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I enjoyed the first half of the album, but I felt like the second half got a bit more experimental and I was happy when I saw that the I'd reached the final song of the album.
Pop Brian Jonestown Massacre
I could never keep this band, who I did not listen to, straight in my mind from the Lemonheads, because you know Evan Dando and Dandy Warhols share a few letters. Sometimes, it's just enough of of a semantic stake to separate a band from your psyche. Speaking of PSY...starting words, I do like the psychedelic and shoegaze elements to the music and appreciate the confidence of a 7 min opener. This is like a 3 star record, but unfortunately for it in retrospect, they made it in an era where an hour and six minutes of music was thought desirable. This is not a way to gain fans. We're not left wanting more. But rather we got too much. This record is easily 20 mins too long. Cut some of the weaker tracks and save for b-sides or other things. Please! Rounding the rating down for poor 1990s decision-making. I contend that if just the 3 least good songs were cut it'd have doubled many people's enjoyment.
It's fine, we can forget this
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Reviews had me thinking this would be better.
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.
Not really remarkable, kind of a shoegaze/Nirvana type thing
It wasn't horrible but I just could not get into it. Felt repetitive and flat.
meh.
Shit
Didn't like it at first but started to really enjoy it half way in.... Then I lost interest towards the end.
Very dull... inoffensive though but don't see any real point in this.
Gear: DCA ÆON 2 Noire Artwork: 😕😦🤢 Mix: 🤷♂️🥱😴 Musik: 🤔🙄😬 Wertung: 💈💈(💈)/5
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.
Pretty bland stuff
Not for me
Ok album.
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.
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.
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
Ei häirinnyt muttei kyllä kaapannut mukansakaan 2/5
A little whacky and interesting song styles. Overall didn't hit me hard.
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.
Tengi ekki við neitt þarna. Frekar boring.
Barely tolerable
I Love You stunk, but the singles are fun. Yea the weird bits are weird, but not something I'm interested in.
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
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
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.
Rock alternativo leeeeento y aburrido. Un 2.
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.
2.5
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.
Hmm. The final track was interesting. 1 additional star for that.
This album felt like it dragged on for 2 hours, not just 1! Nothing that was stand out amazing
Abgefahren sphärischer Space Rock.
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.
This was fine but nothing special. It didn’t even include the Veronica Mars theme song…
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.
Just vanilla britpop. Heroine might be passe, but so is this album. Next please.
J'ai tout detesté de cet album, jusqu'au nom du groupe. J'ai en plus eu le malheur d'écouter des chansons plusieurs fois la faute à un Spotify des plus incontrolables. Un très mauvais moment de passé. Je vous rapelle que si vous voulez échanger sur le baragouinage brésilien ou la congolaiserie, nous sommes joignables à l'adresse mail suivante: robertestleperedemikeladd@gmx.com
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.
Ei jääny erityisesti mieleen tämäkään
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.
was not impressed. felt liked it drag on.
There are a couple of genuinely great tunes on this album. Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth and Boys Better are absolute standouts and still sound sharp, catchy and full of attitude. When they hit that groove of fuzzy, slightly sleazy indie rock, it really works. The problem is the length. It is a long album, and there is a lot of material that feels like filler. Many of the tracks drift into a similar mid tempo haze, and after a while they start to blur together. The hooks are not always strong enough to justify the running time, and it loses momentum as it goes on. That said, listening to it did make me want to rewatch Dig. There is something undeniably cool about this era of the band and the whole scene around them. You can hear the ambition and the swagger, even if the album does not fully deliver on it. Favourite song: Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth Least favourite song: Hard to pick one, but several of the deeper cuts merge into one another Album artwork: Bold and very 90s, it captures the aesthetic of the band perfectly
eigentlich melodiös und abwechslungsreicher Rock - bis zum Flughafen .. dann ist dann aber auch mal gut. Mittelklasse.
Ein Album wo man sich fragt wann das Lied anfängt und schon jemand singt oder man einfach alles verpasst hat. Als Klangteppich ok.
not for me.
