With Sympathy is the debut album by Ministry. The album was released in 1983 through Arista Records, with Ministry's members at the time being Alain Jourgensen and Stephen George. Singer Jourgensen was supposedly pressured into making the album in the "synthpop" style by Arista management, which 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 "synthpop" album.[4] 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.
The album has been reissued on Eastworld records with three bonus tracks,.[5]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Alain Jourgensen, except "I Wanted to Tell Her" by Jourgensen and Shay Jones
No.
Title
Length
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
Bonus tracks on Eastworld re-release:
No.
Title
Length
10.
"I Wanted to Tell Her" (Extended Mix)
11.
"Revenge" (Remix)
6:19
12.
"A Walk in the Park"
European release "Work for Love"
No.
Title
Length
1.
"Work for Love"
4:44
2.
"Do the Etawa"
4:04
3.
"I Wanted to Tell Her"
5:29
4.
"Say You're Sorry"
4:18
5.
"Here We Go"
3:21
6.
"Effigy (I'm Not An)"
3:51
7.
"Revenge"
3:48
8.
"She's Got a Cause"
3:33
9.
"Should Have Known Better"
4:31
"What He Say" was renamed "Do the Etawa" on the European release.
