Reviews (page 5 of 7)
Gonna give 3 stars. I was hip to their jive.
Just gonna go ahead and sit down with a vitamin water and watch the oc like it's 2005 and really lean into this album. I like it. I probably won't relisten.
Just ok
ok, not for me
Ameríska tíundarokkið verður ekki mikið betra en þetta. Jú nokkur lög eru svolítið löng og drónkennd, enda þótti rétt að fullnýta allt plássið á geisladiskum, en hljóðheimurinn stendur algerlega fyrir sínu og bangerarnir eru mjög góðir, sérstaklega Last junkie on Earth sem er næstum of brútal.
Das Album The Dandy Warhols Come Down wurde 1997 veröffentlicht und in mehreren Studios in den USA aufgenommen, darunter die Studio 13 Recording Studios in Portland, Oregon. Die Band stammt aus den Vereinigten Staaten und bewegt sich stilistisch im Bereich Alternative Rock, mit Einflüssen aus Psychedelic Rock und Shoegaze. Zu den bekanntesten Stücken des Albums zählen „Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth“, „Every Day Should Be a Holiday“ und „Boys Better“, die durch eingängige Melodien und eine charakteristische Mischung aus Gitarrensounds und entspannter Rhythmik auffallen. Die Produktion ist insgesamt offen arrangiert, mit einer Vorliebe für Effekte und schwebende Klangflächen. Insgesamt vermittelt das Album eine klare Vorstellung davon, wie sich die Band Mitte der 1990er positionierte: als Teil einer Szene, die zwischen Indie-Attitüde und Pop-Appeal changierte. Die Stücke sind stilistisch konsistent, auch wenn manche Passagen redundant wirken. Wer sich für den damaligen US-Underground interessiert, findet hier ein zeittypisches Beispiel.
Boring, mid indie for hipsters who dig too far for meaning in a song.
not what I was expecting - 3.5 rounded up
Acceptable, but the droning shoegaze ending really drags it down. Won't ever listen to it again.
This was a lot better than I expected. I really expected some generic '90s alt-rock bullshit but it's got more of a dreamy space rock lean, very good for what it is. But the end is a drag, it's just bad droning stoner bullshit. Like the last few songs. What comes before is truly great pop rock/shoegaze songwriting. It's good!
Expands upon the template set by 90 percent of Brit-slop to create--for the most part--some creative and novel shoegaze-and-grunge-influenced rock. The last half of the record really stinks. Way too much neutered drone rock. Bumping this down to a 2; would be a 3 if they had excised the latter half.
standard 90's indie rock.
4.2 Ooo I really enjoyed that. Shoegazy, light britpop, with a bit of robot rock thrown in there. Shades of the beta band, pixies, blur, qotsa, without sounding like they were ripping anyone off. Surprised Ive never come across them before. A nice new one to explore.
next!
I guess this album is somewhere between the grunge if the 90s and the start of indie sleaze. It's an interesting album, but not that exciting.not a huge fan of this.
Too much crap in between catchy songs
I saw these guys live at a concert in Bend, OR and it was great fun. This album is a more pop-y than the garage band rooted rock I saw that day but it's still quite good.
I was not particularly looking forward to this, something about the name of the band, and them including their name in the album title (it irks me, like a fourth wall break that I don't like or something) really put me off. I was expecting something... very different. I thought to myself "it'd be funny if it was actually not what i'm expecting and I also really enjoyed it" - nailed it on both! It was so good, I followed M.I.A's Arular with this for the second half of my trip home and it was spectacular vibes for driving into golden hour then the sunset as I crossed barren plains, the hills, and saw the city sparkling in the distance. Incredible guitar presence, vocals are quiet and mostly hard to catch what's being sung at all, but that didn't detract. I really enjoyed this album.
I liked this one. The psychedelic soundscapes with 90s production worked for me I really liked “Not If You Were The Last Junkie In Earth”, “Boys Better” and “Minnesoter”. But it does kinda lag in the middle. Overall a good time I’d say 3.5 if I could to halves
pretty decent, i enjoyed but probably wouldnt go out of my way for it.
Really surprised by this one. Thought that this would be one of many but it really stood out for me. Had even chill rock cuts. Really worked for me. (4.0/5.0)
this grew on me more than i anticipated from a stoner rock vibe. I think I like the psychodelic stuff here but the dragging on nature of it gets to me. A decent listen
Crazy, fun and relaxed
quite dandy indeed
Started off promising but boy did that not last
Not terrible, but not a hidden gem either.
Like earlier one better
Mediocre
2.5
This could have been cool, but the execution wasn't quite there for me.
Some songs are worth a 4, but overall it’s a 3 for me.
I’m not sure if I was just in a really good mood when I listened to this but I really liked it. The guitars are mixed well
The last two songs moved this to a solid 2, if there was any doubt. This album was ho hum and lasted way too long.
Why?
After the first track I was like, okay this is getting a 2, I can't understand a lick of what this dude is mumbling. Then after track 2 I was like okay maybe a 4, I really like this. I never thought that again after track 2. Most of this was trashy, mumbly lyrics that were either plain and I did not care about or they were just super sexual for no reason other than this dude be horny. Musically it was okay, sometimes really good, but often really boring (tracks 13 and 14). Also being over an hour is obnoxious, y'a'll ain't that good.
it started out interesting, then got to "I Love You" and that was just repeated over and over and over, then a couple other pretty interesting tracks, then got to "Green" and everything else after that was just a chore to listen to. 2.5 stars
Killer album.
Vibey chill, good easy listening
This is the 99th album I’m rating. I don’t know what this is. Adding to my Playlist - Be-In, Boys Better, Minnesoter, Orange, I Love You, Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth, Every Day Should Be a Holiday, Good Morning, Whipping Tree, Green, Cool As Kim Deal, Hard On For Jesus, Pete International Airport, and The Creep Out. Not Adding to my Playlist - Nothing. All in all I liked 14/14 songs. Very good album all in all.
3.4
I’ve heard of the Dandy Warhols before, but I couldn’t tell you a single thing about them. I listened to a fair amount of radio alternative rock in the late nineties, but there are so many artists that I’ve never been exposed to. I’ve really enjoyed getting to listen to a lot of these rock albums from the nineties that I didn’t get exposed to at the time, so I’m hoping this album joins the ranks of Suede and The Afghan Whigs! I’m happy to say that I really enjoyed this album. The overall sound was really unique, and I loved how they infused shoegaze and psychedelic sounds into alternative rock. This album was incredibly strong from start to finish, bolstered by some great guitar playing, solid keyboard riffs, and strong songwriting. This album sounded British to me, and I was shocked to see that the band is actually from Portland, Oregon. There were some songs that I didn’t enjoy as much as the rest of the album (“Orange,” “I Love You,” and “Whipping Tree”), but while those songs weren’t my particular taste, I thought they were still good, and they didn’t detract from my enjoyment of the album. “Be-In” really snagged my attention from the start. I loved the distortion and fuzzy guitar sounds, and there was a lazy vibe to the sound that matched the lyrics really well. The segue into “Boys Better” was fantastic, and this second song was just as strong as the first. My favorite track on the album was “Every Day Should Be A Holiday.” The guitar effects were outstanding, the keyboard playing and electronic effects added a beautiful depth, and they rhythms were incredibly groovy and fun. I really enjoyed the last two instrumental tracks as well. For an album over an hour long, this really flew by. When I’m done with this project, I definitely want to check out more albums by The Dandy Warhols.
Not a good sign when, listening to the first track, you think to yourself: this just goes on and on...
