I have an insane level of respect for Andrew WK. Basically made his own genre at 21, constantly injecting positivity into his music, decided "Fuck it" and released not only a new-age piano album, but an album entirely comprised of covers of songs from the Gundam franchise, released one of THE most uplifting albums I have ever heard in "You're Not Alone" in that classic AWK vein, and then got engaged to Kat fucking Dennings. Man is the perfect intersection between chad and artist Cool to see some Eve 6 love as well, that first album was great, and Horrorscope was even better (The song "Here's To The Night" is still a staple at high school graduations apparently)

Fun Fact: Andrew W.K. was the American Association of Suicidology's person of the year in 2018 for his positive messages! Love his music, love his persona. Truly a one of a kind

I just wanted to say that Andrew W.K. is a really, genuinely nice dude. Back before he deleted his Twitter he followed me and interacted with me a few times- just a super positive, kind guy. Big fan of his always! ❣️

Andrew WK is a premium-grade genius, and even tho his recent material might not be as relevant today as it was, the guy is still putting up very personal and oblique stuff. i might add that he's been elected "person of the year" in 2018 or so for the positivity of his views on mental health by an American suicide prevention group. his definition of "partying" as a stance on positive mental attitude and self-respect is way cooler than just the usual "chug that keg bruh". and he did a skit for the Eric André show, that sums it all.

The lyrics of that Eve 6 song are so sick, every line is memorable.

I once saw Sir Mix-A-Lot on a free stage at the Iowa State Fair, my friend and I were there only for the one song, as I’m sure most people there were, and let me tell you, when he started Baby Got Back, the whole crowd went insane and he brought up so many people on stage just to dance and have fun, one of the best free concerts I’ve ever seen. Incredible experience I’ll never forget lol

Andrew WK's wall of sound coupled with the positive lyrics rock

Andrew WK: absolutely brilliant music for a lively party or a hard workout.

I never listened to Andrew W.K. but I think it's hilarious that his shtick was basically "metal, but FUN" and that was somehow legitimately new and refreshing. We had "metal, but funny", we had parody bands and joke songs, not so much "metal, but FUN" I think

I remember reading a review of party hard that described it as "a double vodka+red bull smashed straight into your eardrum"..😁

Andrew W.K.'s I Get Wet is easily one of the best rock albums of the early 2000s. He had a rocky career afterwards, but his recent stuff is great: You Are Not Alone from 2018 was great & the metal stuff on God is Partying too and I'll fight the guy who claimed the album is unlistenable over it in Yu-Gi-Oh!

Now that I’ve grown up, went to college, dropped out, and struggled through trade school… I can confidently say I hate that college song 100 times more than I did as a kid… I didn’t think that was possible.

My white bread wife who has never listened to a full album in her life has gone to an Eve 6 concert and I love that so much.

When Andrew WK plays party hard live now he starts a countdown from 100 and every show I've seen live on YT it just goes OFF

"I'm too sexy" is the sound of a bunch of 90s eurotrash club kids on vacation

Idk if I'd call the red jumpsuit apparatus a 1 hit wonder they make some absolutely amazing music especially from thar album the whole thing is amazing.

Asher Roth performed at my fraternity house back in 2010-ish. I opened up with a set for him, then played lead guitar while he rapped this song and a few others. I don’t remember much from the night, other than it being the best time ever 🍺

I Love College was originally supposed to sample the riff from Say It Ain't So, but since Rivers Cuomo wouldn't let it be cleared, the song had to be reworked (although it can still be found on KZfaq, and there are even mashups of the two songs). Quite ironic that a song about drinking and partying would sample a riff from a song about alcohol tearing a family apart.

I'm amazed Right Said Fred are even known in America. I'm English and know how bad it is. It was a weird time in the UK when labels were trying to capitalize on the acid house scene, which basically wouldn't have existed without MDMA. There used to be a Europop show in the UK in the 90s, which mocked the music; can't remember what it was called now.

"One flat iron was not enough for this shoot" I could not handle that.

I would highly recommend listening to that entire album from The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. Great record; one of the most underrated & unique sounding voices in that genre IMO. Love the content, Finn!

Party Hard is a legitimately great tune, and the majority of his music is a lot of fun. You could play Party Hard on the PA between any live set and people will be happy to hear it.

I love this series, watched this live but am watching it again. One-hit wonders are such a fascinating category for me.

inside out by eve 6, face down by RJA and just a girl by the click five were my holy trinity as a child. PS fun fact i love college samples say it aint so by weezer (i didn't ever notice somehow)

Regarding Asher Roth, there's actually one important public health related thing: Wearing two condoms is a BAD idea according to every sex educator I'm aware of. This is because they will rub against one another and actually be MORE likely to break.

RJA definitely isn’t a one hit wonder... two platinum songs, another one was gold, and a platinum album. Compared to these other artists, they’re far more accomplished

I loved that whole album by RJA back in the day, I listened to it all the time. Considering how casually misogynistic a lot of pop-punk/emo bands were then, it was cool having them make an anti-abuse song AND that it became a hit.

