The Amazing Jeckel Brothers

Infobox Album |
Name = The Amazing Jeckel Brothers
Type = Album
Artist = Insane Clown Posse


Released = May 25, 1999
Recorded = 1998-1999
Genre = Horrorcore, Midwest hip hop, rap rock
Length = 69:40
Label = Island/Psychopathic
Producer = Mike E. Clark
ICP
Reviews = *Allmusic rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:f9ftxqrkldje~T1 link]
*"NME" rating|3|10 [http://www.nme.com/reviews/insane-clown-posse/1015 link]
*PopMatters rating|3|10 [http://www.popmatters.com/pm/reviews/article/19728/insaneclownposse-amazing link]
*Robert Christgau (C+) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Insane+Clown+Posse link]
*"Rolling Stone" rating|2|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/insaneclownposse/albums/album/120991/review/6068329/the_amazing_jeckel_brothers link]
*Yahoo! Music (unfavorable) [http://music.yahoo.com/read/review/12029359 link]
Last album = "Forgotten Freshness Volumes 1 & 2
(1998)
This album = "The Amazing Jeckel Brothers"
(1999)
Next album = "Psychopathics from Outer Space"
(2000)Extra chronology 2
Artist = Joker's Cards
Type = Album
Last album = "The Great Milenko
(1997)
This album = "The Amazing Jeckel Brothers"
(1999)
Next album = ""
(2002)

"The Amazing Jeckel Brothers" is the fifth Joker's Card album by the Insane Clown Posse. The Amazing Jeckel Brothers are described as a duo of soul-jugglers in the afterlife. Jake the Just and Jack the Wicked juggle the bearer's sins: those who sin too heavily and witness a fumble during the act are sent to , those who see the act completed go to . Guests included Ol' Dirty Bastard, Twiztid, and Snoop Dogg, as well as some unrealesed Prank calls by The Jerky Boys.

"The Amazing Jeckel Brothers" debuted fourth on the Billboard charts, [cite news |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1430318/19990603/i_c_p.jhtml |title=Insane Clown Posse Makes "Amazing" Top Five Debut |accessdate=2008-05-04 |last= |first= |coauthors= |date=June 3, 1999 |work= |publisher=MTV] just beneath the Backstreet Boys during the pop band craze, two years after the Disney scandal. This is ICP's most successful and perhaps most well-known album. It contains what is possibly two of their most well-known songs, "Another Love Song" (for which a video was filmed and gained heavy MTV rotation) and "Fuck the World" (which they performed live at Woodstock '99). The album was certified platinum by the RIAA.cite web |url=http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH |title=Certification for Insane Clown Posse |accessdate=2008-05-05 |publisher=RIAA Gold and Platinum Certification Database]

Production

Snoop Dogg was paid $40,000 to perform on a track. Ol' Dirty Bastard was paid $30,000 to appear. He recorded his track in a matter of two days, but it was nothing more than him rambling about "bitches." It took Bruce and Utsler a week to get just four rhymes out of his rambling, and the duo had to re-record the song and name it "Bitches."cite book |last=Bruce |first=Joseph |authorlink=Joseph Bruce |coauthors=Hobey Echlin |editor=Nathan Fostey |title=ICP: Behind the Paint |origdate= |origyear=2003 |origmonth=August |edition=2nd Edition |publisher=Psychopathic Records |location=Royal Oak, Michigan |isbn=09741846083 |pages=page 414-433 |chapter=Big Money Hustlas ] Ice-T was also contacted to appear on a song, and charged the group only $10,000. The group felt the song did not fit on the album, so it was kept off, but later released on "Psychopathics from Outer Space". The song "Echo Side" was originally released at an Insane Clown Posse concert in Garden City, Michigan as the first ever single from Dark Lotus.cite book |last=Bruce |first=Joseph |authorlink= |coauthors=Hobey Echlin |editor=Nathan Fostey |title=ICP: Behind the Paint |origdate= |origyear=2003 |origmonth=August |edition=2nd Edition |publisher=Psychopathic Records |location=Royal Oak, Michigan |isbn=09741846083 |pages=page 560-561 |chapter=Complete Discography ]

Insane Clown Posse were national names, but were looked at as a joke by many. The group had received mainly negative publicity from the press. They decided to use this album as a release for their anger. It is easily seen in songs such as "Fuck the World," where the duo flat-out say what was on their minds.

Reception

"The Amazing Jeckel Brothers" peaked at #4 on the "Billboard" 200. [cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:f9ftxqrkldje~T3 |title=Charts and awards for "The Amazing Jeckel Brothers" |accessdate=2008-03-31 |publisher=Allmusic] Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave the album a four out of five star rating, writing that " [Insane Clown Posse] actually delivered an album that comes close to fulfilling whatever promise their ridiculous, carnivalesque blend of hardcore hip-hop and shock-metal had in the first place". [cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:f9ftxqrkldje~T1 |title=Review of "The Amazing Jeckel Brothers" |accessdate=2008-05-08 |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |coauthors= |date= |work= |publisher=Allmusic] "Rolling Stone" writer Barry Walters gave the album two out of five stars, writing that "no musical sleight of hand can disguise the fact that Shaggy and J remain the ultimate wack MCs."cite web |url=http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/insaneclownposse/albums/album/120991/review/6068329/the_amazing_jeckel_brothers |title=Insane Clown Posse: The Amazing Jeckel Brothers: Music Reviews |accessdate=2007-12-26 |first=Barry |last=Walters |date=1999 |publisher="Rolling Stone" ]

Track listing

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