I'd totally forgotten that I used to listen to this a lot. It remains a pleasure (an only slightly guilty one). I know this album is pretty lightweight but there's something about the shoegazy rock that I really like and find very soothing. I used to listen to it a lot before exams at uni to help stay calm (along with BRMC). Plus I find the lyrics so cool: Taylor-Taylor must have been so proud of himself when he thought of the phrase "I never thought you'd be a junky because heroin is so passé". Who wouldn't want a girl as cool as Kim Deal? And there's a part of me that would still rather be cool than smart or loved. I also really like "every day should be a holiday", it's one of those sentiments that dares to throw away all accepted wisdom and just say maybe we can live for pleasure and forget about pain and the protestant work ethic, reminds me of "do they owe us a living?" (of course they fucking do) by Crass and when Guy Debord painted "ne travaille jamais" on a wall in Paris.
This is… slightly uneasy. For the band that gave us Bohemian Like You this is not what I expected
Yet more American cr*p.
nice sounding ground, bisschen Einfalls los manchmal
FINALLY MY 5 STAR STREAK IS BROKEN WAHOOOOO. no hate to this group I just wasn't in love with the music, and also several songs made me itchy
A bit of a slog. Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth and Everyday Should be a Holiday are great tracks - but rest of the album is a real disappointment. Lots of fairly bland instrumentals / jams and forgettable album fillers. Disappointing.
…The Dandy Warhols Come Down I was quite into the Dandy Warhols, I really liked this album and the two after it, but I can’t have thought about them in about 20 years. It’s kind of interesting for 1997, although they sound very American and you can hear a bit of alt rock/grunge to it, and it definitely has some Britpopness to it, but it actually feels more like a lot of indie from around 2000 onwards. They are pretty good at creating a droning, Sonic Youth type groove with layered sounds, as on Be-In, Boys Better, Good Morning and The Creep Out, but they can also write some very catchy melodies - Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth and Everyday Should be a Holiday are great bits of pop music. Cool as Kim Deal is good, and Minnersoter and Hard On for Jesus are decent as well. But I suppose the issue is that the songs in between those two types, while not bad, either are probably not catchy enough or quite atmospheric or interesting enough, so it feels uneven and does drag in places, eg Orange, I Love You, Whipping Tree, Green and Pete International Airport. It’s also another bloaty CD album at 66 mins. Overall though it's an enjoyable enough listen with some good songs and a fair amount of filler. I would happily listen again, but I doubt I’d reach for it that frequently, making it a standard issue 3. 🥫🥫🥫 Playlist submission: Everyday Should be a Holiday
The album is awash with melody. Taylor-Taylor's voice and harmonising with himself, with synth, gives the Dandys an instantly recognisable pop rock feel. TT's ear for melody means these tracks are far from expendable pop - incorporating pop, grunge, Britpop influence. Add to that the monumental 'Not if You Were the Last Junkie on Earth' and this is pushing a four. But this is a very good, rather than excellent, album.
boring
This one really took a left turn on the last two songs. Like did they just need to fill some space at the end? Anyways, this album was fine but nothing really jumped out at me. It was just an ok album.
Did finish, really wasn’t anything super exciting or groundbreaking? I feel like there’s been 10 other albums like this in the month or so we’ve been doing this. 2.5/5 Fav song: Minnesoter
Kind of weird and super emo. The songs all sounded pretty much the same
Way baggier and way, way better than I expected. Every Day Should Be a Holiday is supreme pop. I'm sure Tony Wilson was proud
Psychedelic, actually thought it was pretty good
When this started I was thinking this could be my first 5-star in a loooong time - but as it wound on the quality took a major downward trajectory. It never gets bad, but it does get uninspiring, and to end an already overlong album with 15 minutes of navel-gazing instrumentals that rival Deep Purple at their own-fart-sniffing best just drops it down pretty hard. Shame.
Why is this on here....? There is better DW material that could've been included like Distortland or Monkey House or even Urban Bohemia. Still pretty good. Don't forget to check out the Dig Documenatary!
Look, we all had an album we were obsessed with in 1997, but in hindsight can’t imagine what we were thinking. That’s what led the Dandy Warhols to be the oldest album to have the honor of being removed from the 1001. For 17-year-old me, in 1997 I thought Offspring’s “Ixnay on the Hombre,” Everclear’s “So Much for the Afterglow,” and… wait for it… Creed’s “My Own Prison” were great. I’ve long since come to my senses. Not sure if “...The Dandy Warhols Come Down” is better than those three, but it doesn’t warrant a place on the list.
Boring.
There isn’t one thing that really jumps out, or is distinctive, from this album. Rather it’s more of a vibe as the kids would say. I like the guitar sound and overall this feels more like a feeling. A feeling I enjoyed, but don’t need to revisit.
What a wonderful surprise this album was. This was the first in the project I had never listened to. Such a solid album.
It was ok. Nothing really called out to me, but nothing really to dislike either. It would be fine to put on again, but I wouldn't put it on again on purpose.
It was a vibe album where it was on, it was cool, I enjoyed it, but that was pretty much it. Nothing to hate about it, nothing that really sticks out as "Wow, what an incredible song"
I guess "shoegaze" is the term you use for shooting yourself in the foot. I was enjoying the first half of this album. It had a heavy alternative sound but with a sense of humor maybe, then for fun they channeled Duran Duran (on "Every Day Should Be A Holiday"). But from "Good Morning" onward each song made me either sigh or press skip. The quality was there, but my interest wasn't.
I remember hearing about this band in the 90s, and I wish I had heard this album at the time. It doesn't sound like the 90s to me at all, and that is a good thing. It is a weird fusion between early 80s alt rock with a little bit of 60's alt psychedelic rock. At times it charms, but it also drifts a little into the experimental. By the end, I was ready to move on, however, it was a worthwhile venture into something from the 90s that didn't suffer too much from the grunge influences.
Pretty good.
Hmmmm. Really unsure if I love this or not.
Middle of the road (but not in a reckless way)
listened to it at least twice, I liked the song about heroin
Was okay, but didn't like it that much.
Most of the psychadelic stuff didn't work for me. They just drone along. The other songs are fine.
A kooky, experimental side to britpop that I never know existed. Even more surprising that this band is not from Britain, yet they still tap into the driving sound and mumbled vocals pretty well. Some cool sounds on this, though the run time is too long and many songs lead to nowhere. Best Tracks: - Be-In - Orange Worst Tracks: - Hard On For Jesus - Not If I Were The Last Junkie On Earth Rating: 5.5/10
Pretty much what I expected. Sleazy or creepy? You be the judge.
fuck yeah.
Good but not great. The songs all do pretty much the same thing sound-wise, and while it's *fine* it does make it feel like a bit of a slog to make it to the end.
Not fully my thing
I liked this one a lot; this kind of neo-psychedelia sound is right up my alley. I was half-drifting asleep while listening to it, and I think that only added to my enjoyment.
Noisy and Meandering I'm surprised I've never heard this band before today - they are very much up my alley.
It was fine, dragged towards the end. Didn't need to hear it before I died
It was fine. Nothing stood out.
I only know one Dandy Warhols song and it's "We Used to be Friends" which isn't on this record so I'm going in blind. So normally while I'm listening I might type some thoughts on individual songs but I was busy today while listening, so I didn't. To be honest, nothing really stands out.
Some good songs on there
90s indie pop spectacular.
