ANDREW W.K. "NEVER LET DOWN" 2003 ISLAND NM/UNPLAYED RARE PROMO ROCK CD SINGLE

Description: NOTE: I SOMETIMES POST AS THE FIRST PHOTO ALL OF THE INDIVIDUAL ELEMENTS OF THE CD'S, INCLUDING FRONT COVER, DISC & BACK INSERT PLUS ANYTHING ELSE, JUST AN F.Y.I. AND ALL CD'S COME IN JEWEL CASES UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. THANKS FOR LOOKING! BOB NOTE: MAIL RATES JUST WENT UP AGAIN...JUST AN F.Y.I. THIS CD COMES FROM MY TIME AT A NATIONAL RADIO NETWORK WHERE I WAS THE MUSIC AND PROMOTIONS DIRECTOR FOR NEARLY 20 YEARS. A RECENT FIND FROM A BOX IN MY STORAGE UNIT.THIS IS A PHOTO OF THE ACTUAL ITEM FOR SALE, SORRY IF THE PICTURE(S) ARE A BIT BLURRY. I HAVE OTHER ITEMS FOR SALE, CHECK OUT MY OTHER AUCTIONS, THANKS! AS I MENTIONED ABOVE FOR NEARLY 20 YEARS I WAS THE MUSIC & PROMOTIONS CORDINATOR FOR A MAJOR NATIONAL RADIO NETWORK.... ALL CD'S COME IN A JEWEL CASE UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE. NOTE: eBay HAS TAKEN IT UPON THEMSELVES TO REMOVE WHAT THEY CALL “OUTSIDE” LINKS, THESE ARE IN THE HTML DESCRIPTION, AND CAN'T EVEN BE SEEN IN MY ITEM DESCRIPTION, SO FROM NOW ON IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE ITEM &/OR ARTIST LOOK 'EM UP, ON WIKI & DISCOGS, ETC. NOTE: I DO COMBINE SHIPPING. ARTIST: ANDREW W.K. TITLE: “NEVER LET DOWN” RADIO EDIT (3:45) TRACK LISTING: SEE PHOTOS/ABOVE: RECORD LABEL: ISLAND RECORDS CAT.#: ISLR-15913-2 YEAR: 2003 CONDITION: THIS IS CD IS IN NM/MINT- COND. THIS IS OPENED BUT UNPLAYED. BOTH INSERTS IN EX+/NM- CONDITION. SENT OUT TO MUSIC PROFESSIONALS ONLY, NOT SOLD TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. PRINTED ON THE BACK TRAY INSERT AND CD ARTWORK IS “FOR PROMOTIONAL USE ONLY-NOT FOR SALE”. PRINTED ON THE INSIDE OF THE FRONT INSERT IS A PERSONAL THANK YOU NOTE FROM ANDREW TO RADIO AND MUSIC MEDIA. FROM HIS THEN UPCOMING “THE WOLF” ALBUM. MORE INFO: THIS CD IS OUT OF PRINT. FROM THE MUSIC LIBRARY OF A NATIONAL RADIO NETWORK. ARTIST INFO: ANDREW W.K. BIO/INFO- Musician, producer, actor, Village Voice columnist, lecturer with the ear of politicians, My Little Pony fanatics and all-in wrestlers – it’s hard to know where to begin with Mr Andrew Fetterley Wilkes-Krier, born in California but raised in the heavy metal hinterland of Ann Arbor, Michigan – think Iggy and the Stooges, think The MC5. Motivational sums him up in a way. He’s a light bulb of intelligence in a world of darkness. Some think Dave Grohl created him but while he opened for Foo Fighters and enjoyed Dave’s influence for a while, W.K. is no puppet. His main albums, mostly released in the Noughties, include the hit disc I Get Wet, a fiendish blast of fun, satire and killer rock that fuses Wagnerian metal to punk rock and glam. The synth attack of his successful tracks “Party ‘Til You Puke” and “Girls Own Love” are evidently AOR in the best possible sense and there are satire and pain in the grooves. Described as one of rock’s great philosophers (he’s up with Sandy Pearlman and Adny Shernoff) his mid-period discs, The Wolf and Close Calls with Brick Walls are far too good to remain best-kept secrets and if you like your rock stars with iconoclastic edges then discover these for sure. Andrew has also built a fan-base in the Far East and released several albums and EPs for the Japanese and South Korean markets and they’re also worth hunting down. You want fun? You want to party hard? But you also like a good book? Here’s your fella… Born in Palo Alto (Jerry Garcia country) in 1979 Andrew Wilkes-Krier enjoyed a stable and prosperous middle-class academic upbringing. He took piano lessons (always useful), studied jazz keyboard and joined various local punkish metal teen bands around Detroit. Noise rock was an obsession and once he moved to New