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.
― MIS Information (kate), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 09:21 (eighteen years ago) link
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 ..
― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 09:24 (eighteen years ago) link
And don't feel bad, I'm not sad, it's just weird.
― MIS Information (kate), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 09:29 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 11:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brett Hickman (Bhickman), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 02:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― W i l l (common_person), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link
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).
― Brett Hickman (Bhickman), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 14:49 (eighteen years ago) link
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― pinder (pinder), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 19:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brett Hickman (Bhickman), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 20:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 7 July 2005 01:01 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.wweek.com/story.php?story=7031
― righteousmaelstrom (righteousmaelstrom), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 19:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:01 (eighteen years ago) link
He's like the Vincent Gallo of the Pacific Northwest.
― darin (darin), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― darin (darin), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:21 (eighteen years ago) link
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."
― righteousmaelstrom (righteousmaelstrom), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link
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― darin (darin), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― my name is john. i reside in chicago. (frankE), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― righteousmaelstrom (righteousmaelstrom), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― bob.cheerful, Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian in Brooklyn, Thursday, 8 December 2005 07:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 8 December 2005 07:57 (eighteen years ago) link
What a dick.
― Ian in Brooklyn, Thursday, 8 December 2005 23:52 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― don weiner (don weiner), Friday, 9 December 2005 01:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― corey c (shock of daylight), Friday, 9 December 2005 08:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― up down turn around, Friday, 9 December 2005 11:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― marc h. (marc h.), Friday, 9 December 2005 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Drew Olewnick (drewo), Friday, 9 December 2005 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link
What do you guys think?
― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Friday, 18 August 2006 00:51 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Emily B (Emily B), Friday, 18 August 2006 01:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 18 August 2006 01:44 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Just got offed, Friday, 15 June 2007 01:12 (sixteen years ago) link
'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
― Charlie Howard, Sunday, 23 December 2007 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
'genius' is brilliant. worth it alone for the MBV-esque distorted vocal sample kicking in just before each chorus.
― Just got offed, Sunday, 23 December 2007 17:47 (sixteen years ago) link
"Get Off" is my favourite tequila drinking song.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 23 December 2007 17:50 (sixteen years ago) link
What happened to Brave New Login?
― Just got offed, Sunday, 23 December 2007 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link
lol hungover
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 23 December 2007 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
thx for pointing that out dude :D
Hey, "Get Off" is my favourite tequila-drinking song too!
― The blue-green world is drenched with horse gore, Sunday, 23 December 2007 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link
lol isn't genius amazing, especially that vocal sample just before the chorus
― scourage, Sunday, 23 December 2007 17:57 (sixteen years ago) link
i agree
― the obvious popscouring space gourmand otherwise known as louis jagg3r, Sunday, 23 December 2007 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link
BAN THE OBVIOUS POPSCOURING SPACE GOURMAND OTHERWISE KNOWN AS LOUIS JAGG3R
― The blue-green world is drenched with horse gore, Sunday, 23 December 2007 18:03 (sixteen years ago) link
ban noodle vague
― Just got offed, Sunday, 23 December 2007 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/presentations/AHIMA_clinical_voc_2005_oct/proposals/img022.jpg
― Just got offed, Sunday, 23 December 2007 18:09 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Thursday, 3 December 2015 17:50 (eight years ago) link
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, UKJuly 31, 2015 – The Ritz – Manchester, UKAugust 1, 2015 – Standon Calling Festival, UK
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 December 2015 17:55 (eight years ago) link
Saw them live days after moving to Portland, OR in 1997. Good show. Very loud. Had no idea they were still together.
― Darin, Thursday, 3 December 2015 18:30 (eight years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Thursday, 3 December 2015 18:39 (eight years ago) link
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".
― brimstead, Thursday, 3 December 2015 19:12 (eight years ago) link
Just learned that they have a song on one the albums I didn't pay attention to featuring Mark Knopfler and Mike Campbell.
― JoeStork, Thursday, 3 December 2015 20:01 (eight years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Thursday, 3 December 2015 20:08 (eight years ago) link
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
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Thursday, 21 April 2016 07:27 (eight years ago) link
Haven't heard it yet. Saw someone raving about the greatness of a recent live show
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 21 April 2016 14:21 (eight years ago) link
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.
― early rejecter, Thursday, 21 April 2016 14:37 (eight years ago) link
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?"
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 April 2016 14:44 (eight years ago) link
Oh yeah, that Primal Scream is a dud too.
― early rejecter, Thursday, 21 April 2016 15:20 (eight years ago) link
Doves IS really good tho
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 14:18 (eight years ago) link
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
― imago, Friday, 25 January 2019 08:08 (five years ago) link
id no idea they were still going tbh
i really want to hear what "the worst music ever made" sounds like
― . (Michael B), Friday, 25 January 2019 13:55 (five years ago) link
fire up spotify and enjoy
― imago, Friday, 25 January 2019 13:58 (five years ago) link
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
― large bananas pregnant (ledge), Friday, 25 January 2019 14:13 (five years ago) link
Desperate Dan clickbait.
― calzino, Friday, 25 January 2019 14:20 (five years ago) link
in the entire history of r'n'r, has there been anyone HALF as thirsty as Courtney Taylor?
― calumy (rip van wanko), Friday, 25 January 2019 15:05 (five years ago) link
maybe Ryan Adams
don’t worry nobody diedhttps://music.dandywarhols.com/album/tafelmuzik-means-more-when-youre-alone
― brimstead, Thursday, 2 April 2020 19:51 (four years ago) link
i actually have a lot of time for the warhols, but $1 per sale for charity.really.hmmm ..
― mark e, Thursday, 2 April 2020 20:38 (four years ago) link
do you have three and a half hours for them, is the question
― ban laggy jazzer (imago), Thursday, 2 April 2020 23:26 (four years ago) link