Andrew W. K.

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Who wants this guy to be the next big thing on MTV?

― A Nairn, Sunday, 10 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, he's certainly preferable to shit like Linkin Park, Adema, Nickelback, Creed and all the other garbage that MTV's attempting to push as "rock." Not sure I'm laughing with Andrew W.K. or merely at him, but at least he keeps me laughing, which is more than I can say for most of the channel's fare.

― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 10 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I love the guy. He should have his own show on MTV, where we just see him in 'action' for twenty one minutes (or the MTV 15).

― tyler, Sunday, 10 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I'd rather just shut down MTV.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 10 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i dont see the appeal to him at all and i love butt rock!

― chaki, Sunday, 10 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The hits on that album are great but so easy to get sick of, I'm bored with him already.

― Arthur, Sunday, 10 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am waiting for the retrospective, "Where are they know?

― %00, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've said it before in a previous string, and I'll say it again. Andrew WK has single handedly redefined what I consider bad music. I hate the guy.

― dyson, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've only heard a few singles but it sounds horribly - well - fascist. Lots of people shouting the same word over and over again in the background as backing vocals - it does my head in. It's just obviously in-yer-face rock which the world can happily live without.

― Rob M, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The world needs in your face, repeated chorus driven rock to remind the pompous and the precious that not all good metal has got to have angst.... metal is a riot and that's all

Didn't you all miss Twisted Sister and Motley Crue?

Why does it have to be the next big thing? Anything that gets too big is always dismissed for being too popular because the people that tipped it are so bored after their pre-release copies were months old when it hits the record buying public stereos... didn't it only get to 76 in the UK - where in the US?

― Sonicred, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But isn't the purity of his music unbearable? Def Leppard et al weren't like that. They played too slowly and quietly sometimes.

― maryann, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

music composed for wrestling action figure ads is better. either it's too ironic, or it's not ironic enough.

― minna, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's the only rock music I like right now. Apart from the Strokes obviously.

― Tom, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No relation whatsoever.

― Andy K, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I kind of want him to be ripped apart by rabid wolves. Not sure why yet.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

haha ha... "I Get Wetted... by Rabid Wolves!"

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i guess tom and i stand alone on this one.

― jess, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I bought it today used. Sounds like what Beavis & Butthead would've wanted Springsteen to sound like or Rocket From The Crypt if they didn't care about being cool. I love it.

― fritz, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's like Twisted Sister without the videos and costumes and hair. Which is still ok, I guess.

― Kris, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

i think that he is a giant homo who took a gay pop song and made it gayier by tring to make it hard. He should jsut leave rock music to the pros like slipknot and static-x and cold

― aaron bush, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

aaron i need yr help

― mark s, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My first impression was Twisted Sister meets skinhead punk rock. It sounds like hair metal Oi!

I don't see how this can be a bad thing.. if you really hate it you're just a poor sport, I say.

― Bobby D. Gray, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So, wait a sec - if Andrew WK = Twisted Sister, then that surely means that someone out there is making the next _Pyromania_, and rock music will finally LIVE AGAIN! Righteous!

In other words:

http://www.3bos.com/label/artists/mountaingoats/images/mountaingo ats_hailsatan.jpg

― Daver, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Said this on ILE, but I'm getting peeved at the idea that liking AWK is somehow the natural state of things and that to do otherwise is being a 'poor sport' or the like somehow. Explain to me the difference between that attitude and kowtowing towards, say, Dylan without a second's extra thought.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dylan can be taken absolutely seriously... it's all fun and games with Mr. WK. It's like.. you may as well just sit back and enjoy the rest of the 45 minutes he'll be making records for.

― Bobby D. Gray, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Then enjoy...but not all of us want to play.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned = poor sport.

― Sean, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sean = cheerleader. And I *HATE* cheerleaders. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

did you see him on saturday night live?i never laughed so hard in my life.what a loser,but you got to love him.

― , Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Please, as I keep saying, go right ahead. But I don't have to love him in turn, etc.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

suck my fucking dick

― suck my fucking dick, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As opposed to your pissing dick?

