Jugganauts: The Best of Insane Clown Posse [EXPLICIT LYRICS]

Insane Clown Posse

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 30, 2007)
• Original Release Date: October 30, 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Island Records
• ASIN: B000VKJ6T0
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #73,550 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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About the Artist
The midway is lit. The rides are on. The carneys are barking from the game stands and the sideshows are in full, glorious operation.

The Insane Clown Posse is back in town, and if you thought the dynamic duo from Detroit was bizarre before, they're doubly so now.

Are you scared yet?

Bizzar and Bizaar are the two -- that's right, two -- new albums from ICP. We're talking two separate 12-track journeys into the unique psychoses of Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope, as in-your-face and uncompromising as ever, but with a few surprises along the way. Bizaar and Bizzar are easily distinguished by their individual, over-sized packages, each of which is laden with photos and even games to play while the everyone's favorite wicked clowns are raising hell on the speakers.

Just don't land on the game square that designates you as a herpes carrier and sends you back a few spaces.

"This record is really, really relaxed, and it's fun," says Violent J. "The reason it's fun is because we stopped trying to reach the mainstream audience. In other words, instead of trying to convert everybody into listening to our shit, this one's just for the juggalos out there."

There are plenty of those, too. Over the course of the past decade and five albums - Carnival of Carnage (1991), Ringmaster (1993), Riddlebox (1995), The Great Milenko (1997) and The Amazing Jeckel Brothers (1999), plus countless singles and EPs -- ICP's juggalo fan base has expanded like a hungry colony that can't get enough of their favorite wicked clowns. They regularly make ICP's releases platinum sellers, and thousands of them trekked to suburban Detroit last summer for the first annual Gathering of Juggalos, a two-day festival of everything ICP.

So when ICP set out to make Bizzar and Bizaar with longtime producer and chief collaborator Mike E. Clark, the juggalos - "saluted on the albums as "the certain, chosen few" - were the first and only thing on their minds.

"We went in to record with no pressure," says J, "just knowing this was for our own little world. We're never gonna sell 10 million records, never gonna get nominated for Grammys, never gonna make the cover of Billboard -- unless we pay for it. Nobody is gonna say 'Look at the standards these guys have set. Look at how well they provide for their fans.'"

"So on these records we said 'Fuck it. Let's make a double album, pack it full of the shit everybody loves us for, shit all the juggalos like. Let's give 'em that in fat doses.' That's what we did."

J is being -- believe it or not -- a bit modest. ICP never goes into the studio to repeat itself, so Bizzar and Bizaar continue the creative growth the duo has pursued ever since childhood friends J and Shaggy started slapping on the grease paint during 1991. As producer Clark says, "It's a little more sophisticated. The writing is better. The tracks are better -- but still very ICP."

With only a modicum of guests this time -- including ICP cohorts Twiztid and legendary Detroit rapper Esham -- the songs on Bizzar and Bizaar run the gamut from straight-up hip-hop to rocking guitar tracks and ICP's old skool horrorcore. Twists? This crop of songs has a doozy in "Let's Go All the Way," a remake of the 1986 pop hit by Sly Fox recorded with the Detroit rock band Perpetual Hype Machine. "It's just a crack-up," says J. "I'm singing on that, but...I changed all the lyrics in the song except for the chorus."

"Radio Star" finds J and Shaggy taking their shot at radio formats by trying their hand at different genres of radio music in a faux effort to get played. "Please Don't Hate Me" mines a sweet acoustic guitar arrangement under some typically wicked ICP lyrics that wreak a little vengeance on a particularly disrespectful hip-hop colleague. "Homey Baby Mam Drama" is the kind of nursery rhyme you won't put on any toddler's tapes, while tracks like "My Axe," "Still Stabbin'" and "What" slam with the kind of ferocity the juggalos expect and demand from their heroes.

"What I like about this record is it's really, really entertaining all the way through," says Clark. "Let yourself go and get into the Clown of Insane Clown Posse and not take this shit so seriously and so literal. With ICP, people take things so seriously; they're not getting the clown aspect of the band."

Entertainment of the highest order has been the goal since ICP's beginnings. Fans of broad range of music, J and Shaggy cut their own stylistic path with their makeup, daringly explicit lyrics and an aggressive, energetic stage show that over the years has included elaborate sets, top-notch production values and the hysterically sticky tradition of spraying copious amounts of Faygo soda pop around the stage and on its crowds. Thanks to the savvy, street-level guerrilla marketing by the duo and its Psychopathic Records posse of ninjas, ICP's juggalo crew has been serviced by not only the music

and live performances but also by comic books, videos (including the feature film Big Money Hustlas), an extensive and inventive line of merchandise, and the rough-and-tumble side project Worldwide Championshit Wrestling.

ICP -- which distinguished itself at last year's Woodstock festival by taping money to the bottom of giant balloons it sent sailing into the crowd -- readily acknowledges this is all for some tastes and not for others. After singing with Hollywood Records during the mid-`90s, the group made international headlines when Disney executives (Hollywood's owners) discovered just what their subsidiary had signed when it got an earful of The Great Milenko. It may have been too much for the Mouse, but Island Records was quick to give ICP safe haven for Milenko, The Amazing Jeckel Brothers and now the one-two punch of Bizzar and Bizaar.

"We recorded these strictly on the talent we know we've got, and we iced it," J says with pride. "And I have no question we will once again reign supreme by making all the critics' worst album lists of 2000. But you know what -- fuck `em. This isn't for them." Adds Shaggy, "It's for us, and it's for the juggalos. If you're down with it, come on in, `cause it's way dope; if you're not, then don't even bother. Just stay the fuck away."

Product Description
The long awaited greatest hits from the Detroit Duo.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars the reason why there are no early tracks..., November 13, 2007

By	B. Patterson (Church of Christ City, TN) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This was released by ISLAND records. The only albums released by ICP on ISLAND were Great Milenko, The Amazing Jeckel Bros., Bizzare/Bizarre and the Wraith: Shangri-La. Thus, why you only get tracks from those cds. Its pretty easy to understand, for those of you who have posted before. ICP likely had nothing to do with this and it was just a way for Island Records to make more money off of the name since there are plenty of ICP fans who will buy anything bearing their name.

My suggestion? Don't buy it if you already own the real cds.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars not a true "greatest hits", November 9, 2007

By	C. noel "knowlege of all music" (poolesville, md United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

ok..first of all whatever i write here doesn't matter because juggalos are going to buy this anyway...so..first off i was dissapointed by the song selection..nothing off carnage, nothing off ringmaster, nothing off riddlebox.. and wayyy too many songs off milenko you're better off just buying all icps records and making your own greatest hits cd..and the sound quality doesnt really sound all that much different from the original versions. i definatly would have included alot of the older tracks that would have been amazing remastered..but thats just me. so all in all i dont rank this cd very high at all. just seems like an excuse to get some cash flowing in instead of a true heartfelt greatest hits..next time let the juggalos have some say in what ends up on here...then you'll have the real greatest hits and not what the label says is a hit! and thats what icp has always been about...i mean a greatest hits cd without chicken huntin? that should just about say it all right there...

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor excuse for a "greatest hits" album, April 12, 2008

By	J. Kimray "KupKaKe" (Gastonia, NC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

There's so much to say about what a terrible collection this is. It's pretty much 'The Great Milenko' with a few tracks from Biz(z/a)ar and Jeckel Brothers thrown in the mix. Nothing short of pathetic. I wouldn't even recommend this to a completist. If I could, I would sue for false advertising because the songs featured are certainly not their best.