York aged18 he hooked up with NYC outfit Wolf Eyes as a remixer and decided that his schoolboy nickname Andrew W.K. would be a fine alter ego. So it proved with his own debut EP, Girls Own Juice (1999) and the follow-up “Party til You Puke” where electronica reigns rather than standard hard rock. Undeniably in the same ballpark as The Beastie Boys the underground buzz led to Island Records. I Get Wet (with a controversial cover featuring AWK bleeding from the nose) divided critical opinion because it was deliberately overhyped, mainly so that when Andrew actually met the press he could disarm them with all the deft skill of a bomb disposal expert. By way of a diversion to the meaty metal on view, there is also the lovely “She Is Beautiful” to contend with. The cut “We Want Fun” was featured in Jackass The Movie Soundtrack by which time our boy is up and running. But Andrew didn’t follow the standard career path of the average rock and roller, leading some to think – meanly – that he was a creation of the corporate folks whose hand he was surely biting. Those who got it the first time around, and it may have taken a while for it to sink in, were unanimous in praising I Get Wet and it is still highly regarded as one of the best hard rock experiences of the 2000s. Check it out. Two years later we get The Wolf (aka Blow Your Bone), another frat-boy party extravaganza featuring W.K. and his pals Ken Andrews, Jimmy Coup, Erik Payne and Frank Werner on axes, and another glorious mash of the insanely dumb – “Long Live the Party” and “I Love Music” and the arcane – “The End of Our Lives “ and “Victory Strikes Again”. Decent sales and a Top 100 place on the Billboard chart kept him current but Close Calls with Brick Walls, though released to grand clamour in Japan in 2006, didn’t actually make it to CD in the rest of the world for another four years, largely due to a legal dispute over the ownership of his name that we won’t bore you with here. Despite the initial eighteen tracks, this is a short and sweet slam-dunk of Noo Yawk rock that is available as the expanded 2-CD version with second disc Mother of Mankind bringing him up to date. If you like Cheap Trick you will love this set. NOTE: INTERNATIONAL MAIL IS BACK TO 1st CLASS INTERNATIONAL AND IS BASED ON LOCATION OF COUNTRY & WEIGHT OF THE ITEM, PLEASE NOTE I DO NOT SHIP TO ALL COUNTRIES, PLEASE CHECK THE SHIPPING INFO TO MAKE SURE I SHIP TO YOUR COUNTRY BEFORE BUYING/BIDDING. SINCE U.S. POSTAL RATES RECENTLY WENT UP I AM NOW OFFERING THE OPTION OF 1st CLASS OR MEDIA MAIL FOR THE U.S. & IT'S TERRITORIES, MEDIA MAIL GOES GROUND TRANSPORT SO WILL TAKE A LITTLE LONGER, BUT IT IS CHEAPER, ALSO IF YOU WANT PRIORITY, THAT IS AN OPTION TOO. 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Location: Los Angeles, California

End Time: 2025-01-03T23:12:06.000Z

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Item must be returned within: 30 Days

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Artist: ANDREW W.K.

CD Grading: Near Mint (NM or M-)

Record Label: Island Records

Release Title: NEVER LET DOWN

Case Type: Jewel Case: Standard

Color: Black

Case Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)

Inlay Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)

Catalog Number: ISLR-15913-2

Edition: First Edition, Limited Edition, Promo

Type: Single

Format: CD

Release Year: 2003

Language: English

Era: 2000s

Style: Hard Rock

Features: THIS IS OPENED BUT UNPLAYED, FRONT INSERT IS A PERSONAL THANK YOU NOTE FROM ANDREW TO RADIO AN, FROM HIS THEN UPCOMING “THE WOLF” ALBUM., SENT OUT TO MUSIC PROFESSIONALS ONLY, NOT SOLD TO THE GENERAL PUB

Genre: Rock

Run Time: 3:45

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Unit Quantity: 1