“Dirt Off Your Shoulder” is The Black Album’s obligatory conveyor belt Timbaland production. The original is more interesting for the new level of weariness in Jay-Z’s voice as he mutters: “Get that…dirt off your shoulder” as though he had the universe on his shoulder, weighing him down like a 16-ton safe newly fallen from a 45th floor office window. But DJ Dangermouse even makes Timbaland interesting again. The Grey Album version is musically based on “Julia” – the brilliant John Lennon meditation on metamorphosing from one form of life into another – but cuts up the acoustic guitar lines fabulously in tandem with Timbaland’s broken beats, creating a new genre of medieval glitch, coming across like John Dowland jamming with Oval.

It makes God weep, Motorhead tremble and Danzig look like a mincing little pansy. Agony Shorthand on the first s/t album of Die Kreuzen

p.s. pansy = stiefmütterchen