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Last two songs dragged, but not bad
This was pretty good. I really liked the overall sound of it, but the songs didn't always keep my attention. Probably something I would go back to, because I feel like it's an album that's a grower.
Knew this one already. I like it, but the songs sorta tend to blur together. I think I like it a little less than I remembered liking it overall. Didn't totally hold up for me, but still good. 3/5
This album was decent, some of the songs were really song without lyrics and in some of the songs you cannot hear their voices because it is low volume. I enjoyed this album though
Not bad. Just good. Not great, just plain old good. I like their ideas, but a lot of these songs feel unfinished. While listening there were a lot of songs that had an AMAZING outline and great sound, but sadly left me wishing they went a different direction. Gives me blue balls because I know how amazing of an album this could've turned out to be, yet it turned out just okay. Idea's are there, just didn't come together full circle. Personal Favorites: Orange, Minnesoter
Może być. Początek lepszy niż końcówka. Mocne 3/5
Pretty enjoyable listening experience
There was so much going on and I think I enjoyed. Surely too much to unpack in one listen and I would have to listen again, but I am not going to.
Starts strong but has lulls throughout. Inconsistent but a decent outing. It was my first time hearing this particular album but I have hear other Dandy Warhols songs and I've liked them. I'd be open to listening to this again.
It was alright!
Shoegaze noise. Not unbridled noise, but still enough to be upset by the lack of dynamics. I gotta hand it to these guys, though. They do know how to write some catchy riffs and chorus. The soft songs fall flat and the dull droning doesn’t click, let alone the 4 or 5 times identical songs are show-casing it. I’d say the better songs hit well and if the album were shorter and without the slows. It would be a solid 4
Strange album for me. Some songs are awesome, quirky, shoegaze. Others are kinda boring pop songs. I think with a few more listens I would like it more
Fun rock record.
I liked it.
It’s fine
This was pretty enjoyable but not super memorable
Pop-rock más cercano al pop con algunas canciones más elaboradas y otras, un tanto más oscuras. No me ha producido nada especial escucharlo
Rock album with songs ranging from lame to competent. There is no real heavy hitter, though. 3/5
Rating: 5/10
Really liked some of this but felt it was a little bloated and bogged down a few times.
Best song - Minnesoter
Some pretty good beats, but none of these songs needed to be nearly as long as they were.
Emblematic of their era. Not much here for me personally.
Full of that pre-millenia melancholy that permeates so much 90s music, but a tad too much bloat to really push it for me.
Seems built around one good/poppy song - rest was a bit a dull for me
Andy Warhol would love this band. The Andy Warhol played by Crispin Glover in The Doors, that is. They sometimes sound like a cheap knockoff of The Velvet Underground, although they insist heroin is so passé. I can't tell if they mean the song or the drug. Probably both. Sorry fellas. Don't name your band the Dandy Warhols if you don't want comparisons to the influential band the actual Warhol championed.
Indie Rock, la même sauce que la plupart des bands UK de cette époque, mais c'est vrai qu'ils ont une certaine saveurs de plus. Comme si il avait trouvé la recette. Mais bon ca reste un bon album dans le genre. Par exceptionnelle. 3.5
I thought this was a cool little piece of power pop. Definitely will be looking to check out some more of their catalogue
I wanted to like it more
This is pretty good, but I don’t know why everyone was everyone was spunking themselves about psychedelia in the 90s. Hope it doesn’t come back again
Bit grungy vocals is a turnoff but this album was alright really
Good, but this style of music does not do it for me at all.
Background music, nice but not very memorable
dandy
Pretty decent 90's grungey kind of alt rock. Nothing outstanding or bad. 3.5
Hazy
I enjoyed it. 6/10
медитативные они такие, в примерно одной тональности) не подожгло
Fairly forgettable. Apart from the heroin song, which i remembered.
I like the up-tempo singles like “Last Junkie” and “Everyday” and I’m sure I’d get more chuckles if I listened closely to the lyrics. The guitar-strumming intros become predictable after a while and the drawn-out pieces that close out the album seem pointless, like they had a contractual obligation to stretch it past one hour. It’s still more uplifting than a lot of the stuff coming out of the Pacific Northwest at that time.
