I Get Wet

by Andrew W.K.

Entertainment Reviews:

Rolling Stone - 12/26/02, p.112

Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Best Albums of 2002"

Rolling Stone - 12/26/02, p.104

Ranked #4 in Rolling Stone's list of 2002's "10 Best Debuts"

Rolling Stone - 4/11/02, p.130

4 stars out of 5 - "...The loudest and funniest metal you've heard in ages....tossing in Axl, Slash, Queen, Aldo Nova, early Falco, late Gino Vanelli and the Village People into his own private meat grinder..."

Entertainment Weekly - 3/22/02, pp.107-8

"...An unapologetic barrage of WWF-ready headbangers filtered through hedonistic hair metal...music that marks the advent of 2nd-generation '80s power metal..." - Rating: B+

Q - 12/01, p.128

4 stars out of 5 - "...Bracing, cynical, state-of-the-art fun in the spirit of Little Richard, Van Halen and The Damned..."

Alternative Press - 4/02, p.65

8 out of 10 - "...[Andrew W.K.] 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..."

CMJ - 4/1/2002, p.5

"...I GET WET is a slick collection of party anthems built on towering power chords, big drums, tasty new-wave synth licks and admonitions to 'Party 'Til You Puke'....it's joyful, liberating, vital..."

Mojo (Publisher) - 12/01, p.112

"...Thrilling brutality..."

NME (Magazine) - 12/29/01, p.59

Ranked #9 in NME's "Albums Of The Year 2001"

NME (Magazine) - 11/3/01, p.32

8 out of 10 - "...An amazing experience...it's for people who like the smell of hot crack in the morning....It's entirely one-dimensional, but - hey, what a dimension...His sound is furious, muscular and relentless..."