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

people that think AWK is funny are the same people that think Mad TV and the Andy Dick show is funny.

― chaki, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

pissing is one important body function.
Let's alljust pause and recall what an important body function it is after all.

― Mr Noodles, Wednesday, 17 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Andrew WK is a complete fuckwit. Has anyone else noticed how his name is an anagram of "Wanker WD"?? Well, it is.

If anyone is unfortunate enough to visit his website (as i was), you'll probably want to take your own life. He spouts absolute shit and tries to be deep, yet only succeeds in acting like a complete prick. Party Hard? Fuck you.

― Jeff Buckley, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know, really. I don't think "Party Hard" is that incredible of a song - sure, it's got energy (or a lot of energy signifiers at least), but it sounds like a fucking Army recruitment commercial! I mean, come on: "We know what we like and we like what we do!"? Still, that might be the thing I like most about it - at least it's over the top. I just wish it was catchier.

Is this guy serious? I mean, if he really thinks he's just "good honest rock" (which is what I've heard a lot of people say about him - and which is why they like him), then I hate him.

― Clarke B., Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i think that he is a giant homo who took a gay pop song and made it gayier by tring to make it hard

Okay, I like the song a little more now.

― Clarke B., Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think in some ways he's just good honest rock. If there is a 'joke' in Andrew WK I don't want to know about it.

― Tom, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been listening to "I Get Wet" most of the day that I was driving around the Bay Area a few days ago (where I finally got to meet the notorious Kris Srinivasan, and dropped by the house of a member of a certain band that Mark Sinker really dislikes), and it kinda hit me why I like it..

It's basically a heavy sugary Devo, with a wrestler's voice. And maybe a little Elton John/John Tesh on the piano bits. The whole metal image seems to be a non-clever rue to make Mr. WK to be some sort of rock god, where in fact, I enjoy the music for all the reasons BUT.

― Brian MacDonald, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Put aside the fact that no two people I play "I Get Wet" for say the same thing about what it sounds like (I've heard everything from Motorhead to surf music). Put aside the fact that the same snobby writers of your local "indie scene" weekly newspaper shit on him at first and are now changing their tune. Put aside the fact that to make music like he did was such a risk by everyone involved that it HAS to be praised just for the effort wether it's good or not (and I think it is absolutely brilliant).

All that aside, the best thing about Andrew WK is he proves that not everyone is angst-ridden. Not everyone wants to hear about how much you hate your parents, Korn. Not everyone wants to wear a red ballcap backwards and grow a stupid looking goatee, Fred. Not everyone wants to be cool. Some people just want to kick ass and party. AWK and his fans (I am one, obviously) are just here to live life at the absolute 100%. Cool or uncool. I love that he just doesn't give a fuck what anyone thinks and gives all he can give, exactly how he wants to.

And for that, Andrew WK is the saviour of genuine expression in rock music.

― Andy, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay, *now* I think Andrew WK is a joke.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"All that aside, the best thing about Andrew WK is he proves that not everyone is angst-ridden." - Andy (andy@blackhour.com)

Surely I'm not the only one who giggled at this...

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Andrew WK is what would happen if the Ramones were created by an Anheuser-Busch focus group for the sole purpose of scoring beer commercials. Perhaps he can star in some.
Andrew: "Man, it's been a long night! And I have to haul these amps around! I sure could go for an ICE COLD BUD."
Large gaggle of thong-wearing porn stars: "Here! We brought several cases! Let's dance vapidly!"
Andrew: "All right!"
(they dance. "Party 'Til You Start The Rock Puking" plays.)
V.O.: "When you know what you like and you like what you do, then it's time to reach for an ice cold Bud. Party hard, get wet, drink Budweiser."

― Nate Patrin, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nate: I know I would watch that Ad.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was about to say, Nate, I think you made your case all too well.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom, I meant more that if he thinks of *himself* as "good honest rock", then he's lame. I know it's sort of sick to imply that he should "know better" if he can see himself in that light, but I can't help feeling like his music is just a crap exercise if he can.