I think you need to get caught up on andrew wk. This stuff is fucking fascinating. Best work just came out and he all the sudden disappeared the AWK story is odd and very confusing. He's possibly the greatest performance artist ever

"Roots Bloody Roots" is my treadmill song to get me pumped up when I'm feeling worn out, and now all I'll be able to hear is Right Said Fred

Aw man! I love Andrew WK. I’ll never forget being at Ozzfest and people booing him and he yells out on the mic “F*CK YOU! WE CAME HERE TO ROCK!” Kinda helped to turn the crowd around. Good times.

Never heard of those power-pop bands before but cotton eye joe and too sexy for my shirt will definitely continue to be played long into the future. I want to say Right Said Fred were tongue in cheek but I can't remember the story behind it. Also, a yt channel called Trash Theory did a really interesting video on Andrew WK recently - I had no idea he was so mysterious.

damn, I was actually just thinking of I Love College recently and now you're covering it. I remember so many people loving it, and yeah, doesn't hold up. God damn, it was worse than I remember.

Always look forward to these videos on my lunch breaks.

That flat iron comment was very relatable that was me and the buds before mayhemfest lol

Andrew W.K. being a one hit wonder or not does not even matter. He's captured Kat Dennings. He wins 🙌🏽

I remember waking up at like 3 am on a school night to the girls gone wild commercial and it was Andrew WK BLASTING through the tv speakers lol

That Asher Roth song sounds like my Freshman year at ECU in 2012 except I didn’t have friends besides my boys I met because im from there and I had a longtime gf. I remember the first semester i completely blew it and just gave up after a few weeks and just smoked weed and dabs with my boy every night and passed out at like 5 am lol I did have some success after that I ended up getting A’s and B’s for the next year or two. I’m planning on going back and finishing next spring I’m about to be 28 now I feel like a loser

Another delightful out of context quote from Finn to add to the album: "As much as I disdain Europe, I've gotta say... I kinda like it."

Baby Got Back is objectively one of the best songs ever made and I will not hear otherwise, the guitar riff itself is so iconic

“Please talk more about how you hate Europe and bicycles.” - Ron Swanson

Throwdown's cover of Baby Got Back, just so good; especially live.

07:55 facts. When I was in design school (started out as an architecture major), I was also taking 18 credit hours and working. My suite-mate literally did nothing all day but smoke weed, listen to Bob Marley and Nirvana, and NOT go to class. I asked him one day why he was in college. His answer: “My dad made me go. I don’t want to be here. So I figure I’ll just party for a semester or two, fail out and then go to work for his construction company.” 😂🤘👽

Cornhole is fantastic. I gotta say you're missing out on not playing Cornhole. It's a great family barbecue type of game

The only corrections I have are Eve 6 and Andrew W.K. Eve 6 had hits with Promise and an especially big one for Think Twice, and W.K had She is Beautiful.

One of my fav segments of yours ngl

Max Collins was a super nice guy! Got to run sound for a show on the Songs & Stories tour with Art Alexakis (Everclear) John Wozniak (Marcy Playground) Chris Collingwood (Fountians of Wayne) and Max Collins (Eve 6) playing all their hits on acoustic guitars and talking about the "good ol days" lol

I was one of the kids that red jumpsuit apparatus’s face down helped. Glad to hear the song holds up still 🤘🏽

hey Finn, huge fan of this channel and rhe main channel. found you recently as I mentioned before, and have been listening to your videos as I deliver for work so I'm always in the car! very entertaining stuff. please, please, please do a full video on the band IDLES. they are Def one of my favorites and their sound is everything I want! awesome arrangements as far as the music goes.. very punk inspired. but they are doing some pretty innovative and technical stuff.. the lyrics and the way the singer Joe talbot delivers his words is very powerful. I'd love to hear your thoughts on them, even if just in a comment :)

Oh man a local classic rock station (in St Louis) at least used to advertise local flip cup leagues...this was within the past few years. That’s how I heard of it

Highly recommend The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus’s first demo album. There’s a heavier version of “Face Down” on it that’s really great and a lot of the tracks on there are bangers.

That whole Red Jumpsuit album was pretty dope. And the bit about the Warped Tour 2015 hat is so specific and so true, hahaha.

seeing finn respond to mixalot is the best thing ive seen

Not gonna lie, was happy to hear Eve 6 holds up - they're one of my favorite bands and especially their first two albums are so underrated lyrically and musically.

Forgot about Click Five for like a decade. Definitely listening again.

I was going to alternative dance clubs from the late 80's on and Baby Got Back was played all of the time and was so much fun to dance to. Great song!

As a Seattle man, you can't tell me that Swap Meet Louie isn't one of your guilty pleasures.

You want regional, in southern quebec we had Casque Gants. You put on a hockey helmet and gloves and then fight, sometimes you'd spin on the swings first to get dizzy but that was a down the road thing.

