This is going to be a blog about music....reviews and the like...I'm kinda behind doing a Top Albums of the last 10 years. Maybe we'll do a few. Andrew W.K.- I Get Wet

This album came out of no where. A beacon of hope. That pop music wasn't going to be wussy again. The revolt against nu-metal/rap rock would come in the form of Billy Joel vs Cannibal Corpse. Alas, it didn't pay off. Pop music got wussier than it was in the 80s and we got such genres as Lo-Fi Indie Folk, and Modest Mouse. 

It's like the hip kids heard this and said "I don't get it...it seems contrived." Maybe that's the point. Maybe the blood wasn't shocking. But the music sure was. No one had ever gone to Kevin Shields level of guitar layering just to make their Billy Joel songs sound like 20 death metal bands with 30 rhythm guitarists fighting to be heard in the mix. 

Instead of being touted as a musical genius, he became one of those characters they talk to on I Love The 90s. Like him and Michael Ian Black should probably write essays together. His albums kept the exact same formula, but didn't at the same time. His positivity and outfit stayed the same. The powers that be that decide "what's cool in music" decided they were right and that he was a joke. They just didn't get that this was the kick in the ass everyone needed. 

I remember staying up all night and going to Circuit City to buy this the day it came out. In a state of delirium...on spring break....recording music ourselves...we threw this in the cd player and woke everyone up. If the world was right...everyone would play this album before they go out on the town. We would all be really positive. We would all care about our fellow man. We would just....Party.