Wednesday, August 31, 2011

The moment no one was waiting for: Jack White + Insane Clown Posse + Mozart



My colleague in the respectable field of music journalism, one Mr. Lard Hammer, sent me this news just now. "This was born on The List," he said. 

"Come on. That's not a real release is it?" I said. "It's off the Onion music page or something, right?" 

"I was thinking the same thing," he said. "Although... actually, the Onion music page is the only part of that publication that isn't fake. Or funny." 

So, I dunno, here you go, music fans of the world, it's a super-powered team-up that absolutely no one was waiting for,  like when the Green Lantern produced the Blue Beetle's grime mix tape in that one weird Justice League issue.  

"I guess if you think about it, ICP always seemed like they had potential," said some turd with 57 guitar pedals in his garage right now, trying to talk himself down off the ledge.


Brace yourself for the waves of indifference, because here comes the press release that makes me hate my job of the week: JACK WHITE PRODUCES INSANE CLOWN POSSE (AND MOZART). 

UPDATE: Durr, I should've guessed every single person in the world was going to be posting this. Lulz to the Boston Phoenix On the Download blog for the shoutout, and for the pretty awesome Tumblr link. 

We're already over it... so much so that we've moved on to two things: the inevitable Put That Shit On The List post complaining about every media outlet jumping on this like shit Kid Brady's penis, and this, our most favorite Tumblr of at least the past 24 hours, .


In the grand tradition of peanut butter meeting Iggy's chest or Bing Crosby getting down with David Bowie, Third Man Records is ecstatic to present the latest in a long-line of unexpected musical pairings...Insane Clown Posse and Mozart.

Back in '82, ahem, 1782, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote a piece that's been left out of the spotlight ever since. The title of the piece is "Leck Mich Im Arsch" or literally translated to English as "Lick me in the arse." Understandably this piece has figuratively been swept under the rug. So who better to give this piece it's due respect than the wildly successful, much misunderstood, and divisive Southwest Detroit rappers Insane Clown Posse?

With fellow Southwest Detroit-born Jack White at the production helm and musical backing by Nashville's very own Jeff the Brotherhood, this 2011 version of "Leck Mich Im Arsch" marries Mozart's melody (and lyrics sung in operatic German) with ICP's poignant lyrical addition in English and Jeff the B's monster-riffs, letting the whole thing tie together in the most beautiful of ways...

That's it. Nothing really to add vis a vis, you know, additional jokes, per se. Just throwing this out there.

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5 comments:

qb1 said...

I would so watch a Buddy Garrity ICP collabo.

said...

I would watch BG do anything.

said...

I have zero Jack White songs in my collection. I have over 150 ICP songs in my collection. Not ashamed.

said...

Eewwww, you still have a music collection?


I still stand by De Stijl, fwiw.

Anonymous said...

Loop that cello, nucca! J and Shaggy gonna be boning fat fraus in Dresden.

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