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Didn’t know what to expect and was very happy. Great album. 8/10
Primer acercamiento a The Dandy Warhols. Álbum sofomoro del grupo estadounidense, el cual demuestra un jugueteo entre el Alt-Rock y la psicodelia de los años 90'. Considerando los aspectos positivos, es de destacar con excelencia el trabajo realizado en la composición y producción de este LP. Disfruté mucho que un álbum pueda hacerte saltar y reflexionar de la misma forma sobre guitarras etéreas. Así, fueron este tipo de momentos para mí los más altos del disco, donde la ambientación es digna de destacar. Por otra parte, estimo que tanto la voz como las letras lamentablemente no llegan a la altura del aspecto anteriormente destacado. Muchas veces monótonas y monotemas, estas debilidades se apreciaron en un número no menor de canciones, lo cual fundamenta también mi nota final. A grandes rasgos, una buena y correcta introducción a este grupo. FAVTRAXS: Be-In, Orange, Whipping Tree, The Creep Out LEASTFAV: Minnesoter
It's fine, we can forget this
Atmospheric, sometimes funny, edgy punkish-pop/rock
Strange low tempo grunge pop with a decidedly Eno twist at the end? A lot of what was expected with some interesting twists
I really enjoyed this, it was more adventurous than I expected
Enjoyed this more than I thought I would!
Middle of the road average late 90s US rock.
Moody, doomy, compelling.
It is fitting that this album popped up just as I am experiencing possibly the worst fever of my life, because The Dandy Warhols Come Down feels like a fever dream. The music drifts between woozy, reverb-soaked soundscapes and sharp bursts of psych-pop energy. It’s a swirl of hazy guitar riffs, hypnotic grooves, and vocals that float in and out of focus, like you’re slipping between consciousness and delirium. To be honest, I hadn’t thought of this album in a while, but a long time ago, a teenaged me overheard "Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth" at a local indie record store, and I remember feeling almost hypnotized. I picked up the CD without even hearing another note. When I finally played it, it was like nothing else in my then-modest music collection. The Dandy Warhols have an uncanny ability to mix catchy, sun-drenched melodies with layers of fuzz and distortion, creating something both accessible and otherworldly. Their blend of psychedelic rock, alternative pop, and ironic detachment makes this album a unique and unforgettable listen. The album opens with the sprawling, 7-minute "Be-In," a bold and unusual move that sets the tone for the band's refusal to play by typical alt-rock conventions. It’s a slow-building, psychedelic haze that feels less like an intro and more like an invitation to get lost in their world. Then there’s the aforementioned "Junkie," a punchy and sardonic hit with its infectious chorus and playful critique of drug culture. On the lighter side, "Every Day Should Be a Holiday" offers a sunny, feel-good escape, with its jangly guitars and carefree vibe, embodying the band’s more accessible pop sensibilities. The quirky "Minnesoter" showcases their offbeat humour and knack for blending catchy hooks with psychedelic textures, while "Hard On For Jesus" blends irreverent lyrics with a driving beat and spacey instrumentation. As the album winds down, the Dandy Warhols once again throw convention out the window, closing with two tracks—“Pete International Airport” and “The Creep Out”—that stretch over 14 minutes combined. Both songs drift into spacey, instrumental territory, a fittingly hypnotic end to an album designed to take you somewhere strange and unexpected. From start to finish, the band plays by their own rulebook, and it’s this sense of unpredictability that keeps Come Down feeling fresh, even decades later. Did/Do I own this release? Yes. Does this release belong on the list? It’s unique, enjoyable, and has stood the test of time—so why not? Would this release make my personal list? As mentioned, I hadn’t thought of this album in a while, but it does tick many of my boxes. Will I be listening to it again? For sure, frequently.
Oh no. Really? Ok, one last chance Dandy Warhols. First track - decent background noise, I'm not high enough to get lost in it. Two - Boys Better - why does this remind me of Neil Young? Tolerable, borderline likeable. Track three - filler at best. Track four - hypnotic, melodic. Interesting? Jury is out. Five - That junkie song. OMG. *Skip* Six - That holiday song. Back in the 90s, but not in a good way. Also skip. 7-9 Zoned out for a few minutes there. Probably an accurate reflection on the music. Something about green? All the rest...Blah blah blah. No one puts the good songs at the end of the album. These are not the deep cuts you are looking for. Thought I could like this at first, keeping an open mind but...NOT as cool as Kim Deal. Two stars.
Not the worst album…….and not the best. It was Ok.
Interesting. Totally missed them back in the day. Not particularly in the mood for them this morning, but will listen again at another time.
Some ok tunes here and there. But mostly shite. And about song 13... I mean omg. I am busy with ICLR or I would have wrote an essay about how shite of piece of shite it was.
it fit my mood
It's really tame, but I can live with it.
Not bad!
The first half seems almost whispered. Much better from the second half. Quite enjoyable overall
1001 albums Dandy Warhol Some of the Harmonies kinda remind me of Alice In Chains. Grungey/Alternative rock/a little psychedelic rock. The synths are cool. Everyday should be a holiday was a nice change of style. I like all the vibey stuff but was kinda of hoping for some more dynamic/ screamy vocals at some points. Good sounding 90’s rock album. Too long though, I’d like it to be under 50 minutes. Cut the last couple songs maybe? 3.5
I kinda liked it but got kinda tiresome at the end. Minnesoter was my favorite. Maybe 3.7
I liked this album but I grew a bit tired at the end. Minnesoter and Not if you were the last junkie on earth were my favorite
The Dandy Warhols were one of the bands in college that everyone at the radio station told me to listen to. I got into them for a little while and a few of us saw them in concert. They put on a good show but I don't have great memories of that concert. Everyone seemed to know the songs better than I did and I began to feel left out and bored. Then some people in the crowd started passing around a joint and this 60-year-old in front of me took a hit and briefly fainted on me. He snapped out of it right away but he looked disoriented and dazed. I couldn’t wait for the show to be over and to leave. The only song I know on this album is “Not If You Were the Last Junkie On Earth.” It’s a catchy song but the lyrics hit me now as kind of obnoxious. That smug attitude is an issue I have with the band in general. A lot of their music sounds as if they know they’re cool. A bunch of these songs are meandering and druggy. They drag down the rest of the album, which is otherwise fun and upbeat. Some enjoyable stuff here too but nothing I feel any real connection to.