― Clarke B., Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Some people just want to kick ass and party. AWK and his fans (I am one, obviously) are just here to live life at the absolute 100%.

Tom, I remember you saying something about how *aggressively soulful* (and thus off-putting) a lot of soul is. This is the sort of thing I hate about "straight-up party music" - it's like, if you don't want to PARTY, then FUCK OFF, MAN!!! Well, I don't ALWAYS like to party, so bite my ass! "Witness the depth of my soulfulness!" = "Watch how fucking hard I can party!"

― Clarke B., Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah I agree with that schematic Clarke with those things at opposite ends. Soulful = cornering you in the kitchen, PARTYHARD = sitting by the keg trying to get the girls to pull their shirts up. But what that Andrew WK fan sees in him isn't what I see - the partying aspect works for me as a kind of energy-release metaphor, i.e. "good honest rock". I hope WK doesn't have any ulterior motives or anything like that - I have no idea, but it would be nice if he didn't. I think he's kind of like Scooter or someone. "PARTY HARD!" = "ARE YOU READY FOR HARDCORE!" or whatever those gabba ppl say.

― Tom, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But also "I don't ALWAYS like to party" is a kind of weak excuse unless you mean "I don't EVER like to party". You can party once a month, or for one or two tracks!

― Tom, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think what Mr. WK thinks of himself is of any signifigance. I believe the man is a buffoon and I don't think anyone here has trouble admitting he's big, dumb, and meaningless.. but he writes catchy songs and that's what I enjoy. You don't have to take something seriously to like it.. without irony, even.

― Bobby D. Gray, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You can party once a month, or for one or two tracks!

Are you trying to peer-pressure me, Tom? ;-) If WK really were more like gabba, he'd be better - if nothing else, I think he isn't taking his party stance far *enough*; too much Bud, not enough speed.

― Clarke B., Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"I Get Wet" sounds like the beginning of a crystal meth high; hyped- up, intense, ecstatic. Of course, it also sounds like booze. If the record were any speedier, it would explode.

― Sean, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have to admit, Sean likely has some experience here that I can't use.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned, I resent that. All I know about crystal is what I read in "Transformer: The Lou Reed Story".

I am fabulously thin, however.

― Sean, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

*bows in worship*

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Andrew WK has revolutionized modern music. Never before has such an uncompromisingly rocking album been even considered by the tired dicklickers who make 'music' today. His music is rad to rail coke lines to and drink until you puke for absolutley no reason. Rock that will seriously rock your gay face. Don't sleep.

― AG, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, yeah, go on. I can't even raise a smile at this.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

God knows why I love this album so much. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I've spent the past decade listening to almost nothing but Joy Division, Sonic Youth, and My Bloody Valentine. And Can. I need a pick-me-up. And this thing has picked me up and slapped me silly. It is everything I love about pop music dressed in the style of everything I loathe about it. Andrew WK has taken all the shlock, all the pomposity and gloss of the puffed-up 80's sound and filled it with so much feeling, so much life, that it completely negates any of the saccharine taste these flourishes usually bring. I think the only reason they've been cheesy to begin with is that Andrew is the only person big enough and honest and alive enough to pull it off and for a whole decade we had to deal with a bunch of hairsprayed manniquins going through the motions. They were all trying to figure out what AWK just knows, looking for it, but not really feeling it.

Anyway, whether he's for real or not (and I really believe he is), count me totally, blissfully suckered. Personally, I think he's your basic Mad Genius.Which is my favorite kind of person.

I'm curious, though, about what real, true metalheads think of him. Not Mansonites per se, but like fans of the bands he gets compared to like Slayer or Motorhead (not Abba or Elton J

― Javene Decker, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe it has to do with the fact that I've spent the past decade listening to almost nothing but Joy Division, Sonic Youth, and My Bloody Valentine. And Can.

Dear god. I mean, I love all these bands to one extent or another, but a whole decade of nothing but?

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

He should see a RX about that nosebleed...

― , Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nosebleed? I thought he had a laughing fit while drinking Cherry Kool- Aid.