I don't recall hearing of them before -- maybe: that name is familiar, probably just in passing -- but I really don't think I'd heard any of their music in the past. This is some pretty good rock/pop/garage stuff here. After a while as I listened to this album, it did feel a little repetitive, but I also so rarely listen to albums in full these days -- mostly it's shuffled or randomized playlists via streaming services -- that might play into the feeling of sameness to me. Can't blame them one bit for making a song called 'Cool As Kim Deal' because she is definitely and absolutely completely cool. (I can't quite make out the lyrics so if this song is mocking her in any way, forget what I said about the song, but I stand firm on my view of Kim Deal!) I like 'Whipping Tree' particularly. Sure, has a lot of similarities to Pink Floyd's 'Breathe' but at least in my subjective view, that's a wonderful song to be inspired by. Overall, though, it's good music to my ears, and they are very skilled performers.
I figured there's a reason I did not listen to this band in the 90's, but they really surprised me here. I don't love this album, but it's got a few nice spots that I wouldn't mind hearing again. Especially liked Minnesoter. Also Cool As Kim Deal, because she was my high school crush.
Lange zit, maar wel de moeite waard!
Dit klinkt best wel lekker eigenlijk
Not bad.
Good, with a couple of crackers - "every day should be a holiday" for example was one where I had forgotten how much I loved it. Drags a bit (a lot) towards the end, with way too much instrumental noodling nonsense.
It's not bad, but feels like radio bait for Brit-rock crowds. It's safe, but could be so much better. I remember liking a few of their songs when I didn't know there was better stuff out there for me. I won't fault anyone for liking it though.
Pretty good. Album a bit too long and lagged at times.
at least its not some more folk nonce or neil fucking young
Loads better than I anticipated. Some solid songwriting and musicianship
Not a bad rock sound, but drags on with no real high.
2.5
This album is very hit or miss for me. In general, I like the ones that work more than I dislike the ones that don't, but ending on a very long, apparent Frampton tribute left a bad taste in my mouth. Best track: Be-in
The junkie song was enjoyable but I didn’t care about much else. 5/10
Lite långt men trevligt
This chugs and grooves along on a layered ocean of textures, with a smattering of catchy hooks throughout. I listened to this whilst mowing the lawn, and it was a good accompaniment. I probably would have cut the final two tracks, which are nothing but 16 minutes of instrumental texture, but overall this did (just about) make feel wu-hoo wooooo. Rating: 3.5/5 Playlist track: Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth Date listened: 23/08/23
Nice rock music that just lacks that bit of a spark that will turn it into the truly brilliant
Interesting shoegaze
Enjoyed it more than I thought but on the whole still pretty forgettable
Decent - singles and trippy bits are good
I enjoyed this, it sounded good, but was a bit boring Maybe more listens would help pull out the subtlety and help me see more of what's interesting here
I fucking hated this band in the 90s. They were always being played on music clip shows instead of cool things like metal, lol. But let's see in 2023. Ok it's not all out hateable anymore. It's mildly annoying in that way that 90s alternative usually is, but it's not unique or awful. Just bland, monotonous, overlong and thinks it's artsy when it's not (see band name). But it could be far, far worse. 3/5.
Why is this album one of the 1001 I need to listen to before I die? There are a few tunes trying to escape but they are trapped by dirgy jamming(?) over the top. Genuinely unsure.
on in the background at Pdubstep's. every time I paid attention of sounded like the worst bits of the Stone Roses and Primal Scream or an actual dirge. sounds like stoned college kids jamming. should listen again to inform my review but I don't want to. 1.5*
2.5
First listen Saved 3/14 Top track: Be-In
Not absolutely terrible but it does feel charitable giving it a 2
Another mostly forgettable ‘90s one-sortahit-wonder that must be here because the British editor has a soft spot for wannabe British bands. I don’t even really dislike this, it’s just that as I near the end of the list, things like this feel extra annoying.
Bit boring really, a poor man’s BJM. They’ve got a cool sound n all but just not really, the best? 2.5/5.0 Best Song: Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth
5/10 - Starts off well but then becomes noise
3 keepers in 14 (21%). 1 klunker (7%). A lot of drudgery. A couple of catchy songs near the end followed by two drones is a flex. They can’t all be winners but why this is included is a head scratcher. 2 stars by math and heart.
Album #135: ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down Genre (W): Alternative rock, power pop, space rock, psychedelic rock, punk rock Singles: Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth, Every Day Should Be a Holiday, Boys Better I have not listened to this album before. Thoughts?: I found the album pretty underwhelming. There was not much about it that stood out to me, it just felt like repetitive music. Very boring. Favorite tracks: Be-In, Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth, Cool as Kim Deal
Not bad, but nothing special either.
1.79
Not what I was expecting at all. I also think Kim Deal is cool, but not super excited about this one.
