I love how one of those conspiracy sites they prove that Lady Gaga is a member of the Illuminati by pointing out symbols in an Illuminati-themed photo shoot she did. The site also shows a photo of AWK making the 'sign of the devil' as proof of his evilness. Actually it's proof that he's 16 years old.
― Adam Bruneau, Monday, 4 January 2010 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
It's like, she did that photo shoot for the same reason you're writing that she's part of a conspiracy: Da Vinci Code sold like a motherfucker.
― Adam Bruneau, Monday, 4 January 2010 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
The party will continue! We will endure!
― girl moves (Abbott), Monday, 4 January 2010 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
has there been discussion of 55 Cadillac? it's an blast!
― ogmor, Monday, 4 January 2010 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oQhi5IJmYw
― Fahrvergnügent (herb albert), Monday, 4 January 2010 22:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Steinway recorded on cassette mmhmmmm such an American album. Freedom on piano through affirming idioms by wearing&leaping between them w/supreme comfort while also being able to zoom-in to concentrate on repeating a few notes over and over, and to get too excited for the keyboard and drum it out on the top of the piano.
― ogmor, Monday, 4 January 2010 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Most people will be unenthusiastic to hear a solo, imporovised, instrumental piano album but it's fine for a one-time listen. It's more successful as a symbol than for the music or the performances. Like Metal Machine Music. It's not well recorded in my opinion.
― everything, Monday, 4 January 2010 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually, rather than Metal Machine Music, a better comparison would be Julian Cope's Skellington - a hastily recorded, sparsely orchestrated statement of artistic freedom that will be unheard by all but the most devoted fans.
― everything, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
He's putting it up for free on his website right? Why wouldn't casual fans take a listen then?
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 00:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Because it's an instrumental album with (mostly) nothing but him banging away on piano.
― everything, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 00:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I may be wrong but that kind of shit doesn't really turn folks on unless it's Glenn Gould playing Bach. I love AWK but he's not good enough (nor is the album well enough recorded) to carry that over a whole album.
― everything, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link
OK I'm listening to it now, and am not really digging it, but it's not so abrasive that I'd warn off casual fans from it. I liked the crickets at the beginning. Perfectly acceptable typing music.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 00:19 (fourteen years ago) link
AWK's 2009-2010 NYE mixtape:
SONG 1 It's Time to Party by Andrew WK 2 Tom Tit by Aleister X 3 Stuntin' Like My Daddy by Birdman 4 Quack Head by Bad Brilliance 5 Bloodstone (Live) by Judas Priest6 Devil's Child by Judas Priest 7 Party Hard by Andrew WK8 Lemonade by Gucci Mane9 Electric Feel (Justice Remix) by MGMT 10 My Feet Keep Dancing by Chic11 One More Time by Daft Punk
― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 00:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Xpost. Maybe my comparison with Metal Machine Music gave the impression that it was abrasive. It isn't - just poorly recorded. Which is why I changed my comparison to Skellington. The comparison was only because it's the product of an artist proving he can do whatever the hell he wants, with disregard for both the music industry and (most) fans expectations.
― everything, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 00:23 (fourteen years ago) link
everything are you saying ppl don't like solo instrumental piano music? agreed on the recording quality not being that great but the rest of yr statements are madness.
― ogmor, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 00:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Glenn Gould playing Bach, people like. Andrew WK making shit up as he goes along may be a bit of a harder sell. Is that really so challenging an opinion?
― everything, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 00:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I got it, and I'm not really a fan, I don't have any other Andrew WK stuff, I just thought it looked awesome. Keith Jarrett has had a pretty good career, I'm not feeling you on the unpalatable nature of improv piano.
― ogmor, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 00:32 (fourteen years ago) link
He doesn't have to sell it; it's there for free! I'm not sure if the paradigm of self-indulgent artistic statement applies to someone who says "yes" to just about everything.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 00:37 (fourteen years ago) link
"Artistic statement" - yes. Never said it was self-indulgent.
Keith Jarrett? I'm still waiting for him to make a folk album on acoustic guitar, written and recorded in two days. That'll be KILLER.
― everything, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link
zmg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6pMNElW0rE
― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 00:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Awesome it's the 1st Andrew WK from pre-2005.
― Adam Bruneau, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 01:32 (fourteen years ago) link
http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs148.snc3/17577_260411202896_63695247896_3388757_8365573_n.jpg
andrew wk and cherie lily in next month's ELLE magazine on New York Power Couples!
― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 05:12 (fourteen years ago) link
That's some nice wallpaper he's wearing.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 10:04 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUOvnbCtnVQ
― Pheeel, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 13:29 (fourteen years ago) link
for a man who writes so many songs about partying and dancing he sure can't dance his way out of a paper bag
classic
― Karen Tregaskin, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 13:40 (fourteen years ago) link
You have to admire his continuing dedication to Partying Hard though, even in the face of a full Juggalo onslaught.
