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The Onion (A.V. Club)

Balls-out heavy metal with an emphasis on speed and keyboard-driven hooks, the album rocks almost recklessly, but without the trappings that burden its peers: There's no camp, no irony, and, most notably, no angst.

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All Music Guide

Refreshingly simple and cleverly stupid, I Get Wet makes indoctrination fun again.

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Entertainment Weekly

W.K. must know how ridiculous this all sounds, but he attacks the material with such fervor that you almost believe he means every word.

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New Musical Express

His sound is furious, muscular and relentless - not to mention camp, dangerous and slightly insane.

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Q Magazine

Bracing, cynical, state-of-the-art fun in the spirit of Little Richard, Van Halen and The Damned.

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Alternative Press

Instead of rehashing rap and rock, he smashes up pop melodies, metal riffs and industrial beats with a hammer, creating something that teeters on parody yet heralds an enthusiastic return to the days when hair metal knew how to get the crowds loaded. [Apr 2002, p.65]

Rolling Stone

There's no denying the over-the-top whomp of his music, the loudest and funniest metal you've heard in ages.

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Village Voice

After one listen to I Get Wet, you'll swear you've heard it before... but somehow, you've never heard anything like it.

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Neumu.net

It's simultaneously refreshing and amusing. And it rocks hard.

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Blender

Those in search of a gloriously moronic keg-party soundtrack will wet themselves with pleasure. [Apr/May 2002, p.112]

PopMatters

At its best, WK's music is a refreshing blast of skanky air on the current stale music scene, but at its worst, it's disappointingly monotonous, unoriginal, and very, very dumb.

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Magnet

Here, on one compact disc, is what's wrong with the music industry. [#54, p.110]

Pitchfork

So then, what is the excuse for a typically elitist music nerd to bow to Andrew WK's blistering tard-rock? That's right, folks: there isn't one.

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E! Online

Call us out of sync, but we never got the memo proclaiming that wafer-thin cheese metal sung by deranged lunatics is back in fashion.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 7.0 (out of 10) based on 53 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Justin gave it a10:
The fact that he hit himself in the face with a brick for the album artwork really says it all. I'm not sure what my favorite track is. Maybe it's "It's Time to Party" or "Party Til You Puke." But it's probably "Party Hard," which is probably about as good as "Love Live the Party" and "PARTY PARTY PARTY" combined.

Jesse M gave it a9:
This is the "Monty Python & the Holy Grail" of amazing albums. There's no way I can listen to this and be in a bad mood. It's absolutely ridiculous-- "I love New York City! Oh yeah! New York City!"-- and he knows it. I mean, for God's sake, look at the damned track titles. It's a tongue-firmly-in-cheek homage to 80s hair bands, and is so much fun that it deserves a special place in everyone's libraries full of depressing pop.

Chloe J gave it a10:
I loved this album. I know the lyrics aren't very deep but I don't think all albums need to be "symbolic" or have metaphors for everything. Sometimes people need that fun album to work out to.

Ezra D gave it a10:
You get into this album by laughing at its ridiculousness. Then, by the sheer force of AWK's sincerity, you begin to love it, and you love it genuinely.

TR G gave it a10:
The genius isn't apparent until you realize there isn't an ironic bone in AWK's body.

gary m gave it a0:
this gives a new meaning to "garbage".

Peter M gave it a10:
Any album that gets a 0.6 from Pitchfork Media has to be good!

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