Didn’t expect this to be so shoegazey based on the prior “not if you were the last junkie on earth” upbeat jam. It’s on this album and it’s their best song. The rest of the album kind of meanders and is just ok.
I had a Dandy Warhols greatest hits and I feel like that was the best way to experience them. Junkie is an all timer. A real fucked up critique of an incredibly specific person, which is amazing. But this album on the whole isn’t really connecting. It feels a little disjointed and full of stuff that should have been left off. It’s 20 minutes too long.
There was nothing that I enjoyed on this albums. It was pretty bland and listless IMO.
2 or 3 decent songs, rest aren't for me.
I only knew Bohemian Like You from them before. This did not make me go Whoa Woo. Fairly bland 90s sound.
Kjedelige greier. Men nesten en 3'er
Dachte vorher, die wären ein One-Hit-Wonder. Fand das Album belanglos.
Unfortunately this did not grab me. No strong feelings just neutral.
This turned into background noise for me. Aside from my favorite tracks, everything else fell into a liminal space of indie rock. Favorite Tracks: Be-In Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth Cool as Kim Deal
Heroin Is So Passe 1001 Albums Generator 311 (7/22/2026) The Dandy Warhols had some cool ideas and some really boring ideas. Interesting, catchy, glammy psychedelic rock clashes with boring ambience and repetitive composition to create an album that's simply just okay. The last two songs are completely unnecessary. 2.5/5, rounded down to a 2 because I will never come back to this in full. Favs: Be-In Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth Every Day Should Be A Holiday Least Fav: Pete International Airport
Well, I'm sorry, Dandy Warhols, we used to be friends, but from the vantage of 20 years off the hype machine, you feel like minor figures in my life and the life of music.
*Too many songs sounded like a drone with little variation *Had a few bright spots but this did not get me excited to listen to it at all
This has not aged well.
Ugh...
I had to stop my first listening somewhere I couldn't remember. For the second try, I tried to find the last track I'd heard. Well, I couldn't figure it out. So I listened to it all again. Just to find me after some time towards the last tracks without remembering any of the previous tracks. Just a continuous droning in the back. Not bad, just completely forgettable.
Tipična dosadna kenjkavica od albuma, puno ih je previše na ovom projektu. 2/5, 3/10
I kept thinking that I would like a oarticular track then it would fade into something I didn;t like. A but too psychedelic for me.
This was very blah.
Pretty blah. Nothing exciting, but nothing moving either Best Song: Not Even if you were the last junkie on earth Rating: 4.5/10 Stars: 2
Very forgettable
Rating: 5/10 It's like, almost interesting and good but ultimately is very long, not so unique 90's indie rock. It does try for a lot of different things and I wish it stayed more focused. To be honest Be-In was a pretty sick first track and I would have liked more of it, and Boys Better is a pretty decent song along with some others. Lead singer's voice can be annoying. Not nearly noteworthy enough to be here
335/1001 The Dandy Warhols - The Dandy Warhols Come Down Heard before? ❎ Revisit? ❎ This felt like it lasted forever. There were just so many tracks that sounded exactly the same and when it's this stoner kind of aesthetic, it needs to be shorter. Probably should have cut my losses halfway through, but pushed through in the end...
This started out quite drab but there was a little run there near the middle but that jolt went as quickly as it came. Just kinda long and boring. 4/10
I find it hard to believe anyone is thrilled or interested by this in this day and age fairly tedious stuff for the most part 2.5*
This was an impressive combination of being way too long, all over the place, and somehow boring.
Did not age well
Pretty boring
fav song: orange hazy, textured, moody 40/100
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.
Kinda stopped paying attention half way through which says it all I guess
This started out as a three - generic 90s Indie - then all the instrumental bollocks and repetitive dirges brought it down. I remember the name of the band from back then, and at least one of their songs which doesn't feature here. It's another album which seemingly has zero reason for being included on this list - didn't sell, had no hits, wasn't acclaimed, isn't influential. A bit bemused by all the 5 star reviews here. I can only assume Americans really like shitty Britpop when made by their fellow Countrymen.
Starts off pretty good, like some sort of Shoegaze band. That’s about as good as it gets though. The rest of the album either sounds like somewhat pleasant but drawn out Shoegaze or the “Come down” boredom the calmer songs on here bring. The last 2 songs are more of a sanity test than they are actual pieces of music and really make me consider giving this a bottom rating. The rest of the album is ok while some stuff is awful.
Not that great. A big minus is „not if you were the last junkie on earth“. What a shitty song.
