I Get Wet
- Andrew W.K.
- Band Name: Andrew W.K.
- Record Label: Island / Mercury
- Release Date: Mar 26, 2002
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Refreshingly simple and cleverly stupid, I Get Wet makes indoctrination fun again.
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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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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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His sound is furious, muscular and relentless - not to mention camp, dangerous and slightly insane.
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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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80Bracing, cynical, state-of-the-art fun in the spirit of Little Richard, Van Halen and The Damned.
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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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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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70It's simultaneously refreshing and amusing. And it rocks hard.
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60Those in search of a gloriously moronic keg-party soundtrack will wet themselves with pleasure. [Apr/May 2002, p.112]
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40At 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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10Here, on one compact disc, is what's wrong with the music industry. [#54, p.110]
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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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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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