Thoughts before listening: Oooh does this have the song about being the last junkie on earth? That's a great song. I don't know all that much about the Dandy Warhols although I did watch that movie about their rivalry with Brian Jonestown Massacre. I'm sure this will be fine. Review: This is okay. It's a 90s alt-rock sound that I enjoy and is familiar to me, but I do feel like there are other bands that did it better. Interesting that the Dandy Warhols are from Oregon because they've always given me the vibe of a Brit pop band. The best song here is "Not if You Were the Last Junkie on Earth" but I've added a few more to my playlist as well. 3-stars
Very 90's college radio Indie. I'm sure I played them back in the day. Decent album the whole way through. Deserves to be in a regular listen rotation for sure.
Mr Come Down, so pleased to see you again. I could write so much about this album, and the band. It was nothing short of revelatory when I first heard it, aged 17. It was the antidote to both tedious Britpop and increasingly middle-of-the-road American rock, existing somewhere in a swirling bongwater ether of the Velvet Underground and Rolling Stones, but also taking in influences from shoegaze and stoner rock, with a snide, cool, and nihilistic attitude. Come Down was at once deeply uncool and the coolest thing I'd ever heard, and I just couldn't understand why more people didn't like them. I saw them live a lot. I got the t-shirt. I wrote an essay about them at university. I got a tattoo. I was obsessed. I still think it hangs together as an album, and it needs to be listened to as loud as possible. "Be In" builds layer upon layer, "Boys Better" smacks you with one of the short, sharp catchy pop songs that the Dandys do really fucking well, then the pace slows and it gets into this soporific sludge, in the best possible way, before hitting the double-whammy of "Junkie" and "Holiday," and then "Good Morning" is a come down from that burst of energy and a return to the more stoned fug of the first half. It's by far their best album and I wish they'd continued on this track and not tried to go all electronic. So yeah, five stars, always and forever.
Never has a sound and band name seemed so fitting to me
Far out ✌️
It is a pretty nice album, but not memorable really. Just sort of sits there in its safe space.
Favorite Track: Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth
2.75
Lovely chill album for an afternoon. Really enjoyed it. Fabulous guitar on Black Queen.
I've been a fan of the Dandy Warhols for some time, and this is probably the best album to choose for them on this list. It's not necessarily their best - I still prefer 13 Tales... - but it showcases their weird, slacker-cum-hipster vibes the best for people who are new to them. It's distorted, drawn out, and definitely an album that expects you to zone in and out with it as it goes - I can appreciate that's not to everyone's tastes, but it definitely is mine.
Solid droning druggy mid-90s experience, but not really important enough to warrant inclusion on this list. Not If You Were the Last Junkie is incredibly annoying.
01) Be-In - 6,5 02) Boys Better - 7,0 03) Minnesoter - 7,0 04) Orange - 6,5 05) I Love You - 6,0 06) Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth - 7,5 07) Every Day Should Be a Holiday - 7,5 08) Good Morning - 7,0 09) Whipping Tree - 6,0 10) Green - 6,5 11) Cool as Kim Deal - 7,0 12) Hard On for Jesus - 7,5 13) Pete International Airport - 5,5 14) The Creep Out - 6,5 TOTAL: 6,71 (67/100) Current ranking: 331/473
This was better than I expected. Good vibe and feel to it. Easy melodies to get lost in. I enjoyed listening to it. Good one to include on the list. I'm not sure I'd relisten. Fighting between a 3 and 4.
Had some interesting bits sonically. Lyrically it didn't do much for me. But had that flat over compressed sound to it of the 1990s.
I had a lot of fun listening to this album. It sounds like the good old days of 90's Britpop. I'll give it 4 stars.
So drone-y. So boring. Tim: “There might have been a time I’d have cottoned to it, but certainly no longer.”
This is a band that a vaguely remember hearing about but never actually heard them. They are somewhat typical 90’s alternative. They have Radiohead vibes sometimes, smashing pumpkins vibes, grunge vibes at times… nothing super memorable but they’re ok. I enjoyed it.
I love bohemian like you, but it's not in this. Good vibes, enjoyed the sound, but the slow songs were kind of a drag 4* Highlights: every day should be a holiday
Enjoyed this more than I expected
Pretty sure everyone wants a girl as cool as Kim Deal. Not quite got the tunes that 13 Tales does, and some of them drag a bit (Be-In doesn’t even start until 2 minutes in), but still holds up pretty well. Probably a good stoner album, I wouldn’t know.
I need to revisit this one cause it's good stuff
Really like The Dandy Warhols. Never went this far back in their catalogue, but I had heard two of these songs and they are great. Rest of the album is pretty solid as well.
This was really really good, will listen to again.
Hmm. Unsure about this rating. 2.5 maybe?
Just couldn't get into it at all. I think I might like this is I was five days younger.
Good, a little too bloated, but I’d probably come back to this.
> The Beatles
I’ve had this in my collection since it came out. I go hot and cold on the record. Sometimes I think it’s amazing sometimes I find it a bit draggy.
Huge meh. This is yet another band in the style of a mostly monotone, soft vocal that melts into music an entirely minor synth driven “wall of sound” that absorbs everything. I realize a lot of folks dig this, but I’m not one. It’s ok for a little, but that’s about it. After about 40 seconds into each song, I’ve heard about all it has to offer. Had to stop listening about 2/3 through and couldn’t muster enough give-a-crap to finish it. It’s music, and that’s about it.
Meh
i fucking love the dandy warhols and not if you were the last junkie on earth is my favourite song of theirs
Fine pop music. I had a nice time.
boring
These guys actually seem talented and modestly original inside whatever genre Spotify says this fits into. I liked a few songs, but it’s all a beige blur a couple of days on…
Liked this better than I thought I would- have heard a few of their songs over the years. Really like their more upbeat songs (minnesoter, last junkie on earth, every day should be a holiday) but found myself skipping through the draggy songs. Definitely a west coast Sloan feel in the harmonies. Not bad at all.
Meh
Love the vocals and wall-of-sound. Definitely sets a mood.
No familiar with them, kinda weird could use another listen
cool but some (most if im being honest) feel really dragged out every day should be a holiday is a banger though i love those weird ass synths
Not bad, kinda reminded me of my music back in college
Quite bland. Not bad, just totally... okay.
yayyy yummy fuzzy guitars
Great band name, great album!
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First? 3/5 Again? 2/5
I didnt remember this fondly, but was pleasantly surprised. Apart from the ironically passe hit, there was a lot of filler but some decent pink floydesque music and some passable, really spacious soundscapes. Still too hipster and inconsistent, but not bad
Remember when records could sound lush and full but they didn't hurt your ears? The mid 90s remembers.
Enjoyed it immensely. Some songs more than others by a lot though. Overall more good than bad. Some over-noodling got tiresome. Would have given a half star extra if I could.
I liked them. Will listen to more.
Watch the great documentary on this band. Realise this isn’t the album that is best for this list. Grit your teeth in frustration. Give it 3 stars because you’re scared you’re being too mean.