Nope
This album was pretty basic to me. Nothing was particularly good nor uniquely bad. Something about the mix is too washy for me. Hated the last couple instrumental tracks.
...The Dandy Warhols Come Down is the second album by American rock band The Dandy Warhols. This indie alternative rock (shoegaze) album was a second attempt at creating an acceptable record for their label Capitol. Their first try was "The Black Album" which was rejected, and later the songs were repurposed for a double album "Come On Feel the Dandy Warhols". On this second attempt, the band transitioned from a garage rock sound to a more pop-oriented sound that was classified as shoegaze. This album was deemed a success by critics who liked the hooks and the layered music. Commercially the album performed alright, but it was a bigger hit in Europe where it was certified gold in the UK. While some songs are great, overall I thought the tracks were too similar so they all seemed to meld together into one long droning musical number. My indifference to this album could also be due to the genre's likeness which is one of my least favorite as it's too "poppy". Decent album, but there's many other albums I would listen to again before this.
well, that's an album. ...the dandy warhols come down definitely has that alternative, brit-pop sound, though it is very amusing to me they are not british at all. toward the end of the album, it moved away and became more ethereal sounding. not bad, but sort of out of left field. i found the lyrics clever, but i don't think it was tough to save the album. "not if you were the last junkie on earth" was particularly amusing with its hook. "hard on for jesus" is, i believe, satirical. assuming i am correct, i've never heard a song going full throttle criticizing christians quite like this before.
This album didn’t get much of a foothold in my musical mountain. It was quite whiney and I kept wanting to hear the “good one” But it never came.
It was indie music and carried on for too long. Nothing about it was particularly good.
Slow first half, great middle track, falls off sharply.
Quite generic I thought. Not terrible.
It was fine, lost a star with the last few
Album didn't catch me at all, it has it's own moments, but nah. Only 2-/5
Boooooooooring.
Good Morning and Whipping Tree are good tracks but the rest is pretty bland alt rock that went on for a bit too long.
Enjoyed the atmospheric and psychedelic songs a lot more than the melodic ones. Too long for me. Needed to be cut down.
meh
Mediocre at best
me when im alone in my room strong start, first songs all ok aaaaand it took a left turn at orange. shit lags for 6 mins!! i love you and minnesoter are songs for ppl who've never felt the touch of a woman mid plateau in middle yea my thesis that this is music for bitch boys stands. evidence: whipping tree, green, and aforementioned virgin loser tracks tf are the last two songs, they get tired of words??? end note: by autistic virgins for autistic virgins
Typical 90s butt rock.
Drab, snoozy alt rock, don't get why this is on the list.
Vibe meio oasis mas meio chato
Not as good as I was hoping. Could have trimmed some time off
Very 90s. Not in the good way
This was a pain to get through. I didn’t enjoy it.
Abwechslungsreich, aber einfach nicht mehr Art von Rock. Recht langweilig.
More like the Blandy Warhols HEYOOOO GOTTEM
Starts off very mellow and slow, gains a little speed towards the end. Overall 3/5. There weren't any tracks that jumped out at me as particularly memorable or exciting. Compared to most of their other albums, 2/5.
That’s a solid 2 from me.
Dandy Warhols, From USA First Listen Genre: Alternative Rock, Space Rock, Shoegaze 1997 Singles: Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth, Every Day Should Be a Holiday, Boys Better Standouts: None Seems like an OK album. Nothing really stood out as great. Need to hear it again. 2.5 Rating:
Druggy album, pretty cool arrangements but boring songwriting and stale production. It's too crisp and I just don't really think it's anything to write home about. Plus they are major assholes. Maybe if I was high as fuck I would give it another star. Or I am missing it's merit. overall i just feel it's rather weak and bland.
Too long, too stoner, too much fuzzy, not enough quality. Didn't hate it but definitely didn't like it. It's so one-note.
