THE WOLF
When it's time to party, we will party hard and kick our legs up and fling our arms and not wash our jeans and wear the same stinky white shirt all the time because that's our signature look even though we party hard and kick and scream and ...
big breath...
party hard and party and bang our heads and hard with the party and party like you can't tell me what to do and holy shit this is one long-ass sentence.
ANDREW W.K. does one thing EXTREMELY well, and it's not washing his clothes, that's for damn sure. He writes music for boneheads...me being a bonehead, of course. When
I Get Wet was released, I knew it was going to be F-ing huge, and it was. All of the rockheads that had been neglected for so long all of a sudden had a rallying cry with "Party Hard", and Andrew's dingy appearance and greasy hair gave him that 'everyman' appeal... or 'every knucklehead' appeal.
The Wolf is everything that the first disc was...only bigger. Bigger production, bigger choruses, bigger guitars, bigger pianos, bigger laundry bills (alright, maybe not that). There's some debate as to whether or not making something MORE knucklehead-ish is necessarily a good thing, but who cares? If you're listening to it, you're probably a fellow knucklead/bonehead/meathead, and you probably like it.
Every song on the disc is an anthem and filled with the same type of "don't give up... you can't stop us... never let down... don't let anyone tell you what to do". My personal favorites are the first single, "Tear It Up", and the ultra-inspiring "Totally Stupid". I know that sounds silly, but if you bypass the lyrics and just check out the driving kickdrum and melody of "Totally Stupid", you'll feel like doing a Rocky Balboa-esque sprint through a crowded city street...or at least jumping around a flapping your arms like a fucking meathead.