Meh
This is one of those albums that gives you a constant feeling of deja-vu. It's just completely uninspired, a plodding, overlong collage of tired neo-psychedelia tropes of the '90s, downright stereotypical. A couple of tracks do manage to break this suffocating mould, but they are few and far-between. 2/5
Boring british mediocre rock
Quite a sombre experience; not necessarily because this album is depressiong (though, imo, it is) but because of the realisation that I might not have as broad a music taste as I thought I had. I think it might be the shoe-gazing, the raw instrumentation and mumbled vocals buried below layer upon layer of reverb fighting against years of cleaner-but-mass-produced music that I swam around in during my formative years. Regardless, on the whole, I wasn't a fan of this. It has an interesting... "sonic texture"... but not one that I want to chew on again.
33/1089 ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down by The Dandy Warhols I think this challenge is great, but sometimes it also makes me realise that some albums just need more time. It doesn’t happen very often that I instantly love an album on first listen. A lot of my favourite records took a few listens before they fully clicked. And honestly, I think this might be one of those albums. On first listen I got a bit bored and didn’t really connect with many of the songs. The album mostly just passed by me without leaving much impact. But at the same time, I can hear sounds and ideas here that feel like they should work for me. So even though I found it underwhelming overall, there’s definitely something interesting going on underneath the surface. I just don’t think I fully got there yet. Wine pairing? Some overly trendy natural wine that everyone says is amazing but you’re not fully convinced by yet. Food pairing? Cold pizza at 1am. Favourite song? Honestly, nothing really stood out enough yet. Vinyl? Don’t want it. First listen? Yes. Overall 2 out of 5.
Not that great or memorable. One point deduction for cloying band name. There are one or two decent tunes that keep it from a 1. The list is starting to piss me off.
Ah, the infamous Wall of Noise.
Alright but came across as self important and a little toxic
Why is this album so looooooong
I really like not if you were the last junkie so I was excited for this album but it was just so disappointing. Every day should be a holiday was pretty good though.
Post-punk pop vibes. Not bad, not great.
This album got nothing interesting, is really bland and is overly long. The music itself is uninspired and cliche. Atleast its not complete butt ? Extremely random pick honestly. 2.5/5 but ill give it a 2 because it wasted an hour of my life I could have spent doing something more interesting. Like doing cookies. Yeah I should bake some cookies.
Meh
Started out ok but dragged on. The last 20 minutes of the album were boring and started to get downright annoying, not because of weird sounds or anything, it just grated on and on. 2/5
I don't really get the appeal but I don't dislike it either
Ain’t no Brian Jonestown Massacre
no me mató, zzz no lo volvería a escuchar
They forgot to put the banger from Flushed Away on this album. For shame. Also if they chopped this album at 45 mins maybe I would have passed it. The final 20 mins were a true slog.
Not bad, but nothing really notable. Listened to more of it on 3/27 and Ryan doesn't like it.
Boring 2/5
3/21 Boring album
Jotenkin todella PERUSmusaa, siitä kostoksi kagone
On tässä ihan jotain ideaa, mutta ei osu silti itselle.
Bit boring
totally snooze inducing. not my jam at all
The only Dandy Warhols song I previously knew was the opening theme from Veronica Mars. They recorded part of this album in the lead singer's apartment...bet his neighbors loved that. Had to misophonia skip the one with heavy breathing. NOPE. Aside from that and the one about heroin, this was forgettable.
Not quite my style.
non il mio genere, però interessante la sperimentazione. Tracce preferita: Whipping Tree, Pete International Airport
Parts good, parts too long and whiny. I do feel like I'm leaning on the negative side of this tho. Good Morning was my fav song of the album and fav first listen with Boys Better and Minnesoter being my other highlights
Meh 2.5/5
It was fine, 2 stars. Some good songs but too long, drawn out
Ok music terrible lyrics
So incredibly boring. These sound like sketches of songs because half of them go nowhere past their initial hook. Bohemian Like You is a banger of a song but nothing on this comes close.
Not my style
I have heard and enjoyed a few of their songs before. First few songs are ok. They sound very REM. Then you get to "I love you" which is dreary. Every day should be a Holiday is decent. Minnesoter is my other pick. Album is ok but needs about five songs cut.
desinspirats
Just sounds like a bunch of other crap from this era.
sssnzzzzz
Not bad, but too long and felt lacking in ideas. Some inspired moments though, like the opener/closer.