― Pheeel, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 14:03 (fourteen years ago) link
that video is like the crucifixion. "you know not what you do"
― ogmor, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link
55 Cadillac is definitely the bomb though, I've run tests and had it confirmed from outside sources.
he loves the juggalo tribes so much he is willing to lay down his headbanging for them
― Karen Tregaskin, Tuesday, 12 January 2010 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw him live last year, kind of awesome when he invited several hundred people up onstage to dance with him, leaving about ten people in the audience.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.normanrecords.com/images/covers/113460.jpg
― Adam Bruneau, Saturday, 23 January 2010 01:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh my gosh he's straight from a RAY BRADBURY STYLE EVIL CIRCUS!
― vacation to outer darkness (Abbott), Saturday, 23 January 2010 02:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh sorry about the caps there.
Twig Harper on "Andrew WK", Andrew W.K. and Steev Mike (and lots of acid).
http://heresee.com/twigharper/steevmike.htm
― requiem for a team (onimo), Thursday, 11 February 2010 13:00 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzlmaWukpdk
Hilarious
― Adam Bruneau, Friday, 5 March 2010 00:48 (fourteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CUklDNYlL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
I love this picture so much...except I just got this in the mail & it's this like infinite regress-type thing. A smaller version of the image of him holding the albums covers the black space where his head is.
― how is abbott formed (Abbott), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 01:03 (fourteen years ago) link
And I like THAt even better!
Plus this
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BzbVmjyhvHI/Szn0MNd0D2I/AAAAAAAABTI/7XtKqHA57tI/s400/AndrewWK_MotherOfMankind_AlbumCover.jpg
AWK is ariel pink's bizarro astral twin (and vice versa), they are both schizo in equal and opposite ways
― iiiijjjj, Wednesday, 7 April 2010 01:50 (fourteen years ago) link
He looks like some kind of really bad Judy Garland impersonator in that cover and the name of the album (or collection of rarities, I guess) is called MOTHER of Mankind! Is AWK asserting the presence of the divine feminine within his own inner mythos?
― Of "Trade Federation" fame, (Viceroy), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 02:15 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.facebook.com/AndrewWKMay?v=wall#!/AndrewWKMay
DMX April is over, and a new month is upon us...
― Cunga, Monday, 3 May 2010 03:08 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUrnKXEdk34
― Times New Excels At (jim in glasgow), Monday, 3 May 2010 04:04 (fourteen years ago) link
In the month of May, we listen to Andrew W.K. and party hard every single day.
And Don't forget to party even harder on May 9th to celebrate Andrew W.K.'s birthday.
http://www.last.fm/group/Andrew%20W.K.%20May
― mierda defensa ... no impedir ... espectador (onimo), Monday, 3 May 2010 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.andrewwk.com/cms/data/pictures_images/p_1092.jpg
― breaking that little dog's heart chakra (Abbott), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/AndrewWK/status/15379574220
My life is proof that you can party as a profession.about 8 hours ago via txt
― this skit is ba-na-nas (onimo), Friday, 4 June 2010 09:33 (fourteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/AndrewWK/status/15162845648
― max arrrrrgh, Saturday, 5 June 2010 14:40 (fourteen years ago) link
wow http://truthaboutandrewwk.blogspot.com/
In the early 1990's the Universal Group began a coordinated effort in film and especially pop music, in which they created their own robotic actors and performers, who's careers they could design and program from the start. Andrew WK (signed on in '97 or '98, officially launched in 2001) and Lady Gaga (signed on in '03 or '04, officially launched in 2008) are two artists with seemingly nothing in common, but in fact they are both constructed, hired figure-heads for a USA based effort of the occult society, most likely the Freemasons or the Illuminati.These group's aims are control and power and it uses music, movies and other pop culture media to influence and brain wash the youth population while they play out rituals designed to give them energy while they worship Lucifer. Andrew WK and Lady Gaga both proudly promote that they "come from" New York City, the city of Babylon and the home of the largest Illuminati conspiracy of the past 20 years: 9/11.
These group's aims are control and power and it uses music, movies and other pop culture media to influence and brain wash the youth population while they play out rituals designed to give them energy while they worship Lucifer. Andrew WK and Lady Gaga both proudly promote that they "come from" New York City, the city of Babylon and the home of the largest Illuminati conspiracy of the past 20 years: 9/11.
― Beware, I Hongro! (onimo), Monday, 14 June 2010 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Illuminati conspiracies aren't even amusing to me anymore. They're just depressingly stupid.
― breaking that little dog's heart chakra (Abbott), Monday, 14 June 2010 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.youthink.org/Dreamweaver/Student%20webpages/iabeth/DaVinci.jpg
― Adam Bruneau, Monday, 14 June 2010 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link
AWK was on Jarvis's show this week. I didn't find the music selection to be hugely inspiring and don't think Jarv is particularly good as a radio presenter but it's a pretty good interview with Andrew, if a little laid back. Starts at about 1:00.
― everything, Monday, 14 June 2010 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link