"Dig!" is one of my favorite music documentaries, carting the parallel journeys of the Dandy Warhols and the Briamn Jonestown Massacre. it's a great and compelling story of the music industry in the 1990s and the comparisons between the two bands (once friends, later enemies) make for fascinating viewing, full of drama, violence, drugs, ambition, mental illness and self-destruction. While the Brian Jonestown Massacre's willful embrace of the rock'n'roll myth, all sex and drugs and destruction, left a trail of self-sabotage, missed opportunities, ex-band members and failure, it looks like they were ultimately the more artistically successful. There are a lot of subsequent bands subsequent that were clearly influenced by their 60s inflected drone rock (personally, I quite like Wooden Shjips), although Anton Newcombe's continuing behaviour issues become less and less charming as the years pass. Artistic endeavor doesn't give you a pass to act like an arsehole. The Dandy Warhols are a different case. They were willing to make the compromises to sign to a major label and reach for the brass ring. They were a bit out of step with American "indie" music at the time; they had an air of louche glamour and decadence. Interestingly, Pitchfork cite this album on their list of "Best Britpop albums that aren't British". And I can see the reasoning; enthralled by the first British Invasion (more Stones than Beatles in this case), the cocaine strut, the naked ambition and embrace of all the rock star lifestyle. Were they arrogant? Were they drug-addled (even if not embracing the full-time junkie depravity of BJM)? Were they naive about how the industry works? Well, yes, they were all those things. But they released a couple of major label albums (best summarized on their retrospective compilation), had some hits in Europe and other markets (they were pretty big in Australia due to lots of play on Triple J radio), toured in a tour bus, played a bunch of festivals, did a lot of drugs, and basically fell into every music industry trap that Steve Albini warned us about. So, mission accomplished! What's the album like to listen to, though? Well, there are a handful of decent songs (Last Junkie on Earth, Boys Better), but really nothing special. And sooooo much filler. All the songs are a minute too long, and there are a few tracks that need to be cut entirely (Pete International Airport, immediately springs to mind). What was going on in the 90s that albums needed to be more than an hour long? The Dandys obsession with sixties rock should have told them that an album really shouldn't exceed 40 minutes. The record desperately needs 20-25 minutes edited out. I don't mind a bit of drone in my rock, but when the drone is all there is (and the Dandy's drones ain't that great), then they're just wasting time. I feel that this album is mostly posture; all talk and no trousers. It was sort of cool at the time, but the years haven't been kind. This album is pretty inessential. But go watch "Dig!" That really is essential viewing about how bands work.
More shoegazy than I expected from knowing just the singles. I enjoyed it, but it could have been shorter. It still just about gets a 4, but would have been better if it was a tight 45 minutes rather than just over an hour.
Didn't expect to like this one as much as I did. Some really good songs on here.
This was fun. Not entirely interesting, but way too long. 3/5
Pretty interesting as an album, reviewing it is also tricky for me, had it in the backlog for almost 2 weeks now. A bit elusive, a bit hazy, with just enough mix of a 'I'm interested' and 'meh'. Ultimately? Interesting project. Interesting project. Interesting hooks. Somewhere between 3 and 4 for me, and it might've been a 4, but I don't feel like it has enough hooks for me.
The musical equivalent of tat.
i wasn’t sure what to expect other than the possibility of the Veronica mars song being on this album. i didn’t hate it, it sounded like stuff i’ve heard before, i actually really quite liked it, the song Good Morning. it woke something up in my brain. like, it set off all kinds of electricity in my brain and i fucking loved it. if they had all been like that; it would have been an easy 5. but i couldn’t quite give it that.
"The Dandy Warhols Come Down" has the distinction of being (as far as I can tell), the oldest album to have ever been removed from this list. Most releases past 2000 have been safe from revisions since the first edition of book. It's a shame because it's actually a pretty great album. I would struggle to think of any reason why it particularly needs to be on this list but I can also think of a lot of better ones to remove. Fortunately it's still in the generator. I'm surprised how much I enjoyed this one. The first person who ever told me about The Dandy Warhols described them as an emo band and I'm afraid I've been dismissing them ever since. Art rock would be a better description with elements of Sonic Youth, Nirvana, 90s indie rock and classic rock. The singles are all incredibly catchy and there's not a bad track on here. I'm sorry that I've been sleeping on this one so long. It's a great find.
Ended up playing at three times during the course of a lazy Saturday reading comic books
Meh, too pop for me. I can understand the appeal but it’s just not for me
Artistic range from peppy to stand
Nice discovery, I could get into hearing more of this
Just boring masturbatory shit
Sooo dull and soo long. The very essence of meh. I guess I'm team Jonestown then.
Familiar with the Dandy Warhols and these songs didn’t disappoint. Tracks bled together a bit but overall this type of music is my bread and butter lately. 4.5/5
Well here's a surprise, and in a nice way - I liked this one! Never really listened to them before, and this ... was good. Will come back again!
Expensive, competent and lacklustre, listenable but rarely engaging, and twenty minutes too long, this is music designed to be lifted in 20-second chunks for young-adult TV shows that makes me wonder about the motives of critics behind this list - an argument might be made to treat this as fashion history, but to include it for its quality would be deranged. The passé-heroin song is their deserved hit, irritatingly effective and then-modish. Apart from that, the slower songs are marginally more appealing, which I had not expected. The final droning march has little going on though; one listen was sufficient.
Turns out I own three (3!) Dandy Warhols albums: our current task here, the one with the Vodafone ad and the one with the Veronica Mars song. Given the slovenly state of their mp3 tags I assume they were given to me by a well-meaning friend and never listened to. Well: this one is the worst by some distance. A couple of good pop tunes, each with a cool arch-sarcastic affect although quite conventional in reality, a career strategy that only seems to work for Yanks somehow (the old irony gap?). Too long with too many guitar effect layers that go nowhere, but fun in places. Go watch "Dig!" if you haven't; highly amusing even if you care nothing for the bands featured within. The indie Spinal Tap as cinéma vérité.
Best Song: Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth. Finally a song that seems to want to have a little fun. Worst Song: Pete International Airport. Boy was the latter half of this track unpleasant to listen to. Overall: Inoffensive but fairly dull, droning music. Everything has this drippy, medicated quality to it, but it also doesn't have the lyrical depth to truly lean into the melancholy. It feels like an album made to make teenagers feel a low-level, disembodied sort of angst.
*Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia* included in a list such as this one > Yes. Unfortunately, it's not in Dimery's book. *This* previous album included in the list? > NO. The second part of side one ("Orange", "I Love You" and even the overrated "Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth", often singled out because of its importance in the *Dig!*-related Dandy Wharhol / BJM feud) are absolute borefests that go nowhere *slow*, both lyrically and musically. Too bad, because the rest is often livelier and/or pretty good, generally speaking. But you won't find anything there that *Thirteen Tales...* didn't do at least twice better during its best moments. 3/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums. 8/10 for more general purposes (5 + 3) Number of albums left to review: around forty, as I've gone over the 1000 line and this generator is including albums from all editions of the book Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 455 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 271 Albums from the list I won't include in mine: 330 (including this one)
I actually dug this. Not sure how I escaped the nineties having never listened to this. They’re like a mix of Blur and My Bloody Valentine.
This is a pretty good album by a band I was not aware of. They Kind of bridge the gap between Weezer and Radiohead which is very odd. Heroin is so Passe.
Didn't really like it that much. Lacked strength and energy in my opinion.
Really enjoyed this.
I like the Dandy Warhols, but this is not one of my favorite albums of theirs.
3.75
Brit pop meets American Grunge humor all covered with shoegaze the sum is less than its parts.
boring. couldn’t listen
3.5
The first few tracks really won me over. Somewhere in the middle it kind of lost its grip on me, but turned it back around in the end.
Zzzz
...The Dandy Warhols Come Down is such a weird, wacky and wonderful album. I initially came into this album thinking that it was just going to be a standard alt-rock album (which i still would have been fine with) but as it went on, it started introducing more and more crazy elements that really added to this album's individuality. The vocals were great here to ranging from regular alt-rock vocals to a much more quiet vocal style which i would have found many reasons to criticize if the album didn't handle these vocals so well but it ended up doing just that. Many of these aspects made this 66 minute long album more than worth my time. Best Song: Hard On For Jesus Worst Song: Pete International Airport
3.5
Somehow, I missed this when it was new. It's very much of its time, but that was kinda my time, so I dig it. And mixed in with that are tabs amounts of Neal Young, which is also up my alley. And psychedelia! And Galaxie 500-ish sounds! So where was I in '97?
