HUH?
As actual music, NO. As "ART", ok, maybe. I will never understand "artists" like this with no talent who are "embraced by the art scene" for no discernible reason. To each their own.
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We call this "art," and mean it!
There are few sounds as immediate and honest as the vocal flailings of Wesley Willis. Funny, heartfelt, intense and completely unhinged, Mr. Willis brings us honking, oddly-timed bleats of surreal review of everyday life. Big thanks to Jello Biafra for exposing a Chicago treasure... If you're only going to download one song, try "Girls On Film." That's a cover tune that keeps on giving!
What the...
This is, without a doubt, the weirdest, most distasteful and worst music I have ever heard in my whole life. If it wasn't written by a mentally ill person, I would feel okay laughing at it...
RIP Wesley
I got to meet Wesley at a show in New Haven, and when I approached him I said, "Hey Mr. Willis, you are a rock and roll star, it is a pleasure to meet you," and when I went to shake his hand he pulled my arm toward him and started head-butting me. I then got his autograph, which he signed in plain print, not cursive. I still have it to this day, and as of this day that was the only time in my life that I have ever head-butted a 300 pound schizophrenic black guy. Sadly he passed away the next year, so I was glad I got to see him at least that one time. He is sorely missed, and we must never forget the genius that was Wesley Willis.
I get it
This is what I call alternative approach to the music. Here in Estonia we love and praise him.
brilliant.
what a gift it was to have wesley... listen and learn.
Pure Joy
People think I'm laughing at Wesley when I listen to his music, but really I just can't stop smiling. I smile because I know he smiled when he sang; it was the only way he could get the demons to shut up. To listen to Wesley sing is to experience happiness in its purest, most unadulterated form.
I miss Wesley
I can't listen to this too often, because it's honestly quite repetitive and simplistic, perhaps even cacophonic, but I don't think that means I can't love it anyway. I really treasure it.
Great Wedding Music!
Everyone should get this album and play it at the next wedding/funeral/baptism/whateverbigevent is happening in your life. Mr. Willis is a musical genius. Cut the Mullet is my favorite track. The poetic flow of this masterpiece is without equal. "Tell your barber you're sick of looking like an a**hole!" Brilliance!
Heinz is America's favorite ketchup!
Essential for exactly 1 listen. You should always have They Threw Me Out Of Church though, track 2, download that post haste!
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