Proper stoner music, this. Low-fi, fades into the background in lots of places - Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth is the one that sounds like the Dandy Warhols album I bought a few years later, and the track after keeps a bit of that energy. Rest is not really for me, reminds me a bit of the My Bloody Valentine album we had and not in a particularly good way. 2/5.
Surprisingly mediocre. Not a nad album, but I have no idea why it's on this list. Couple of standout tracks but a lot of it is dreary.
Unbelievably unremarkable
Bit disappointed with this. I remember liking ‘Not if you were..’ at the time but never listened to the album. High expectations not met.
Very 90s and not very good. I don't have a desire to listen to this one again.
Rock alternativo leeeeento y aburrido. Un 2.
I find it really unremarkable for its era. Had potential if they went weirder or were more distinct. Don’t love the vocals.
meh
A couple of songs are likeable but sound like post-punk leftovers. I might have stomached them better if they were released over a decade earlier. Fun name for the band. I’ll give them that.
Pacific Coast Britpop bookended with scuzzy jam is interesting enough, but Come Down gets notabl worse at it plays. The slab of middle material doesn't just separate the good stuff, it turns them into moats.
They stumble on their own cleverness.
Not my style of music.
Not impressed
Another obscure indie rock band from the 90's, great... The Dandy Warhol's music is like shitty rock music that caters to artsy hipsters (hence the band name). Their music is either OK, or complete garbage. There is nothing in between. Pete International Airport, and The Creep Show are just noise... Why?!? Also, the album opener, Be-In has 1:40 of basically silence for some reason. Overall, some weird bullshit today. The highs were high, but there was quite a bit of complete trash on this record. Also, the album kind of overstays its welcome at over an hr in runtime. Favourite songs: Not If You Were the Last Junkie On Earth, Every Day Should Be a Holiday, Minnesoter, Boys Better Least favourite songs: Orange, Be-In, I Love You, Whipping Tree, Pete International Airport, The Creep Out 2/5
Eh
According to the Wikipedia page, they wanted to be "distant" from the grunge movement happening in the 90s. Yeah, it could be better to keep out this idea and just follow the flow. Some people are talented enough to oppose some trends, but it's not the case here.
I was about to give this a two and then the last couple of tracks actively pissed me off, what a waste of time.
Really shite, it did absolutely nothing for me, at its best it was annoying at its worst i wanted to turn it off. Do not like his voice at all
It’s pretty good if you don’t think music should be interesting or original.
Dull. Boring. Far, far too long. “Hard On For Jesus” is a great song title, mind.
Meh
224. boring
oof this was a CHALLENGING listen... i went into this expecting something pretty good, especially because the genres seemed interesting and i generally do kinda enjoy this kind of music but this was really just painful to listen through. the one notable exception to this was two songs in the middle: "not if you were the last junkie on earth" and "every day should be a holiday", which were just some pretty alright alt rock songs, though nothing too special. (i can't tell if they're actually good or if i just liked them because they were a relief from the rest of the album!) "pete international airport" was also quite nice because it actually gave me room to breathe while listening, and was just a nice ambient track in general. the rest of the album was just droning nonsense with nothing noteable happening at all. 1/5, only redeeming factor are the three songs in the middle where it gets listenable. (also should not be here, this absolutely does not rank among the 1001 most important albums of all time)
Overblown tripe with too few redeeming moments.
Pretentious and boring.
Boring
neither excited nor moved me. doesn't seem to excel in a single aspect of music i look for or appreciate, and every song is twice as long as is ought to be. just a smear of a musical experience. favorite song is probably The Creep Out: i feel like it was at least trying something kind of fun
1. be - 1 2. boyz - 0 3. minezotter - 1 4. orange - 2 5. love - 2 6. junkie - 1 7. holiday - 1 8. morning - 2 9. tree - 3 10. green - 2 11. kim - 1 12. hard - 0 13. pete - 1 14. creep - 1
Forgettable stuff. Not sure if its a tribute or a parody of the velvet underground but either way this is nonsense
1/5
Yuck. Not feeling it.