This will be a short review because my head is a bit mushed today. I think I’ve heard the Dandy Warhols before, and I think I really liked them. Today’s album is really good too. It’s a bit trippy, but is fun rock music on the lighter side. It was good to have on while working.
I had to take a short break after the intro song. But it did get better, however that didnt make it a "must-listen" for me, more of an average, middling album. It gives me a little pretentious vibes here and there and I cant see why it deserves that attitude.
As someone who watched the documentary DIG a bunch as a teenager it was interesting finally listening to an album by one of the two bands featured in that movie. This album is fine. Nothing mind blowing like I was expecting. I think Sloan did it better and without all the pretension. Overall I probably won’t listen again but I’ll have the lyric “I never thought you’d be a junkie cause heroin is so passe” stuck in my head for life. So thanks ya fucks
Pretty bored at the opener, eventually grew on me a little. Not enough to ever come back and listen again, and not sure I had to now. But not terrible. Except Peter International Airport, that was terrible.
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It’s pretty good - there are som real bangers on here. But there are also a couple of fillers - some songs/melodies that get too repetitive. But I will definitely put this record on again in the future
I was working in the Portland scene when this band secured their Capitol records deal. This album was super hyped and of course as an idyllic 20 something music fan I picked it up, but I quickly realized it was one of the most over hyped boring albums I had ever heard. As boring as Weezer and the other Brit Pop wannabes with nonsensical lyrics to match. I listened to it maybe 2 more times through before I gave it away to a nephew in Portland who was nuts about them. I then returned to the far more interesting acts and albums from Nothing Records, Depeche Mode, Yello and the more creative acts that I was listening to at the time. The Dandy Warhols didn't have a track I dug until they did "We Used to be Friends" which was used as the show theme for Veronica Mars. Also way, way too long. I would recommend The Dragonflies from this time frame and geography instead. Unfortunately their music is practically nowhere to be found online. If you do find them give "Brenda Mars" or "Critical Nature" a listen. Way more fun than this stuff. Definitely not an album that needs to heard. Sounds like every other middling northwest rock act from 1990 to 2010.
At first I thought I liked it and the slight show gazy vibe but then I thought it was actually a bit dreary and lacked substance. Hard to tell. Inoffensive though
Generally quite good but got a bit bored and it all sounded quite similar. Can't really complain but nothing to celebrate for me
It’s not horrible, just feels like the same sounds over and over for an hour plus.
Weirdly satisfying for a ridiculously long album with ridiculously long songs.
I got Welcome to the Monkey House one Christmas, so the Dandy Warhols sound have a weird winter/Christmas association for me. So, I find it fitting that this is the album the day after Christmas. Plus, Hard On for Jesus! I love Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth and all the other songs too. The Creep Out is an awesome final song on the album.
The excitement about young bands, or garage bands, is the sense of exploration, adventurism, and courage conveyed by people who aren't quite sure what they're doing going for it anyway. For some reason, once the members of a rock band master their craft some magic disappears. They can compensate by embracing a polished sound and selling bazillions, or experimenting in different directions, by becoming studio rats for example. It sounds to me like the Dandy Warhols, here, have perfected their craft - the songwriting and the performances - but they're nostalgic for the magic of their younger years. Instead of going polished, like their peers Weezer or the Outcast - or experimental like Wilco, they just muddied up their sounds with eq and reverb. So you have these pretty little pop hooks, from a very tight band who clearly know what they're doing, but with this amateurish production. It's the worst of all worlds; the magic's gone and it still sounds muddy.
Good
I like it!
Some fine tunes.
1997. Dream Pop. Alt Rock. Power Pop. 7/10 Orange. I Love You. Boys Better. Green. Whipping Tree. Good Morning.
90s feeling a lot. Decent album.
Loved their sound at times but didn’t like any of the songs really. Maybe if they pared it down
I thoroughly enjoyed this. The first track, "Be-In" is the absolute definition of how you should start an album. One thing I noticed early on that I appreciate is that they don't rush to get to the chorus and take their time and build each song. There are moments that I could take or leave, especially the track "Pete international Airport." However, the infectious grooves and catchy guitar won me over. 4.5.
This is fine and dandy. Would listen again!
It sounds pretty good. I’ve heard, from credible sources, that the guy is a dick though
Much has been said about The Dandy Warhols (by me), but I honestly enjoyed this album more than I expected. Moody and psychedelic at times, upbeat and jammy at others, they displayed more range than I would have given them credit for. Whipping Tree was downright Floyd-esque! That said, it wasn’t particularly innovative. I’m feeling a 3.5/5 but going to round down because it was too long imo
Starts off really strongly, and stays enjoyable for the most part, but loses its way at the end. The two instrumentals that close out the album, ‘Pete International Airport’ and ‘The Creep Out’ are long, go nowhere and feel like they are the to pad out the run-time (of an album that was already long enough) more than anything else. Sometimes less is more.
"...The Dandy Warhols Come Down" is not an interesting album to listen to. There is nothing surprising or even creative here. It's the same old depressive rock formula that might work if you want to wallow in sadness. Otherwise, this album is not for you. It's so uninteresting that I couldn't even finish listening to the album, even though there were only two tracks left. The Dandy Warhols have (really) gone downhill, and I'm not even exaggerating.
I used to think of this band as middle-of-the-road alt-rock, especially since their hits gave off that vibe. Back when this was released, I didn’t fully appreciate the neo-psychedelia sound. But revisiting it now, the deeper cuts really stand out. It was a pleasant surprise, so I’m bumping my rating up from a 3 to a 4.
Top to bottom a pretty strong album of indie/alternative. DW had a definitive sound which risks getting repetitive but instead keeps a flow across tracks. Super listenable straight through.
I thought this band was so cool in 97. Some great tracks on this like Boys Better, Junkie, and Holiday. I don't remember the spacey instrumentals but over all this lives up to my memories of it.
I had this CD in high school/college and I played it a lot. And the reason I played it a lot is because it's really good. It's been a few years since I listened to it all the way through, which is a shame. Is it a 5 star? No, not quite, but it's pretty close.
That was pretty dandy
Just a click or two more to reach 4 starts,, quite a runner-up. I just wonder why this band hasn't ever fallen to my playlists earlier.
So not my thing.
Feels like watered down brit-rock with some U.S. folk thrown in for good measure. I get strange vibes, like it's produced by someone used to doing pompous stadium rock, then they're asked to tone it down and they don't really know how. This is not what I though Dandy Warhols was. Then again by late 90's I was not interested in billboard music at all, so I probably glanced over nor had any interest in most of that kind of music. Pretentious, boring, time has not been nice to this album.
When I heard the first song, I immediately thought this was Britpop and I had an instant pavlovian response of giving this 1 star. However, once I got past the first song (which was pretty bad), the rest of the album fucking rocked. This really does sound like the American version of Britpop, but in a good way. There are plenty of weird songs on here (like I Love You, wtf was that about), but then they crawl it back with absolute bangers like Last Junkie On Earth, which was both funny and interesting. Nothing really blew me away here, but I definitely enjoyed this one and there's plenty of songs I'll be coming back to.
Pretty laid back listening which I think was hindered early on by irritating me with the stupid over-pronunciation of things in Minnesoter (they even wrote it that way the bastards)
I liked this more than I expected I would and about halfway through it I really thought I’d end up giving it a 4. Unfortunately it went for another thirty minutes. You could drop the entire second half of this album and it would likely be a more cohesive, tight, punchy alt-pop rock type deal. Albums should not go over an hour and if they do they should be VERY good.
