Ministry – The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste album art
CD cover
Nuptial is used with squished letterforms for the cover of The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste. The album by American industrial metal band Ministry was released in November 1989 by Sire Records. From Wikipedia:
The title of the album is a reference to the UNCF’s slogan, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste”. [Al] Jourgensen was further inspired by the “Just Say No” anti-drug campaign. [Bill] Rieflin said the other band members groaned when they heard it, but Jourgensen had the final say in naming. According to [Chris] Connelly, the album art was inspired by a television program Jourgensen saw where migraine sufferers painted images of their pain. The image itself was a picture of an x-ray from a studio receptionist’s mother, who had been in a car accident and received a metal plate. Jourgensen said he wanted that as the album artwork as soon as he found out about it, but the other band members disliked it. Barker praised the concept but said the execution was poor.
Vinyl cover
