{"id":792489,"date":"2019-01-29T08:32:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T15:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=785813"},"modified":"2019-01-29T08:32:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T15:32:26","slug":"tim-heidecker-turns-trump-tweets-into-ballad-of-ice-agent-ray-lyric-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/tim-heidecker-turns-trump-tweets-into-ballad-of-ice-agent-ray-lyric-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Heidecker Turns Trump Tweets Into \u2018Ballad of ICE Agent Ray\u2019 Lyric Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Untitled.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Tim Heidecker has gathered his politically incisive and uproarious songs from the past year for a <a href=\"https:\/\/timheidecker.ffm.to\/anotheryear\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">just-released<\/a> six-song EP titled <em>Another Year In Hell: Collected Songs From 2018<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>To mark the release, the <em>Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!<\/em> comedian dropped the Vic Barger-made lyric video for \u201cThe Ballad of ICE Agent Ray,\u201d featuring Donald Trump\u2019s misspellings-laden Twitter feed and grueling footage of ICE at work. Heidecker previously released \u201cThe Ballad of ICE Agent Ray\u201d in June 2018; the track benefited <a href=\"https:\/\/familiesforfreedom.org\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Families for Freedom.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was another year in hell,\u201d Heidecker said in a statement. \u201cAnd while it didn\u2019t generate the number of songs the year before did, I\u2019m glad to have these songs I\u2019ve released throughout the year in one handy package. And for the first time you can hear a new orchestration of \u2018Tobin and the Judge\u2019 by Bobby Halverson. This song really only showed up on YouTube as a backstage live recording so I\u2019m so glad there\u2019s an official and quite beautiful version of it now. Also new to most everyone\u2019s ears is: \u2018Rake the Floor\u2019 which I wrote for Father John Misty\u2019s Wildfire Relief Fundraiser. Please enjoy!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Another Year In Hell: Collected Songs from 2018<\/em> also features \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/tim-heidecker-ballad-of-the-incel-man-hias-748327\/\">The Ballad of the Incel Man<\/a>,\u201d Heidecker\u2019s critique of MAGA-loving, \u201cinvoluntarily celibate\u201d Trump supporters, and the QAnon conspiracy theorist-trashing \u201cQ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heidecker also dropped <em>Too Dumb for Suicide: Tim Heidecker\u2019s Trump Songs<\/em>\u00a0in 2017 and is already working toward a 2019 collection with the recent release of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/timheidecker.bandcamp.com\/track\/sand-and-death\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sand and Death<\/a>\u201d earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Another Year In Hell: Collected Songs from 2018<\/em> Track List<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u201cTobin and the Judge\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Ballad of ICE Agent Ray\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Ballad of the Incel Man\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cQ\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cRake the Floor\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Ballad of the Incel Man\u201d (Nebraska Version)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/tim-heidecker-trump-tweets-ballad-of-ice-agent-ray-lyric-video-785813\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Heidecker has gathered his politically incisive and uproarious songs from the past year for a just-released six-song EP titled Another Year In Hell: Collected Songs From 2018. To mark the release, the Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! comedian dropped the Vic Barger-made lyric video for \u201cThe Ballad of ICE Agent Ray,\u201d featuring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 03:02:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}