5.	"Hellfudge"	Jourgensen, Barker, Ward, Biafra	7:03
6.	"The Land of Rape & Honey"	Jourgensen, Barker	5:36

Video

A companion home video also exists, featuring the same tracks as the audio except it is bookended by two "bonus" songs and incorporates footage from two concerts, including the Merriville, Indiana concert and a December 1989 New Year's Eve concert in Chicago. According to Patty Marsh (Al Jourgensen's wife in this time), the band were annoyed at having to wear exactly the same clothing on both concert dates and the video was difficult to edit properly due to small differences in each.^[12]

The beginning of the concert starts with a very textured dual drum jam then segues into "Breathe". After playing "Stigmata", Jello Biafra comes on stage and reads his own rendition of The Pledge of Allegiance.^[13] After that, the band returns for an encore of "The Land of Rape and Honey." Biafra remains on stage giving an almost dadaist performance art routine, largely alternating between sucking his thumb and giving a Nazi salute.

The Nazi salute, or Hitler salute, or Sieg Heil salute, is a gesture that was used as a greeting in Nazi Germany. The salute is performed by extending the right arm from the neck into the air with a straightened hand. Usually, the person offering the salute would say "Heil Hitler!", "Heil, mein Führer!", or "Sieg Heil!". It was adopted in the 1930s by the Nazi Party to signal obedience to the party's leader, Adolf Hitler, and to glorify the German nation. The salute was mandatory for civilians but mostly optional for military personnel, who retained the traditional military salute until the failed assassination attempt on Hitler on 20 July 1944.

Personnel

Ministry

Alain Jourgensen – vocals, guitar, production, art direction
Paul Barker – bass, keyboards, production
Bill Rieflin – electric drums
Chris Connelly – keyboards, vocals (lead vocals on “So What”)
Mike Scaccia – guitar
Martin Atkins – drums
Terry Roberts – guitar
Nivek Ogre – keyboards, guitar, vocals
William Tucker – guitar
Joe Kelly – background vocals
Jello Biafra – flag pledge (Video only)

Allen David Jourgensen is a Cuban-American singer-songwriter, musician and music producer. Closely related with scene surrounding the independent record label Wax Trax! Records, Jourgensen has an active musical career that spans four decades, and is best known as the frontman of the industrial rock band Ministry, which he founded in 1981 and of which he remains the only constant member. He was also primary musician of several Ministry-related projects, such as Revolting Cocks, Lard, Buck Satan and the 666 Shooters, and others. Aside from the aforementioned bands, he has produced and/or recorded with numerous other artists, including The Reverend Horton Heat, Prong, Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, The Blackouts, Alan Vega, Iggy Pop, Adrian Sherwood, Jello Biafra and others. Jourgensen is regarded as being one of the most prominent figures of industrial music,</ref> influencing numerous other groups and musicians, both in alternative and industrial-associated acts.

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals. The vibration occurs when a guitar player strums, plucks, fingerpicks, slaps or taps the strings. The pickup generally uses electromagnetic induction to create this signal, which being relatively weak is fed into a guitar amplifier before being sent to the speaker(s), which converts it into audible sound.

A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many, varying roles during the recording process. They may gather musical ideas for the project, collaborate with the artists to select cover tunes or original songs by the artist/group, work with artists and help them to improve their songs, lyrics or arrangements.

Additional personnel

Jeff "Critter" Newell – engineer
"Friskie" – assistant engineer
"Linus" – assistant engineer
"Ex-Con" – assistant engineer
Kim Assaley – artwork
Tom Recchion – design
Dirk Walter – design

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↑ Larkin, Colin, ed. (1998). "Ministry". Encyclopedia of Popular Music . 5 (3rd ed.). Muse UK Ltd. pp. 3692–3693. ISBN 1561592374 – via the Internet Archive.
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[2] "Live Necronomicon, by Ministry". Ministry. Retrieved 2017-07-23.

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v t e Ministry
Al Jourgensen John Bechdel Sin Quirin Cesar Soto Tony Campos DJ Swamp Derek Abrams Martin Atkins Paul Barker Max Brody Chris Connelly Stephen George Zlatko Hukic John Monte Nivek Ogre Casey Orr Paul Raven Bill Rieflin Aaron Rossi Mike Scaccia Louis Svitek Tommy Victor Rey Washam Roy Mayorga Jason Christopher Thomas Holtgreve
Studio albums	With Sympathy Twitch The Land of Rape and Honey The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs Filth Pig Dark Side of the Spoon Animositisomina Houses of the Molé Rio Grande Blood The Last Sucker Relapse From Beer to Eternity AmeriKKKant
Live albums	In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up Sphinctour Adios... Puta Madres Toronto 1986
Compilations and remixes	Twelve Inch Singles (1981–1984) Tapes of Wrath Greatest Fits Early Trax Side Trax Rantology Rio Grande Dub Ya Cover Up The Last Dubber MiXXXes of the Molé Every Day Is Halloween: The Anthology Undercover
Singles	"Cold Life" "I Wanted to Tell Her" "Work for Love" "(Every Day Is) Halloween" "Stigmata" "Burning Inside" "Jesus Built My Hotrod" "N.W.O." "Just One Fix" "The Fall" "Lay Lady Lay" "Bad Blood" "No W" "Keys to the City" "Thunderstruck" "99 Percenters" "Double Tap" "PermaWar"
Other songs	"Thieves" "LiesLiesLies"
Related articles	Discography Relapse Tour Howie Beno Pigface Revolting Cocks