" this guy at least brings some funny to it"
arguable
― Zeno, Saturday, 25 September 2010 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link
watching henry rollins go from irritation to exasperation to grudging respect in the span of 3? minutes is pretty great.
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 25 September 2010 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
ya i love that
― If Airplanes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport (s1ocki), Saturday, 25 September 2010 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
i bet that's his response to just about everything
― harbl madness (latebloomer), Saturday, 25 September 2010 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Pk
― treefell, Saturday, 25 September 2010 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
xplol - picturing hank staring at his washing machine on laundry day going from i to e to gr......
― m0stlyClean, Saturday, 25 September 2010 23:59 (thirteen years ago) link
The one with Snoop is classic.
The one with Alice Cooper made me hate Alice Cooper.
I met Nardwuar in the mid-90s when our bands used to gig together. He's a very good egg.
― Nate Carson, Sunday, 26 September 2010 02:18 (thirteen years ago) link
snoop stole nardwuar's record and/or broke it! or it might have been sonic youth but i feel they both took advantage of nardwuar's sweet nature.
Snoop has stolen lots of Nardwuar's things over the years. Most importantly his Blowfly records and a Redd Foxx doll. Nardwuar got him back by telling Blowfly about it, who then recorded a hilarious dis of Snoop, which Nardwuar played for Snoop next time he was in town. Absolute classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FvIsf57U7c
― everything, Sunday, 26 September 2010 03:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyone saying that they "don't find him funny" or that he annoys them isn't getting the whole picture. In my opinion Nardwuar has done more for music in Canada than probably anyone else ever. In the quarter century he's been active he has interviewed thousands of bands, hosted thousands of live bands on his radio show, promoted hundreds of gigs (mostly all-ages), played hundreds of gigs with his various bands (which are brilliant fun by the way), performed with most of the significant punk rock legends of Canada, collected an irreplacable collection of video and memorabilia of Canadian rock music that is probably second to none, published books about the scene and most importantly of all, crowd surfed more than any other Canadian. This is the reason he has been able to score interviews with so many major celebrities, despite only having a tiny university radio station for his principal mouthpiece over that time - he commands respect, knows everybody and is a genuinely great guy.
― everything, Sunday, 26 September 2010 03:51 (thirteen years ago) link
This too:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuZCVlKK3fA
― everything, Sunday, 26 September 2010 03:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Ron Reyes. Hero. seems like a good bloke
Greg Ginn. Nerdy baked beaned teeth geography teacher. Spazzmotron
― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Monday, 27 September 2010 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
my husband once accidentally touched the nardnads. should i be worried?
― Kim, Thursday, 24 March 2011 14:21 (thirteen years ago) link
o_O
― ancient, but very sexy (DJP), Thursday, 24 March 2011 14:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I for one respect your husband all the more for it!
― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 24 March 2011 14:40 (thirteen years ago) link
the drake interview is very sweet - drake obviously grew up watching narduwar and is appropriately reverential
― B1ll C4ll4h4n (symsymsym), Thursday, 24 March 2011 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Wait, he interviewed Thor?
― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 24 March 2011 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
http://nardwuar.com/gallery/albums/nardpics/gene_002.jpg
― everything, Friday, 25 March 2011 08:38 (thirteen years ago) link
And with the Evaporatorshttp://nardwuar.com/gallery/albums/nardpics/rawk.jpg
― everything, Friday, 25 March 2011 08:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I think the first time I saw the Evaporators they played with Thor.
― everything, Friday, 25 March 2011 08:41 (thirteen years ago) link
http://nardwuar.com/gallery/albums/nardpics/thorrgb.jpg
― everything, Friday, 25 March 2011 08:46 (thirteen years ago) link
The Gene Simmons/Thor interview is classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOf-tQvyTk4
"Did I ever do your wife?"
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 25 March 2011 09:07 (thirteen years ago) link
ha! and it was AT the Evaporators/Thor concert at the Horeshoe that the legendary nardnads event happened.
full disclosure - it transpired whilst Zac was hoisting up a very sweaty Nardwuar from the venue floor (rather than the stage) because the Nard had suddenly decided to crowd surf like it was still the 90s. and then later on, Thor was rather "overly friendly" to my sister and i on his way towards the bar. kind of a great night.
― Kim, Friday, 25 March 2011 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
er... HorSe not Hores.
― Kim, Friday, 25 March 2011 19:22 (thirteen years ago) link
respect Marilyn Manson and Vanilla Ice more now, both were v rad & personable to nardy
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Saturday, 26 March 2011 23:38 (thirteen years ago) link
t-pain is pretty adorable in his nard interview
― symsymsym, Sunday, 27 March 2011 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't really know much about Blur's music or reputation as people. But is their drummer always this aggro?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkNvk2MgiCc
― kkvgz, Monday, 28 March 2011 12:32 (thirteen years ago) link
The was a blizzard of cocaine and Albarn hated ithttp://www.list.co.uk/article/4518-blur-drummer-admits-cocaine-addiction/
― OH RICHEY, WHY. (PaulTMA), Monday, 28 March 2011 12:39 (thirteen years ago) link
He just issued an apology/explanation for that. What a knob.
― everything, Friday, 1 April 2011 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
So he was on the coke as recently as 2003? I'm pretty positive he gave interviews around the time of The Great Escape where he talked being sober after something like 2 years of being a recovering alcoholic and was therefore the only teetotal member of the band. I guess this didn't include taking MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF COCAINE then.
