Ministry ?I'm Falling Cold Life Wax Trax Records ?110072X 1981 First Release
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Ministry ?– I'm Falling / Cold Life Label: Wax Trax! Records ?– 110072X Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM Country: US Released: 1981 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: Synth-pop, Coldwave TracklistHide Credits A1 I'm Falling Producer – Al Jourgensen, Jay O'Roarke* 4:10 A2 Primental 5:13 B Cold Life Bass – Lamont Welton Horns – Preston* Producer – Al Jourgensen, Iain Burgess Vocals [Extra] – Steve Brighton 6:14 Credits Cover – Brian Shanley (2), Jim Nash (2) Engineer – Iain Burgess Engineer [Assistant] – Nancy Taylor Performer – Alain Jourgensen*, John Davis (7), Marty Sorenson*, Paul Taylor (16), Stephen George Written-By – Jourgensen* Notes Track A2 is not listed on the sleeve or labels. Some copies have a sticker on the front cover "Extra track included - Primental" Barcode and Other Identifiers Matrix / Runout (Side A label): 110072XA Matrix / Runout (Side B label): 110072XB
"I’m Falling" and "Cold Life" are songs by American rock band Ministry. Written by Al Jourgensen, these were first released in 1981 by Wax Trax! Records, as the band's debut single. Initially featuring "I'm Falling" as the A-side, the single found success via its B-side, "Cold Life", which was chosen as the A-side on release in the UK. In 1985, during Ministry's short-lived return on Wax Trax!, the single was reissued with "Cold Life" as the A-side.
“I’m Falling” is a synthpop song which bears influences from British post-punk acts such as The Sisters of Mercy and Killing Joke; in his 2013 autobiography, Ministry: The Lost Gospels..., Al Jourgensen admits that “I’m Falling” was influenced heavily by music of Joy Division and The Cure. Meanwhile, “Cold Life” bears influence of 1970's funk and soul acts, and was written about Jourgensen's experience living in a Chicago African-American neighborhood.
Initially, Jourgensen had recorded a demo tape of “I’m Falling” in his apartment, using a newly-bought ARP Omni synthesizer, a drum machine, and a reel-to-reel tape recorder.[4] At one occasion, Jourgensen had presented a demo to Jim Nash, the co-founder and co-owner of the independent record label Wax Trax! Records. Impressed by demo once listening to it, Nash had offered Jourgensen to record a single, as well as to form a touring band.
After assembling the first line-up of the band subsequently known as Ministry, Jourgensen went to Hedden West studios with co-producer Jay O'Roarke and an English-born engineer Iain Burgess, while Nash had paid for the band to record.[8][9] For the recording, beside the core line-up of Jourgensen, keyboardists John Davis and Robert Roberts and drummer Stephen George, also approached were backing vocalist Steve Brighton, bassist Lamont Welton, and a horn player Preston Klik (also of The Book of Holy Lies); Jourgensen assumed an English accent for his vocals on “Cold Life”, like he did on “I’m Falling”. Nash and his Wax Trax! partner Danny Flesher liked both recorded songs, but requested Jourgensen to record one more track, an instrumental titled “Primental”, for the single; Jourgensen states that “Primental” resembles some of music written for performances held by his then-girlfriend, Shannon Rose Riley.
“I’m Falling / Cold Life” single was initially released in late 1981. The first pressing featured a gray and peach packaging portraying Chicago Union Station, designed by Jim Nash and Brian Shanley; the later pressing featured the cover in a die-cut red and yellow motif, also designed by Nash and Shanley. Some time after, in March 1982, a British label Situation Two released the single in Europe with “Cold Life” as the A-side, as well as its extended dub version on the B-side.This release was packaged with a cover depicting four naked men, seemingly taking a sunbath.
The single, mainly its B-side “Cold Life”, had achieved immediate success on both dancefloor and college radio in the US and the UK.[18] By September 1982, “I’m Falling / Cold Life” reached number 5 on the charts of New York-based magazine Rockpool and peaked at number 45 on the Billboard Hot Dance/Disco chart with approximately 10,000 copies, and was later labelled the Wax Trax!' first hit.
Wax Trax! Records is an American independent record label based in Chicago. It began as a record shop in Denver, Colorado, opened by life partners Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher, who sold the store in 1978 and moved to Chicago. In November of that year, they opened a store under the same name in the Lincoln Park neighborhood.[1] During the 1980s and 1990s, the accompanying record label became a presence on the new wave and punk rock scenes in the city, and an outlet for European bands. The label was purchased in 1992 by TVT Records and was discontinued in 2001. In 2014, it was re-established by Julia Nash, daughter of co-founder Jim Nash.
Richard Giraldi of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote, "As important as Chess Records was to blues and soul music, Chicago's Wax Trax imprint was just as significant to the punk rock, new wave and industrial genres."[2] According to critic Greg Kot, the legacy of Wax Trax is trusting the artist.
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