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Johnny C wrote:... and was interviewed by uh, what's his face, completely crazy dude who does interviews with people like Henry Rollins and Ian Mackaye at the Guggenheim and puts it on the Internet.

Nardwuar?

Did the Eddie Money thread get bumped because Andrew WK is kind of a 21st century Eddie Money for the ironic metal crowd?

Hexpane wrote:the epitome of what is wrong w/ "rock" these days in the mainstream.

Mainstream "rock" is riddled with nothing but nu-metal and emo garbage that's made up of self-absorbed whiny "I have a PROBLEM and I'm SAAAAAD/MAAAAD" songs.

A.W.K. is completely the opposite simply by making music that's supposed to be the soundtrack to a good time.

Colonel Panic wrote:NOT CRAP

Loud and stupid is often good.

Cases in point:

AC/DC

The Stooges

The Ramones

The Dead Boys

The Misfits

Butthole Surfers

Pussy Galore

Killdozer

The Cows

The Dwarves

ANTiSEEN


...

Yeah, but the big difference is all those acts come off depraved and dangerous which I totally appreciate (‘cept maybe the Misfits and Ramones who come off almost quaintly cartoonish when viewed decades after they peaked musically). While on the other hand AWK seems way too innocent, happy, well-adjusted, wholesome and completely pussified in a way I find to be extremely alienating. I generally prefer music made by destructive, neurotic junkies not positive-minded wannabe motivational speakers. You know the kind of rock and roll that kids’ parents hate and fucks with the squares. Andrew WK is no Blag Dahlia or Stiv Bators. He’s Amy Grant sans Jesus and a vagina.

Del75 wrote:And the chorus to Party Hard sounds like it was sung by a pirate

..... PARTY 'ARD!!!

Crap.

You see, in my book that's five points to the NOT CRAP camp.

I would like to have Andrew WK round for tea. Seems like a really nice guy.

Plus he plays air drums in between power chords struck on a piano. Brilliant.

The letters section he used to have on his website was one of the best things I ever read - why did he take it down?

NOT CRAP

A.W.K. the man is admirable, funny, and obviously sincere, but the novelty of the music wears off quicker than the flavor of gum. Sincere or insincere, party metal sucks.

Not crap, wf 9.

coach wrote:A.W.K. the man is admirable, funny, and obviously sincere.

Coach, do you remember that show that we played with him three years ago? When he hid in his dressing room eating hummus and drinking Coors Light until it was time to play, and couldn't even be bothered to say "hello" to the opening bands?

I'm not suggesting that I was expecting to automatically be his new best friend or anything, but when your whole schtick is being the "Super-goodtimes-friendly-party-buddy-dude," you should at least say hello or something.

CRAP.

Andrew WK? That dude with the 'party hard' beer commercial song from like 5 years ago?
Who fucking cares?
Jesus, there's a shit ton of good bands and music out there and you people are talking about the dude who made the 'party hard' beer commercial song 5 years ago.
Seriously, take a break...go outside and get some air, you guys are losing it.

J. Burns wrote:Coach, do you remember that show that we played with him three years ago? When he hid in his dressing room eating hummus and drinking Coors Light until it was time to play, and couldn't even be bothered to say "hello" to the opening bands?

The best was that all their beer was quaffed by the end of their set, so the straight-edge promoter was angrily ordered to go buy them more beer. All the while, their bassist wouldn't shut up about how the catered Indian food was surely going to give him "the slides" later that night.

Fuckin' deserved to have all their beer drank.

Kyle Motor wrote:

Hexpane wrote:the epitome of what is wrong w/ "rock" these days in the mainstream.

Mainstream "rock" is riddled with nothing but nu-metal and emo garbage that's made up of self-absorbed whiny "I have a PROBLEM and I'm SAAAAAD/MAAAAD" songs.

A.W.K. is completely the opposite simply by making music that's supposed to be the soundtrack to a good time.

sadly as over played as nu metal and emo is, its not mainstream, by any stretch.

I admit I may have been wrong about WK being Ironic, that doesn't make his jock rock, any less mainstream jock rock.

Just because I was wrong that he wasn't being pretentious, none of my opinions will ever change his Target ad music