Editing Forgotten Freshness

{{notability|Music|date=August 2024}}
{{Infobox album
| name         = Forgotten Freshness
| type         = compilation
| artist       = [[Insane Clown Posse]]
| cover        = Forgottenfreshness1.jpg
| released     = August 22, 1995
| recorded     = 1991–1995
| studio       = 
| genre        = [[Hip hop music|Hip hop]]
| length       = 
| label        = [[Psychopathic Records]]
| producer     = 
| prev_title   = ''[[A Carnival Christmas]]''
| prev_year    = 1994
| year         = 1995
| next_title   = ''[[Riddle Box]]'' 
| next_year    = 1995
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r227818|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]</ref>
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'''''Forgotten Freshness''''' is a [[rarities album]] by [[United States|American]] [[hip hop music|hip hop]] group [[Insane Clown Posse]]. Released in 1995, the album features unreleased and "lost" tracks that are harder to find elsewhere.<ref name="ForgottenFreshness">Insane Clown Posse (1995). ''Forgotten Freshness''. Liner notes. [[Psychopathic Records]].</ref>

This album features some samples that were not cleared for national distribution; therefore, this album was only released in the [[Detroit]] area and the mid-west and in limited copies. In 1998, the group released ''[[Forgotten Freshness Volumes 1 & 2]]''. "Ghetto Zone", "Life At Risk", and "Ask You Somethin" were not featured on the re-release, with "Ask You Somethin" not appearing on any other release until the 2020 reissue of the Dog Beats EP. The edits of "Southwest Strangla" and "3 Rings" are also exclusive to this compilation, the former featuring an intro that would later become part of "12" from the [[Riddle Box]] album and the latter featuring an answering machine message. It is the group's first installment in the "Forgotten Freshness album series", their 1st compilation album, and their 6th overall release.

==Music and lyrics==
The song "Southwest Strangla" was planned to be released on [[Shaggy 2 Dope]]'s second solo album ''Shaggs The Clown'', but the entire project was scrapped.<ref name="ForgottenFreshness1&2">Insane Clown Posse (1998). ''Forgotten Freshness Volumes 1 & 2''. Liner notes. [[Psychopathic Records]]/[[Island Records]]/[[PolyGram Records]].</ref> In the beginning of the song, a news brief is played about the actual looting of [[Northwest Airlines Flight 255]] which crashed on [[I-94]] in Detroit in 1987. With a change in beat and lyrics, the song "Hey, Vato" became "Wagon Wagon" found on the ''[[Ringmaster (album)|Ringmaster]]'' album.<ref name="ForgottenFreshness1&2"/> Some lyrics from the song are also found on the song "Who Asked You", also on the Ringmaster.

The song "Fat Sweaty Betty" was originally intended for ''[[Riddle Box]]''.<ref name="BehindthePaint548">{{cite book |last=Bruce |first=Joseph |authorlink=Violent J |last2=Echlin |first2=Hobey |editor=Nathan Fostey |title=ICP: Behind the Paint |url=https://archive.org/details/icpbehindpaint00viol |url-access=registration |date=August 2003 |edition=2nd |publisher=Psychopathic Records |location=Royal Oak, Michigan |isbn=0-9741846-0-8 |pages=548–549 |chapter=Complete Discography}}</ref> It was eventually given away as a single at the group's two "Mental Warp" shows.<ref name="ForgottenFreshness1&2"/> "Ask You Somethin" is a cover of [[Clarence Carter]]'s song "Strokin" and was originally intended for [[Carnival of Carnage]].<ref>[http://www.juggalonews.com/main/Cover/askyousomethin.php Juggalo News] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071230033117/http://www.juggalonews.com/main/Cover/askyousomethin.php |date=2007-12-30 }}</ref> The song "3 Rings" was later released on the album ''[[Riddle Box]]'' with slightly altered lyrics. "Dead Pumpkins" was the first Hallowicked single given away in 1994.<ref name="BehindthePaint253">{{cite book |last=Bruce |first=Joseph |authorlink=Violent J |last2=Echlin |first2=Hobey |editor=Nathan Fostey |title=ICP: Behind the Paint |url=https://archive.org/details/icpbehindpaint00viol |url-access=registration |date=August 2003 |edition=2nd |publisher=Psychopathic Records |location=Royal Oak, Michigan |isbn=0-9741846-0-8 |chapter=Ringmaster's Word |page=[https://archive.org/details/icpbehindpaint00viol/page/253 253]}}</ref>

==Track listing==
{{tracklist
| collapsed       = 
| headline        = 
| total_length    = 
| all_writing     = 
| all_lyrics      = 
| all_music       = 
| title1          = Ghetto Zone
| writer1         = 
| lyrics1         = 
| music1          = From ''[[Dog Beats]]''
| length1         = 5:59
| title2          = [[Santa's a Fat Bitch]]
| writer2         = 
| lyrics2         = 
| music2          = From ''[[A Carnival Christmas]]''
| length2         = 4:24
| title3          = Clown Luv
| music3          = From ''[[Fuck Off!]]''
| length3         = 3:39
| title4          = Dog Beats
| music4          = From ''[[Dog Beats]]''
| length4         = 4:59
| title5          = Southwest Strangla 
| music5          = From unreleased ''Shaggs The Clown''
| length5         = 4:42
| title6          = Red Christmas
| music6          = From ''[[A Carnival Christmas]]''
| length6         = 4:27
| title7          = Hey, Vato 
| music7          = Scrapped from ''[[Ringmaster (album)|Ringmaster]]''
| length7         = 5:03
| title8          = Life at Risk 
| music8          = From ''[[Dog Beats]]''
| length8         = 3:26
| title9          = Fat Sweaty Betty
| music9          = Scrapped from ''[[Riddle Box]]''
| length9         = 4:40
| title10         = Ask You Somethin
| music10         = Scrapped from ''[[Carnival of Carnage]]''
| length10        = 2:45
| title11         = 3 Rings
| music11         = From ''[[Fuck Off!]]''
| length11        = 5:27
| title12         = Dead Pumpkins 
| music12         = From ''Hallowicked'' 1994
| length12        = 4:54
}}

==References==
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[[Category:Horrorcore compilation albums]]