You Know What You Are?

Album: The Land Of Rape And Honey (1988)
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Songfacts®:

  • The opening creepy laugh in this song (which pans left and right in the speakers) is a sample from the bartender scene in Clint Eastwood's movie A Fistful of Dollars. Other movie clips in the song are from Platoon ("Come on, motherf--kers!"), Aliens ("Die, Motherf--ker!") and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ("You know what you are?"). Regarding his habit of sampling movies, Al Jourgensen of Ministry told us: "The thing is with sampling, you have to be creative. You can't just use the obvious, or something that's going to get you in legal trouble. When we first started sampling, there were no rules. It was like the Wild West. So I could sample off Apocalypse Now and Platoon and all this other stuff that I had, obvious stuff. But then you had to start getting a little more clever, because lawyers get involved. And lawyers suck."

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  • AnonymousAgro classic! "Oh my God, my f--king arm!!!" also from Platoon @ 1:45
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