Dandy Warhols

Or: "That girl's way cuter when she keeps her shirt on."

Err. If you're avoiding the C or D question, I'll just say "Yes. Very good.". Plus, I'm sure incidences tacky-n-cheesy-but-brilliant dance sequences in film clips increased sharply after "Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth". Which is obviously a good thing. The world needs more tacky dance sequences.

And Kate's not-so-secret love. Thus "Boycrush Pusher," oh yes.

"Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia" is an amazing album. I bought "Come Down" after and was let down. Come Down is not good. But, Thirteen... is as classic as they come in my opinion. Every songs good, production is great, musicianship is dizzying. We used it as one of our driving tunes on vacation (along with Modest Mouse and Sea & Cake and Wilco) and we were constantly in a good mood and speeding.

np: Weezer

back to the guitars. no duran influence at all.

though the final 12 minute track 'a loan tonight' is pure gary numan.

the rest though is back to what they do, catchy shoegazing styled riffs with a bit of trumpet here and there.

but will anyone care in 2005 ?

Oh god, they've been kicking around "Odditorium" since before 13 Tales and people more sensible than Courtney Taylor had the sense to reject it.

Is this a real new album, or are they just cashing in on Dig! ?

how would one be able to tell ? the PR advises that this is a new album.

i have never followed them that closely.

but the final track is totally wonderful.

I do know that one of their former(?) associates was flogging the legendary Black Album. It doesn't have love songs to motorcycles and bad Texan cocaine, does it?

and no neither of those tracks feature. full tracklisting on the site if that helps kate.

didn't get this from PR .. but from Capitol/EMI direct. soz.

Like a door slammed a while ago, and I've only just been reminded that a part of my life is well and truly over. Strange.

I almost didn't want to see "Dig" cause I thought it would just be weird.

ps .. you do know 'MIS Information' was the original name for the Madness Fanclub back in those glorious days dontcha ? lost my MIS number badge many years ago now ..

And don't feel bad, I'm not sad, it's just weird.

I interviewed Courtney before their Metro gig in Chicago for "Monkey House" or whatever that snoozefest was called. Courtney was very "out of it" shall we say, and was just droning on and on as he answered questions for the interview. He had the longest pauses ever and was very indifferent to everything--what he was saying, his music, where he was, everything he discussed had this cloud of indifference over it.

The funniest thing was when he instructed the photographer I was with on how to specifically shoot him. He was like a film director and more than a tad rude to the guy I was with. I didn't mention that in the interview as it wasn't relevant, but I did dance around his being "spacey" a tad and word travelled back to me that he wasn't at all happy with me for what I wrote (even though I was more positive than negative. and despite that last album really blowing---I've revisited a few times since its release and still can't get into it).

So, besides the potential fireworks of them running into Anton Newcombe at Lollapalooza later this month (are they even playing the same day?), the notion of running into Courtney fills me with glee (but I honestly doubt he'll remember me at all).

http://www.wweek.com/story.php?story=7031

He's like the Vincent Gallo of the Pacific Northwest.

I posted the link not because I was outraged about his behavior. I just thought it was the same old boring fucktarded hijinks that I thought went away a looong time ago. Is he trying to reenact some sort of Lou Reed/Lester Bangs-style skirmish?

Though I did get a kick out of the line, "All right guys, I hate to tell you this, but what I'm going to do with this mnoney is find out where, between a jackhammer and 'Bridge Over Troubled Water,' does sound beome organized enough to be music."

What a dick.

I interviewed him (again) this summer (because I'm always happy to snicker at him on the phone and make faces at him when he can't see me) and I meant to ask him about his fake last name. He bragged on and on about their studio and how rad it was, how he was living the rockstar life etc etc etc. When he dies friendless with a needle in his arm, nobody is going to give a shit except for Ondi.

They will have a nice greatest hits record, but only if they do not include one note from Odditorium.

What do you guys think?

But, Odditorium and Monkeyhouse or whatever really had a hard time holding my attention for even a few songs. Blah. One good album, the rest OK to forgettable.