― Nate Patrin, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

He did a very punchable job hosting MTV2's Controversial Videos show. Every time he did his head-thrash/arm-flail/KICK combo, I couldn't stop giggling, largely because he did it with such regularity and predicatbility that I was expecting to catch a glimpse of a 13-year-old in the wings doing [half-circle B] on a videogame controller attached to AWK's ass.

― Dan Perry, Saturday, 20 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha! Yeah, Dan, I saw some of that, too - it really made me wonder what he's on about. Is he mocking the inability to attain lasting success in today's pop world by ALREADY DOING THE WASHED-UP HOST-GUY SCHTICK?

― Clarke B., Saturday, 20 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

seven months pass...

I disagree with Ira's conclusions, but his TrouserPress.com entry for Andrew W.K. is perfect.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 22:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, but even better -- this. Metal Sludge interviews the man and as a result he finally does something I actually like!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 22:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I ADORE his reasoning for why all the songs on the album sound the same.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 22:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned, what would that be?

And Ira is the first guy to sum up exactly why I like the record. (Sorry, Yanc3)

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 23:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Why apologize to me? I agree with every reason of Ira's... I just don't like it (although I could see myself changing my mind).

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 3 December 2002 23:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned, what would that be?

Dan's selection is sound -- me, I like this:

"Creed = I only know their singles but I like the melody and guitar playing. I heard that the guitar player likes Celtic Frost. The singer makes a lot of people upset and makes a lot of extra hand gestures. I
make a lot of hand gestures too!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 December 2002 00:04 (twenty-three years ago)

three weeks pass...

i finally heard i get wet ... it's GREAT! dumber than a motherfucker but what the hell? i have the biggest shit-eating grin on my face now because of this CD

and, for some reason, it reminds me most of Shonen Knife (if they were guys)

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 28 December 2002 01:47 (twenty-three years ago)

He's still wearing that damned outfit. Will he ever change and shower?

― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 28 December 2002 09:10 (twenty-three years ago)

ain't t'is somewhat too early for diggin up t'is corpse (of a thread-corpse)
and for startin' the bloody revival of the "00"s??

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 28 December 2002 13:46 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

i love andrew wk

― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 16 May 2004 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)

GYGAX! LISTEN TO THIS!!!

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 20 May 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

sorry if this has already been posted but:

http://s20.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0ELW8M3EAWRZ62D4YG5EPJCJNW

it's contents are a suprise ;)

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Sunday, 24 July 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

So, wait a sec - if Andrew WK = Twisted Sister, then that surely means that someone out there is making the next _Pyromania_, and rock music will finally LIVE AGAIN! Righteous!

In other words:

-- Daver, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (5 years ago) Link

This guy knows what's up.

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 16 December 2007 11:28 (eighteen years ago)

i think that he is a giant homo who took a gay pop song and made it gayier by tring to make it hard. He should jsut leave rock music to the pros like slipknot and static-x and cold

-- aaron bush, Tuesday, 16 April 2002 00:00 (5 years ago) Link

This guy knows what's up.

― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 16 December 2007 11:29 (eighteen years ago)

I've just been looking at a Japanese monster movie site, and now I want to see the poster for GIANT HOMO DESTROYS SLIPKNOT!

― Soukesian, Sunday, 16 December 2007 11:38 (eighteen years ago)

-- AG, Thursday, 18 April 2002 00:00 (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

This guy knows what's rocking.

― Just got offed, Sunday, 16 December 2007 11:41 (eighteen years ago)

Rock that will seriously rock your gay face

gayist

― gershy, Sunday, 16 December 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

-- Alex in NYC, Sunday, 10 March 2002 01:00 (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

"How You Remind Me" is a better song than anything Andrew WK ever recorded

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 16 December 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

Dom = idiot

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 16 December 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

"How You Remind Me" is a better song than anything Andrew WK ever recorded

Dom = high

― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 16 December 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

it was a nice antidote to all that wallet chain n self-harm rock like slipknot or korn or whatever at the time.

― pc user, Sunday, 16 December 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

It still is!

― novaheat, Sunday, 16 December 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

yeah

― pc user, Sunday, 16 December 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

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