― Shaky Mo Collier, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
He is what is wrong with the world.
His 'music' is a fucking pile of tripe, no matter what rehashed sentiment he bolsters.
― Andrew, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― brains, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Brian MacDonald, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Clay, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― justin, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ron, Thursday, 6 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Take the cash and run, yo.
― Nichole Graham, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― jarv, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Sean, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― dyson, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Miranda, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dan Perry, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 7 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Brian MacDonald, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― dyson, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
And Andrew WK totally did this Jerry Lee Lewis piano-playing bit in the middle of a new song - it was rather odd to see him turn away from his fist-pumping cheerleading and lay into these fucking super- speed piano riffs. great great GREAT!
― Shaky Mo Collier, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Sean, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Sunday, 16 May 2004 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Thursday, 20 May 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 17 February 2005 07:01 (twenty years ago)
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 17 February 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 17 February 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)
cool!
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 17 February 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)
― iang, Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)
awk's voice is so enervated and propped up (background vox, more production), he sounds sort of fatigued, where on IGW, he sounded like he was actually going to kill you. maybe its just a production change, in which case he should change back. maybe he wrecked his voice touring nonstop between the records. in either case, i hope he gets everything back where it belongs on the power never stops forming. or else does something different but awesome. whatever.
― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 17 February 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdPB-hi26Yk
― ksh, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 04:17 (fifteen years ago)
"Close Calls With Brick Walls" is such an amazing record. Much more diverse than what he's known for but just as much fun.
― frogbs, Thursday, 16 December 2010 16:52 (fourteen years ago)
AWK is seriously underrated, imo
― Lazarus Niles-Burnham (res), Thursday, 16 December 2010 17:01 (fourteen years ago)
Still going w Steev Mike controversy:
http://awilkeskrier.homestead.com/
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 18 July 2013 14:48 (eleven years ago)
that page been around a loooong time
― IIIrd Datekeeper (contenderizer), Thursday, 18 July 2013 14:59 (eleven years ago)
Hahaha. Homestead.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 18 July 2013 15:05 (eleven years ago)
i have him on FB and he just linked it even though i don't think it's been updated in years. he's definitely enjoys bringing it up
― frogbs, Thursday, 18 July 2013 15:06 (eleven years ago)
hell my AWK review page mentioned the Steev Mike thing and his twitter linked to it right away. I wondered how it got 1000 hits right off the bat.
― frogbs, Thursday, 18 July 2013 15:07 (eleven years ago)
"Close Calls" has a real Roxy Music vibe.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 11 January 2014 19:56 (eleven years ago)
I'm trying to reconcile everything I've read about him with his kids show with Jack Black and Stampy that my 7-year-old likes. Maybe it's better if I just don't bother finding out about Andrew WK. Good show.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IhSjrfSt7k
― dlp9001, Monday, 6 October 2014 00:29 (ten years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q-tS27EqFc
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 21:24 (seven years ago)
just found out he's coming to Milwaukee with a full band in October, I'm beyond pumped
― frogbs, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 21:25 (seven years ago)
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, January 11, 2014 2:56 PM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ive been listening to the Close Calls/Mother of Mankind set again. still feel the Roxy vibe only to be more precise it is a Bryan Ferry goofy crooner vibe ("Can You Dance With Me?" like some weird metal version of "Do The Strand").
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 21:26 (seven years ago)
some of those tracks feel like 70's Sparks to me, particularly "I Want Your Face" and "This is My World"
feel like you could combine the best stuff from those two discs to make an incredible hour-long album that would be (imo) one of the greatest albums of the decade
― frogbs, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 21:46 (seven years ago)
Apparently I haven't yet mentioned on this thread that I'm in this video - in the cd library at the very beginning and then jumping up and down on the couch holding a paper mache parrot. This was quite the day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnzGF0wkeTc
― everything, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 22:32 (seven years ago)
wow, that stereogum piano live is FANTASTIC !thanks for posting that !I love that performance of "Party Hard"...
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 29 January 2018 12:21 (seven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_EupMUsb50
― MarkoP, Monday, 29 January 2018 20:28 (seven years ago)
hah this is just "Everybody's Raging" with a different verse
pretty good though
― frogbs, Monday, 29 January 2018 20:44 (seven years ago)
not really sure what the lyrics are getting at here but I'm sure the AWK conspiracy theorists will have fun with it
― frogbs, Monday, 29 January 2018 20:49 (seven years ago)
Somehow I never listened to the Party All Goddamn Night EP. And I'm someone who's listened to both The Japan Covers and Gundam Rock.
