Customer Reviews

"Wesley Willis - Greatest Hits, Vol. 2"

5 star:		(19)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

Wesley Willis is the real antipop!

He is the granddadyy of Rock & Roll

Get down to his crazy lyrics and old skool keyboard beats

Feel the power of Rock & Roll

Rock over London!

Rock on Chicago!

Heinz! It's America's favourite ketchup!

I accidently stumbled across this little gem about a month ago, and my life hasn't been the same since. Wesley expresses basic raw emotion, that most people have bred out of them by society. Wesley says what he wants to say, and doesn't beat around the bush. It made me realize how much I was preventing myself from enjoying by keeping my similar emotions bottled up. Way to go Wesley, keep on playing that rock music!

What other album can claim to incite hysterical laughter within 15 seconds of listening to ANY track? My first taste was "Stop the Violence," in which he bluntly requests that we "Stop raping women for-crying-out-loud!" In that first 15 seconds, every listener will have made the decision to worship Mr. Willis or throw his album in the trash. As much as I love this 6'5", 300lb., schizophrenic black vagrant who sells his music and art on the streets, one cannot look past the fact that he is something of a novelty act. This novelty WILL wear off with repeated listenings, but one must revel in it until then. Wesley Willis was born a rambling man, a filmed biography waiting to happen. Above all, he is an unbridled, unabashed performer who tells it like it is (to him), and rest assured that it IS downright bizarre. You've never heard anything like him--not even close. One last complaint: if in the liner notes bemoan the difficulty of narrowing the hundreds of albums into one, WHY THE HECK IS THIS LESS THAN AN HOUR LONG! We want more!

Man, this stuff rocks. I'd like to shake Uncle Jello's hand for bringing us the musical genius that is Wesley Willis. Spread the Wesley fever; get this CD for your friends and force them to listen to it. They won't be disappointed. Scarred for life, but not disappointed.

Wesley is at his absolute best and most illuminating on this disc. Not only are the lyrics fun and inspiring, but Wesley's vocal range is much improved over his previous stuff. Sit back, pour yourself a drink and laugh your face off!

You may laugh at the samples, and wonder about the fact that Wesley Willis gets either one or five stars... Why the love/hate relationship to this music? Bottom line, if you give it a chance it is infectious, like a case of herpes. It drones on in your head and you find yourself siging a rousing chorus of "Oil Express" at the most inappropriate time. For all these reasons I fully endorse the genius of Wesley Willis. He does what all modern rock does, using a repetitive and predictable formula as a basis of the artform. Its magic is in its repetitive simplicity. Plus he's a cool guy, great live too.

Folks, this is the last true-blue punk rocker left in America. He provokes the same reactions with his music that all the original punks on both sides of the pond did back in the mid-70s. It's human, rude, offensive, introspective music directly from the heart.

Forget the rest of the poseurs like Green Day, Blink 182, etc..........THIS IS THE REAL DEAL!

Yes, most songs start and end the same. Three songs are heavy metal based-by far the best remake of girls on film (duran duran) The genious in writing a song about getting your oil changed is hard to top. I'm running my ink pen sounds like some early Department S 70's punk. Wanna get some funny looks? crank the vultures ate my dead ass up at a stop light. This is a master piece of punk rock!

Wesley was surely one of God's chosen people and this music is way superior to anything Phillip Glass ever wrote. I went to Book Wherehouse and one of the clerks told me that they are not allowed to play jazz in the store.Then a lady asked for Wagner's Flight of the Valkerie. Then I said to the clerk that I KNOW Darth Vader IS Hitler and that John Travolta was Michael and he will slay the RED DRAGON and seal the door where EVIL dwells according to the Heavily Annotated Book of Zen Semiology!I know me and Wesley are protected by the ascended masters and white yogis of the Trans-Himalayan Lodge. Then a big guy wearing a World Gym T-shirt and Bagdad Jazzpants grabbed me and dragged me out of the store, ripping my shirt right off and calls me punk.
I feel they should have included "termites ate my house up". Mental illness is not a handicap and Wesley showed everyone what the mentally ill community can do if they set their minds to it.!

this is a great album

get it

cut the mullet should be a number one hit!

wesley willis i love you! lisanicole2@yahoo.com