I feel like there's an incredible amount of songs about heroin in rock music; it seems like it's been a ubiquitous part of the history of the genre and it will probably continue to be so for the foreseeable future. When I look at the lyrics for those types of songs, there usually is some kind of poetic take on the drug, with comparisons to love or relationships or vivid descriptions of the high being sung about in a subtle and artistic way. Like see the lyrics here on one of my favorite songs by The Stranglers, "Golden Brown", they sing: "Golden brown, texture like sun Lays me down, with my mind she runs Throughout the night, no need to fight Never a frown with golden brown Every time, just like the last On her ship, tied to the mast To distant lands, takes both my hands Never a frown with golden brown" Or in another one of my favorite songs, "So Come Back, I Am Waiting" by Okkervil River: "A black sheep boy revolves Over canyons and waterfalls A black sheep boy dissolves In syringe or in shower stall He says there's plenty of time to make you mine tonight He says there's plenty of time to make you mine He says there's plenty of ways to know you're not dying All right Hell there's plenty of light still left in your eyes" These are all beautiful and poignant lyrics and have stuck with me for these reasons. I've spent the last few years of my life as a songwriter thinking a lot about bluntness, and the spectrum of lyrics being too "on the nose" and blunt, or on the opposite end with lyrics being too overly poetic or superfluous. With that topic lingering in my head for a while now it was funny for me to hear a song like "Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth" with a chorus like: "Heroin is so passe, hey Heroin is so passe, hey So passe nowadays You never thought you'd get addicted just be cooler in an obvious way I could say, shouldn't you have got a couple piercings and decided maybe that you were gay." To me these lyrics are a little bit less about heroin itself and more about a person, but I find it funny to think about where on that spectrum of lyrical approach this song would live compared to the two that I previously mentioned. Not only that, but to think of a visual for that spectrum and how many songs there are about the drug and how many of the songs live on the "on-the-nose" side of the graph compared to the amount that is on the "poetic" side. It's not a bad thing to me, but it is definitely surprising to hear a chorus that is so blunt. It's funny in an approachable way. Not just to focus on one song, but I feel like this was probably the best representation for the record as it has a staggeringly high amount of song plays compared to the rest (16million, with most others being between 300k-7million as per Spotify). The rest of the record was just OK to me and didn't stand out much.
Gets a bit repetitive at times but there were some brighter moments, a light 3/5
Highlights: Cool As Kim Deal, Every Day Is A Holiday, Boys Better, Not If You Were The Last Junkie on Earth In a nutshell: California sober dreaming Overall: 6/10
I just couldn’t get into this album at all. The vibes were a lot more mellow and low compared to a song of theirs I like bohemian like you.
Pleasantly surprised here. Not that it is an awesome album but rather surprised it didn’t suck. I was prepared to tolerate but actually kind of enjoyed.
An artifact of its time, but it's good memories and positive vibes. I'd listen to this again.
For some reason I thought The Dandy Warhols were something completely different. I guess I should’ve known better after having watched Dig! but it didn’t register. Expected boring Britpop and got cool PNW shoegazey vibes!? I need to dig into their discography more!
Some songs where fives some where meh
Nothing wrong with this really, but it was very repetitive and I got bored a lot. A couple of standouts, but not really much reason to recommend the whole album.
I don't remember them being more than a popular name to mention in the 90's. No hits from what I recall. The intro song, and all of these to one extent, are long and repetitive with so much sound and no breaks - it's too much, and there's no time to relax and enjoy the music. Heavy on keys, heavy on guitars, repetitive lyrics, added noise - it's an onslaught and I was drowning after the 2nd song, then "Minnesoter" came on and it was shorter with breaks and structure and playfulness not expressed on the earlier tracks. Then "Orange" hit and it's a slow, very 90's song with beauty and chill. "Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth" got some minor airplay, it's a good pop song. Best song by far is "Every Day Should Be A Holiday". Repetition is the key word for this band & this album. Feels there are a lot of "filler" songs. Not Top 1001 caliber by any means but not bad.
This is perhaps the most Britpop-y, unabashedly stereotypical 90s alternative rock albums to come out of a band from the US of A. That doesn't mean it's all bad, there's some fun rocking jams with a level of pride that has just enough quality to not come off entirely as cockiness. However, I think you'll struggle to find a record with more clichés. Too long? Check. Distortion guitars? Check. Singer with unique yet bland vocals? Check. Way too long outro to "feel something?" Check. It's all just very run of the mill, with hints of something greater bubbling underneath. It kept me intrigued over the four or so days it took me to get through it, but I can't imagine sitting down and calling this an all time great, and I am 100% sure Robert Dimery put this album in the 1001 Albums book just because it sounded vaguely britpop-y and extremely 90s. That's his favorite.
Reviews had me thinking this would be better.
snooooooze... Not if you were the last junkie was HUUUUGE my senior year in HS and it's a great song. The rest of the album, not so much. 2.5. Rounding up cause why not?
i don’t know i liked it but something wasn’t doing it for me
Pre-listening thoughts: just got like 5 albums that weren’t 90s indie rock so the generator was probably like “aw wait u miss it so much! Here’s more! There’s always more!!” 😭 Post/during listening thoughts: wish the vocal mixing was a little better but so far I’m enjoying this well enough. Be In has some nice vocal harmonies (sucker for them in general sorry!). There’s some nice pop influence in this record while still keeping the rock sound and instrumentation. Very power pop at points which I love. Minnesoter is so funny lowkey. Heroin is so passé is one of the funniest lyrics I have heard in a long time. Hard on for Jesus😭??? Some of the tracks on this album are a little too slow and droning for me. Also not a fan of the two instrumentals at the end. BUT the upbeat songs are pretty good. This is such a silly little album lol 6/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: nah but I got a good laugh out of it Fav tracks: Be In, Boys Better, Minnesoter, Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth, Every Day Should Be A Holiday, As Cool as Kim Deal, Hard On For Jesus Least fav tracks: Orange, I Love You, Whipping Tree, Green, Pete International Airport, The Creep Out
This has really surprised me. The only two DW songs I knew were the very overplayed Vodafone advert one, and the excelled We Used To Be Friends. Had low expectations but this is pretty ace. Sounds quite ahead of its time. Sort of merges that UK sounding pysch with garage rock. Some remind me of a proto Django Django. I’m now amazed these arent/werent bigger but then saw they have over 1.5million active monthly listeners so theyre obviously doing something right!
We can't have the blue album but we get a dandy warhols album that doesn't have bohemian like you on it. Absolutely essential stuff. Felt like the band wanted to make quite a beckish album and the label insisted on a few singles that sounded like their older stuff. Generally liked it but I think other bands do it better, definitely a few tracks didn't go anywhere interesting.
Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth was cracking - love the drums. Keeps on moving. Decent album overall.
Thought I only knew 1 Dandy Warhols tune, I was wrong! Knew a couple on this album too. Thought it was mostly very good. Probably pretty similar to what I would've expected, but not wrong with that. Pretty hipster and artsy. Highlights: Boys better Not if you were the last junkie on earth Everyday should be a holiday
After one listening I feel way much cooler. If it wasn’t for the weird instrumentals, this album would be a 5 but you know…
That was soooooo boring. I skipped through every song.
Not the album with "Bohemian Like You"! I generally liked the more uptempo songs than the slower ones. "Every Day Should Be A Holiday" sounds like it could have been made by a bunch of baggy trousered Mancs.
I don’t think there is anything particularly original about this album, but it’s very listenable, vaguely psyche-y power pop.
