Taking Sides: Bis vs the Dandy Warhols

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"POWER-PUFF!!" vs "Heroin is soooo passe"
Yes, you can treat it as a S/D,C/D

― Lord Custos, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

kill them both please.

― chaki, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bis.

― Tim DiGravina, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

so, dud, then?

― Lord Custos, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Dandy Warhols may be annoying, but at least they play music (unlike, say, Bis).

― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dude, the Dandy Warhols 100%. I mean, Bis?

― Ally, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

BIS! BIS! BIS!

― Graham, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, gosh. I suppose Bis.

― scott p., Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Why all the ganging up on Dandy Warhols. Their first album Rules Ok, everysingle BUT Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth from ...Comes Down and most of Thirteen Tales is better then "Power Puff".

Sigh, being a DW fan is a thankless task.

― Mr Noodles, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bis, if only for the new single with their version of ACR's "Shack Up" which is the finest thing I've heard in days.

― dan, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dandy Warhols = DONGS

― Andy, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

good music, but yes, dongs none the less. Troy seems nice, almost "normal" cowboy hat aside.

― Mr Noodles, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've never heard the Dandy Warhols, but I bought a Bis album a couple years ago and was shocked at what garbage it was. I was actually embarassed to play it. I sold it without even listening to the whole thing. I guess the last song on the record could have been the best one or something, but I'm not particularly worried.

― Sean, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

BIS! BIS! BIS! BIS!

― Graham, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll take Bis I guess. They were great for about 5 seconds and then horribly annoying from then on out, but at least they had those 5 seconds. I have absolutely nothing to say the Warhols, and am completely perplexed why anyone even cares (of course, here in the U.S. no one does). They're relatively nice to look at, but what else is there?

― Miranda, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

They're good to dance to. And also at shamlessly hawking mobile phones.

― Ben Squircle, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

They've both put out exactly one album I love totally, Social Dancing and 13 Tales of Urban Bohemia, and they've both apparently done something - who cares what - to piss off a lot of people. I'd have to choose the Dandys, because it's so easy to make the British music press indignant like Bis have.

― Curt, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

BIS!BIS!BIS! If only for their rad cover of 'love will tear us apart'.

― phil, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

dandy warhols! phew, that was an easy question!

― gareth, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bis. Can't say I like that cover of Love Will Tear Us An Arse. I have time for DWs too (Cool As Kim Deal = heh)

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

BIS!BIS!BIS! If only for their rad cover of 'love will tear us apart'.
Yeah, but their cover of "Boy with a Thorn in his Side" is cringeworthy. The guy singer (Sci Fi Steven?) gets the honorary Einar Orn Annoying Male Backup Singer Award.
But only because Fred Shneider has made any music lately.

― Lord Custos, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's gotta be bis, if only for the period (late 1995-1997) when they were the best live band in the UK. Damn I wish they could have translated their energy onto their records, but alas, some bands never do. Their new material is pleasing, but a little bland if I'm honest. Still, I love 'em though.

Re: "The Boy with the Thorn in his Side" - The purpose of that cover version was to destroy it, as they claim to hate The Smiths, and they recorded the whole thing on toy instruments! Bizarely some people claim it to be a favorite though.

Also, how do you mean annoying guy singer? I've always thought of both guys as having very orthodox vocals myself, with Sci-Fi Steve verging on crooning in places.

I can take or leave The Dandy Warhols, with the emphasis on 'le

― chewshabadoo, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

seven years pass...

An underrated, incisive T/S question. Two bands which probably rely too much on cuteness (lyrical and personal) and an inborn ability to make a song sound sweet and crunchy (Courtney Ta-Ta's "I sneeze and hits come out" could have been uttered by Manda Rin equally, right?) but whose inborn abilities are so unusual as to make the records memorable.

But in the end I don't know a Dandys song that marries cuteness with fervency as well as does "Tell It To The Kids," so Bis.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 04:03 (sixteen years ago)

Bis.

― Young Scott Young (sic), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 05:19 (sixteen years ago)

absolutely convinced that Bis aren't gonna challenge here, but then I am a mad keen DW's man

― kevision questler (country matters), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 12:06 (sixteen years ago)

OK, listening to Bis' first album right now. It's a lot better than I expected so far.

― kevision questler (country matters), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 12:20 (sixteen years ago)

Bis were an awesome live band, but hardly any of their records lived up to that. Shame. Some of the best recordings are the sessions they did for Peel and Steve Lurpack where it caught more of their live energy, recorded by decent engineers.

― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 12:50 (sixteen years ago)

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