Throughout the eighties, Ministry meant something; Al Jourgensen's drug-fueled 72-hour studio adventures produced music that pushed and shoved the genre's boundaries with increasing aggression, ultimately broadening, then striating and redefining the industrial sound. Unlike most tributes, Wish You Were Queer is more hit than miss. While the inexplicably popular With Sympathy album gets more time than it deserves, TRS-80 gets kudos for not screwing up the seminal "Everyday is Halloween". 1986's influential Twitch is revisted repeatedly, including Eco-Hed's reworking of the utterly brilliant and chilling B-side "Isle of Man". Post-1990 Ministry is largely under-utilized; particularly odd is Here's "Lay Lady Lay", which sounds more like Bob Dylan's original than Al 'n' Paul's grindcore remake. Why cover a cover for a tribute album, particularly with so much good original material untouched? Weird. Regardless, Wish... offers a pleasant bit of nostalgia for Ministry fans, especially given the appearance of a few Ministry contemporaries (My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult's Groovie Man, Die Warzau's Van Christie). Invisible Records also earns some originality points by enclosing a card which, when returned to the label, will score you a piece of the stage-surrounding cage from Ministry's 1989-90 tour, which years from now might earn you the grudging respect of your own teenage kids -- especially if you come up with a good lie about how you got it.