These kinds of albums can change my life or make me rue the fact that 1999 record store employees in throuples exist. This first two minutes is on the rue side but then it kicks in a little bit. Riff is good and the droning vocals work for me. Pretty cool so far. Did this have to be 6 minutes?? Each minute is another feather in your anti establishment cap. Next comes the feminist anthem. Honestly a great droning rock song. Fun and repetitive in a good way. Roll on Dandy. Minnesoter? I hardly know er. Man. That’s an original joke. Anyway. I love the sound of this thing. Vocals aren’t an extreme focus but they really work as an attitude and aren’t heavily pretentious. Concise, fun, Good. “Orange is the new Beck” is why I wanted this song to sound like Beck. But so far it sounds like Prison Tycoon menu music. Oh no. Here come the pretentious vocals. I like the laid back yet weird tone though. And prison tycoon WAS sick. You did it again you crazy teens. And you’re not Beck. Listen, it’s been five tracks, you don’t love me. You love the IDEA of me. Yeah this one sucked. Weird but not in a cool way. Heroin IS out of style. Get with the wave of the future; hospital grade fentanyl. This song appears on the top played songs on their profile, meaning it’ll probably be bad as the general music listening audience enjoys garbage. This one is not great. The radio hit. High school movie beginning song for sure. Every day should be a holiday. These weirdos are speaking my language. Did avril Lavigne rip this off for that one song? Some of the weird scrunchy synths are a poor choice. This one is more interesting than the last two, but we have strayed from the first 4 tracks. Good morning?? He he, more like BAD morning. Yeah this one not great. What happened to the cool vocals. The deep voice makes me cringe and it simply sounds worse. Without these vocals, this song is kind of nice and trance-y. Noooo don’t do a suicide ballad. What was that?? I hated that. Come on. It wasn’t as pretty as it thought it was. Orange and then Green?? What is this, preschool?? I know like at least 5 colours. You can’t fool me. But yeah this one is another lull. What was shaping up to be an interesting album has devolved into pretension and some nerd in a brimmed beanie crooning the word “sexually” too close to the mic. Get outta here. Drums? People are alive?? This has to ironic. Return to the sound I enjoyed far more. Power pop. Pretty ok. It’s not my favourite but the paddles have been applied to my chest. Kim deal must be pretty cool. I’m glad we brought the instruments back out for one final rip. I was really hoping this would be more clear in making fun of adults who believe in grown up Santa Claus and use it to shape their lives in any way, but it’s just a not great pop-rock song. Kind of like the weird wah stuff going on at times and the title is funny, but meh. PETE international airport is a funny name. Fuck you Charles De Gaulle and JFK. My buddy Pete needs a whole terminal named after him. Although, if I did have a buddy Pete and if he was worthy of being the namesake for my new international airport, I would probably do a better tribute than uninteresting ambient. The Creep Out is NINE minutes long. I wish it was creepier. But it sure is plodding! And boring! Listen, I am still building the rating scale. One or two good songs does not a three make. This puppy was in 2.5 territory and after this parade of mediocrity towards the end it’s a 2. I understand that many bands need context, but I don’t need to know that the session musician who played the digeridoo had an ironic love of doo wop singles. None of it is palpable. There is no clear attitude or statement throughout much of this. HIGHLIGHTS: Boys Better, Minnesoter, Orange.
Pretty solid album, good sound, some songs. Nothing remarkable but reasonably up my street.
Not really remarkable, kind of a shoegaze/Nirvana type thing
Pretty standard late 90s indie. I guess it’s kind of interesting to note that this was happening both side of the Atlantic. But not that interesting.
The Dandy Warhols have one song that I do really like but it's not on this album but this album is still fairly listenable and I didn't turn it off but I forgot the songs that were on it. 3 stars.
The most "I-don't-mind-this" album from this app in a long while. It was perfectly fine. At times it cut through - I was quite surprised at how smitten I became with the repetitive simplicity of the songs. "Boys Better" was a highlight that seemed to go on for quite some time. Not bad, not brilliant, instead occupying a serviceable zone somewhere inbetewen. Also, if World of Twist were American and not so zonked out, I reckon they'd sound like this.
I really loved this album. I had maybe heard of this band before, but I had definitely never listened to them. The guitar sounds are incredible. With some listens it could honestly be a five for me, but it’ll have to settle for a four for now.
Oh wow did I hate that. Every song is too long. Every song is so very boring. There's not one element that I enjoyed. By the time I got to Hard On For Jesus I knew this was a 1. I know not everyone shares my religious views. I'm not a stranger to anti-religious songs, I even enjoy some of them if I'm being honest, but this one wasn't even remotely clever and just made me even madder. What a terrible album.
Alright, not life-changing
Not in my edition of the book! 1997. 3 stars. Album 500 from the list. American Oasis wannabees. Starts off well but gets flabby in the second half. Points deducted for excessive wankage - no-one needs multiple 5 minute+ tracks.
All I knew about the Dandy Warhols was their name. In 1997 I was living out of the country, and way more interested in exploring the music of a new continent, so this one slipped by me. This sounds like “what if Garbage, the Breeders and the Lemonheads decided to get together to try to make a Velvet Underground album, with a little Pink Floyd thrown in for good measure.” A bit uneven throughout, but overall a really enjoyable listen! Songs I Liked: Boys Better, Every Day Should Be a Holiday, Good Morning, Whipping Tree, Cool as Kim Deal, and Pete International Airport 3.5⭐️
As someone who likes "Bohemian Like You" from their mext album, I dound this album a bit of a let down.
It wasn't horrible but I just could not get into it. Felt repetitive and flat.
Perhaps an underrated album. This band is certainly polarizing, but I did enjoy it for the most part. 3.5/5
Not if you were the last junkie has always been a favorite
Was expecting Bohemian Like You but was still entertained, they do have something unique to offer in the wash of British bands on this list.
Alternative rock indie. Tranquilo sonoro.
Nice
I only know bohemian like you by the dandy warhols for a reason
Pretty okay
Where was I that I missed this aural explosion? I’ve definitely heard of The Dandy Warhols before, but I had no clue that they rocked so hard. The joy of this list.
Fun power pop, plays light Sugar demos.
Enjoyed this - atypical of 1997 with interesting lyrics
is fine
All the ingredients are there for a decent garage rock influenced indie album, but the songs lack any real arrangement flair to make it a solid recommendation.
Never listened to it before (obviously knew the hitters) a deep dark psychedlilla pop not dismillar to the doors. Intersting lyrics and sence of counter. However half way through just sounded like it self and kinda ran out of steam.
Fairly generic indie landfill. Competently done, but hardly brought anything new to the party
Lovely jangly guitars and generally upbeat lyrics. I feel like they are a force for good, but a bit too nice and are in their comfort zone.
Yet another ex-1001 album!™ http://1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie.wikidot.com/album-artists-a-z-ex Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth still hits the nostalgia notes! The rest of the album is fine, a bit wishy washy... but yeah, I agree: Every Day Should Be a Holiday!
New favourite Dandy Warhols album
The Dandy Warhols will always be iconic for giving us "We Used to be Friends", the theme song for Veronica Mars. That song isn't on this album though, so I'm going in blind here (just kidding, I've listened to other Dandy Warhols songs before)! I don't really care for the shoegaze elements, but I like when they get more upbeat and into more indie rock territory. An interesting sound overall, but not something I think I'll listen to often.
meh.
Very cool, laid-back rock album!
Hyvää keskinkertaista rokkia taas. Hyvää kuunneltavaa, mutta yksittäiset kappaleet ei niin loista. Kappaleet on aika nestemäisiä eikä niissä niinkään on säkeistöjä. Myös vähän ambienttejä, mutta muuten sitä perus ysäri alt rock soundia. Ei parhaita kappaleita
Flippant, smart-arsed, sarcastic, swaggering jangly guitar pop that tries unsuccessfully to hide some rather nice musicianship. Mr S loves the guitar work.
It’s ok.
good.
Nice I guess
Knew this band for the hits but this album is a very cool foray into something much more interesting
Two blinding singles surrounded by a lot of filler. Some better than others, but those two singles are funny, catchy and cool!
Pretty creative and unique 90s Britpop/indie rock. They go out of there way to try and create their own sound and it works.
Decent sound. Would like to listen some more
Shit
I guess 1 star? I got bored of this and clicked away quickly, but I put on some modern stuff of theirs and like it better, so I might let it ride some.
Didn't like it at first but started to really enjoy it half way in.... Then I lost interest towards the end.
