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Andrew WK?!

Our Lady of The Two Towers

13:11 / 02.11.01

Okay, bought the 'Party Hard' single and am torn between thinking it's great and thinking it's long-haired sweaty music for jocks to headbang too as they drink too much.

Opinions?

13:25 / 02.11.01

'Party Hard' reminds me of Van Halen, whether thats a good thing or not I haven't decided...maybe he'll be the new David Lee Roth...

shit video though, not nearly 80's enough.

23:06 / 02.11.01

I knew Van Halen fanship would come full-circle. Can I just say:

I've been here years! It's been lonely but I've had faith! Took you bastards long enough to arrive!

Thank you. Next year credible bands will sound like Marillion.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

14:58 / 03.11.01

I'm just trying to work out whether they are being ironic when they sing about 'make sex' on the b-side.

Jack The Bodiless

15:25 / 03.11.01

It doesn't sound anything like Van Halen, you muppet. It sounds exactly like Slade, for fucks sake. And if this are the saviours of rock n' roll (<C> NME 1976-2001) then everyone in the entire world can fuck off. The Wildhearts rip out this twat's eyes and piss on his brain with every song they released. Even the shit ones.

Regrettable Juvenilia

22:52 / 03.11.01

The year in rock according to the NME, a story in four parts. Bear in mind that everything that happens here happens every year.

1. The Strokes! They're great! They're not quite as good as NME (and lots of other people) say they are, but they've made a fine record with some great tunes on! People start dissing them by part 3 of our tale.

2. The Moldy Peaches! Even better than The Strokes! The NME like them for a bit, but the Moldy Peaches are a bit too weird for them to hype. Plus they have a girl in them, and she is not of the skinny-hipped knife-faced variety. NME forget about the Moldy Peaches, even though their album is excellent.

3. The White Stripes! The NME and then every single paper in the UK say they're even better than The Strokes! I think they're a bit average, but okay. Where was the NME all those years The White Stripes were playing Detriot toilets? Who cares! Levels of hype going off the scale now!

4. Andrew WK! NME give him two covers in one, and say he is better than any musician ever! He is shit. I'm still playing 'Is This It'. The End.

23:03 / 03.11.01

I've found both The Strokes and The Moldy Peaches to be mediocre at best.

The NME have, in fact, declared Andrew WK to be 'the saviour of music'. Get that. Not just the 'saviour of rock', but 'the saviour of music'.

No matter how many times I read that statement, I still can't quite believe the narrow-minded stupidity behind it.

General rule of thumb for the NME - the albums that are worth buying tend to get high marks yet miniscule coverage and tiny review space.

If it's got a quarter- or half-page review, it's probably shite.

Jack The Bodiless

14:22 / 04.11.01

It's the Burchill Dilemma. Slag them off, no matter how witty you may be, and you're playing into their hands. But the temptation to blurt a few well-chosen mal mots is so intense (like the urge to scratch when you have chicken pox) that it actually feels good to let them manipulate you into booting the ball into your own goal.

Robbie Williams, believe it or not, appears to have the best solution. Refuse to let them interview him, and blithely ignore the kindergarten taunts that followed by simply not reading the paper.

reidcourchie

15:27 / 04.11.01

NME touting some 80's retro metal act is only slightly odder than when Stock, Aitken and Waterman signed Judas Preist.

This new century is confusing and scary.

autopilot disengaged

19:34 / 04.11.01

Andrew WK: like glam thrash remixed by europop buffoons.

according to a fawning interview in this month's Face - he is serious.

and he is shit.

20:41 / 04.11.01

anyone who's gimmick is having a nosebleed on posters...

Our Lady of The Two Towers

06:34 / 06.11.01

The simple fact is Andrew and his band look like the kids that used to beat you up for lunch money at school...

Rollo Kim, on location

07:26 / 06.11.01

Andrew Wanker? What a complete arse head. Party Hard my arse. Party fucking hard. What a fucking joke?

He obviously doesn't have an IQ of his own. Sad, dated, sweaty, boring, mainstream rock music.

If Europe or Def Leppard were around today, they would be this singing penis of a man.

07:38 / 06.11.01

quote:Originally posted by Lozt Cause:
The simple fact is Andrew and his band look like the kids that used to beat you up for lunch money at school...

I think that he looks more like the kid that was beaten up for his lunch money at school now trying to prove how macho he is. *Yawn*

08:30 / 06.11.01

quote:Originally posted by Jack The Bodiless:
The Wildhearts rip out this twat's eyes and piss on his brain with every song they released. Even the shit ones.

Yup. Even Ginger's new Band - Silver Ginger Five are great (saw them last night! Fan-fucking-tatstic).

12:54 / 06.11.01

I don't like WK's music much, just because, well, it's not the kind of music I like.

But I will admit that it's a brilliant example of what all those 80s hair metal bands should have fucking sounded like but didn't. And it instantly renders all the ones that are still going irrelevant.

If I was 10 years old right now then Andrew Wk would be the best thing in the world ever.I'm not 10 years old, so I don't really give a shit, but let's not go spoiling it for the people who are 10 years old by driving him out of town..

13:02 / 06.11.01

lest we forget -- one for cherry, jack and moriarty.

08:33 / 13.11.01

saw andrew wk on totp last week.... omg i laughed. hm for children's birthday parties....

The resistable rise of Reidcourchie

08:33 / 13.11.01

I think he'll probably save music in much the same way Babylon Zoo did.

17:10 / 13.11.01

quote:Originally posted by Flyboy:
The year in rock according to the NME, a story in four parts. Bear in mind that everything that happens here happens every year.

1. The Strokes! They're great! They're not quite as good as NME (and lots of other people) say they are, but they've made a fine record with some great tunes on! People start dissing them by part 3 of our tale.

2. The Moldy Peaches! Even better than The Strokes! The NME like them for a bit, but the Moldy Peaches are a bit too weird for them to hype. Plus they have a girl in them, and she is not of the skinny-hipped knife-faced variety. NME forget about the Moldy Peaches, even though their album is excellent.

3. The White Stripes! The NME and then every single paper in the UK say they're even better than The Strokes! I think they're a bit average, but okay. Where was the NME all those years The White Stripes were playing Detriot toilets? Who cares! Levels of hype going off the scale now!

4. Andrew WK! NME give him two covers in one, and say he is better than any musician ever! He is shit. I'm still playing 'Is This It'. The End.

Ahem. The strokes are not good. They are shit.

Moldy Peaches are not good. They are shit.

White Stripes. They are shit.

Andrew WK is also shit. For once we agree.

Regrettable Juvenilia

18:08 / 13.11.01

Well, you've made your case so intelligently, I'm convinced! I throw my copies of Is This It and The Moldy Peaches on the fire.

12:59 / 14.11.01

Well you are talking to a guy who seems to think Ministry are 'the only musical hope for the future'. Make allowances.

18:05 / 14.11.01

Ah, so. Thrown yer copy of This Is It on the fire eh?

Congrats!!

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