― MarkoP, Monday, 29 January 2018 20:59 (seven years ago)
did we ever discuss this video, this is brilliant(ly creepy).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZyexSqR-cc
― frogbs, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 17:22 (seven years ago)
jesus
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 23 February 2018 21:23 (seven years ago)
lol so good. it sounds like they were playing the moaning vocals in the room while they did the interview.
imo the most creepy stuff he did was in the "Who Knows?" video. it's mostly a tour video but it has a lot of in between segments including short wordless performance art stuff like him really slowly creeping around a doorway and stuff. i think at the end of the video there is a part where someone just follows him walking down the street in the dark while weird ambient stuff is going on in the soundtrack. really spooky shit! when you realize it's just one guy in a room acting like a weird snake or something it makes it even more special. heh i love it.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 24 February 2018 20:14 (seven years ago)
link?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 24 February 2018 20:27 (seven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SojYssRUoWI
lucky for us looks like someone uploaded the entire full-length video to youtube in 3 parts!
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 24 February 2018 20:45 (seven years ago)
Wow, that was great. genuinely unnerving in spots but all the concert footage is great. I forgot how fuckin' gnarly his original band looked. Whoever here said this was kind of like a springboard to Close Calls With Brick Walls was pretty OTM. I still think that's one of the most fascinating albums I own, especially from a bait-and-switch/pulling the rug out perspective. I'm always floored by the first song, not just because of how bare and desperate it is, but also because it's the first time you really get to hear him sing without all the processing and extreme multitracking. Even the bonus live tracks on IGW/The Wolf all have several lead vocal lines, they almost sound like 2+ performances overlaid on top of each other. But on Close Calls its like his personality splits in two - I don't think there were ever really two Andrew WKs but the whole story of AWK being this manufactured and heavily coached 'character' that went sour and wound up leaving him on his own does make sense in this context. The fact that the record took an additional four years to come out in America does point to some real drama going on behind the scenes. I really have no idea what this new album will bring, but I do have pretty high hopes for it right now - I relistened to IGW/The Wolf/Close Calls this weekend and they've all held up remarkably well.
― frogbs, Sunday, 25 February 2018 20:53 (seven years ago)
Going to see play a barn in Iowa, Codfish Hollow. Playing with full band. We're driving down and camping.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Sunday, 25 February 2018 21:09 (seven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHDCRsqQmKQ
― kolakube (Ross), Sunday, 25 February 2018 21:18 (seven years ago)
Its here folks
https://www.npr.org/2018/02/26/587251882/first-listen-andrew-w-k-you-re-not-alone
geez, I remember when people used to scoff at the idea of this dude having classical training and being way into Bach and all that. those long instrumental bits on the second half are just outrageous.
― frogbs, Monday, 26 February 2018 15:17 (seven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKjs4qoSZ0c
Cheap Trick - "Hello There"
this song makes me think of Andrew W.K. a lot! its that caveman robot motorik party pop stylee!
it really makes me think of Close Calls-era tracks like "Can You Dance With Me" ("Would you like to do a numb-ah with meeee? Would you like taaa? Would you like taaa? Would you like to do a numb-ah with meeee?")
replace the word "rock" with "party" and this could be a AWK song.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 6 April 2018 21:31 (seven years ago)
Or a cousin to "Birthday" by the Beatles.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 April 2018 21:47 (seven years ago)
heh yes "I would like you to dance!" that OTT rock insanity
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 8 April 2018 13:20 (seven years ago)
Andrew WK just signed with Napalm Records which seems an odd pairing to me.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 15 October 2020 00:26 (four years ago)
Does Breitbart not have a label?
― Quiet Storm Thorgerson (PBKR), Thursday, 15 October 2020 01:31 (four years ago)
*jerkoff motion*
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Thursday, 15 October 2020 01:34 (four years ago)
Whatever gets u off.
― Quiet Storm Thorgerson (PBKR), Thursday, 15 October 2020 11:54 (four years ago)
i like the new song
― nxd, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 08:24 (four years ago)
Yeah, it's good! I've seen comparisons to Muse and power metal, both of which make sense. His voice seems especially strong. Is that him singing the high part at the end? Is he playing everything here?