Better than I was expecting. Close to a 4 except I’m not sure I’d ever put it on again.
Very dull... inoffensive though but don't see any real point in this.
Surprisingly not bad
Interesting psychedelia.
Subversive to the point of not being able to trust the pop aligned songs like Good Morning, something about that acoustic strumming feels like it's about to belt you at any moment. The Creep Out could well be the best album closer of all time. Fuck it's great. Especially when you realise it's just been him fucking around on a vocoder the entire time. Sounds like where Cousin Tony's yot the feel for Stratoblaster.
This is one of those albums that grabs you immediately. Not the best album on this list, but it rounds up to 5. The instrumentation is definitely what puts this over the top for me. Favorite track: "Every Day Should Be A Holiday."
Gear: DCA ÆON 2 Noire Artwork: 😕😦🤢 Mix: 🤷♂️🥱😴 Musik: 🤔🙄😬 Wertung: 💈💈(💈)/5
a real a-side/b-side album be-in boys better not if you were the last junkie on earth every day should be a holiday good morning the creep out
Meh
Favourites were 'Be-In' and 'Whipping Tree', I wish the whole album sounded like them
This one was quite a slog to get through.
Respective. Got too annoying.
90% of this is four chordy, the exact same tempo, wishy washy, interchangeable. Whipping tree is the first time the tempo changes, but then it's that tempo for the next song
Pretty bland stuff
Not for me
Just by the name and album artwork, I had assumed this was going to be the aural equivalent of a shitpost, but I was pleasantly surprised by this psychedelic record! The Dandy Warhols generate a hazy atmosphere and trip which is neatly capped off with the final two tracks (“Pete International Airport” and “The Creep Out”). The band plays a grimy form of rock that occasionally reminded me of desert rock/metal, which would make sense seeing as drugs play a central role in these forms of rock. This record deserves a 5/5!
Muita pretensão, tentativas que parecer com rock setentista ou REM.
Ok album.
Good stuff
Another victim of the evil curse placed onto 90s bands that forced them to stretch out their albums to lengths of over an hour. This could have been an amazing album if it was only like 30 minutes long. Cut out the weird pointless noodling and Silent Hill ambience at the end. I like atmospheric tracks, but that shit just refused to go anywhere. It was like listening to someone trying and failing to start up their car for 20 minutes.
It would be easy to imagine that an album starting up with the faux warm-up of an orchestra pit would be a load of pretentious bilge. Fortunately, it skirts around pretentiousness while managing to keep the bilge. There are precisely two good tracks in here and the rest is entirely forgotten.
Enjoyed it, especially the really long last track
I going to resist just throwing at 1 at this because i guess it's somewhat competent, but man do I hate these hour long alt rock albums that have no variety whatsoever. Complete snoozer, glad it's over.
4/5
Dandy indeed
A decent Brit pop rock album by a band with a lame name. Very 90s style that is reminiscent of other bands but not nearly as popular as oasis. Overall it’s good. Fits all the qualifications for this list again. 6.3/10
Didn’t connect with this one other than Not if You Were the Last Junkie on Earth. All the other tracks had a meandering shoe gaze vibe of no tension/resolution. Singing wasn’t for me. 2/5
There's a little bit of a Pavlovian reaction to hearing the opening drums on Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth. It takes you right back to being 13 or 14 and thinking that the Dandy's were very cool indeed. Overall, it's decent enough, and quite listenable, if totally paint by numbers. Too long by half, but glad to have heard it.
Band name and album cover made me expect some self-absorbed post punk nonsense. The Wikipedia article makes them sound like a garage rock band and also mentions them sounding like brit pop. None of this seemed particularly appealing. Turns out, all of it that was inaccurate and they're rather somewhere in between 70's space rock like Hawkwind and 00's post-rock. That's definitely more up my alley and they're pretty good within this particular niche. As is it sometimes goes, the singles (at least "Not If You Were.." and "Every Day Should..") are the obvious worst tracks on the album - boring, accessible, dime-a-dozen pop rock. But whenever they're doing their own thing instead of trying to please the studio's misguided desire for mass appeal, these guys are pretty awesome.
Call me a dandy because I enjoyed this album a lot! Felt like a true late 90's rock type album. Even listening to it reminded me of the 90's. I kept Not if you were the last junkie on earth and Every Day Should Be a Holiday. Some really fun stuff.
Found myself liking this a lot more than I expected. Initially I assumed they were British, but nope - American. The album has a lot of dud songs, but also a handful that really caught me. It's this kind of grungy alt-rock that isn't always distinct, but they do a few cool things with it. Favorite tracks: Boys Better, Minnesoter, Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth, Good Morning, Hard On for Jesus (love these track titles). Album art: Part of why I wasn't expecting much, this cover's about as indistinct as the more forgettable tracks on here. It's, what, a shot of a wall from an angle? I see a TV up there, it just sucks. 3.5/5
Yeah! This is how a perfect modern stoner rock album should be made!
Ei häirinnyt muttei kyllä kaapannut mukansakaan 2/5
Oli tää kyl ihan jees täytyy myöntää vaikka aika turha valinta listalle taas
Taas kerran liian pitkä levy -- oliks tää joku ysärijuttu että kun voi niin tehdään tunnin levyjä ilman sen suurempaa syytä? Eipä siinä, ihan hyviä biisejä joukossa ja eiköhän sen takia kolmoseen nouse, vaikka olis voinu olla enemmän garageakin.
A little whacky and interesting song styles. Overall didn't hit me hard.
I like em ok but surprised to see this on the top 1000 list.
I know I've heard their name before, but I'm not sure I've ever heard the Dandy Warhols' music before. "Be-In" started off almost like the Chemical Brothers, which I thought was a good start, but then kind of veered into that (later) 90s muddled and flat wall of sound/noise with equally muffled lyrics (or the fuzzy brooding sound, like on "Orange"). Not that there's anything wrong that, of course, but they're not as distinctive as I want them to be. (What they need, of course, is an electric jug to go with the tambourine. :) I *did* enjoy their single "Every day should be a holiday", and the final track "The Creep Out". I *will* say, though, that whoever created and edited the album's Wikipedia entry didn't do them any favors; it's one of the more disappointing album descriptions that I've come across with this collection. Too bad, as I wanted to find something to up their intriguing-factor and my rating....
much better than I expected given the name but I am sorry it's not dandier. I liked the fuzzy sound of the album and thought the first four songs were terrific, and then it just became a little more of the same. torn between a 3 and a 4 on this one.
Meget cool album!
Fed larm! Ved ikke hvorfor jeg først hører det nu, men det er noget jeg kommer til at høre igen
Super fed plade, som lige rammer en lyd jeg godt kan lyde, guitar støj i massere af lag og så bare derudaf.
The album was very meh. No song stood out. The sound was OK.
I probably would have been a big fan of this, if I'd discovered it when it came out. As it is, it feels more like a late-90s curio piece. Not bad, just of its time
I went on a bit of a Dandy Warhols kick after getting this album & ultimately think 'Welcome to the Dollhouse' and 'Thirteen Tales' are better. This isn't terrible but definitely gives a 'throwing stuff at the wall' vibe (with one commercial-ready single) while the other albums have a more cohesive yet still interesting sound.
Didn't listen to the whole thing but first 3 songs were ok. Might deserve a deeper dive but I am not going to do that. haha.
