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
he's hosting a gameshow on cartoon network, anybody see it?
― velko, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 23:29 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcxkGMPAnbg
― velko, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link