The Amazing Jeckel Brothers is the 5th 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 Hell's Pit, those who see the act completed go to Shangri-La.

The Amazing Jeckel Brothers debuted 4th on the Billboard charts, 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).

Guests included Ol' Dirty Bastard, Twiztid, and Snoop Dogg.

The Amazing Jeckel Brothers has been certified gold by the RIAA.^[1] Insane Clown Posse press materials assert the album has passed the gold mark and achieved platinum sales.^[2]

Despite negative reviews by music critics at the time of the albums release, it is today considered by most ICP's best work. In 1999 Rolling Stone gave the album a 2/5 star rating and made comments such as "ICP Can't Get Any Respect", due to the fact ICP disses Roling Stone in "Fuck the World" .But today the album has an average user rating of 4/5 stars, supporting the above statement.

Track listing

1. "Intro"
2. "Jake Jeckel"
3. "Bring It On"
4. "I Want My Shit"
5. "Bitches" (Feat. Ol' Dirty Bastard)
6. "Terrible"
7. "I Stab People"
8. "Another Love Song"
9. "Everybody Rize"
10. "Play With Me"
11. "Jack Jeckel"
12. "Fuck The World"
13. "The Shaggy Show" (Feat. Snoop Dogg)
14. "Mad Professor"
15. "Assassins"
16. "Echo Side" (Feat. Twiztid)
17. "Nothing's Left"

Message

[Jack Jeckel]

His evil influence flows from the city streets like red molten ooze, filling every alley and gutter. There are those who are burnt by it, like the charred remains of a napalm strike. He moves in silence, yet with his heat comes ear-shattering screams as the masses are scorched in his choking smoke of corruption. His fire consumes like a lethal injection flowing through the veins of a dying convict. Hosts of small red ants crawl in the wake of his presence, biting and stinging flesh. His holocaust fills the woods of hope and prosperity like a wave of hungry piranhas on a newborn lamb. He goes by many names, but for now let it be spoken like the force of a fireball bursting into a crowd. He's Jack, pure and simple... Jack Jeckel.

[Jake Jeckel]

His glow of compassion kindles the heart, like a campfire on a cold winter's eve. His embers burn eternally, spreading the flame of mercy like a warm blanket over the shoulders of a vagabond. His kindness is fueled by sympathy for human suffering, but his inferno of righteous cause, incinerates creatures of sin to ash. The torch of his salvation guides wanderers in the dark abyss to freedom. Its flaring sparks float on the winds of change, like soaring birds recently freed from a dreary cage. Laughter explodes forth from the essence of his being, radiating the land with childish joy. He has many names, but for now let it be spoken like melodic music drifting through the air. He's Jake, true indeed... Jake Jeckel.

Emerging from the Dark Carnival like phantom smoke drifting into the minds of men, they are the Amazing Jeckel Brothers. A chaotic duo of juggling masters, Jack "the sinister" and Jake "the just" juggle the sins of mortal men. The price of admission to their show is a mere human soul. When death creeps around and life decays, the departed spirit will begin its journey. A vision of a candle will begin to form like a distant dream with billowing smoke rising from its eternal flame. In this thick haze the deceased will begin to see an image of Jake and Jack Jeckel juggling red balls between themselves. Each ball soaked in fresh blood and pulsating like an erratic living heart. For every sin committed in a mortal's life another ball is added to their unearthly performance and the harder it becomes. The deceased will witness sinister Jack throwing Jake curves in a vile attempt to see a ball drop. For if they should fumble in their act, a pit of infinite evil shall open beneath the feet of the viewer and cast the soul into an eternity of pain and suffering. Success on the other hand, opens the gates of Shangri-La and grants one ascension into pure enlightenment and peace.

Jack and Jake Jeckel rest in all of us for they are the very fabric of our being conscience and soul. There is no escape from their Juggling act because there is no way to escape from ourselves. Only in death will we realize this as we twist and spin to the other side...

Various Packaging

• This album has four different album packagings. Two of them feature art of Jake on the cover and booklet, the actual CD, and the name "Jake Jeckel" is on the top of the back album cover. One has a paper sleeve with ICP photography on the booklet and the other doesn't. The two Jake versions are identical to Jack's only with pictures of him, his name on the back of the album, and different ICP photography on the booklet. Besides the packaging, the song listing remains identical on all versions. Also, The Jake Jeckel version comes packaged in a red jewel case, while the Jack Jeckel Version comes in an orange jewel case.

Trivia

• According to Violent J after paying Ol' Dirty Bastard to perform on a track for the album, ODB sent them a tape of him randomly screaming garbled lines. It took ICP and producers two weeks just to scramble together some lines of his that would work and had to record the song and name it "Bitches".

• Echo Side is actually the first ever Dark Lotus track and was released as a single with a pure black case and a black disc top.
• The section of the song "Echo Side" that is played backwards reveals this message:

Fuck the devil! Fuck That Shit!

We Believe in life, legit

If you diggin what we say

Why you throw your soul away?

• The song "Everybody Rize" has a section at the end that when played backwards it reveals this message:

"Yeah, if you flip this message, cause you think theres some secret message, there aint shit!!"

• The Amazing Jeckel Brothers is by far Insane Clown Posse's most successful and only mainstream album. It is the only album to crack the top ten on the Billboard charts at #4, to feature famous rappers such as Snoop Dogg and Ol' Dirty Bastard, to have a music video receive regular airplay on MTV, and is the only other album besides The Great Milenko to sell over a million copies. This usually regarded as a result of the unexpected success of The Great Milenko two years earlier.
• "Fuck the World" is considered one of their most notorious songs, with the largest concentration of the word "fuck".
• Everybody Rize also contains a claim that Kiss stole their dark carnival idea on their Psycho Circus album.

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