They had a couple of catchy tunes (over a few albums, anyway), but overall it's pretty bland. Less annoying than Britpop, but just the American version of it. Generally unoffensive, but also uninspired. Easy-ish listening, but little to find exciting. Although it's a neat way to get all sorts of random music I probably wouldn't otherwise listen to, this website kind of sucks, as it tries to force me to get a new album every day. Unfortunately, I don't alweays have time to do this, so I would rather than it let me update my new album when I'm ready.
An angsty slice of indy rock
Pete International Airport anyone? I think I've listed to that song on repeat for endless hours in a row, unwittingly. Who knew you could sell records by recording that?
Pretty surprised how much i enjoyed this... has the clear alt. rock vibe but it is pretty interesting in that it has some pretty straightforward songs but also delves into sonic landscapes that are engaging (maybe Pete's Airport is a bit of a lowlight). I found myself liking it more and more on subsequent listens... it is varied enough that it stays fun and engaging for the whole album.
The Dandy Warhols are still not passe, imo.
Love it super fun would listen to againe
8/10.
I love this album. It was pivotal in my musical development, and even though it feels more trite now, in 2024, I still think it is a great achievement for alternative rock with strong vibes and catchy hooks.
Didn’t realise the Dandy Warhols were American, always thought they were British. This is a good shoegaze/britpop album, enjoyed it, just drags a bit in places for me to want to add to my frequent rotation
Day 12 - June 13, 2024 Normally I hate shoegaze with a burning passion, but I did enjoy this album. This was a surreal listening experience. This album is how you do experimental. 5/5
Dandy's Gonna Warhol
an interesting mix of psychedelic and shoegaze that makes for a fun atmospheric sort of vibe.
Perfectly alright. the vibe suits me pretty well and i feel like any of the songs of this album could be used as an end credit song for a 2000s movie. do i think that there needs to be 15 minutes of straight instrumental at the end? no. but the atmospheric shit on this hits. top 3 - whipping tree, good morning, orange
Tengi ekki við neitt þarna. Frekar boring.
Some weird stuff, some high highs. Pretty fun overall
I really liked the shoegazey songs and the one where they sing a lot I don't care for but they were not annoying to listen to
That was decent!
Be-In // Orange //
...
Neo psychedelica that stood the test of time? I'm in
I enjoyed this album, and I'd listen to it again. It was great to listen to while working, and again while making dinner and cleaning up. The kids didn't object to it. I actually really like the instrumental tracks. It's a good groove, especially in the background. It's never going to achieve sing-along status.
Barely tolerable
I Love You stunk, but the singles are fun. Yea the weird bits are weird, but not something I'm interested in.
A bit psychedelic, a bit darker here but powerful on other tracks. I enjoyed it after all these years never really getting into these guys.
I thought this album was cool, but didn't really understand why it was significant relative to other albums that came out in this period/subgenre. Overall, a fun listen, though 3/5
Nothing special.
Nice!
Solid
It's not a bad album in the genre. If I ignore the lyrics & lead vocals, musically they have some great pop sensibilities. Decidedly dated & maybe a bit "safe" but for me preferable to the overly-produced stadium grunge that was taking center stage at the time.
I had never heard of the Dandy Warhols but I like them!
Mange som sammenligner dette med britpop, men for min del er det i mye større grad alt/psych. Jeg har lenge vært red for at det kommer ingen femmeralbum, men dette er akkurat over grensa.
Definitely will listen to this one again. Lot of really fun sounds/melodies on this joint
Hard pass
Forgettable
Very well put together, sounds good!
I really like this album. Going in, I didn't really know the Dandy Warhols that much. I was debating between a 4 and 5, but those last two instrumentals were useless to me, so 4 it is. Liked songs added: - Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth - Good Morning - Cool As Kim Deal
Kinda vacillates between lazy alt rock and more energetic power pop but it struck a chord with me. No bad tracks and good catchy hooks throughout. Standout is "Every Day Should Be A Holiday". Other good tracks are "Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth" as well as "Boys Better".
Easy to listen to but not particularly catchy and no stand out tracks for me.
Brilliantly sloppy. I love the Dandy's and love even more how little they care about being serious. This is a crazy mixed up album of Mercury Rev style drone slapping up against pure pop songs.
Musically great, lyrically/vocally not so much.
Don't remember much about this. I seem to think it was decent, but uneventful.
B teir. The songs were catchy and the production was good, but it is NOT a good album to listen to while you’re driving. I was falling asleep the songs get monotonous and hypnotic with all the repetitions. Could have crashed. Not good.
Fan va bra, lite lattjo brittiskt som jehova själv
Wow - this album just got removed from the list and that's a damn shame cus this is fun. A few tracks were a bit same-y, but I'm really glad to have listened to this.
First song has me stoked. I had heard of the Dandy Warhols before but I didn't remember what genre they were. I was pleasantly surprised that they're like a 90s sounding psych rock band. First song really grabbed my attention. 7 minutes, psych and shoegaze rock, and with synths? After listening to this album, there were some fun and silly songs that were enjoyable but there were also a lot of snoozefest songs.
This is a cool record. The Dandy Warhols were one of the first indie bands I got into. I almost feel like they were ahead of their time, because they never really got that big. I used to listen to this album and Thirteen Tales when I would snowboard. I really love the psychedelic elements on this album. It's got all the weirdness and strange sounds that you would ever want. It also has really cool mono sounding guitar riffs, which I really enjoy.
this was fine. the epitome of fine. not sure why i had to listen before i died. sure, i liked a few songs, but this isn't even the album with their big hit (to me, a former teen girl who loved veronica mars) on it. so like. why.
woof. i like bohemian like you but otherwise never really listened to the dandy warhols. i think their band name is kinda dumb and this album is worse. lots of long, boring tracks, particularly the last two tracks on this album. those two tracks last FIFTEEN MINUTES and are just droning/repetitive sound effects, feedback, and nothing else. absolutely devoid of any substance. not to mention the song i love you, which fills up an entire screen of the spotify lyrics with just "i love you" over and over. top-tier songwriting, folks. i did like that there was a song about Kim Deal from the Pixies next to a song called Hard On for Jesus, but that's basically where my praise of this album ends. i did not need to listen to this before i die. favorites: not if you were the last junkie on earth, every day should be a holiday
Late-90's indie rock, a bit grunge and laid-back, pretty cool. I knew and liked a few of the tracks on this before listening as part of the project, but most of the other tracks hold up as well. A couple of duds, but the intro and outro instrumental tracks, Be-In and The Creep Out are very listenable. One of the best albums so far.
Enjoyed
I've always enjoyed what I've heard of The Dandy Warhols but never really dug into them and found this album quite enjoyable. Psychedelic power shoegaze pop? Faves from this session: Boys Better, Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth and the last two tracks which are the come down of the album. bah dum tiss!
I really like The Dandy Warhols' schtick - sometimes poppy, sometimes psych-cinematic, sometimes goofy, and this album is a great showcase of all of that, but c'mon - including this rather than "Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia" is a joke. Not only does "Thirteen Tales" have their global hit on it, but the three track opening of "Godless" -> "Mohammed" -> "Nietzche" is just _so damn good_. Probably my favorite three track run from any genre! Anyway, back to "Come Down", it's still great. "Boys Better" is an absolute tune, and "Not If You Were The Last Junkie" is fun. The non single tracks are mostly great too. Fave tracks - as well as the aforementioned, on this play through I really liked the psych outro provided by "Pete International Airport" leading into "The Creep Out".
Loved this album, what a treat. Felt like these guys were at every festival I went to in high school but never actually listened to them.
