Pulp - Party Hard vs. Andrew WK - Party Hard

Pulp's song is obviously much darker, and actually gets at the desperation behind "partying hard" much better. Despite the respective images of both outfits, it's the Andrew WK song that glamorizes the concept more by presenting it as something fun.

ugh.

Do you have MTV? It seems like "Party Hard" is getting played fairly frequently. I was skeptical about the whole Andrew WK thing until I saw the interview that has been running on MTV for the past few days. In the middle of the interview, Mr. WK suddenly picks up two glasses and smashes them on the floor. The interviewer cowers and then Andrew WK proceeds to demonstrate the dance that can make you puke. It's the greatest thing ever (at least for the time being). My description can't really do the entire thing justice, but I think it is on mtv.com for anyone who would like to witness it.

And the songs! It's like the Platonic ideal of pop. Repetition and multi-tracked everything. At the moment, "I Get Wet" is my favorite song, and after I've played it for the 157th time this week I'm sure I'll never want to hear it again, which is exactly what I demand from a pop song. Andrew WK is a man who believes that he can unite the world through partying and making "the most exciting music possible." How motherfucking cool is that?

So I'm gushing without a real argument to stand on, but I just can't put into words how great and utterly disposable Andrew WK is. The Pulp song is nice, but Andrew WK is right now. Will someone back me up on this. Tom, are you out there?

I don't know how anyone can top that...

Jim ist rad.

As for this live show description -- fucking fuck. Refer to my just- posted thread about stagedivers, wherein I point out I was just at a Melvins show. If I want destructive, crazed riffs, I'll take them from the source, dammit! And the Melvins are ten times intentionally funnier than Andrew WK will ever be in his entire miserable shit-for- brains life! So I sez, at least.

Ned why do you spend so much of your time fulminating about songs you can't even remember?

I was thinking about this, actually -- whereas, say, I'm not fond of the Blu Cantrell song at all and have only heard it two times if that, I still have the core hook in my head. In respects the song has done what its creators set out to do. If I hear a song, have a negative reaction to it and then can't even remember it beyond that, then cripes.

what i mean to say is, pulp all the way.

Which makes total sense. I think I'm more coming from the point of view that if you're going to make catchy pop, THEN MAKE CATCHY POP, ie live up to the stated goal regardless of the exact methods used. Sins and/or annoyances which would be forgiven by this ability are magnified by its lack, and thus my hate grows -- the promise falls short of the reality. I don't hate Brit/Max in quite the same way for BOMT, likely because they have other examples that work. Right now Mr. WK doesn't have that.

Not if the shoes are steel-tipped.

Dan E Lee

Hard Party Since 1998

It sticks in my brain. It sounds like music to a children's game show on Nickelodeon..

Also, you're lucky you can't hear me actually imitate the guitar sounds.

It took 12.5 years but I am finally ready to admit that WK >>>> Pulp on this one.

nope

yep

read the I Get Wet 33⅓ in one go on the beach recently, was fun

Pulp, without a doubt. Andrew WK is just fucking nonsense.

andrew wk is garbage

WK track feels perfect right now. thinking about the fact that it is 13 years old is seriously messing with my head. I Get Wet holds up.