There are way more BJM albums that I like. At least their douche-i-tude isn't quite as in your face. But, I haven't seen Dig! yet.

Dandys Rule OK is really doing it for me, although weirdly my favourite DW track is still 'Love Is The New Feel Awful'. It's the only track from Odditorium I've heard, and it does the whole droney pop thing exquisitely.

'godless' and 'nietzche' are excellent tracks. some of the other stuff is mildly interesting. a lot of it bland. there's a lot of lazy songwriting going on with this band. they tend to play out the one hook and try and ride on some sort of extended stoned vibe. gets old quite quickly

'genius' is brilliant. worth it alone for the MBV-esque distorted vocal sample kicking in just before each chorus.

"Get Off" is my favourite tequila drinking song.

What happened to Brave New Login?

lol hungover

thx for pointing that out dude :D

Hey, "Get Off" is my favourite tequila-drinking song too!

lol isn't genius amazing, especially that vocal sample just before the chorus

i agree

BAN THE OBVIOUS POPSCOURING SPACE GOURMAND OTHERWISE KNOWN AS LOUIS JAGG3R

ban noodle vague

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/presentations/AHIMA_clinical_voc_2005_oct/proposals/img022.jpg

Louis, if you'd used that mental long name in the first place the BAN meme wd never have taken off.

I only used my real name for something like 3 days (which is about how long it took for me to get off my 'emulate Ned Raggett' fixation), but the damage was done. Your first mistakes are always your worst.

Funnily enough that's what my first wife says.

looool

you could make a case for subsequent mistakes, but they'd have never been mistakes if i was incognito

aw, <3 NV

Anyway. "A Loan Tonight". I don't know if I'm crazy, or stupid, or both, but to these ears, this song would seem to be absolutely wonderful. And yet, the vitriol thrown at it by virtually every critic is surely of sufficient valency to dismiss my claims as utterly fantastical? I barely trust myself.

Its parent album is, as far as I can verify, pretty damn wonderful as well, despite barely containing an ounce of songwriting. I just love the sounds. The spiralling melancholia. The fizz and weightless sexy cool. The bleeping, blooping layers. I mean, the first two actual songs spend 17 minutes going nowhere fast, but given space to swell and pulse, they're totally damn wonderful (and catchy!) hi-tech drug-rock jams. The rest follows close suit, and "A Loan Tonight" is up there with "Love Is The New Feel Awful" in the "holy christ this is some kickass aural narcotic" stakes.

And yeah, those first two records (plus the first 3 tracks of 13 Songs) were great as well. They really nail this grand, slightly ridiculous sadness, this awareness of mortality that can only be conveyed through massive guitar drones and keening pop glaze.

Talk normal

man i fucking totally adore Odditorium, give or take the (deliberately offputting) minute-long brainfarts

however catchy it may be, if it's not "Sad-eyed Lady of the Lowlands," keep it at four minutes, please

god, Popmatters sucked ass

There was a time when I thought they were really great, but with precious few exceptions, i don't think I could hum a tune of theirs if you paid me to.

It was oh so true in `05, and it's only more true now.

You know what they need? They need an Aeroplane remix. Then I'd bother with them again.

(You Come In) Burned completely fits my mood tonight, these guys really were so elegant and sad when they wanted to be

Not a huge fan but damn if they weren't fantastic when I saw them live a couple years ago. Plus I sort of love CTT.

This is probably the worst band I truly love, and the worst music which achieves greatness. That isn't faint praise. It's fucking high.

As it were. ;-)

Seriously, though, they're a fantastic argument that sometimes chemistry and attitude can often count for as much as talent and songwriting genius when it comes to making truly stimulating music

Anyway, they just re-released Monkey House with a different mix. It's on Spotify. Not sure which version of Burned is better (although it's now the opening track, which is nice) but by all accounts the new album is an improvement overall.

Just saw the movie Dig! a few weeks back. Hadn't seen a documentary where everyone was dumb and/or annoying since sitting through 2/3 of Faith in the White House.