― OH RICHEY, WHY. (PaulTMA), Friday, 1 April 2011 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Exactly what I was thinking. Anyway "I was on cocaine" is a pathetic explanation for bad behaviour. It justifies nothing to anyone except for yourself. What he needs to say is that he has a long history of behaving like a douchebag (up against some extremely strong competition, what with being in Blur and all) and this was just one incident that happened to be videotaped.
― everything, Friday, 1 April 2011 18:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Good drumming though
― OH RICHEY, WHY. (PaulTMA), Friday, 1 April 2011 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow. That's topical!
― kkvgz, Friday, 1 April 2011 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
feel so bad for nardwuar in that clip but he keeps on going like a pro
― original bgm, Friday, 1 April 2011 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
No need to feel sorry for him. That kind of response is Nardwuar's drug of choice. I'm pretty sure he was stoked about getting a compelling interview. The guy is punk rock through and through and a lot more hardcore than he lets on when interviewing celebs.
― everything, Friday, 1 April 2011 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
In what universe is this not one of the greatest songs ever?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuZCVlKK3fA
― everything, Friday, 1 April 2011 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
what everything said
― slight even by tweet standards (forksclovetofu), Friday, 1 April 2011 19:59 (thirteen years ago) link
wtf, drake's uncles are willie mitchell AND larry graham?!
― adult music person (Jordan), Friday, 1 April 2011 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
watched the questlove one today. 40 minutes long! could listen to him talk about records all day. such a smarty and always interesting. i never listen to the roots but i got love for him.
― scott seward, Friday, 1 April 2011 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RKbSi87J5Q
― Who is the black guy in all the videos? (lpz), Saturday, 2 April 2011 00:44 (thirteen years ago) link
when the dudes he's interviewing get annoyed at him i find myself taking the same route. the feigned personality is such a gimmick compared to the potential he has for really enlightening viewers about a band's/artist/whatever's history and interests. it seems he puts it up as a sort of barrier whenever his interviewee begins to grow agitated b/c of it, and drops all of it save for the accent when they play along.
― kelpolaris, Saturday, 2 April 2011 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i wonder if he thinks by employing the nardwuar personality that he reduces his risk of becoming overly creepy/paparrazi-like?
― kelpolaris, Saturday, 2 April 2011 00:54 (thirteen years ago) link
i watched a lot of these today. i like them. hilary duff one is really good! Double Duff! hahaha! like that n.e.r.d. one too.
interviews in general are usually so horrible. i've got nothing bad to say about him. so he's in character. so is every other pro interviewer. other people are just in really boring character. i love that all it takes is the hat and glasses. he looks totally normal without those 2 thing.
― scott seward, Saturday, 2 April 2011 01:16 (thirteen years ago) link
things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilKuJOe2goA
This has to be so much more than Nardwuar ever thought he could get out of an interview. It seems Andrew WK gets the premise more than he does.
― filthy dylan, Saturday, 2 April 2011 07:12 (thirteen years ago) link
"do you have a disease? are you addicted to cheese?"
― slight even by tweet standards (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 2 April 2011 12:19 (thirteen years ago) link
in that blur video all 3 of them seem so high. seems like it should be from the mid 90s not 2003.
― spellcheck is really advanced these days (cajunsunday), Saturday, 2 April 2011 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link
http://soundcloud.com/rhymesayers/brother-ali-nardwuar
― Even by Zales standards, that's sad. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 February 2013 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
lol, hopsin is such a knucklehead.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6sR0skLOZk
― Even by Zales standards, that's sad. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 February 2013 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
Not sure if it counts because I don't like him anyway, but the Nas thing he did made me just me shake my head at how dense and full of his own bullshit Nas is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL8PuPjYdyk
Embarrassing.
― Austin, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 03:56 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbYRsU4FHaQi've never heard anything from this person and wow just wow
― I offer about as much diversity as a saltine cracker. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 6 April 2013 05:11 (eleven years ago) link
Can we compile the best/worst interviewees on Nardwuar? Comparing the chill ones to the pricks. There's so many of them I don't know where to start, the best ones are mostly metal/hip hop artists. They come off as the most smart and humorous of all I've seen so far. Artists being pricks to Nardwuar tell a lot about their real personalities, I guess that's one of my favorite things about him. He acts like a barometer that let's you know how charismatic an artist really is in person and how well they cope with something out of the ordinary.
The Rad:
Andrew W.K.A$AP RockyJuicy JDavid CrossDrakeHaimGene SimmonsGreg GineGrimesGwarMarylin MansonPharrell / N.E.R.D.Riff RaffSage FrancisSnoop DoggThorTyler, the creatorVanilla IceWaka Flocka Flame
The Douchebags
Alice CooperBeckBlurHenry RollinsSonic YouthTransplants
― Moka, Sunday, 1 September 2013 19:39 (ten years ago) link
The Gwar interview is hilarious in case you haven't watched it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU1mTyPfeio
― Moka, Sunday, 1 September 2013 19:41 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FEVOueOtBk
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 November 2022 03:37 (one year ago) link
To add to the list of good guys; both Tyler and Lizzo look like they’re having a ball.
― piscesx, Saturday, 19 November 2022 00:39 (one year ago) link
Tyler in 2022 I hasten to add.
― piscesx, Saturday, 19 November 2022 00:40 (one year ago) link