Not much to say, a pleasant listen and a pleasant surprise, was not expecting a band with such a shit name to make such decent music Didn't adore many of the tracks but they were all alright to good Barely scrapes into a 4 7/10 Fav tracks - Be-in, Orange, I Love You, Good Morning
Was a bit skeptical when I saw we had been given Dandy Warhols, seeing as my only real exposure to them was the theme song to Veronica Mars. Really great opening track, harmonies working super well with the instrumental work here. Next few songs are forgettable/mid, special anti-shoutout to I Love You. Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth is a good song, the lyrics sort of remind me of a modern Pacific Northwest version of Dancin' Fool by Frank Zappa. The speed and vibe of the album slows down after this, and I enjoyed it a lot more than if they had continued with the same high-energy "90s era 60s nostalgia" bullshit. The energy picks up again, and the last couple songs on the album are instrumental tracks which are a lot more musically adventurous than you would expect given how this album starts. The real reason this was included in this book is its very obvious attempt to ape the Britpop sound. The band's later sound would develop into something more unique (evidenced by the fact that the two songs people actually remember them for came from their 3rd and 4th albums, but probably only because one of them was used as in a Vodafone and as mentioned earlier the other was the theme for Veronica Mars). The real question is, were the band's intentions noble? I can't blame them for appealing to the tastes of the people who will tell the public if their album is good or not. Actually, this inspired me to go and listen to their next album, Tales From Urban Bohemia, mainly because it has the badge of honour of a negative review from King Hack Robert Christgau. All up, an album that should really be 20-30 minutes shorter. A mix of different types of songs normally would normally mean variety but in this case it feels like a confused attempt to pad for time. Pete International Airport belongs on an ambient album, not on the same thing as a song like Boys Better. Overall, this is very much a mixed bag of an album. Not like trail mix, more like "I have a bag of peaches and some of them are starting to go off". Highlights: Be-In, Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth, Good Morning, Whipping Tree, The Creep Out
A self aware hip rock album with pop sensibilities and some dabblings in shoegaze. Though the layered guitars give a sophisticated feel, the album as a whole felt so monotonous. Has some really catchy rock tunes though, 'Boys Better' , 'Not if you were the last junkie....' and more. Two trippy techno/rock instrumentals as closers? I don't know. A light 3.
Quite liked this. A few filler tracks towards the end and it's long. Highlights are Not If you Were The Last Junkie On Earth, Every Day Should be a Holiday and Hard on for Jesus.
Heard of them but somehow missed this Portland band in the mid to late 90’s.
Pretty strong start to the album, but falls into a slump of songs in the middle that I had to skip after a while of listening. By the end, I was bored and didn't really care anymore.
Starts out flat and non-abrasive to the point you kind of forget you're listening to music, similar to shoegaze where the music just blends into the background like white noise. Picks up through the album but still feels like a flat soda to me, except the one song that sounds like a commercial.
I have heard of them but never listened to them Track 1 "Be-In" sounds like something I would have liked in the mid 90s, like a band I would have gone seen at a bar Track 2 "Boys Better" gives the same vibe, that post-grunge feel, It's giving a Verruca Salt feel Track 3 "Minnesoter" is a miss for me, and I can't put my finger on why.. but it does grow on you as it goes...just not a song I would seek out to play Track 4 "Orange" Started out good, until the vocals started, now it sounds like a local garage band trying to sound like Radiohead Track 5 "I love you" is awful Track 6 "Not if You Were the Last Junkie" was ok Tracks 7,8,9, and 10 were so boring and forgettable I didn't even look at the names this album is a drag.. it just goes on and on Track 11 has a cool name Cool As Kim Deal, and the music is good, great drums and guitars. Too bad the rest wasn't this good Track 12 "Hard on for Jesus" hits good, great guitar.. why isn't the rest of the album like this Track 13 "Pete International Airport" is like the intro to one of those strange Pink Floyd or Faust songs.. I like noise so this one is ok Track 14 "The Creep Out" good start, love the slow picking guitar and the bass line fits perfect, creates a mood..then the drums kick in with a great steady beat.. yeah this is the best track of the whole album same for tracks \
This one was ok. Not bad, simply not a lot of it stood out. Key tracks: Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth
Forgot about these guys until now, has held up well, really enjoyed it.
Pffff
Really warmed up to it as it went on - not a huge fan of the vocals initially, but they grew on me.
Super pleasant surprise
Good but a bit bland. Though, I do like some of the shoegaze elements and the Junkie song is oddly catchy.
some solid late 90s rock music that is totally bogged down by impressively long and vacant noise tracks. there is some pretty decent stuff on here that is not quite memorable, but will be overshadowed in my mind by having to listen to long stretches of shoegaze noise. if the noise had been trimmed a little bit to cut the length of the album down, this would've gone up a bit more in my esteem.
Never really given the dandy warhols a chance and now I have no idea why. Loved this and right in my wheelhouse. Came close to 5 but flagged a little bit mid album
Like a poor man's Nirvana
The instrumental parts at the beginning and end are pretty boring, but the rest is quite good. 4 stars or B-.
The Danny Warhol‘s hit it big for three reasons. The first was the introduction of social media, particularly Napster allowing them a way to get their music out there when normally they would’ve just been stuck in small club circuits. The second was the notorious movie Dig following the careers of the Dandy Warhals and the Brian Jonestown Massacre in the early days looking at the contradictions of their success and failures. And the third: the music is just really good. I forgot how good this album is. I don’t remember hearing of The Dandy Warhols until at least late 1990s. This early work is an excellent example of the development of Indie rock in the United States. He songs for me we’re Better Boys and Every Day Should Be a Holiday. I need to pull the CD out and listen to it more often. It slaps!
It’s hard not to listen to this and compare them to BJM. Obviously The Dandy Warhols were more poppy and the hit pop tracks still stood out to me: Boys Better and Last Junkie. But a few other tracks caught my attention: Every Day Should Be a Holiday was up there for me too. However, the BJM comparison really kicked in for the last 2 tracks, Pete International Airport and The Creep Out with the minimal vocals and the droning repetitiveness. This is where I realized for sure that BJM was better even if they weren’t as successful as the Dandy Warhols.
At first listen a n enjoyable alt rock/power pop album from the late 1990s, though nothing is really too memorable on it and not sure that at repeat listen it would hold up that well. The album is around 20 minutes or 3-4 songs too long. Also, not sure why this album is included when 'Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia' was a better album which also had a big hit on it. 3 out of 5.
Du rock contemplatif où la guitare s’illustre
I remember when this came out and it had some catchy tunes but to me they don’t hold up to repeat listens
Never really fully got the hype around these guys. It's solid enough power pop but doesn't blow me away or anything. I don't think it's terribly notable.
Unremarkable I’m sure it’s ok the list for a good reason, but no idea what it is. For me a 2.5 which I’d tend to go with 3 for, but this could have been 25 minutes shorter and would have been a much better album. So it’s a 2. Learn some restraint. Just because you have a CD you don’t need to fill it.
Like these guys a lot more than expected. Excellent 80s vibe.
A very good DW album, not too keen on the britpop influences and probably like the two albums after this one a bit more.
Not terrible, but nothing special either. Three stars, but only just.
The first two tracks set a very promising template. What follows, fulfills this promise at times but is more often tedious and inconsistent.
Not good
It was okay, perhaps good. Was it great? Not sure. Was it unique? Not really. I may need to listen again. Three stars for now.
Nice enough
I always meant to check out this album. I liked the single from this LP, and appreciated their appearances in the Brian Jonestown Massacre documentary. This was less poppy than I expected, and not as interesting as I had hoped. It's a bit dated by 2024 standards and not quite as "classic" as this list may have thought it would be.
