Album
Dark Side of the Spoon
Dark Side of the Spoon is the seventh studio album by American industrial metal band Ministry, released on 8 June 1999 on Warner Bros. Records. It followed Filth Pig from 1996 and arrived ahead of Animositisomina in 2003, so it sits in the stretch where the band were firmly established as one of industrial metal's most recognisable names.
The record's best-known track is "Bad Blood", which earned a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance in 2000. That nod is a good reason to start there, and anyone who has followed Ministry from The Land of Rape and Honey through to the mid-nineties will find this a worthwhile chapter to catch up on.
Dark Side of the Spoon: tracklist, credits and charts
69 tracks · 57:22Tracklist
- 1Supermanic Soul3:13
- 2Whip and Chain4:23
- 3Bad BloodMinistry4:58
- 4Eureka Pile6:23
- 5Step4:07
- 6Nursing Home7:02
- 7KAIF5:26
- 8Vex & Siolence5:24
- 910/103:53
- 10[silence]2:00
- 11[silence]3:00
- 12[silence]1:09
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- 14[silence]0:23
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- 69Everybody1:55
- Produced by
- Hypo Luxa, Hermes Pan, Al Jourgensen, Paul Barker
- Recorded
- 1998–1999
- Labels
- Warner Bros. Records, Warner Bros.
- Length
- 57:22
Singles
- “Supermanic Soul” · 1999
- “Bad Blood” · 17 September 1999
Peak chart positions
| Chart | Peak |
|---|---|
| UK Albums Chart · 1999 | 85 |
| US Billboard 200 · 1999 | 92 |
| Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) · 1999 | 51 |
| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) · 1999 | 57 |
| Australian Albums (ARIA) · 1999 | 98 |
From MusicBrainz, Wikipedia and Wikidata. Only what the sources record is shown.
51.9
Popularity (0–100, vs the whole vault)
1.6k
ListenBrainz listeners
33k
Wikipedia views, last 12 months
2.4k
Deezer fans (all editions)
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1983
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1986
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1987
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1988
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1989
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1990
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1992
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1996
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2001
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2002
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2003
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2004
Early Trax
2004
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2004
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2005
Rio Grande Blood
2006
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2007
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2007
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2008
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2009
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2009
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2010
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2010
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2010
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2012
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2013
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Releases and pressings
How we know the release date wikipedia + wikidata; also seen: 1999-06-07 (musicbrainz)
| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 7 June 1999 | |
| Wikipedia infobox | 8 June 1999 | |
| Wikidata | 8 June 1999 | |
| US release | 8 June 1999 | earliest US date |
5 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 June 1999 | DE | Warner Bros. Records | 093624731122 | original |
| 8 June 1999 | US | Warner Bros. Records | 093624731122 | other |
| 9 June 1999 | JP | Warner Bros. Records | 4943674005857 | other |
| 12 October 2010 | US | Warner Bros. Records | 093624731160 | other |
| 18 May 2015 | XE | Music on Vinyl | 8718469539024 | other |
Cover art sources
deezer · upscaled: major: best source 1200x1200, upscaled to 1500 (x1.25)
| Source | Size | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| deezer ✓ | 1200×1200 | upscaled: major: best source 1200x1200, upscaled to 1500 (x1.25) |
| fanarttv | 1000×1000 | upscaled |
| coverartarchive | 600×600 | upscaled |