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 14:04 (four years ago)
2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees POLL [Started by avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.) in February 2021, last updated five minutes ago by Master of Treacle on I Love Music] 81 new answers POLL closes: April 29 (in 2 months)Andrew WK: C/D? [Started by Shaky Mo Collier in June 2002, last updated six minutes ago by to party with our demons (Sund4r) on I Love Music] 2 new answers
― imago, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 14:12 (four years ago)
four years and one month until he's eligible!
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 14:15 (four years ago)
elect Andrew
― imago, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 14:41 (four years ago)
video is premiering right now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI8y36733ag
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 15:01 (four years ago)
ok that mannequin looks just like Tommy Wiseau
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 15:04 (four years ago)
Looks like the answers are yes!
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 15:08 (four years ago)
If he singing about a Crowleyan fertility goddess now, that does suggest he was probably not going all Christian with the last album.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 15:15 (four years ago)
it never occurred to me that there were any Christian themes on the last album but he sure as hell sounds like a Midwestern preacher on the spoken word tracks
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 15:20 (four years ago)
There were lyrical references to God, Christ, and the Cross!
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 15:21 (four years ago)
I thought that song was great. I'll bet Andrew WK is a big BÖC fan.
― BlackIronPrison, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 15:43 (four years ago)
yeah maybe I should clarify, I know there were religious references on it but I never thought it was him going Christian, rather him grabbling with faith & existence & consciousness like he always does
I mean you can't come up with less Christian lyrics than this
I realized long ago That all of life is one last waltz I'd had enough of feeling low I realized everything I knew was false So I killed the place inside That told me feeling good was a crime So glad that place has finally died Now here's to feeling good all of the time
So I killed the place inside That told me feeling good was a crime So glad that place has finally died Now here's to feeling good all of the time
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 15:48 (four years ago)
Yeah, and he if anything seems to be identifying with the Devil in "Devil's on Your Side". It's an interesting question what his spiritual pov actually is. He makes sure that there's a disclaimer that he doesn't endorse evil at the start of this video. (Also, what is his struggle with psychological dissociation about? I didn't know about that.)
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 15:57 (four years ago)
I thought that was actually a clever reference to the "Thriller" video..."Due to my strong personal convictions, I wish to stress that this record in no way endorses a belief in the occult"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 16:01 (four years ago)
Oh lol, I missed that.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 16:08 (four years ago)
new song is fucking sick
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 16:27 (four years ago)
there's a dropper of Adrenochrome on the sink in the beginning of the video, lmao nice touch
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 23:19 (four years ago)
a guy with a pretty deep understanding of the occult chimes in here:
https://codexastarte.wordpress.com/2021/02/17/andrew-wk-revisited-babalon/
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 23:26 (four years ago)
that deserves some sort of occult Pulitzer and also convinces me that AWK simply must work with Liturgy some day
― imago, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 23:38 (four years ago)
surprised there's no chat about the new album yet. its definitely big on the power ballads but it's got a pretty thundering sound to it. it's probably his heaviest album overall. "I'm in Heaven" is pretty brutal
― frogbs, Monday, 11 October 2021 02:16 (three years ago)
for ILXors there's a special surprise, the end of "My Tower" is a total Neu! groove which comes out of nowhere
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 October 2021 13:55 (three years ago)
The two advance singles and first two tracks were great but the album isn't close to his best thereafter
― imago, Thursday, 21 October 2021 14:06 (three years ago)
As in, the two advance singles are the first two tracks
I liked the first two singles (and I haaaaated this dude for years) but haven't gone back to the album.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 21 October 2021 14:18 (three years ago)
I like all 4 singles, kinda wish the rest of the album was as diverse/powerful. in particular the last 3 tracks (on the LP, not the bonuses) are kind of a slog, but I've been digging them a bit more on further listens
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 October 2021 20:46 (three years ago)
also "Remember Your Oath" is about as meta as he's ever gotten with the whole industry plant/Steev Mike/two Andrew WKs thing
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 October 2021 20:47 (three years ago)
was able to score a copy of Close Calls off eBay, I'm in awe all over again at how cursed it sounds. so many bizarre decisions made on this record. like wtf with the crazy instrumental intro on "When I'm High"?? his weirdly on-point David Lee Roth impression on "Mark My Grace"? the mixing which seems to emphasize the wrong instruments all the time? truly a baffling album
― frogbs, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 02:53 (three years ago)
btw he seems to have completely disappeared from the internet as of last week, all his tour dates are cancelled too
― frogbs, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 14:15 (three years ago)