"The Dandy Warhols Come Down" is the second studio album by The Dandy Warhols, released in 1997. The album showcases the band's psychedelic rock sound, with its dreamy melodies and hazy production. Songs like "Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth" and "Boys Better" are highlights, with catchy hooks and a laid-back vibe. However, while the album has its moments, it suffers from inconsistency. Some tracks feel like filler, lacking the strong melodies and hooks of the band's best work. Additionally, the album's production can be a bit muddy at times, obscuring the band's musical prowess. Overall, "...The Dandy Warhols Come Down" is a decent album that will please fans of the band's retro-rock sound, but it falls short of being a standout in their discography. It receives a rating of 3 out of 5.
Listened Before? N Meh. Decent background music. Feels hip but not really my style. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Every Day Should Be A Holiday
The silly band name put me off them, but quite a bit of it was surprisingly listenable. I did some research and found 'Bohemian like you' which is better than anything on this album, but on the whole, it's still pretty good.
Didn't do much for me. None of it is particularly bad, but just felt a bit watered down and unimportant. 2.5/5
A lot of sounds and quite weird, sometimes even trippy, but I guess there is an audience for this album. Overall, didn't enjoy it that much, but instead had a neutral feeling about it, apart from the bits where it was just monotonous background music - then it was negative.
Never heard them before, but I liked it a lot.
pretty cool little album although it does sound a bit dated and has that mid-late 90’s sound that almost everyone had back then. having said that, a fun listen.
Never listened to them more than a song or two. Not bad but a few songs were too drawn out and boring.
This was a fun 90s alt/indie rock album. There was nothing super memorable about it but it passed an hour pretty pleasantly and was a nice palate cleanser after listening to an album about killing yourself all day yesterday (also wanted to add that the combos of metal, industrial, and synth on downward spiral were awesome). Reminded me a lot of mainstream sonic youth stuff and I love you was the only standout for me but all of the songs were at least decent. However, I listened to it again today and a lot more of it really stuck to me and was enjoyable to the point where I might give it a 5. Gained a lot more appreciation of like the first three track and a couple more throughout. And it passes the weed test.
3.5
Hey, it's the "Bohemian Like You" and "We Used to Be Friends" guys! Onto the album itself, this is probably the most britpop-sounding album from a non-Brit group. Not a slam or anything, the singles really pop and the overall sound they bring is just different enough. Middle of the album was really strong, carried by the big single "Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth". Rest of the album didn't do much for me, as a few songs had a tendency to drone on I feel (especially towards the end of the album). I find it difficult to give this anything more than a 3 here.
I'd heard the name of this band before but have never listened to them. It had a neat little sound but again, the album is too long and runs out of steam 2/3 of the way through, especially ending on exceedingly mediocre long instrumental tracks.
Liked it, mor than I thought.
Hard On for Jesus?
First two songs I loved, the rest was pretty good
Absolutely love the main single, the rest of the album falls a bit flat for me 2.8
I love grunge guitar. I really do but I hate showgaze as much as I love grunge. There are good, even great moments on The Dandy Warhols Come Down, Not If You Were The Last Junkie on Earth is a fantastic pop song. Lot of funny funny titles in general. It’s not enough for 3 stars 5.5/10
Rock alternativo leeeeento y aburrido. Un 2.
Alternative rock indie. Tranquilo sonoro.
Surprisingly decent and diverse for an album with such a terrible cover, by a band with such a lame name. I may even revisit.
Yet another album in this very dated washy wavy Britpop grunge genre. I can picture the guy who made this list and I don't like him.
Good generic rock music. If I hadn’t already listened to 150 albums on this list I probably wouldn’t have realized there is nothing remarkable about the Dandy Warhols
I tried listening to this band and album about 15 years ago. I just don't get it. Nothing really special about it but their sound is pretty annoying to me.
Just completely lost the run of itself in the second half, much like I will do in life
Wrong side of a 3 by some margin.
Kind of catchy, no song excepting. However, not my thing although I can totally dig folks getting sweet vibes off their tunes.
Some great stuff but some rather offbeat material as well. Certainly not my favorite David Bowie album.
Big Oasis vibes I thought. This wasn’t bad. Kind of experimental at times but nothing made me perk up.
I liked the lighter, more poppy songs much better than the dense shoe gaze sounds. Maybe they could have been more commercially successful with a more consistent style?
Seems like they were influenced by the Velvet underground in more ways than one. The addition of power pop elements made this easier for my to digest than other post-punk from this time.
2.5
I liked this but can't say it's the most innovative sound- I can hear a lot of other bands and vibes in there. It's 1997 so right in the middle of all sorts of sounds going on. Nicely produced too.
never actually listed to this bad before, which is odd because it seems right up my ally. All in all, pretty decent. I'm sure I would like it more now had I listed to it back in the late 90s when first released.
En los años 90, bajo la etiqueta indie, hubo una serie de grupos que intentaron renovar el power pop con la explosión del rock alternativo y el grunge en el ambiente. Es el caso de los Dady Warhols. En este, su segundo disco y el primero grabado con un gran sello, lo consiguen a medias. Con un sonido algo novedoso para su época, consiguen crear algunas canciones pegadizas, con abundancia de capas sonoras que se retroalimentan, como "Boys Better" o "Minnesoter". Destacaría el tema más famoso, "Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth", y me gustan especialmente "Every Day Should Be A Holiday" y el sonido épico de "Good Morning".
Everything about this album made it seem like it would be just right for me. A 90’s rock band with a 60’s-inspired sound. I’ve been here before with this project. But this ain’t it. The album has a unified sound to it, but it’s almost too unified. Many of the songs sound the same. I literally inserted a melody of the first song into the second in my head, and it worked. I wanted to like this album, but between its repetition, its uninspired lyrics, and its length (including songs that felt like instrumental filler…?), I just can’t get behind this one. It’s getting 3 stars because I can’t give 2.5. I almost always lean toward giving a well produced album that just wasn’t for me 3 stars because I give it the benefit of the doubt that it’s good, just wasn’t my taste. But this really gets 2.5 stars. Standout tracks: Be-In, Orange, Not If You Were the Last Junkie On Earth
This may be the one review where I fully admit my experience of the music is colored by the baggage I bring to it. But of all the bands out there, the Dandy Warhols is probably the one I find most guilty of carrying cachets which overshadow the music. It started with DIG! *the* seminal indie-rock documentary of the 00s, a time where the flexibility of shooting digital video tore open the concept of a documentary while also exposing the cracks and shortcomings of unlimited access and endless footage. Even though that film casts the Warhols as the steady-hand career musicians and the Brian Jonestown Massacre as the sloppy also-rans who were too brilliant to hold it together and break through, I walked away liking the Massacre more, both as an entity and in their output. Initially engaging with their music at that point, in the mid-00s, the throwback sound of the Dandy's wasn't very novel, and in fact had aged into a relic of its own time: energetic space-rock whose verve is deflated by its disaffected lyrics and self-aware posturing; it's squarely a 90s thing. I was doing a lot of library shuffling at the time, so any concept of an entire Dandy Warhols album establishing a vibe was demolished. BRMC did this specific sound better, and the Massacre does the 70s throwback with a lot more attention and affection. Fast-forward a few years and I've moved to Portland. These guys are local heroes in the sense that you can't escape their name on every other venue marquee and their lead singer helped torpedo water fluoridation in PDX about a decade ago. Courtney's letter about fluoridation is still on the band's website; it's a masterwork of \"I read somewhere\" conspiracy-mongering and a certain strain of the \"you can't tell me how to live my life\" libertarianism which overwhelms Portland's political discourse and hamstrings the leftist haven which outsiders assume it to be. So, now, the music: it's fine. There's certainly a spacey vibe here, and the texture is more important than any specific riff, rhythm, or lyric. This is the kind of band that sings about heroin being \"so passe\" on a song with a keyboard riff that declares \"I know a guy who knows a guy who lived with a heroin junky.\" In a previous review (of the Rolling Stones' debut) I asserted an album would not have made the list of not for the achievements of their later albums; their place in 1001 albums was decided by the cachet of their name. The Dandy Warhols have done them one better, entirely building their cachet off reminders of better, more interesting groups by naming themselves after an iconic artist and naming songs things like \"Lou Weed\" or \"Danzig With Myself.\" Strip away the references, and nothing remains.