Dandy Warhols started positively for me and some bits are very cool and kind of interesting, however it’s long and a lot of it is a bit bland and boring to my ears, so a high 2
inoffensive to the point of being uninteresting. not a bad sound, but very few remarkable moments. it certainly captures a moment of the late 90’s, but it could’ve been 20 minutes shorter.
Meh. I could have certainly gone my whole life not having listened to this album.
Not as bad as I thought but I can't stand that man.
Lang, anstrengend und langweilig. Habe auf das Ende gewartet.
I've never really listened to them, except for that one that's always on the flippin' radio. Going in... , listened to most of it, couldn't;t quite stick it out till the end, it started to get on my nerves.
Not a huge fan of this. It all ends up sounding kind of the same and drags on too long, not surprising that my favourite tracks ended up being some of the higher energy ones. Might have given three stars if it was about 20 minutes shorter. Favourite tracks: Be-in, Cool as Kim Deal
No thanks. 2
Daddy Warbucks, Andy Warhol - right from the start I wondered what this band was playing at and thought their choice of moniker cast doubt on the proceedings - it was all downhill from there.
5.8
Well produced but not super memorable. I think I would nominate other Brit pop over this.
Too long. I didn’t know any of the songs. I liked Minesoter because it mentioned Minnesota a lot. Long instrumental sections = yuck! Boring, dour songs. It didn’t have the one Dandy Warhol song I like on it (Bohemian Like You). I thought I would like this more than I did.
Exemplar of the mid-90's alternative rock scene. Holy nostalgia...forgot about the "Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth" song. That still bangs, but nothing else really sticks out that much to me. Also, it's really long. This didn't need to be 66 minutes. We get it.
An hour of monotone harmonies and boring riffs.
On paper this should be right up my alley. Maybe I was not in the right mood, but boy: what a drag. It's not even bad, it's just boring. The problem starts with the stupid name which shows a deeper issue I have with this album: There is little room for real, unfiltered sincerity, there is always a certain level of sarcasm. This could be interesting if the band would fully commit to the sarcasm but they also want to be a serious rock band. All in all they deliver competent but lengthy, soulless bit of music.
Sounded a bit like Oasis with a tuned guitar. Not overly impressed.
Bitt of a nothing album
How could something categorized as space rock revival, alternative and psychedelic rock make me feel rather unamused for this long? This album had me interested just from what I thought I was getting myself into. In reality, it's a lot of sludge with no real ascension. Some of the intros are too long and meandering before they get to any lyrics. Some of the lyrics are just sort of lame to me. I imagine this is the band that record store hipsters who try and stand out say they listen to. Oh, you listen to Pavement? I LISTEN TO DANDY WARHOLS! We are not the same. Something like that, maybe I'm wrong. But really, I thought this lacked (5/10, 2/5 on this scale)
This is #day494 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… I've heard of the band's name, but, as it happens, never gave them a listen. Listening to this record now, I kind of understand why. What I can't understand, though, is why you must hear it before you die. Dreary '90s space/psychedelic rock. This is a 2 out of 5. Looking forward to #day495.
The instrumentals were enjoyable on many tracks on this album. Overall, I found the bubbly pop sounds underlying this record to be underwhelming. Also, there is a lot of wasted space on this album due to multiple drawn out tracks that go nowhere. Lastly, the album ends with a pretty disappointing pair of instrumental tracks that leave me wanting more.
I think they're playing dress up. It's not terrible, but it lacks soul.
Thank god this shits over. Once again DVD menu ahh music you wake up to and you’re too lazy to turn the shit off
OK I suppose
once it set in that the entire melody of the first song was a straight A, i knew i was gonna be tired by the end of this <3 Some of the lyrics are very entertaining, like "Minnesoter" and the "Junkie" one, but i'm getting worried that i'm gonna ask "why is this on this list" every time i listen to one of these albums... like who is litening to "Green" and is like 'this is life-changing...' maybe this just isn't my scene i mean, really, the last song is the same thing for 9 minutes straight idk
The album really felt all over the place to me. I thought there were some decent tracks on here but it was mostly forgettable imo
inoffensive but unmemorable. shame that such a good band name was wasted on a completely unremarkable group
something about this one was really throwing me off in a bad way. i'm not sure i could tell you exactly what it was. alls i know is i don't want to hear it again. it wasn't "bad" or anything like that. idk man it just wasn't for me
I found this one to be extremely vapid. Just didn’t do anything for me at all. 1.5-2
I enjoyed pretty much every second of this album but there were way too many seconds of this album.
