(Every Day Is) Halloween

Song by Ministry All Day / (Every Day Is) Halloween (Every Day Is) Halloween.jpg single Ministry All Day (Every Day Is) Halloween 1984October 31, 2019 (acoustic version) *Synth-pop industrial new wave Wax Trax! Al Jourgensen Al Jourgensen Nature of Love 1983 Over the Shoulder 1985 AllMusic 2 5https://www.allmusic.com/album/everyday-is-halloween-mw0000853203 https://web.archive.org/web/20120620101455/http://www.allmusic.com/album/everyday-is-halloween-mw0000853203 dead June 20, 2012 Everyday is Halloween - Ministry Book John AllMusic All Media Network 2017-12-26 mdy-all "All Day" and "(Every Day Is) Halloween" are songs by American industrial band Ministry, written and produced by Al Jourgensen. They were originally released by Wax Trax! Records in 1984 as Ministry's "comeback" single following their departure from Arista Records,Blush Steven October 1991 Cult of Personality https://books.google.com/books?id=yGjqAHJs488C&pg=PT85 Spin Magazine 7 7 77–78 0886-3032 2018-02-23 mdy-all Google Books78 with "All Day" on the A-side and "(Every Day Is) Halloween" on the B-side, respectively. In 1987, they were included on the compilation album Twelve Inch Singles (1981–1984). Composition "All Day" has been described as a "hard-rocking antidote to Depeche Mode's sissy synth-pop." Its lyrics are about class inequality, how the common man works hard, but makes little profit compared to the rich, who sit around.https://starlingdb.org/music/minist.htm Only Solitaire Georgiy Starostin March 22, 2025 Ministry "(Every Day Is) Halloween" is a synth-pop,https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ministry-al-jourgensen-photo-book-everyday-halloween-886020/ Rolling Stone September 18, 2019 March 22, 2025 Ministry Prep New Photo Book, Talk Revisiting '(Every Day Is) Halloween'Ladouceur 2011 89 : "With its bouncy synthpop rhythms and lyrics all about woe-begotten Goth life, it's up there to 'Bela Lugosi's Dead' on the short list of universal Goth anthems..." industrial,https://consequence.net/2023/07/best-industrial-songs-list/6/ 50 Best Industrial Songs of All Time Consequence July 20, 2023 July 7, 2024 and new wavehttps://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ministry-al-jourgensen-photo-book-everyday-halloween-886020/ Rolling Stone September 18, 2019 March 22, 2025 Ministry Prep New Photo Book, Talk Revisiting '(Every Day Is) Halloween' song.Ladouceur 2011 89 : "With its bouncy synthpop rhythms and lyrics all about woe-begotten Goth life, it's up there to 'Bela Lugosi's Dead' on the short list of universal Goth anthems..." Music writer Dave Thompson described it as being "adopted as the anthem of America's disenfranchised Gothic community," who are mocked for the way they dress.Thompson Dave 2002 Alternative Rock https://archive.org/details/alternativerock0000thom/ registration San Francisco, CA Miller Freeman 0-87930-607-6 497 00-58249 1193377576 the Internet Archive Legacy A remixed version of "All Day", titled "All Day Remix", was featured on Ministry's second studio album Twitch.Reed 2013 237–238 A synth-pop song, it adds distorted vocals and a sample; "I don't make the rules to give to you. Whether you like it or not, this world is not too easy. Reality is here. It's knockin' on the door. Y'all know it's beatin' the damn door down." "(Every Day Is) Halloween" is featured in the 1998 Rhino Records compilation Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Halloweenhttp://www.mtv.com/news/400133/ministry-and-more-on-fright-disc/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180612141538/http://www.mtv.com/news/400133/ministry-and-more-on-fright-disc/ dead June 12, 2018 Ministry And More On Fright Disc MTV News Staff June 27, 1998 MTV May 30, 2018 and used in an Old Style Dry beer commercial in the US. This popularized the song in dance clubs. On October 31, 2019, it was re-released as an acoustic version with Dave Navarro on guitar.Ministry - (Every Day Is) Halloween Acoustic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QorKFQ50ZK0 https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/QorKFQ50ZK0 2021-12-21 live YouTube 31 October 2019 On March 21, 2025, it was re-recorded again as "Every Day Is Halloween (Squirrely Version)", and included on remix album The Squirrely Years Revisited a week later.https://www.lambgoat.com/news/46818/ministry-share-squirrely-years-version-of-everyday-is-halloween/ Ministry share "Squirrely Years" version of "Everyday Is Halloween" March 21, 2025 March 29, 2025 Lambgoat Derick Smith Track listing All Day 5:51 (Every Day Is) Halloween 6:35 1986 12" Halloween (Remix) 10:41 Nature of Outtakes 8:10 2010 digital single Every Day Is Halloween 6:24 Every Day Is Halloween 2010 Version 4:29 Every Day Is Halloween: The Remixes Every Day Is Halloween 6:24 Every Day Is Halloween Nu Wave Version 6:03 Every Day Is Halloween Al Jourgensen Mix 4:29 Every Day Is Halloween Razed in Black Remix 4:24 Every Day Is Halloween Leather Strip Remix 4:46 Every Day Is Halloween Tre Lux cover version 4:17 Personnel Credits adapted from liner notes of the "All Day / (Every Day Is) Halloween" single, Twelve Inch Singles (1981–1984) and Twitch."All Day / (Everyday Is) Halloween" vinyl disc Ministry Wax Trax! Records Chicago, IL WAX 007 1985Twelve Inch Singles (1981–1984) vinyl disc Ministry Wax Trax! Records Chicago, IL WAXCD 035 1987Twitch Ministry vinyl disc Sire Records 1986 9 25309-1 Al Jourgensen – vocals, instrumentation, production Brad Hallen – bass ("All Day") Stephen George – drums ("All Day") Patty Jourgensen – backing vocals ("All Day Remix") Brian Shanley and Jim Nash – artwork (single) See also Ministry discography References Further reading Encyclopedia Gothica Liisa Ladouceur 2011 ECW Books https://books.google.com/books?id=wqqc3vgu3RMC&pg=PA89 October 31, 2017 978-1-77041-024-4 Google Books Reed S. Alexander Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music 2013 Oxford University Press https://archive.org/details/assimilatecritic0000reed registration 978-0-19-983260-6 1147729910 2012-42281 the Internet Archive External links 213065 All Day / Every Day (Is Halloween) collapsed Category:1984 singles Category:1984 songs Category:Ministry (band) songs Category:Wax Trax! Records singles Category:Halloween songs Category:Songs written by Al Jourgensen Category:Song recordings produced by Al Jourgensen