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WE WANT FUN DEMO [LP] – DOWNLOAD
A number of things need to be cleared up about the history and the distribution of this ambiguous album. Two things to clarify right away is one, the above album art is in no way official. It was created by ME -dickalan. And two, THIS RELEASE of the album is a NEW source of the “Masters” ripped at 160kbps. We’ll get to why that’s important later.
The History
Our sources for the history of this album mainly come from two separate places. 1) A recent interview (1/14/10) with Andrew’s old drummer “Donald Tardy” who happens to be the same Metal drummer for the band “Obituary”. This interview has filled in MANY missing gaps and confirmed many thoughts throughout the years! 2) An OLD Bulb Records web page that has since been dismantled but can still be accessed through “archive.org”. We’ll start from the beginning but in short this is the album that led to Andrew landing an “Island Records” deal and putting together a backing band.
In 1999-ish Andrew W.K. created songs that eventually were released at the end of 2000 on Bulb Records. They were put out on two EP’s; “AWKGOJ” & “Party Til You Puke” came out between the months of September & October. In the duration of the year 2000 Andrew also started working, creating, and recording more tracks in preparation for a full length LP release entitled “We Want Fun”. This was meant to be released January 2001, again on Bulb Records. This release never happened due to Andrew’s previous actions that year.
Instead of sitting on these tracks after they were recorded, he started distributing them to everyone he could. He called these 12 tracks on a CD-R his “Demo”. Somehow his Demo ended up in the hands and peaked the interest of Island Def Jam Records. Upon serious interest in signing Andrew, he quickly sent out his “Demo” again to many artists. One of which being his favorite drummer, Donald Tardy of Obituary. Donald LOVED the demo and basically put the rest of the band together for Andrew. Andrew was soon signed to Island, he had a full band, the Bulb release was canceled, and he re-recorded the “We Want Fun” LP. Some of the songs ended up on “I Get Wet”, some ended up on “The Wolf” and two remain exclusive to the demo.
The Distribution
For a number of years this album was passed around to hard-core ‘underground’ fans. Its source was obviously copies or originals of the CD-R Andrew made and distributed personally. It finally became available to the ‘public’ April 9, 2006 for a short time in an official forums thread. The link was removed shortly after by the author. It was posted by readytodie a moderator but the actual ’source’ who gave him the tracks wished to remain anonymous, and still is to this day. THAT release is what has been available on the internet in various places up until this time. Although this release’s fidelity said 320kbps it obviously was not. Being much worse than even 128kbps the sound was much quieter than a normal CD and there were multiple tracks that had skipping in them. Although this was the FIRST release & the tracks were AWESOME to have, the quality was under par. THOSE tracks are available to download in the We Want Fun Demo page of this site.
The exception to this were four tracks posted at the Andrew W.K. Official Web Site. When navigating to the “Music” section, and upon listening to the Singles “Tear It Up”, “Your Rules”, “She Is Beautiful”, and “Party Hard” you’ll find that the tracks that play aren’t actually the tracks from those singles, but are the WE WANT FUN tracks. The “hacked” into website tracks revealed they were 128kbps in fidelity, which was the best quality available up until this time. But again, it was only four tracks and not the full album. Those four tracks have been available to download for some time on the We Want Fun Demo Page of this site.
NOW, Andrew WK Music.com is proud to be releasing this ultra rare album from NEW sourced “Masters” ripped at 160kbps. Which includes the full album in the highest quality and with no skipping, to date. They’re even better than the official website tracks!
