Undercover
Undercover is a collection of covers and remixes from Ministry, credited here to Ministry & Co-Conspirators. It came out on 6 December 2010 on 13th Planet Records, the label run by Al Jourgensen, and it sits between Cover Up in 2008 and Relapse in 2012 in the band's run of studio albums.
Alongside the reworkings are re-recorded versions of earlier songs, including "N.W.O.", "Stigmata" and "Jesus Built My Hotrod", so you hear the band's own material put through the wringer again. The cover of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" is the draw for collectors, as it appears only on this record. Almost everything else turns up on Every Day Is Halloween: The Anthology, released by Cleopatra Records that October. It's one for committed industrial metal fans who like to hear how the band revisit their past.
Undercover: tracklist and credits
13 tracks · 1:01:14Tracklist
- 1Iron ManButler, Iommi, Osbourne, Ward6:00
- 2StrangleholdTed Nugent and Rob Grange4:09
- 3N.W.O.Paul Barker and Al Jourgensen5:40
- 4StigmataAl Jourgensen4:51
- 5Purple HazeJimi Hendrix4:10
- 6ParanoidButler, Iommi, Osbourne, Ward3:56
- 7ThunderstruckAngus Young and Malcolm Young4:19
- 8Sharp Dressed ManDivision, Beard, Gibbons, Hill4:01
- 9Jesus Built My HotrodBalch, Barker, Jourgensen, Rieflin, Haynes3:59
- 10RehabAmy Winehouse4:48
- 11Every Day Is HalloweenAl Jourgensen4:29
- 12Paint It BlackMick Jagger and Keith Richards4:02
- 13Khyber PassJourgensen, Raven, Victor6:50
- Produced by
- Al Jourgensen
- Recorded
- 13th Planet Studios, El Paso, Texas
- Labels
- 13th Planet Records, 13th Planet
- Length
- 1:01:14
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How we know the release date wikipedia + wikidata; also seen: 2010-12-07 (musicbrainz)
| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 7 December 2010 | |
| Wikipedia infobox | 6 December 2010 | |
| Wikidata | 6 December 2010 | |
| Deezer | 1 January 2011 | |
| US release | 7 December 2010 | earliest US date |
2 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 December 2010 | US | 13th Planet Records | 760137509820 | original |
| 1 January 2011 | XW | Cleopatra | 888002077745 | 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 |