Bang! Pow! Boom!

Insane Clown Posse | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 31, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Psychopathic
• ASIN: B002HMG4AY
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,346 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #45 in Music > Rock > Rap Rock

Editorial Reviews

2009 release from the dastardly duo. ICP returns with a monstrous, hard-hittin, skull cracking' album guaranteed to blow you away. Prepare yourselves for the explosive Bang! Pow! Boom! The wicked clowns reunite with legendary super-produce Mike E. Clark and take you on a new, thunder-slammin' adventure deep into the realms of the Dark Carnival... it's a whole new era! brace for the impact --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The 7th Joker Card? Music like this is why I started listening to ICP, September 1, 2009

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stormshadow999 "stormshadow999" (Farmington Hills, MI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bang! Pow! Boom! (Audio CD)

I came in around the Milenko era and lost my mind when I heard that CD for the first time. I've listened to everything ICP has ever put out, all the way back to Bassment Cuts and including the EPs and side projects (Psychopathic Rydas, Soopa Villainz, Dark Lotus, etc.). The last album I really liked was The Wraith/Shangri-La, and I thought most of The Tempest was pretty good, too. Maybe because it had a hint of that Dark Carnival old school feel. With the first listen, Bang! Pow! Boom! took me back to the days I discovered ICP and reminded me how I became a juggalo. Everything I love about the wicked clowns is on this disc: bouncy circus calliope beats, thumping bass, fast-paced raps (no drawn out, raspy Violent J ballads), scratching, Shaggy's screaming and character vocal change ups, impersonations of white trash rednecks and naive teenage girls, mini-skits between songs, corpses as girlfriends & homies and the theme of a judgement day recurring throughout the album. I was cruising around tonight and feeling like I did ten years ago. Like my car was a circus wagon rolling from town to town. After huge disappointments like Hell's Pit, Forgotten Freshness 4 and The Calm, this is exactly what I was hoping to hear. Some say it's not dark enough, but I think the group tried too hard to make Hell's Pit extra sinister and it sounded forced and awkward. I was bored with it right from the start. Others say that the tracks on this release are rehashed concepts the duo has done before, but it's not fair to say you want the old ICP and then criticize the music for sounding too familiar. Definitely worth the purchase.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ICP Needs Mike E. Clark, September 5, 2009

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pt83 (NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bang! Pow! Boom! (Audio CD)

ATTENTION JUGGALOS: ICP is finally back. I haven't liked a record of theirs THIS much since Milenko. It sounds old AND new which is a perfect blend. It even has that high-pitched talking carnival guy from Terror Wheel (this whole album kind of reminds me of Terror Wheel and Beverly Kills)! Skits, commercials and, most importantly some of the best (and awesomely creepy) ICP songs I've heard. And I'm an oldschool ICP fan. I expected Shangri-La/Hell's Pit to rock and was devastated and haven't listened to ICP since. The "Joker's Card" album cover of Bang! Pow! Boom! caught my eye and I decided to give it a try. I did not expect this album to be AMAZING and was, as a result, blown away.

WHAT I'VE LEARNED: This album should've been the 6th and "final" Joker's Card. The Wraith was a joke, and not in a good way. Bottom line, ICP SUCKS without Mike E. Clark. He makes the perfect music to go along with the whole ICP concept and nothing makes Shaggy and J's rhymes sound better. Mike, like J and Shaggy, is truly irreplaceable.

P.S. There are 3 versions of this album. 3 different color album covers. There are some slight differences with each version that you can read about on insaneclownposse dot com. I am reviewing the blue one with the song "Beautiful Doom." I haven't heard the others but personally I think the flow of the album is perfect the way I heard it. I can't imagine changing anything.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Return to form, September 4, 2009

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Matthew Smith (Milwaukee,WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bang! Pow! Boom! (Audio CD)

This cd is everything I was hoping for in an ICP cd. The best thing theyve put out since Jeckel Brothers. Mike E Clark's beats are awesome and they go with the vocals perfectly. You can tell they put everything they had into this cd.