Some really cool and interesting moments on this record, but as with much of their output, at times it can really plod. Could have been a tight 11 track album, but instead feels exactly like a 70 minute long album in places
I figured this would be awful, based on the one big hit that is my only reference for the Dandy Warhols. But it turns out that this was actually right up my street and I didn't hate it in the slightest. Definitely the pop-end of Shoegaze, but it was experimental enough to keep my interest from start to finish. I can't bring myself to award the full five stars, so four stars it is.
Fav: Every Day Should Be A Holiday Least Fav: Pete International Airport Turns out the quality of their music came down too
Like if shoegaze, psychedelic, and garage rock had a three-parented baby with a Siamese twin who can play the hell out of a keyboard. Upbeat songs with hints of punk are split up with slowcore-esque songs to prevent plateauing. Somehow pulled off closing the album with back-to-back instrumentals. 14 songs and zero skips. Favorite Song: Cool As Kim Deal
Heavy turn of the millennium nostalgia vibes for me on this. Probably makes me like it more than I would otherwise. Nice record to blast first thing in the morning.
J'ai bien aimé cet album, très original comme style de rock. Ça me faisait beaucoup penser à du britpop (et apparemment c'était un peu le but), mais une version meilleure que presque tout ce que j'ai entendu de ce genre dans les 1001 à date. 7/10
Decent rock album, don't love it, don't hate it. Probably on the higher side of 3 I Love You gives off creepy uncle vibes Good Morning is a great track. Liked the opening few too and Cool As Kim Deal
I see Monster in this. When REM got fuzzy and also the Velvets getting non-seizure inducing tripped out. It has a firm identity. It completely works as a record. Everyday should be a holiday is a formative yeah. Cal me tomorrow for a 3 or 4* tricky now it is the perfect bridge. It's this fun because of the night or is it the hangover?
It’s fine. Really.
3.5
Ik ging de Spotify synopsis van de band checken, gezien hun leuke naam. Daarinstaat dat The Dandy Warhols Amerika's antwoord is op Britpop. Dat leidt tot de diepste zucht van de dag(en dat zegt nogal wat) Ik heb hier spontaan weinig zin in, maar goed, we gaan het proberen zo objectief mogelijk toch een kans te geven! En ja, dit heeft echt britpop in koeienletters op het album geschreven, ik weet niet, kan er echt niets aan doen maar vind dit gewoon zulke saaie muziek. Altijd weer die zeikerige zanger, die een soort van fluisterzingt tegen je, het is allemaal vrijwel hetzelfde, wat is hier nu zo goed aan?? Ja nee, dit is voor mij het perfecte voorbeeld van een 3. Namelijk best wel prima. Nee, neem het terug. Dit is een 2, het duurt namelijk veeeeeeeeel te lang en veel te matig voor 3 sterren, god dit is hard werken hoor... FAVO: Not if you were the last junkie on earth, Every day should be a holiday
Wasn’t expecting to like it, had only previously heard “bohemian like you”. Enjoyed every song. While there was nothing that I felt was amazing, Will definitely listen to it again
Oh yes. A thousand times yes.
The melody on Every Day Should Be a Holiday is a complete rip off of Duran Duran’s Hungry Like the Wolf. That said, I don’t mind this record. It’s actually pretty cute. They remind me of Ride mixed with Smashing Pumpkins or My Bloody Valentine. It’s a real 90s feel. Last Junkie is really good. It can get a little same-y, a little droning. This is probably incredible on heroin or opium, or something. It can feel a little drawn out otherwise.
Day300 - this is the second time i’ve got an album by a one hit wonder and the one hits not even on the album
the best songs were the last 2 - the wierd, ambient, instrumental, electronic stuff is where these guys stood out. the rest of it was fine
They come over as trying to be a US version of early Pink Floyd. Sounds like 60/70's psychedelia in places. Generally I like it although some tracks are just too long and repetitive. Somehow they are missing "it" although I'm not sure what "it" is; perhaps a decent hook or riff that makes a track memorable. All-in-all good and listenable but not great. It was surprising to me that this was 1997, sounds much earlier.
this bangs, unexpectedly
Alternative rock with a poppy feel. Not bad, but forgettable.
Didn’t find this album that good
a long meandering ironic droning shoegaze-ish MBV-but-more-poppy kind of album. Lots of enjoyable moments here but I would have preferred this album were like 15min shorter. 3/5
I wish bohemian like you was on this album 😢. Still rlly good tho I like it.
I've heard an album by this band before (the one after this, the one with the big hit on it) and I'm a bit surprised this one made it in over that as that one was more successful and gets more plaudits. This is American Britpop, and this is the only American band I've heard that goes for this kind of sound. They obviously took a lot of inspiration from bands like Spiritualized and The Verve, because it sounds exactly like them. I'm ambivalent, like The Verve and Spiritualised when they're good they're good but many of the songs are more drawn out than they need to be, and the album ends up being far too long as a result.
Jesus Christ get to the point! This record is 90% droning with nothing happening. What was the point of, "Pete international airport"? What the fuck?!?
This was alrighty. I didn't mind it. It was a pretty long album though. I got 'Green' sstuck in my head for like half the day. I can't say much more, it wasn't really my style but it wasn't half bad either,
The songwriting is a bit bland, I'm a fan of a few of the songs but that does not a good album make.
I really enjoyed this one. Not sure how they escaped my attention till now, will definitely be looking through their work.
Blaaaand
Deze heren hebben pech dat ze net na Ash komen. Ze tappen uit hetzelfde vaatje van de alternatieve rock, maar net iets minder interessant en iets meer muur van geluid. Plus twee irritant lange vullingtracks aan het eind.
Ik ken deze lui van het wat creatievere radio-hitje. De radio-rock sfeer zit er bij zit album al behoorlijk in. Vooral de zang is niet zo opvallend of creatief als het hitje, maar de muziek voelt wel aardig geproduceerd. Het is een album dat me niet zo prikkelt. Niet negatief en niet positief.
Van de nummers die ik ken, vind ik Dandy Warhols altijd maar een beetje ongeinteresseerd over komen. Met een licht zeurderige zanger. Alsof het hem zelf ook geen reet interesseert of je naar zijn muziek luistert of niet, hij doet toch wel wat hij zelf wil. Gelukkig brengt het eerste nummer wel gelijk al wat grungerock. Met een lekkere vibe erin, groove. Het orgeltje geeft het ook wel een apart effect, hopelijk wordt dat niet te snel irritant. Ik hoor verder wat guns n roses invloeden, britpop. Doordat het af en toe wat repeterend is (en de akkoorden ook niet altijd even ingewikkeld zijn) heeft het ook wel wat weg van elektronische muziek. Ik bedoel niet dat elektronische muziek altijd simpel is, maar zet hier een bepaalde beat onder en het vloeit moeiteloos over. Ze brengen wel een aardig eigen geluid. Ik was vooraf wat skeptisch, maar het valt me alleszins mee. Ik heb me er prima mee vermaakt, dus ik geef lekker 4 sterretjes.
Umm Yeah? A bit Power Pop, a bit American Brit Pop, a bit Stoner-Lite. It passes the time in a pleasant enough way, but never really engaged my interest. I couldn't hate it, but I wasn't enthused.
This would be easy to dismiss as meh guitar pop but it way better rgab that. Songwriting, production and invention are pretty outstanding. Take a 4 you gorgeous bastard.
