The Amazing Jeckel Brothers [PA] - Insane Clown Posse (CD 2005)

ICP:Amazing Jeckel Brothers is the fifth "Jokers Card" in the series which follows the ICP albums. This album focuses on the Jeckel Brothers, Jake

Introduction To Destruction Mature and Insane Clown Posse have never been in the same sentence, I know, but in The Amazing Jeckel Brothers, some of the lyrics from some songs are extraordinary and completely unlike the ICP everyone knows and love. When I read the lyrics for those songs and understood their beliefs about life and death, I was literally stunned at how compelling they were and I was thrown back at how smart they were. The whole CD isn t about these life and death things, though. A lot of songs are very humorous and I have to admit that this is the funniest Joker s Card (for me).

In 1997, The Insane Clown Posse would enter a critical phase in their reign for global domination, and telling fans, or Juggalos, about a carnival, a Dark Carnival that was coming. There would be 6 Jokers Cards that would be released, and when they were, the world as we knew it would cease to exist. As crazy a tale as that was, people all over the nation and world listened, and got the Insane Clown Posse a gigantic fan base. Despite selling only 17 copies of Carnival Of Carnage, their first Jokers Card the first day, ICP would keep consistently working and eventually strike a deal with Jive,..

After listening to a couple friends' CDs and a couple Mp3s, I got in my rusty old station wagon, drove up to the local Best Buy and quickly bought my first ICP cd "The Great Melinko". Its phat beat and twizted (and also hilarious lyrics) quickly made it my driving music. I played the cd in my car going to school, to my work, and even through my neighborhood where a bunch of little kids play. My dad gave me some lip saying that I was corrupting the little kids with such 'foul music' but oh well. Anyway, after listening to Melinko for a while I started getting more into ICP and eventually...