Dandy Warhols

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