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(Top) 1 Critical reception and legacy 2 Track listing 3 Live Necronomicon 3.1 Disc 1 3.2 Disc 2 4 Video 5 Personnel 5.1 Ministry 5.2 Additional personnel 6 References

In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up

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Live album by

Ministry

Released

September 4, 1990

Recorded

February 22, 1990

Venue

Holiday Star Theatre, Merrillville, Indiana

Genre

Industrial metal

Length

39:47

Label

Sire

Producer

Hypo Luxa

Hermes Pan

Ministry chronology

The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste
(1989)

In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up
(1990)

Psalm 69
(1992)

Alternative cover

2017 re-release

In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up is a live album by American industrial metal band Ministry, released on September 4, 1990, by Sire Records.

Critical reception and legacy[edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[2]
Entertainment Weekly	B^[3]
Kerrang!	^[4]
MusicHound Rock	^[5]
Q	^[6]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[7]
Spin	no score^[9]
Spin Alternative Record Guide	8/10^[10]
The Village Voice	A−^[8]

Audio from the live performance of "Breathe", subtitled "Live from Gulag", has been featured in Warner Bros. Records' 1990 compilation album Just Say Da, volume four of the Just Say Yes series.^[11]^: 38

In 2005, In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up was ranked number 328 in Rock Hard magazine's book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time.^[12]

Track listing[edit]

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Missing"	3:35
2.	"Deity"	3:38
3.	"So What"	11:29
4.	"Burning Inside"	6:23
5.	"Thieves"	5:09
6.	"Stigmata"	9:31

Live Necronomicon[edit]

This 2017 re-release features more songs including covers from side-projects & bands like Lard, a Jourgensen and Barker side project featuring Jello Biafra, and Skinny Puppy with their frontman Nivek Ogre on vocals. In addition, the songs that had already appeared on In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up (eg. The Missing) are presented raw and without any of the overdubbing present on the initial release.

Disc 1[edit]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Breathe"	Al Jourgensen, Paul Barker, William Rieflin, Chris Connelly, Kevin Ogilvie	8:37
2.	"The Missing"	Jourgensen	3:37
3.	"The Deity"	Jourgensen	3:29
4.	"Man Should Surrender" (Pailhead cover)	Jourgensen, Barker, Rieflin, Ian MacKaye	3:54
5.	"No Bunny" (Pailhead cover)	Jourgensen, Barker, Rieflin, MacKaye, Eric Spicer	6:15
6.	"Smothered Hope" (Skinny Puppy cover)	Ogilvie, Kevin Crompton	5:11
7.	"So What"	Jourgensen, Barker, Rieflin, Connelly	11:19
8.	"Burning Inside"	Jourgensen, Barker, Rieflin, Connelly	6:38

Disc 2[edit]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Thieves"	Jourgensen, Barker, Connelly, Ogilvie	5:09
2.	"Stigmata"	Jourgensen	9:52
3.	"Public Image" (Public Image Ltd cover)	John Lydon, Keith Levene, Jah Wobble, Jim Walker	2:47
4.	"The Power of Lard" (Lard cover)	Jourgensen, Barker, Jeff Ward, Jello Biafra	8:11
5.	"Hellfudge" (Lard cover)	Jourgensen, Barker, Ward, Biafra	7:03
6.	"The Land of Rape & Honey"	Jourgensen, Barker	5:36

Video[edit]

A companion home video also exists, featuring the same tracks as the audio except it is bookended by two "bonus" songs, "Breathe" and "The Land of Rape and Honey",^[11]^: 38 and incorporates footage from two concerts, including the Merrillville, Indiana concert and a December 1989 New Year's Eve concert in Chicago. According to Patty Marsh (Al Jourgensen's wife in this time), the band were annoyed at having to wear exactly the same clothing on both concert dates and the video was difficult to edit properly due to small differences in each.^[13]

The beginning of the concert starts with a very textured dual drum jam then segues into "Breathe". After playing "Stigmata", Jello Biafra comes on stage and reads his own rendition of The Pledge of Allegiance.^[14] After that, the band returns for an encore of "The Land of Rape and Honey." Biafra remains on stage giving an almost dadaist performance art routine, largely alternating between sucking his thumb and giving a Nazi salute.

Personnel[edit]

Ministry[edit]

Al Jourgensen – vocals, guitar, production, art direction
Paul Barker – bass, keyboards, production
Bill Rieflin – electric drums
Chris Connelly – keyboards, vocals (lead vocals on "So What")
Mike Scaccia – guitar
Martin Atkins – drums
Terry Roberts – guitar
Nivek Ogre – keyboards, guitar, vocals
William Tucker – guitar
Joe Kelly – background vocals
Jello Biafra – flag pledge (Video only)

Additional personnel[edit]

Jeff "Critter" Newell – engineer
"Friskie" – assistant engineer
"Linus" – assistant engineer
"Ex-Con" – assistant engineer
Kim Assaley – artwork
Tom Recchion – design
Dirk Walter – design

References[edit]

^ Raggett, Ned. "In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up - Ministry". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved February 24, 2018.

^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (1998). "Ministry". Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 5 (3rd ed.). Muse UK Ltd. pp. 3692–3693. ISBN 1561592374 – via the Internet Archive.

^ Robbins, Ira (September 7, 1990). "In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up Review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved February 24, 2018.

^ Mörat (November 28, 1992). "Rekordz". Kerrang!. No. 420. EMAP. p. 18.

^ Christensen, Thor (1999). "Ministry". In Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel (eds.). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide (loan required). Detroit: Visible Ink Press. p. 762. ISBN 978-1-57859-061-2 – via the Internet Archive.

^ "Ministry - In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up CD Album". CD Universe. Retrieved November 9, 2012.

^ McLeod, Kembrew (November 2004). "Ministry". In Brackett, Nathan (ed.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 544. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8 – via Internet Archive.

^ Christgau, Robert (October 23, 1990). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved December 18, 2016.

^ Eddy, Chuck (February 1991). Greer, Jim (ed.). "Ministry, In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up (Sire)". Spins. Spin. Vol. 6, no. 11. pp. 67–68. Retrieved March 11, 2020 – via the Internet Archives.

^ Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig, eds. (1995). Spin Alternative Record Guide. New York: Vintage Books. pp. 250–251. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.

^ ^a ^b Greene, Jo-Ann (April 2, 1993). "Ministry" (scans). Goldmine. Vol. 19, no. 7 (331). pp. 26, 28, 32, 38, 40. ISSN 1055-2685. Retrieved October 13, 2018 – via the Prongs.org archive.

^ Best of Rock & Metal - Die 500 stärksten Scheiben aller Zeiten (in German). Rock Hard. 2005. p. 79. ISBN 3-89880-517-4.

^ "Session with Patty Jourgensen". prongs.org. 2013. Retrieved September 2, 2015.

^ "The Jello Biafra Pledge of Allegiance". Branchfloridians.org. Retrieved February 24, 2012.