I Get Wet - Andrew W.K.
Metascore
64 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 14
  3. Negative: 3 out of 14
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  1. All Music Guide
    90
    Refreshingly simple and cleverly stupid, I Get Wet makes indoctrination fun again.
  2. The A.V. Club
    90
    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.
  3. Entertainment Weekly
    83
    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.
  4. New Musical Express (NME)
    80
    His sound is furious, muscular and relentless - not to mention camp, dangerous and slightly insane.
  5. Alternative Press
    80
    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]
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  6. Q Magazine
    80
    Bracing, cynical, state-of-the-art fun in the spirit of Little Richard, Van Halen and The Damned.
  7. Rolling Stone
    80
    There's no denying the over-the-top whomp of his music, the loudest and funniest metal you've heard in ages.
  8. Village Voice
    80
    After one listen to I Get Wet, you'll swear you've heard it before... but somehow, you've never heard anything like it.
  9. Neumu.net
    70
    It's simultaneously refreshing and amusing. And it rocks hard.
  10. Blender
    60
    Those in search of a gloriously moronic keg-party soundtrack will wet themselves with pleasure. [Apr/May 2002, p.112]
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  11. PopMatters
    40
    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.
  12. Magnet
    10
    Here, on one compact disc, is what's wrong with the music industry. [#54, p.110]
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  13. Pitchfork
    6
    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.
  14. E! Online
    0
    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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User Score
6.8 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 57 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 33 out of 48
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 48
  3. Negative: 14 out of 48
  1. Screenager
    8
    Hard-arena-party-rock from a classically trained pianist. The concept sounds ridiculous and cheesy, and it is which makes it a fun record that demands to be replayed. Its stupid, but its clever.… Full Review »
  2. RazorEye
    5
    To this day, i've never survived the whole album. So that's a negative right away. The fact that I can't be bothered to listen to the album as a whole says something. About half of the tracks on the album are pure ****. Just hard rock with someone with throat cancer as lead vocal. Funny, because that's pretty much Andrew's whole career - half of his songs are complete crap. With I Get Wet, I have to admit, Andrew brings a completely different sound. Not the usual rock music we are used to. This is art rock, and "Ready to Die" and "Party Hard" show that well. Too bad the rest of the album is not that great as these two songs. "She Is Beautiful", "Don't Stop Living In The Red" and "Take It Off" are okay, but in retrospect, this album is somewhat decent.… Full Review »
  3. mark
    0
    People say they don't know which track is best. There's only 1 track!

    And Andrew ... please wash your jeans & buy new sneakers. I don't know     what statement you're trying to make, but every time i see you I keep thinking about tv commercials for Daz Automatic and other leading brands of washing powder.… Full Review »
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