With Sympathy

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. Somewhat amusingly, 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.

Track listing

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

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

Personnel

Musicians

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

Technical staff

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
Joe Gastwert - digital remastering (CD edition)

Management

Steve Berkowitz - manager
Elliot Roberts - manager

Artwork

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