Unfortunately every song on this album sounded like throw away indie trash apart from 2 songs in the middle Of the album that piqued a little interest- these been ‘Not if you were…’ and ‘every day should be a holiday’ It felt to me like the album was a band trying to jump On the Brit pop music takeover and they wanted to sound like oasis, unfortunately for them they fell flat completely. A terrible compilation of songs that in my opinion have no right of been in this collection. Fave track- ‘every day should be a holiday’ Worst track- could have been many but ‘good morning’ and ‘I love you’ really grated on me the most! 1.5/10
Meh
Do not waste your time.
About 10 minutes into the album I had to check which song it was up to and was surprised to discover I was on track 2. I would have believe 1 and I would have believe 4.
An hour was more time than I had. Not for me. ⭐
Pan sin sal, sangre de horchata, manos de mantequilla, un árbol de Navidad sin bolas, una barbacoa sin panceta...
pass
Cero interés
Oh god another one of this kind...
Britpop should have never left the Home Nations. 0.5/5
Not great
Not my thing
Whole lotta hogwalash
Bland, banal, overlong. Shoulda been Storm in Heaven by the Verve
I stopped listening during track two. Dirge-like and uninspired crap.
Tried to get all the way through. Got to Hard on for Jesus and gave up. There's just nothing there. I'd rather listen to clanker music.
This was so samey that to be honest at the end of my second listen I just came away feeling tired. Not for me at all.
15 minutes of fame that should never have happened.
This was very long. Wa-a-ay too long. Indie-by-numbers slop.
totally snoozed through this one. Never even knew the Dandy Warhol’s were a thing, and I still wish I didn’t.
Everything people think is bad about 90’s music is this album
I want my 3 hours back. I know the album is only a little over an hour. But bloody Hell, the droning and sameness of it all made it feel like it was 3 hours.
I couldn't get into this. The Dandy Warhols just sound so fake and inauthentic. Very generic. An American band regurgitating Britpop half a decade too late. BJM won the fight.
Plain indie : not very good at all, self-indulgent, derivative, and far too long. Just because there is room on the CD, that does not mean that the band should fill it up with thin gruel like the 6 minutes and 9 minutes of the last two tracks This would have been a better listening experience at half the length. It might even have got a second star.
This just came off as depressing boring sad stuff. They officially lost me at ‘I love you’ and then I just got annoyed at how much left there was. This dragged on and I didn’t enjoy.
Impressively boring.
Nah. I do not like this stoner-y, garage, mumble rock. Some of the lyrics (the ones that were there) left a bad taste in my mouth. Pass
Boring, mid indie for hipsters who dig too far for meaning in a song.
Not a good sign when, listening to the first track, you think to yourself: this just goes on and on...
Yet more American cr*p.
boring
Meh, too pop for me. I can understand the appeal but it’s just not for me
Just boring masturbatory shit
boring. couldn’t listen
So not my thing.
Pffff
Didn’t find this album that good
Jesus Christ get to the point! This record is 90% droning with nothing happening. What was the point of, "Pete international airport"? What the fuck?!?
Blaaaand
I didn’t like it. I found it boring and almost couldnt finish it
Noise
That was soooooo boring. I skipped through every song.
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.
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.
Muita pretensão, tentativas que parecer com rock setentista ou REM.
Hard pass
… passt nicht!
Schrecklich
nicht das meine
Wall of sound 90s alt-rock/pop art rock. Vocals often muted behind the wall of sound and really nothing here that is particularly enjoyable or remarkable. At their best sound a little like Oasis. Hard for me to understand how this is on the top 1001 list other than I enjoy the song with the lyric "heroin is so passe."
More boring that i thought it would be. Blah. One good song. The creep Out is unlistenable. Really struggled to finish this one.
Yuck!
Maybe 1 decent Track.
Really didn’t like it at all
After almost 1,000 albums there’s one thing I’ve learned is that I really dislike Brit-pop and this group sounds like an Oasis wannabe band. Needless to say, I disliked it.