"The Pink Jack" is a mash-up song produced by Wax Audio for the "Mashed in Plastic" tribute album. It was released in 2008. The album was a mishmash of various producers doing their best Lynchian mash-ups with various degrees of success. Usually it was completely unremarkable unjust "meh" that was all over the place with appropriate samples tacked on. It was trying way too hard be LYNCH-Y enough to pass through. However "The Pink Jack" was different. It was a real deal. Now it is fair to say that "The Pink Jack" is probably the best what "Mashed in Plastic" has to offer. It is "that's how you make a mash-up" kind of song.
"The Pink Jack" is a mix of three songs. First is "The Pink Room" from "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" performed by Thought Gang and written by Angelo Badalamenti and David Lynch. "Pink Room" is a backbone of "The Pink Jack". It is nasty, sleazy, brooding piece of music drowning in boiling vertigo-inducing reverberation. It bounces with that swingy Rosanna schaffel-shuffle beat that grinds the space and spits it out as a steam. You have no idea which parts were played and which are just echoing back. There is this whisk and whish of void - like a vacuum bowling ball rolling around hunting for the frog-fly which isn't even there. Music goes back and forth whirling in the smoke, getting lost in the groove. Guitar is roaring through the thick mist like rays of lights of unknown origins. It is ominous. Cello is going behind your back with fingers going in unwanted places.
Vocals and lead guitar parts are taken from the live version of "The Jack" by AC/DC. The song appropriately enough is about a woman who pretended to be a nice girl for sake of fornication prospects and then she turned out to be a dirty whore. Happens. Weirdly enough Brian Johnson's vocals and Angus Young's guitar perfectly fits into "The Pink Room" tapestry as if it was made for it. Young's soloing seems like a logical development of the song. It adds a proper build-up for the composition designed to go nowhere. Then comes a short name-check interlude before things go back for the culmination which included a rape scene / revelation from the movie to the mix. It recontextualizes the scene into a revenge of sorts. That's where the drones from Dead Can Dance' "Dawn of the Iconoclast" are at its most prominent. They are entwined with Laura Palmer's petrified piercing shrills of absolute horror that suck out every other sound and then fade out in the middle of nowhere.
"The Pink Jack" is a showcase of aesthetic possibilities of a mash-up. It doesn't feel like a mash-up at all. It is like a real song but made of already existing pieces. All elements are defamiliarized in this combo. "The Pink Jack" makes them "new". It does a nice job of recontextualizing well-known elements into something of its own. You recognize Twin Peaks stuff and AC/DC song. But together they make something completely different.
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