I'm always partial to these guys - can't really pick a favourite. And the doco Dig is fantastic
Surprised how much I enjoyed this. I only already knew the one "hit"
Lovely stuff. Nice wee slice of late 90's indie rock
This is a band I know by name only. Opening track is great! I’m looking forward to this journey. I would have probably hated this album in the 90’s but I love it now. “The creep out” is a great song. This is a great album.
Wow I REALLY liked this album. Has never heard it before, didn’t know what to expect. Good atmospheric music. Almost a five? Maybe not quite? Can an album I’ve never heard of before be a five? Can an album that I’ve listened to several times in one day NOT be a five?
Fine, good, liked it. I feel like 4 is too generous, but 3 feels too stingy. It's a solid 3.5
it's all a little samey, but in the comfortable way that it sounds like a complete album to listen to rather than "the songs all sound the same" if that makes sense. the music is exactly as shoegazey as i want my rock before it goes overboard and i just want it to be post rock instrumentals. it perfectly blends a lot of different ideas and ends up unique. it's very good.
This album started off so strong! I was liking the alt-rock vibes, but then it went downhill from there. It wasn't too bad, and some songs were really enjoyable, but there were a few that just went on forever for no reason, and just made me feel annoyed and a little sad.
Hmm. The final track was interesting. 1 additional star for that.
Way better than their name sounds (I hate their name so much), but this is a bit of fun. The second half dragged massively for me but enjoyed overall
Lost my notes! Some of the best alt rock for it's time, except for the fact that OK Computer came out the same year. Hard act to follow.
This album felt like it dragged on for 2 hours, not just 1! Nothing that was stand out amazing
This is what a Radiohead album would sound like if they actually made good music. Great 90's Brit-rock album.
Abgefahren sphärischer Space Rock.
An oasis of indie-rock goodness that emerged within a desert of cookie-cutter pop punk, Britpop, nu-metal, and grunge knock-offs in 1997.
I’ve long liked their sound and listening to this album was a treat!
I've heard of this band for so long it's interesting finally trying them out. I know they're indie staples. And after listening I wasn't a huge fan. A bit of shoegaze alt rock.
Sometimes there are very good moments, but I have not enjoyed!
I feel like I should know these guys, but I didn't. Some sort of combination of hippie rock and to a bunch of other stuff. It was good for a short time but the album overstayed its welcome.
3.3 - Never thought I'd give a listen coz this record here is so passé...
Didn’t listen to them in the 90s. They are ok, a few good songs and also ones that I remember now. Some songs are very slow, would this fall under the shoe-gaze category? Kinda close I think.
For a 66 minute album, this goes by pretty quickly. Pretty decent "britpop" from an American band. I like the mouth harp. 3.2/5 Best track(s) : Every Day Should Be a Holiday, Cool As Kim Deal
Leuk, ambulance Ltd achtig
You know those 'indie' CDs that popped up everywhere around this time, Shine and all that. Remember how they generally felt way more commercial and less good than the old Indie top 20 vinyls you used to get a few years earlier? And kind of how it signified indie's slow absorption into the mainstream where it had most of its edges knocked off and got so boring people eventually referred to the whole scene as 'landfill'? You recognise that? Well that's the Dandy Warhols, as a phenomena, and a feeling. They've got a couple of half decent tracks that passed the time back in the day but they are by their very essence inessential, and an hour of it can fuck off. The fact the second track was a single I have never heard before in my life despite the ubiquity of the other two is very telling. Orange is quite good though. As is I Love You. These slow stoner tracks. I'd probably say the last 7 tracks are a bit nothing. In spite of everything though I don't hate it, it's alright, it just doesn't belong in this list. Far more important albums were excluded, even from 1997.
3 stars
I liked it, but someone really needed to force them to trim 15 minutes off of this thing.
Somehow, I came away from Dig! finding the Dandy Warhols more insufferable than the Brian Jonestown Massacre, which, if you’ve seen that film, is no small feat, but I can’t really put my finger on why that is - aside from maybe thinking that BJM is a more interesting band. Putting that aside, this is a decent record, a good blend of fuzzed out psych and power pop, though it starts to feel repetitive towards the end.
To be honest this was a lot better than I expected it to be
I wanted to love this more than I did.
This was fine but nothing special. It didn’t even include the Veronica Mars theme song…
I think of this band as a two-hit wonder, even though Spotify is telling me “not if you were the last junkie on earth” isn’t even their second-biggest song. Let’s see how the rest of the album does. I like the rock stuff. Less the experimental/droney/shoegazey stuff.
I prefer Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia, but I like the Dandy Warhols a lot, so this was a great listen for me today. I love their whole indie, smartass slacker vibe. Good tunes.
… passt nicht!
They sound like all those brit pop bands, but more boring. On drugs or very tired. Best song by very far: not if you were the last junkie on earth.
Kinda generic, not too memorable, late 90s soft-ish rock
2.5. Inoffensive, bland, okay, overlong, likely won’t listen to this again. It’s fine. I’m surprised to learn it’s from 1996 since to me it has a very early 2000s rock sound. Probably influential. Probably why it’s on this list. Good for them.
The band is great and creative, but the album itself is not that amazing, still decent
Admittedly, this is a really fun album and I felt great after it was finished. Strong Loaded-era Velvet Underground influence here too
I like the vibe.
A crescendo decrescendo album which is great in the middle but I found starts and finishes disappointingly. They are a band that had been one of my top listened to on Spotify in recent years and so this flavours my rating which is generous for how I found the album as a whole
Just vanilla britpop. Heroine might be passe, but so is this album. Next please.