The long pre-lyrical instrumental buildup was interesting at first and then got tiring by the end. Although not my style of music, there were a couple songs I enjoyed but probably won't go back to. Additionally not a fan of scratchy or whiney voices, but it wasn't as bad as some other bands.
It was okay.
Grungy version of Will-type music. Not quite up my alley but Pete International Airport's very stripped down and airy instrumental was intriguing. No other stand outs on this one for me...
OK. 2/5
Really not my kind of music, found it really boring. Better than 1 star though
Meh
Dnf. Too drab.
mid, common 90s rock L
I dunno. This has potential, but I just didn’t get into it.
я устал
Meh
Pretty depressing. Some of the instrumentals was good, but the singer sounds like he deliberately sings in a depressing maner.
Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth
Not my thing
This is an album with some great songs. But way too long, and very inconsistent.
Not that great if I’m honest. Just a bit too American if you know what I mean! College students trying to be a bit weird? I don’t know it just didn’t do it for me.
The Good: We get art from the factory! The Bad: Oh wait… dyslexia is a bitch! The Ugly: No art to be found here. IMHO… I’d heard of them… I might have heard a song, on the radio, maybe… Never bothered to buy a CD of theirs… After listening to the album, I doubt I will ever listen to them again. Noise… alternated with something resembling good music, yet not good enough to leave a lasting impression on me. Don’t know what to rate this… maybe it is because I am playing catch up, again, and I still have 8 more albums to rush through before I am up to date… 3* down the middle… though it should be 2* Edited, on the same day that I rated… So, uncertain if I was being fair, I decided to quickly listen to this again, also based off of commentaries I was reading from other people regarding this album… and I’ve decided to rate the album 2* and here’s why: a 7-minute intro song that hardly changes beat or chords, with shit lyrics, to have this followed by similar drivel, it is enough to make me really dislike the Dandy Warhols… so, please, stay down...
Couldn't get into it.
Boring
Strange—sometimes clever, sometimes grating. Clearly see where FF got a lot of inspiration from this for One by One. Overall, not really here for the total album flow, though.
I guess 1001 albums is a lot, but does this one really make the cut. Not in my book. Not impressed. At all.
Not bad, and really enjoyed a few songs, but after a while it felt a bit boring. Had to push to finish the album
This is too long for me. At least in this genre and era. I dont love it so MORE of it isnt great for me. Theres some standouts like Green or Cool like Kim Deal, but it feels way too long.
I am genuinely unsure as to why this is on a list of 1001 albums you must listen to. I assume they were influential and that is what got them on this list, but this is dull and shouldn't be here. I don't feel that it has added anything to my life. I did enjoy the very start and very end, which had no singing and were slightly more experimental. A couple of decent beats in the middle but absolutely nothing to write home about.
Britpop but they went all in on dull
Nothing offensive. Don't understand why this is on the list, very average.
Only thing I knew before listening was Bohemian Like You. This was ok.
This is a messy album from a messy band. It was genuinely hard work battling through a sound that is deliberately under-produced. I'm all for raw records, but you need the songs in the first place for it to stack up. The lyrics have aged badly.
Background alt rock, unoffending noise, some lyrical one-liners you might remember but not much more
Not bad but not memorable.
Expected much more from this but got disappointed. Just o.k. favourite: "Every Day Should Be A Holiday" 2,5
I didn’t really care for this a whole lot. There was some good parts. I just found it boring.
A kinda bland and boring page in the book of stoner music, started off alright
It was okay. Drones on too long.
Not so bad, but the name repels me so much it’s hard for me to even start listneing to it. I will have to investigate this album a lil bit more… but damn that name irks me.
Never taken much notice of this lot although often thought I should. So this appearance on my list was somewhat welcome. Started off alright but as I listened it became a bit difficult to distinguish where one track ended and the next began such was the sameness of the whole album. Not something I will return to. 2/5 4/8/25
2 - just not my thing
I remember them, didn't have brain space for them yesterday - listened to it but it failed to resonate.
parts of it are good but most parts are boring
When the album started I thought it was nice but, as the songs went on, I started to lose interest on it. It's 90's alt rock... If you like it, good for you, but something that sounds like an Oasis album with some electronic sounds and bland intros (so you call it psychedelic – if the endlessly repetitive, ambient and uninteresting Pete International Airport is not an example of this but extrapolated to a whole "song") and repetitive lyrics is just not for me. Some songs weren't bad, but I wouldn't listen to the whole album again just to listen to them (in case I would want to listen to them again, which is not my intention for now). At least the last song, The Creep Out, is a nice ending with a better psychedelic attempt (if the album had more of it instead of... nearly all the rest).