Fun fact: Just the Girl was written by Adam Schlesinger from Fountains of Wayne, which would explain why it kind of sounds like Stacy's Mom. Another fun fact: Joey, the drummer from The Click Five, is a KZfaqr now (shoutout to Mr Kate lol)

Someone in the chat called Asher Roth's "I Love College" Scumbag-Stevecore lol LOVE IT!

17:16 The comment about the set for mix alots video had me rolling.

Lol I’m watching this while out on a walk in a tank top & then right said Fred comes on while I’m strutting down the street

Funny that you mention Stacy's Mom during the Click 5 song. Adam Schlesinger who is in Fountains of Wayne (and wrote Stacy's Mom) is the same dude who wrote Just The Girl for The Click Five.

Andrew WK is my favorite Musician/artist. His last 2 albums are sick in my opinion. 🤘🤘 9:22 Literally where I'm from. Yes, everyone was beer ponging like crazy in Cincinnati/NKY. 🤣🤣🤣

8:27 - That song always reminds me of a good friend of mine that graduated as a Comm Major from UCSB.

Spit out my food when you said 'witchy coachella thot hats' lmao

I love Inside out from Eve 6. Such a banger.

Have you seen the Burger King commercial where they made a SpongeBob cover of baby got back to promote their kid’s meal?

Beer pong and cornhole are definitely Midwest things… people think I’m weird because I don’t have cornhole boards 🤣

Never thought I would hear Obituary and showtunes in the same paragraph hahahahaha! Freakin' awesome ;)

The “i love college” guy 10 years later: “Government, Please cancel my student debt!”

Andrew W. K. is like if Devin Townsend decided to just sell his soul and go commercial.

Hearing your experiences with beer pong and corn hole is hilarious😂 I've lived in KS forever and yeah all my classmates live of that crap now lmao

Party Hard is still an amazing bop and really good at the gym

Inside Out by Eve 6 is legit one of my fav songs of all time

I feel the Finn McKenty vs the Entire Continent Of Europe is a potential SNL sketch FWIW. 😎

Re: “I Love College”: Sadly, that’s how college life often tends to be portrayed in the media (thanks in no small part to Animal House). To this day, I’m waiting for a movie or television show (which isn’t The Simpsons) to actually give a somewhat realistic depiction of college life - the closest example I can think of off the top of my head is “Undeclared.”

The people I knew who spent their time drinking, partying and going out to eat during college either flunked out or quit.

Dude I lost it when you said “London… close enough “

Wish I was there for this stream. Andrew WK is one of my all time favourite artists. He was named person of the year by the suicide prevention association in 2017

that Click Five song, I was like "what the fuck is this" and then it got to the chorus and I went "oooohh!!! I remember now."

Andrew wk is sooo fun to see live. Got to see him in concert for free in arizona in 2011, so much fun

Saw He Is Legend a few years back and they did a little Sir Mix-A-Lot medley during the show. It was amazing

I’ve had the chorus to inside out stuck in my head since the first time I heard it like 25 years ago

Listening to my entire social group singing "I love college" in high-school completed my transition into Sociopathic Loner.

“Preparation H, Eggs” Sounds like a grocery list 🤣

I saw Andrew WK at a festival years ago and he opened his set with Party Hard, ended the song by saying "don't worry, we'll definitely play that again", and then preceded to end the set with Party Hard twice through back-to-back. The crowd went crazy for it every time. It was one of my favourite sets from the whole festival, and his other songs are great too. Seems like a great guy

"Get Ready to Die" by Andrew WK also slaps. I think it's from that first album too.

"We Want Fun" and "She is Beautiful" were also hits from that album. I know that We Want Fun was in Jackass, and I'm pretty sure She is Beautiful also was part of a major movie soundtrack.

What about the video for "A Favor House Atlantic"? That video was made in the 2000s, yet used a phone from the 80s/90s.

Does no one else appreciate the cerebral incubation shirt he was wearing in the beginning? Lol

Baby got back was the jam in the middle school lock in dance's back in the late 90's early 2000's lol. so funny

“All those 28 year olds with office jobs are here thinking this is the best shit ever” why was this so personal? XD

"straight out of fucking Belgium" as a Belgian, I can confirm

Face Down is an absolute banger! holds up any day of the week

Explanation from a European: "I'm too sexy", "Cotton Eye Joe" and "What does the Fox say" obviously weren't meant to be taken seriously. Same with Barbie Girl etc. Those songs are just making light-hearted fun of tropes and/or genres, creating dance- and singable hooks along the way.

“I’m Too Sexy” in the bathtub scene in Encino Man lol

The Pittsburgh Penguins have been playing Party Hard every time they score at a home game for years

I spent ten years getting wasted on narcotics. Yes, that was a waste of time asher is buggin

I was obsessed with that Click Five album....I was a VERY teenage girl at the time 😂

Europe: „we were in a bad place, we were not accountable!“ 😂