I love me some Dandy Warhols! This is not their best album, but it's got some great tracks (mixed with a few bland ones too!). On the whole I still really enjoyed their sound and I love that this album shows the potential of where their music was headed for. Fave track: Everyday should be a holiday
Surprisingly interesting and enjoyable
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Not too bad! It's clearly derivative of other 90s space rock / shoegaze bands like Spiritualized or Ride. Synths like in "Cool as Kim Deal" evoke 60s psychedelia you see in bands like Flaming Lips. It's very long, and the songs aren't sure whether they want to be pop or background ambiance. Be-In 3/5: decent alt rock opener with busy space synths; terrible 1st minute, generic but decent after; way too long of an opener, but it is catchy Boys Better 4/5: awesome transition from "Be-In"; very catchy and groovy; an excellent space rock dance track Minnesoter 3/5: groovy and trippy with silly effects and cool vocals, but repetitive and doesn't travel far Orange 2/5: boring, long, and repetitive slowcore, but the distortion was pretty cool I Love You 2/5: cool premise but same as above, except a little catchier Last Junkie on Earth 3/5: very catchy indie rock, but it is repetitive and lacks diversity, like a summertime bop Every Day Should Be a Holiday 3/5: you start to hear the same effects and techniques re-used over and over; it's decent and catchy but generic shoegaze Good Morning 3/5: slow, deep, and groovy, with some post-grunge tint; repetitive and long Whipping Tree 3/5: some nice ethereal ambient that serves more to the album than standalone Green 1/5: generic shoegaze; I hate this Cool as Kim Deal 2/5: it's a summertime surf rock song; pretty catchy and energetic but generic and lame Hard On For Jesus 2/5: fast-paced and busy; nice shoegaze background and electronic solo but otherwise forgettable Pete International Airport 2/5: awkwardly paced after such a loud song; it's an ok space rock track but so boring and long in the context of the album The Creep Out 2/5: kinda cool effects and better than the previous was still way too long and uninteresting Average is 2.5. Track order is ok. The opener works, the closers kinda work, but there are many awkward choices. Wayyyy too long. So many re-used ideas. The instrumentals are pretty tame and chill, which bore me compared to other bands of their style at the time. Very little to remember by, but there were a couple bops.
Decent as well, nothing too exciting for me. I liked the general musical style, found the songs (mostly the lyrics) to be fairly 1-dimensional and repetitive. The last 2 songs, Pete International Airport and The Creep Out, I would have left on the cutting room floor, a 15 minute long ambient vibe was all that was.
britpop from portland, oregon
Good zone out album
If it were 2004 I'd probably 4 star this
A lot of the same type of music but surprisingly didn't get boring. Lovely background music, great to vibe to.
Wow, really enjoyed this! I remember having a few of their singles downloaded on my iPod when I was a teenager, but never listened to any of their albums. I got tired of hearing Bohemian Like You absolutely everywhere, so I think I kinda wrote them off. Was fully expecting this to be a 3 star max. But I've really been missing out! Sure they wear their influences on their sleeves and it runs a bit too long. But there's very little on here I disliked. It's almost like they picked up where the Pixies left off (I like to pretend that they quit after Kim Deal Left), with a healthy dose of shoegaze and Stereolab. I feel like Zach Braff is probably obsessed with this band. That album cover though - hideous. The 2nd half drags a bit, but I could see myself bumping this up to 5 stars with repeated listens.
It’s definitely Ohio rock. It’s good but as redundant as a corn field. It’s hard to discern the tracking due to the monotonous, repetitive lyric structure. Decent production and a few good ones in an otherwise moist peat bog.
Alternative rock indie. Tranquilo sonoro.
i quite liked this, more so the end half. i almost skipped it without listening because the band name is …… not appealing. there’s me judging a book by its cover. solid instrumentals , many made me feel like i was in my own late 90s 2000’s movie about my life flipping inside out or life flippin me inside out who knows. the rain sticks?! are u kidding , when was the last time you heard a rain stick in a song. was painting to it. would paint again. downloaded 3,4,6,9,10,11&14. send me to mars orange and the creep out
Grunge vibes. I liked the the slow pace of Orange. Reminded me of Matt Reeves Batman. I was jammin oretty good in the car, but as I listened i kept thinking "this is good, but if Im gunna listen to this kind of music Id rather listen to Nirvana" The album switched it up in Everday Should be a Holiday, it sounded a lot more new wave 80's. Didnt love it, didnt hate it
Ihan menevä setti. Pop-rockia kaikissa sen muodoissa eikä kaksi kuuntelukertaa tehnyt tiukkaa.
Ei jääny erityisesti mieleen tämäkään
Very pleasant album, rather calm and easy going. No studs or duds, but every song is slightly above average, at least when compared to usual output of this list. I would be very keen to listen to this record again, this time more carefully, and see if I get a bit more out of that. Until then it's a really solid 4.
Lovely lovely modern shoegaze style psychedelia with song bangers thrown in the middle and a a good balance flow throughout its length. A record’s record. It’s meant to be enjoyed as a whole.
Hyvin brittipoppinen, ja kun meno on vauhdikkaampaa, on se oikein ilahduttavaa. Mitä ihmettä lopun hyristelyt kuitenkin olivat? Kaksi sisällötöntä biisiä latisti minusta tunnelman. Pudottavat kolmosesta kakkoseen… Muuten kuulosti siltä, että bändi ois kiva livenä.
Ovat tyyppejä, jotka eivät skippaa 60-luvun rock-levyjensä orientalistisia jameja, mutta tekevät riittävästi välttääkseen täyden monotonisuuden - kai. "Minnesoter" oli ainakin terävä idea, ja levyllä on jotain muutakin kopioidun oloista ja toimivaa.
Kind of drone-y, ok ish. Their inspiration, Galaxie 500, is better.
I’m at a real conundrum with this album. On one hand this album feels like a tour through every 90s music troupe; you have the heavy synth, coffee shop grunge, whispering into a mic over a 3 note progression, and songs made for DreamWorks montages. Part of me feels really nostalgic about, the other half thinks they’re doing it satirically. I get the feeling that they’re making fun of me…but I also respect them for it. It's a weird thing to make an album almost entirely ironically but I get the feeling that we saw their true style in the last two tracks.
Never heard, vibing, mix of ambient and structured
Really good! Enjoyed the more hypnotic trancey tracks to the pop ones.
I really like the Dandy Warhols. Wiki got it right with 'Space Rock' but 'Shoegaze'? I never thought of them like that. The heady days before 'that advert' weirdly propelled them to the mainstream for a brief moment. This was the first album I discovered, due to hearing 'Not if You Were The Last Junkie on Earth', which made me go out and buy this! I remember thinking at the time 'Every Day Should be a Holiday' sounded uncannily like 'Spinning' by Loop, which is no bad thing, it certainly cemented their psychedelic credentials. As for the monster which is 'Good Morning', its such a downer in a good way. Are they cool as Ms Deal? Yeah baby! A low 4
Love this. Really hits the spot.
Just kind of underwhelming. A proper thought never really came to my mind throughout the length of this album. It was just alright. Nothing awful but just rock.
was not impressed. felt liked it drag on.
BL: Know nothing of this band except the namesake artist it stems from, so it will be interesting to see what I think of them. AL: A very nice psych-rock album. Lots of rhythms to get into and slowly nod along to, the second half of the album is definitely better than the first half. FT: "Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth" 4/5
another album that's just fine. just eh. i just didn't hear anything that's... that interesting. lyrics are fine. guitar chugs are, they're chuggin. at periods it sounds like the most... bored rock band i've ever heard. it's just. fine.
Den här plattan behöver de inte skämmas för.
I didn't know a lot about The Dandy Warhols before listening to ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down, and I'm still not sure how much I know know. I was familiar with their name, and roughly know the time of their break into pop-culture. After listening to the album, I can't say that I have a good idea as to when I would want to listen to what The Dandy Warhols have to offer. I didn't dislike the album, I'm just not sure when I'd come back. Some of the ambient-ish, non-vocal tracks were interesting, but sometimes they suffered a similar fate to the tracks with lyrics = too much of a blur of noise. I worried that if I paid more attention to the lyrics I might like some of the songs less. Then I looked up the lyrics and I did like the song less. There were a few tracks that I might come back to ("Be-In", "Every Day Should Be a Holiday", "Whipping Tree"), but with at least three tracks that I firmly disliked ("Minnesoter", "Green", some track that mentions Jesus) this album can't get past 3 stars = okay for once, but not worth a second visit.
Fairly pleasant listen