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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"
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 04:09 (twelve years ago) link
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...
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
If they've gone Fleet Foxes on us then I will kill.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 04:24 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 04:28 (twelve years ago) link
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."
― dlp9001, Thursday, 29 November 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
And that should be Girls at Our Best...
― dlp9001, Thursday, 29 November 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 November 2015 19:45 (eight years ago) link
Last night was great, and I really needed it.
http://nedraggett.tumblr.com/post/134466453527/so-some-shows-you-dont-realize-you-needed-fully
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 December 2015 17:27 (eight 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 (seven 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