Mediano, embora abuse de riffs repetitivos, camadas de guitarras com fuzz e teclados. Também não gosto muito desta opção de mixagem do música psicodélica moderna que se utiliza do excesso de camadas, tornando o som meio confuso e "embolado".
be-in fangt leider so ah wie ich mir es 90er indie ding vorstell. noch 3 minute goht de song langsam los dasch guet. huuuere viel sounds e riese wand. ich verstoh de approach aber die ganze drone sounds sind gad chli viel für mich. boys better gfallt mer no, aber au wieder sooo luuut und z viel sounds. minnesoter und orange hend mi meh ufgregt. not if you were the last junkie on earth isch sehr cool sehr oasis, sehr geile titel. d production findi immerno nervig. bi whipping tree ghört mer de gsang nöd. s riff wär no herzig. haha hard on for jesus funny. afang vo the creep out wieder guet. ich ha afoch gern talkbox gitarre. songs vorher sehr fest a mir verbi. dasch es zwei. schono cooli idee aber d production und de seltsam gflüsteret gsang züchts uf es 2 abe.
I don’t care that you make an otherwise fine 90’s rock album. If you release 66 minutes of music where the last two songs, worth 15 minutes alone, is total waste of everyone’s time, it’s unforgivable. Total lack of discipline and respect from a the Dandy Warhols.
Boring
They are trying so hard to be The Pixies that they don’t really establish their own identity and so the album becomes a bit muddled in what it wants to be. 4/10
Meh
"...The Dandy Warhols Come Down" is the second studio album by American rock band the Dandy Warhols. Alternative rock, power pop and space rock are the Wiki-listed genres. Yeah, they fit into those styles. The band recorded an album, "The Black Album," before this album that was rejected by their label, "Capitol," for containing "no hit singles." Capitol reached out to Tony Lash to produce the new album since he had produced their debut album "Dandy Rule OK." The bandmembers included Courtney Taylor-Taylor (lead vocals, guitar), Peter Holmström (guitar, vocals), Zia McCabe (keyboard bass, keyboards, percussion. Vocals) and Eric Hedford (drums, vocals). The album received generally positive reviews and, commercially, hit #16 in the UK and #22 on the US Billboard Heatseekers Chart. "Be In" opens the album with a long spacey synth intro. This leads into layered guitars, a drum beat, an organ-sounding synth and echoing vocals. A harder edge to the guitar and droning synth gives this a spacey/psychedelic vibe which fits the loneliness/druggy lyrics. The third single "Boys Better" continue with the layered guitars, the upfront organ-sounding synth and spacey/pyschedelic sound. Reverb on the guitar. I think it's about hipsters and a girl they should be afraid of. Taylor-Taylor said the first single "Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth" was written about his girlfriend who became addicted to heroin while he was on tour. The famous opening line of "Heroin is so passé ." This song is more poppy with a 60's sound to the beat and guitars. "Every Day Should Be a Holiday" speeds it up a bit with the drums and guitars. It's kind of groovy with the keyboard sound. A simple message: just have fun. Taylor-Taylor describes that moment of transition between a dream and waking up in "Good Morning." A slow start transitions to a nice standard rock song. I have to be honest; I'm confused to what this band wanted to be on this album. Their singles and several other songs see them as a more 60's sounding, glam rock/pop band and then the rest of the songs are some sort combination of space rock, stoner rock and pyschedelia. The album suffers terribly from being in the cd era and overly long (66 minutes). They should have just ended the album after song eight (and about a 35-minute album). This would have been a totally different review. And what's with the last fifteen minutes being spaced-out instrumentals. Was that needed? I do like their three-released singles and maybe one or two other songs. So, I'd recommend listening to those songs and skipping over the rest unless you like listening to inconsequential stoner rock, then it's all on you.
I know they had some bangers later, but I can tell they were young when this came out. A lot of being in love with weird sounds.
I didn’t mind this album playing in the background while I was working. That said, I don't think I would like it otherwise. That is, unless I was high. Then, it would be amazing!