Aw Dig! is great if only because of the scene where Harry Dean Stanton shows up playing the bongos at some random party.

yeah, Harry Dean Stanton was great. It wasn't a bad movie ... it's just that almost everyone in it was annoying.

Everyone Is Totally Infuriating

Ah, I've had the alt Monkey House mix for years. It's so so much better.

Am thinking I marginally prefer the original Burned, although the other songs seem to have been improved.

I don't want to know about the alternate Monkey House mix. It's still my favourite album of theirs, in retrospect, and I have no desire to hear it turned into stoner rock bollocks. SAY NO TO COURTNEY TAYLOR TAYLOR'S EGO.

every time a track by them comes on ipod shuffle i cannot skip anymore. it's liker my fingers are paralysed or something. btw it's the same with the american analog set. and brian jonestown massacre as well.

Wow, that alternate Monkey House is just further proof that the Dandys have/had absolutely no clue w/r/t their strengths (moderately catchy pop songs, moderately clever lyrics, moderately attractive breasts) and weaknesses (everything else). They should send all the royalties from this thing to the guy who turned it into the rather good album that was originally released.

This is cute:

Q: What's the most insane thing you did for Jane?

A: I went on a blind date with the lead singer of the Dandy Warhols that was pretty horrifying. We decided I should do a blind date because I made my readers go on blind dates. I had no idea who Courtney was and he didn't know who I was. We went to dinner and then we staged 'makeout in the limo' photos, where I took my shoes off and put my feet in the air...I'll do anything for that magazine.

Am listening to Are Sound more than any other album released this year, it's fantastic! Can't get Burned, We Used To Be Friends and Plan A out of my head, and the rest (the rather terrible Scientist which should have been omitted aside) is just behind. Truly underrated band. Much like Pulp, their 'best' album is *nowhere near* their finest hour, and in fact contains the least of what made them great.

Haha, I sound like Geir there

yup

Don't really dig 13 Tales, just sayin'...it's not quite ethereal or melancholy enough, too upbeat, altho the first 3 trax are of course fab

Kinda like the fact that they're still chugging along. New album to be called The Pastor of Muppets.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7b/This_Machine_Dandy_Warhols.jpg

This Machine is the ninth studio album by American alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols. It is due for release on 24 April 2012 on The End Records.

Track listing

No. Title Writer(s)
1. "Sad Vacation"
2. "The Autumn Carnival"
3. "Enjoy Yourself"
4. "Alternative Power to the People"
5. "Well They're Gone"
6. "Rest Your Head"
7. "16 Tons"
8. "I Am Free"
9. "Seti vs. the Wow! Signal"
10. "Don't Shoot She Cried"
11. "Slide"

i saw the Dandy Warhols open for the Charlantans UK in San Francisco back in the late 90's at the gorgeous Warfield. the girl keyboard player went topless the whole night, good times...

If they've gone Fleet Foxes on us then I will kill.

I was a total indie rock nurd in the early to mid 90s, but there was something trying way to hard about this group to really even give them a shot.

At least two good songs on this, neither one ground-breaking. "Enjoy Yourself" is like teenagers trying to do Bowie-era Iggy, and then suddenly Girls At Their Best take over for the chorus. "Seti vs. the Wow! Signal" is the goofy crunchy pop that they should really have stuck to all along. Nothing on the album sucks, nothing is great. One of those bands that (these days) make me very glad to have Spotify. I still wish a producer would lock them in a room and kick their asses daily and force them to write and record something solid, but at this point I guess the whole point of the band is to live up to the lyrics of "Genius."

And that should be Girls at Our Best...

Hey, so, I interviewed Peter. The band seems to have settled into this steady groove of touring, recording and enjoying life.

http://www.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2015/11/27/qanda-with-the-dandy-warhols-about-the-touring-life-and-getting-older

Last night was great, and I really needed it.

http://nedraggett.tumblr.com/post/134466453527/so-some-shows-you-dont-realize-you-needed-fully

enjoyed reading those.
i too have never seen them live, but would love to.
not sure they have the commercial pull in the uk these days to do a proper tour anymore, meaning they may do the odd london show and thats about it.

