OH! Premature vacation call! Before I begin, let me give a shout-out to some records that didn't make the top 10 but that I liked plenty enough to mention, otherwise known as some "honorable mentions" up in this:The Flying Luttenbachers - CataclysmLiars - Drum's Not DeadMatmos - The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a BeastMomus - Ocky MilkOOIOO - TaigaScritti Politti - White Bread, Black BeerSter...
For a long time, I thought I hated Andrew W.K. Detested, even. He performed for free at my school a couple years ago and I had vehemently made up my mind not to attend. I hated his horrible, annoying "party" message and his stupid-ass persona. Then I saw him live at USC, opening, curiously enough, for They Might Be Giants. This was ths seed of my changing opinion. He tore the place up, and ever...
OH! Premature vacation call! Before I begin, let me give a shout-out to some records that didn't make the top 10 but that I liked plenty enough to mention, otherwise known as some "honorable mentions" up in this:The Flying Luttenbachers - CataclysmLiars - Drum's Not DeadMatmos - The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a BeastMomus - Ocky MilkOOIOO - TaigaScritti Politti - White Bread, Black BeerSter...
My enthusiastic endorsement of Andrew W.K.’s 2002 album I Get Wet met with a mixed reaction from the MetalSucks readership, ranging from anger to disbelief to teary confessions of the album’s power to yield happiness and a sense of the unstoppable phenomenon known as THE PARTY. I appreciated his follow-up The Wolf, but as [...]