A bit of strummy jangle, a bit of brit pop swagger, a bit of shoegazey swirling noisey atmosphere, a bit of psych modulated drone, a bit of warm shaggy fuzz, a bit of college rock goofiness, a bit of winking throwback garage rock nostalgia, a bit of power pop harmony, a very stupid band name. Hey, they're out there having fun being a pretty decent guitar band, not hurting anyone (except themselves it seems), but not a whole going on. They have great taste in music and in cool vintage guitars to go with their a classic PNW hipster aesthetic - but a good example of how taste doesn't necesarily transmute into inspiration. The mythos outstrips the music. Would anyone care about this band if it wasn't for Dig! and the drama around their friendship/feud with another band with a very stupid name? Favorites: Orange, Every Day Should Be A Holiday, Good Morning, The Creep Out
Didn't really like this
You know those people during the American Revolution who wanted to be like the British and remain under the crown? This is the American band equivalent…
Two good songs
Goes on longer than it should. Started off as agreeable 90s alt-rock, but overstayed its welcome and lost my interest. Must I hear it? Maybe. Must I hear it for 66 minutes? No.
Liked this about as much as I could for an album I'll never listen to again. The droning guitars and the moodiness work surprisingly well and the melodies they sneak in there can make for nice little ditties. Side note for a lot of these albums from the 90s on, moving to CDs after vinyl/tapes was terrible for the consumer. Too many of these artists think they need to fill sixty to eighty minutes with songs that normally would've been left out when an album couldn't be more than 45 minutes. Less can be more. Fitting for our demented post-Cold War era.
Eh.
If the post-Britpop music scene gave rise to what has affectionately become known as "landfill indie", can we invoke "dumpster-fire grunge" for the corresponding era in American alternative music? And, more importantly, would The Dandy Warhols be included in the blaze? Hmm, possibly. Simple, but effective, shoegaze psych meets radio-friendly late-90s danceable pop-rock - the two sides of the Dandys are both fairly easy on the ear. In between, however, is some rather nondescript filler material which sees a dip in quality and focus from the band - dare I say it, they just don't have the musical depth of their self-destructive on-off chums Brian Jonestown Massacre. That said, Dandy Warhols carved a little niche for themselves, nestled one foot firmly into it and still managed to dip the other foot into the charts for a couple of years in the mid-to-late 90s. While it is definitely starting to show it's age, Come Down is still a reasonably pleasant, if slightly superficial and inconsistent, listen.
This weekend put me in a mood for blunt takes. So here you go: this is forgettable garage rock. It wasn’t hard on the ears, but it didn’t stand out. Meanwhile, it annoyed me to have two white noise songs at the end of a 66-minute album. Don’t do that.
Meh, nothing particularly memorable here
This album had me at “Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth” — cheeky, catchy, and soaked in snark. “Cool As Kim Deal” sealed the deal with its slacker charm and undeniable 90s cool. But somewhere around the swamp-fuzz oddity of “Green,” things started to wobble... and by the time “Hard On for Jesus” rolled around, the wheels were fully off the psychedelic tour bus.
This album kinda bored me. The first song got me excited for the rest of the album, but it just dragged on and didn't provide an interesting listening experience. There were some cool elements, but it was very long. I usually like this genre of music, but this didn't land with me. 2
I regret to inform that this record didn’t grab me. It was alright with some good noisy parts but then also some pretty boring cuts as well. Definitely too long. High 2/5
No
Yeh ok. At Work
Ok, I was predisposed to dislike this. Knowing my own taste, when I see the tags “britpop” and “psychedelic”, and an album that is 70mins long and starts with a 7 min opener I got the fear. And turns out I was broadly right to - this isn’t outright offensive and I won’t be wishing ill to the band, but god it was boring.
ok, not for me
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.
next!
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
Started off promising but boy did that not last
Mediocre
2.5
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
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.
boring
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
Boring.
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
Not fully my thing
It was fine, dragged towards the end. Didn't need to hear it before I died
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.
It is a pretty nice album, but not memorable really. Just sort of sits there in its safe space.
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.
So drone-y. So boring. Tim: “There might have been a time I’d have cottoned to it, but certainly no longer.”
Just couldn't get into it at all. I think I might like this is I was five days younger.
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
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…
Meh
Not bad, kinda reminded me of my music back in college
The musical equivalent of tat.
Sooo dull and soo long. The very essence of meh. I guess I'm team Jonestown then.
Didn't really like it that much. Lacked strength and energy in my opinion.
Zzzz
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.
It’s not horrible, just feels like the same sounds over and over for an hour plus.
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.
Loved their sound at times but didn’t like any of the songs really. Maybe if they pared it down
"...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.
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.
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)
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.
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
Like a poor man's Nirvana
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.
Not good
Nice enough
Fav: Every Day Should Be A Holiday Least Fav: Pete International Airport Turns out the quality of their music came down too
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
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
Alternative rock with a poppy feel. Not bad, but forgettable.
Ja helemaal niks
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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)
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.