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With Sympathy
Studio album by Ministry
Released	July, 1983
Recorded	1982 at Syncro Sound Studios, Boston
Genre	Synth pop
Length	37:52
Label	Arista Records
Producer(s)	Vince Ely, Ian Taylor
Professional reviews
All Music Guide (2.5/5) link
Ministry chronology
	With Sympathy (1983)	Twelve Inch Singles (1985)

With Sympathy is an album by Ministry. The album was released in July, 1983 through Arista, with Ministry's members at the time being Alain Jourgensen and Stephen George. Singer Jourgensen was supposedly pressured into making the album in the "synth pop" style by Arista management, and it is in contrast to the harder sound he developed as his career continued. However there are several reports of Jourgensen saying in the eighties how he discovered "hardcore", which changed his musical direction, and became ashamed of putting out a sythn-pop album.[1] Jourgensen assumes a false English accent for all of the songs. This album was also released as Work For Love under BMG in Europe (with the same cover). There is a video available for "Revenge", which was one of three singles pulled from the album, the others being "Work for Love" and "I Wanted to Tell Her".

With Sympathy was Ministry's only album for Arista.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 2.1 Musicians 2.2 Technical staff 2.3 Management 2.4 Artwork 3 Charts

1. "Effigy (I'm Not An)" – 3:51
2. "Revenge" – 3:48
3. "I Wanted to Tell Her" – 5:29
4. "Work For Love" – 4:44
5. "Here We Go" – 3:21
6. "What He Say" – 4:04
7. "Say You're Sorry" – 4:18
8. "Should Have Known Better" – 4:31
9. "She's Got a Cause" – 3:33

All songs written by A. Jourgensen, except "I Wanted to Tell Her" (Jourgensen/Jones).

• Alain Jourgensen - vocals, guitar, keyboards, drums
• Stephen George - drums, percussion
• Robert Roberts - keyboards, bass guitar
• Marybeth O'Hara - vocals
• Shay Jones - vocals
• Antonia de Portago - vocals
• John Davis - keyboards
• Walter Turbitt - guitar
• Martin Sorenson - bass guitar
• Brad Hallen - bass guitar
• Vince Ely - percussion, keyboards
• Ziv Gidron - chanting
• Bob Suber - saxophone
• Doreen Chanter - vocals
• Ministry of Horns - horns

• Ian Taylor - producer, engineer
• Vince Ely - producer
• David Wooley - engineer
• Flood - engineer
• David Heglmeier - tape operator
• Roger Merritt - tape operator
• Steve Jackson - tape operator
• Greg Calibi - mastering
• Marty Munsch - post production factory engineer & QC
• Joe Gastwert - digital remastering (CD edition)

• Steve Berkowitz - manager
• Elliot Roberts - manager

• Alberto Rizzo - photographer
• David Gahr - inner sleeve photographer
• Brian Shanley - cover concepts
• Jim Nash - cover concepts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1984	The Billboard 200	94

Singles

Year	Song	Chart	Position
1983	"Work for Love"	Club Play Singles	20
1983	"I Wanted to Tell Her"	Club Play Singles	13

Ministry

Al Jourgensen

Tommy Victor | Paul Raven | Joey Jordison | John Bechdel | Mike Scaccia

Paul Barker | Bill Rieflin | Chris Connelly | Kevin Ogilvie | Martin Atkins | Louis Svitek | Rey Washam | William Tucker | Max Brody | John Monte | Stephen George

Discography

Major Releases: 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

Live, Remix and Compilation albums: Twelve Inch Singles | In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up | Greatest Fits | Sphinctour | Early Trax | Side Trax | Rantology | Rio Grande Dub

Side projects and crossovers

Special Affect | Revolting Cocks | Pailhead | Lard | 1000 Homo DJs | PTP | Acid Horse | Pink Anvil | Lead Into Gold | Pigface | Skrew

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