Great compilation, especially with the new versions of NWO, Jesus Built My Hotrod, Stigmata, and Kyber Pass. Ministry fans already have the original versions, so it was a nice of Al to do modern renditions of the songs.

If you're thinking of buying this CD, you should consider that Ministry & Co-Conspirators is set to release "Undercover" on December 7th, 2010. The tracklist has the same content (in different order), but excludes "Every Day Is Halloween (Retro Electro Mix)", and includes another Black Sabbath cover, "Paranoid".

on the terraces was my fanzine, and there was a second flexidisc, "leroy's boots" (about leroy rosenior, the then hammers' centre-forward and now a regular pundit on b.b.c.'s "football league review" programme.

i got a letter of thanks from him, telling me that his son, liam (who went on to become a player himself), made him play it loads and loads, and it replaced michael jackson as their favourite record.

the samples - which i recorded - are mainly from west ham's matches away at charlton and swindon town.

Benjamin Diamond's first album is a fairly successful Disco-Pop album that gives him his own definitive sound, away from the French House sound of Stardust's huge hit "Music Sounds Better With You". All the tracks have an electro-disco feel and are fairly well-composed. Not everything is a hit here and none of the tracks aside from maybe Little Scare REALLY stand out, but all the songs are composed in the same style, which is good. The best tracks on the original album are Little Scare, Strange Attitude, and Playin' With Myself. They're very danceable, and yet relaxing. This is an album you can dance to and still chill out to in your living room, very versatile. There is also a hidden track, after Read in Your Mind, a softer guitar-based pop song. Overall a fairly solid album. It's not amazing, but it gave Benjamin Diamond a rather distinctive sound.

The second CD in this Limited Edition is filled with some really great goodies as well. Fit Your Heart is one of my favorite Benjamin Diamond songs, and I feel it should have been on the original album rather than just be a single. Outsider is a pretty good tune as well. And Todd Edwards' remix of Little Scare is simply great fare from him as usual. And the real gem of a remix here is Joey Negro's remix of "In Your Arms (We Gonna Make It) which turns the fairly bland track from the original album into an AWESOME disco house track.

Overall, a great album, definitely pick it up. It's not going to sound like "Music Sounds Better With You" or any other French House fare, rather it's a very unique Disco pop album by a great vocalist.

The first ten tracks of this rare compilation come from the 1989 album The Burning World which is musically gentle and melodious but lyrically and atmospherically extreme, especially the tale of despair God Damn The Sun and their spooky interpretation of Steve Winwood's Can't Find My Way Home, hypnotically sung by Jarboe as is I Remember Who You Are. A lilting, tuneful ballad, Saved has a spiritual feel with the expression "sheltering sky," which, together with Let It Come Down, reveals the inspiration of Paul Bowles.

The album Love of Life contributes The Sound Of Freedom, No Cure For The Lonely, the title track and God Loves America. The Sound of Freedom is a formidable poetic excursion infused with the majesty of The Most Unfortunate Lie from White Light from the Mouth of Infinity plus a potent rhythmic momentum & haunting imagery. Driven by pounding drums & layered guitars, Love of Life is one of the most striking serious rock songs of all time. In contrast, the slow, introspective and acoustic No Cure for the Lonely and God loves America are philosophical musings of fragile beauty.

From White Light From the Mouth of Infinity come the impressively arranged Song for the Sun and Power and Sacrifice, a torrential guitar onslaught. The distinctive guitar textures of Gira's ‘Red Version’ of Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart turn the legendary dirge into a surprisingly melodic & rhythmic track, more tuneful and polytonal than the original in which the monotone vocals suffocate the melody.

Covering the years 1989 to 1992, Forever Burned not only contains the entire Burning World masterpiece but in addition, the more accessible tracks from the two early 90s albums of blistering rock plus the extraordinary Joy Division interpretation. The album is thus essential for the devoted fan of Swans, Gira, Jarboe and Angels of Light.