Ja helemaal niks
Wel oke
Very 90s. 5 stars if you're looking for 90s. I certainly enjoyed it more as it went on; which does correlate to amount of whiskey consumed. But correlation does not equal causation & Pete International Airport was killer so 4 stars
Enjoyed this a lot. Although not a big fan of shoegaze, this had a bunch of other things mixed into it, which was good. "I Love You," however, could have been cut. WAY too repetitive and drone-y. The instrumental at the end, "The Creep Out" was sufficiently creepy. Thought it was effective. Lots of good stuff here, really enjoyed it. I had heard of the DW, but had never listened to them. May have to change. Top tracks: "Boys Better," "Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth," "The Creep-Out"
A friend and I are big fans of music, with tastes all over the place. We love sharing new discoveries and stuff the other has to hear. A lot of overlap. But one place we differ is The Dandy Warhols. He loves them and I just don't get their big appeal - or the big appeal of new alternative. I'll bet the Dandy's have a couple albums on this list. I didn't hate this album and it has some cool trippy or spacey bits from time to time (Whipping Tree, Green, The Creep Out). Boys Better, Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth and Cool as Kim Deal (they aren't) are fun songs too. But overall it felt a little boring or monotonous - across songs and within songs.
A bit derivative, but fun to listen to. Cool to see that they opened for Bowie on his Reality tour. Favorite tracks: Be-In, Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth, Every Day Should Be a Holiday.
Not as bad as I thought. Jaw harp?!
I didn’t like it. I found it boring and almost couldnt finish it
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I have a bias here because when I was a teen this band was described to me like they were special and smart and sophisticated, & then their music sounded like a whole lot of lazy nothing. Like yeah ok there's these big dumb grunge bands but have you heard the Dandy Warhols they're so underappreciated. guy steadily strums a guitar and something forgettable plays behind it. then the guy sings something forgettable. wow! bet Nirvana wished they could write songs like that! The soundtrack to pseudointellectual pontification. Almost 1 star. not quite. music: hated. (⌐■_■)
The Bandy Borehols (this band is boring)
One of my all time favorites to come out of the mini mod scene in the 90s. A little filler but mostly killer. Great for a nice drive.
Already heard. Atmospheric, sometimes funny, edgy punkish-pop/rock
Listening was thinking it was a different period from 1997 when it was released... was ok, 'Green' and 'Orange' ended up being the two best tracks in my opinion.
I enjoyed the first half of the album, but I felt like the second half got a bit more experimental and I was happy when I saw that the I'd reached the final song of the album.
Solid alt rock. I liked the steady tempo build they had going on. I don't think I'd what to see them live, but a good album to play at home alone.
Pop Brian Jonestown Massacre
C'est drôle, j'ai la même impression de cet album que celui d'hier, je vais donc pas me faire chier: J’ai été vraiment surpris d’aimer ça, considérant que ça sonne borderline comme du rock alternatif générique qui jouerait sur le CHOM 97.7 MONTREAL SPIRIT OF ROCK
I could never keep this band, who I did not listen to, straight in my mind from the Lemonheads, because you know Evan Dando and Dandy Warhols share a few letters. Sometimes, it's just enough of of a semantic stake to separate a band from your psyche. Speaking of PSY...starting words, I do like the psychedelic and shoegaze elements to the music and appreciate the confidence of a 7 min opener. This is like a 3 star record, but unfortunately for it in retrospect, they made it in an era where an hour and six minutes of music was thought desirable. This is not a way to gain fans. We're not left wanting more. But rather we got too much. This record is easily 20 mins too long. Cut some of the weaker tracks and save for b-sides or other things. Please! Rounding the rating down for poor 1990s decision-making. I contend that if just the 3 least good songs were cut it'd have doubled many people's enjoyment.
Generally, this was a good album. I really liked the songs that were a bit more atmospheric and ambient in nature. The song "Last Junkie" was AWFUL and dragged the album down a bit. That and the run time was about 20 mins too long. 3/5
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It's fine, but don't think I'll come back to it.
This is an album in two modes. In its first mode, it's superb 90's power pop. Incredibly hooky with an infectious, driving energy. It's really as Pitchfork put it: it's one of the best Britpop albums I've heard, and it isn't even British. Seriously, it ranks right up there with the best stuff I've heard from blur, Oasis, and at least some of the dozen random Britpop acts this list has given up. All it's missing is a snotty, Cockney accent—though I imagine some people are pretty thankful it's nowhere to be found. In its other mode, it's space rock. Now, I haven't heard very much space rock. There's the stuff in Pink Floyd's early catalog that could be called such, and that's really about it. So, getting to hear a 90's take on this genre... Gosh, I'm floating. It's such a good sonic soundscape. I can just picture being at the helm of a spaceship, lazily drifting among the stars through the cosmos. Seriously, any song on this album, not just the space rock half, could have been on a GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Awesome Mix, as far as I'm concerned. If I hadda pick one mode I liked better... I believe I'd pick the space rock mode? Largely 'coz it's stuff I haven't heard before. As good as the power pop stuff is, I honestly couldn't shake the feeling that it all sounded like some other band I'd heard before, and I could never exactly place my finger on it. On top of that—and I might be speaking more about my preference for album length than I am CD bloat—I'm not sure if this really needed to be 66 minutes. Somewhere in the middle, I kept spacing out (no pun intended). Now, normally I'd chalk that sort of thing up to my attention span and not dock the album any points, but I'unno. This is one of those rare times I wanna be kind to an album, but combined with the remark about feeling like I'd heard some of this stuff before from others... Yeah. O course, it's still ultimately a 4 out of 5, and a heavy recommendation from me. The space rock stuff and the power pop I didn't space out on are too good to give it anything less, I figure. Like, it wasn't terribly consistent, but on the whole I'd still say I had a great time coming down with the Dandy Warhols. From where or what, I'm not sure, but, hey, it's the climb and all that...
I dig this one, even if its just a bit of generic 90s alt rock. 3.5 bumped up to 4.
I’m at a 3.5 that I’ll bump up to a 4. It’s a solid album. It’s certainly worth being on the list. It’s just not a great album experience, or at least one that’s not as cohesive as it could’ve been. This album has two distinct issues for me – they’re not big issues, but they’re enough to really mess with the flow of the album. The first involves the pacing – some of these tracks wander on a bit too long in their instrumentals, and they sort of dissipate the vocal moments in favor of letting the instrumentals shine. It’s not a bad approach, but it makes the album run much longer than it needs to. This is 66 minutes that could’ve been trimmed down. The other issue is simply finding a more proper balance between vocal presence and the instrumentals themselves – there are really good tracks here, but some of them have the vocals get drowned out by the instrumentals so much that the vocals don’t have any presence on them, or at least, not as much as they should. When this album finds the right balance between the two (see: I Love You & Whipping Tree), it hits really well and completely nails what it’s going for. It just doesn’t strike on it as much as I’d like. Regardless, I still thought this was pretty good – there’s a few tracks that aren’t as captivating as others, but this is just a really good blend of a lot of 90s stuff – sort of a “Pearl Jam meets indie rock” with a bit of Britpop influence as well. It’s a strong album, but it’s dragged down by its track length, its pacing, and arguably its track order – closing out on 15 minutes of instrumentals without one big encore payoff is a little too bold for my tastes. There’s a few tracks that feel too similar, too close to one another. Either way, I liked it. It’s a 3.5 that I’ll bump up to a 4 because I enjoyed it enough.
OK
Noise
The longer the album went on, the lower the score got.
No está mal. Han quedado un poco anticuados.
So you're telling me that not only did The Dandy Warhols release two albums *before* Bohemian Like You came out, but that somebody considered one of them a 'must-hear'? I have so much still to learn... I mean, it's clearly not a must-hear. Nothing on here is new or particularly special. But they do at least inject a bit of their own personality, and I found it a fun, breezy listen for the most part.