According to this year's gigography on their page, they did a big tour of Europe in March/April but not the UK -- hey, go to where the fans are, I suppose. They swung back in summer for festival dates and did three UK shows:

July 30, 2015 – The Leadmill – Sheffield, UK
July 31, 2015 – The Ritz – Manchester, UK
August 1, 2015 – Standon Calling Festival, UK

Saw them live days after moving to Portland, OR in 1997. Good show. Very loud. Had no idea they were still together.

ahh .. standon calling.
the rich toff back garden party that expanded into a proper festival.
the toff then got put in jail as he was funding the festival off his work based credit card,
but hey, daddy paid up the bill.
me and the crew once went to it ..
was the most surreal festival experience ever.
never have i seen a festival bar (a permanent structure built around a tree in the main field no less), stacked so high with bottles of champagne.
i was the only person ordering beer.

saw them in 01, front row, great great great live band. and they played every song i wanted to hear!

also, instead of doing an encore, Courtney just said something along the lines of "everybody: pretend we've left the stage, cheer, pretend we've come back to the stage, cheer some more".

they then proceeded to sail into outer space w/an epic "fast driving rave up".

Just learned that they have a song on one the albums I didn't pay attention to featuring Mark Knopfler and Mike Campbell.

they’re able to so easily fuse and carry out everything from sixties garage/frug to clipped new wave dance to zoned out shoegaze and back again and keep everything centered around all the hooks they have

i understand the hate that this band attracts, however, the fact is, they make records i really enjoy, and this sentence totally summises their range and appeal for me.

Unfortunately, the new album isn't very good IMO. There's nothing really there until 'Doves', the penultimate track, which is a worthy follow-up to 'Ride', lol

...but yeah, the rest...I don't really understand what they're going for

Haven't heard it yet. Saw someone raving about the greatness of a recent live show

Agreed, not very good. I'll have to listen to "Doves" again -- by the time it gets to that track I've pretty much tuned out so can't call that one up from memory. Actually thinking about it now I don't think I can call any of it up from memory other than "You Are Killing Me" after at least half a dozen plays. Sort of expected after four years they'd feel like they needed to prove something and would've done something more interesting. But maybe they're all living comfortably now and don't feel the need to prove anything? I don't know. Still would've been happy to see them last week if I could've made it to the show.

They were great live a few months back but this new album is very 'uh?' up there with the new Primal Scream. Essentially both are: "Well...you could do this, and you went ahead and did it, but why did you do it again?"

Oh yeah, that Primal Scream is a dud too.

Doves IS really good tho

it is hard to convey just how wrong the new album sounds. it genuinely feels like they're trying to create anti-music, but not in a particularly good way

stand by for my deciding it's somehow good at some point, but if this isn't good, it's just about the worst music ever made

id no idea they were still going tbh

i really want to hear what "the worst music ever made" sounds like

fire up spotify and enjoy

I thought the revive would be for this hot content everyone's been craving: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/jan/22/how-we-made-the-dandy-warhols-bohemian-like-you

Desperate Dan clickbait.

in the entire history of r'n'r, has there been anyone HALF as thirsty as Courtney Taylor?

maybe Ryan Adams

don’t worry nobody died


https://music.dandywarhols.com/album/tafelmuzik-means-more-when-youre-alone

i actually have a lot of time for the warhols, but $1 per sale for charity.
really.
hmmm ..

do you have three and a half hours for them, is the question

Looks like they got the rights to Come Down back. (The advantage of keeping going, one guesses.)

https://thedandywarholsofficial.bandcamp.com/album/the-dandy-warhols-come-down

love that album so much, hope they make some $

Show last week was really good, they're doing a slew of 30th anniversary events in Portland right now, and I had some thoughts for my Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/117865140