...The Dandy Warhols Come Down

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.

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.