http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2007/08/music_hall_of_w_1.html
― gabbneb, Friday, 31 August 2007 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link
anyone ever get to the bottom of that steev mike thing or make any sense of his shifting personas? judging by his website he now looks like this:
http://www.andrewwk.com/cms/data/news_images/i_632.jpg
― akm, Thursday, 10 July 2008 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
We should start an elite strike team against him or something.
-- Ned Raggett, Monday, April 15, 2002 12:00 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Link
ned in nyc?
― Jordan, Thursday, 10 July 2008 20:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Having just met Alex face to face the other week, anything is possible. (That said AWK did a fantastic job with Sightings on their last album.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 July 2008 20:52 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.andrewwk.com/cms/data/intro_slideshow_images/i_452.jpg
Off centre belt-buckle strikes again.
― Bodrick III, Thursday, 10 July 2008 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
the new lee scratch perry album is pretty fucking aces.
― the table is the table, Thursday, 10 July 2008 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Andrew WK did a fantastic job on everything he has done ever.
― jim, Thursday, 10 July 2008 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I flew ten hours to Houston last week to see a cancelled AWK show. He is pretty much the most important dude to me ever.
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Thursday, 10 July 2008 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I like a few tunes off the first album. I think a lot of the hate directed at him is due to the "hair metal = satan/misery = integrity" narrative of rock history that's been dominant since the early 90s.
― Bodrick III, Thursday, 10 July 2008 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link
that was the picture I tried to link before. He looks like the lost member of Japan in that picture.
Anyway I still don't "get" him but I'm sensing that I'm overthinking it. I agree that my knee-jerk reaction toward the music is "meh" but then he comes across as so knowledgeable, intelligent, insightful, and cool in interviews. he clearly has a broad and deep knowledge of experimental music. And then when that ISN'T really what he puts out (on a major label, no less) I'm confused. And then I start thinking it's an act. But then I have to consider that it isn't an act, he just likes making music like that, and it doesn't need to be at odds with anything else he says or does.
― akm, Thursday, 10 July 2008 22:39 (sixteen years ago) link
but I should also note that everything tied up in the east-coast noise post-hardcore scene is weird to me since I'm too old and have always lived on the west coast so what the fuck do I know
― akm, Thursday, 10 July 2008 22:41 (sixteen years ago) link
"hair metal = satan/misery = integrity" narrative of rock history
can you explicate, please?
― akm, Thursday, 10 July 2008 22:42 (sixteen years ago) link
dude he just makes fun music, what is there to 'understand'?
― deej, Thursday, 10 July 2008 22:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Read the pitchfork review.
xpost
― Bodrick III, Thursday, 10 July 2008 22:55 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm admitting that my reaction to Andrew WK says more about my own prejudices than anything else. To me, the idea of a classically trained musician with a deep respect for John Zorn projecting a 'dumb party guy' image and landing a record deal with a major label and cranking out a giant hit or two is bizarre. Maybe that isn't bizarre to you but it is to me.
― akm, Thursday, 10 July 2008 22:55 (sixteen years ago) link
I think it's sort of good bizarre. I'm a big fan of the incongruous.
― Bodrick III, Thursday, 10 July 2008 23:05 (sixteen years ago) link
lolz kids show
― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 21:45 (fifteen years ago) link
ugh
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 04:13 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.myspace.com/andrewwk
Uh is that his home phone number on his myspace?
― SB "A Good Story" (onimo), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 11:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Wouldn't be surprised. Didn't he personally call the first thousand people who bought I Get Wet or something?
― what u arrestin me for, innit (╓abies), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 22:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Who bought 'The Wolf.' I love that man.
― baleen, the krill queen (Abbott), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 22:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Me! I listened to it a couple times (once on mushrooms iirc) its okay. Make Sex is funny
― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 22:12 (fifteen years ago) link
the cartoon network isn't really for kids as much as it is for adults on drugs
― akm, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
'I Get Wet' = record of the decade for real
― bad-boy (sic) cartographer (actually a girl) (called) (not named) (Abbott), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link
'Destroy Build Destroy' not v good tho
it's no Horse of a Different Color
― velko, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 18:38 (fifteen years ago) link
No, I Get Wet is better.
― bad-boy (sic) cartographer (actually a girl) (called) (not named) (Abbott), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
u should post to this threadBig & Rich: Album of the Decade?
― velko, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 18:43 (fifteen years ago) link
x-post - I loved "I Get Wet" when it first came out. Have you seen his twitter? It can be pretty amusing: http://twitter.com/AndrewWK
This is a good friend of mine on Halloween a while ago now - I still love it:
http://i28.tinypic.com/o73i2t.jpg
― ENBB, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 18:44 (fifteen years ago) link
omg <3
― bad-boy (sic) cartographer (actually a girl) (called) (not named) (Abbott), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Saw AWK give a piano concert - was awesome - also, apparently he twittered congrats to my friend who got married
I think the secret to exercising regularly and at a strenuous pace is to make sure that the only song on your iPod is 'I Get Wet'
― a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful (dyao), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 18:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I like to party
― girlish in the worst sense of that term (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Hey you! *points finger* Let's party.
― bad-boy (sic) cartographer (actually a girl) (called) (not named) (Abbott), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Come on everybody: it's time to party.
in other party-related news, this guy also likes to party (unfortunately there's no link for my favorite track, "Too Tired to Party")
― girlish in the worst sense of that term (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 19:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I think he is the best human of the decade. He is inspiring and amazing!
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link
hey c'mon now... no love for Aung San Suu Kyi?http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi.jpg
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Gravel I agree!
― bad-boy (sic) cartographer (actually a girl) (called) (not named) (Abbott), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 20:58 (fifteen years ago) link
If not the best record of the decade, one of the top 10 EASY
― GIS is chillin' (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 21:05 (fifteen years ago) link
I wish I cld listen to it with you all in a car. It is a joy to drive to. We wld have such a happy, bonding, raucous time together.
― bad-boy (sic) cartographer (actually a girl) (called) (not named) (Abbott), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Ok guys here is my 'armchair speculating' thing that I indulge in infrequently (& I know I've said I don't care for such things before, so sry for the hypocrisy). Anyway, I think the W.K. might be bipolar.
― bad-boy (sic) cartographer (actually a girl) (called) (not named) (Abbott), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I have tried to pump my good old friend and ex-bandmate for information about the WK (they both played in Current 93 together on a tour and AWK even played drums in my friend's band and is featured on a tour cdr) but he never has anything to say :(
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 21:13 (fifteen years ago) link
― bad-boy (sic) cartographer (actually a girl) (called) (not named) (Abbott), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 22:08 (1 hour ago) Bookmark
lol
maybe he is just an intense guy?
― max arrrrrgh, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 22:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe that's my 'problem' too! :O
― bad-boy (sic) cartographer (actually a girl) (called) (not named) (Abbott), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 22:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Now I have to reconsider everything.
official anthem of the war on terror:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0TzUNti3rY
― max arrrrrgh, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 23:08 (fifteen years ago) link
― velko, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 18:38 (4 hours ago)
Joke sucked the first time, stop biting it.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Former ILX favourite scores massive hit
Lol Paper Planes </instant hilarious comedy>
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 23:13 (fifteen years ago) link
when your time is at an end/then its time to kill again
― girlish in the worst sense of that term (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 23:17 (fifteen years ago) link
adam curtis should have made the video
― max arrrrrgh, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 23:27 (fifteen years ago) link