Dandy Warhols - Earth To The Dandy Warhols (2008) (eac-flac-cover)

Dandy Warhols - Earth To The Dandy Warhols (2008)

alternative, indie | 1cd | eac-flac-cue-log-cover | 475MB

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AMG:
On ...Earth to the Dandy Warhols..., Courtney Taylor and company do indeed seem to be a little more down to earth than they were on the very uneven Odditorium or the Warlords of Mars, debuting their own label with a much more consistent collection of songs. That's "consistent" in terms of quality -- the Dandy Warhols always seem the most comfortable when they're hopping from sound to sound, mood to mood, instead of sticking with just one approach for an entire album. If their eclecticism can be considered a signature Warhols sound, then ...Earth to the Dandy Warhols... has it; it often feels like an update on Thirteen Tales from Modern Bohemia. The band roams from driving, psychedelic rock on the opening track, "The World the People Together (Come On)" -- which, with its trippy strumming and lyrics like "The love that you give is exactly the love that you take," sounds like a '60s love-in shot into space -- to "Mission Control"'s blobby synth rock to "Beast of All Saints," a massive, empty-hearted ballad that shoots past the band's own "Godless" to rival Spiritualized's interstellar brooding. The band even does its best impression of the Rolling Stones' "Miss You" on "Welcome to the Third World," although Taylor's borderline-obnoxious vocals and attitude undermine some of the song's cool. Attitude also reigns on the stylishly tongue-in-cheek "Talk Radio" and more flamboyantly on "The Legend of the Last of the Outlaw Truckers aka the Ballad of Sheriff Shorty," a psychobilly-tinged rocker embellished with strings and gunfire. However, the camp factor is surprisingly low on most of ...Earth to the Dandy Warhols..., as is the number of songs about frenemies and drugs. The band focuses on love, rather than friendships, gone wrong on the deconstructed chamber pop of "And Then I Dreamt of Yes" and "Now You Love Me"'s minor-key brooding and bragging. Toward the album's end, however, the band's restraint unravels, with mixed results: "Mis Amigos," which is as much about hanging out with friends as it is about pot, is a gleeful, red-eyed fiesta; "Valerie Yum" starts out as stomping pop, then falls into an aptly slowed down, spoken word section before revving up again; and the final track, "Musee d' Nougat," a 15-minute trawl through French-accented vocals and formless synth drones, seems to be where the Dandy Warhols put most of their annoying ticks on this album. Before that song, though, ...Earth to the Dandy Warhols... finds the band breaking some new ground with "Love Song," a bit of futuristic Americana with intricate fingerpicked guitars and banjos buffeted by keyboards, and "Wasp in the Lotus," an electro-psych epic swathed in massive feedback squalls. The best moments of ...Earth to the Dandy Warhols... rival the Dandys' finest work, and despite some weak spots, it's a giant leap in the right direction.

Tracks:
01 - The World The People Together (Come On
02 - Mission Control
03 - Welcome To The Third World
04 - Wasp In The Lotus
05 - And Then I Dreamt Of Yes
06 - Talk Radio
07 - Love Song
08 - Now You Love Me
09 - Mis Amigos
10 - The Legend Of The Last Of The Outlaw Truckers aka The Ballad Of Sheriff Shorty
11 - Beast Of All Saints
12 - Valerie Yum
13 - Musee D'Nougat

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Dandy Warhols - The Black Album / Come On Feel The DW (eac-flac-cover)

Dandy Warhols - The Black Album / Come On Feel The Dandy Warhols

alternative, indie | 2cd | eac-flac-cue-log-cover | 820MB

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Wikipedia:
The Black Album was originally recorded in 1996 by The Dandy Warhols as a follow up to their debut album, Dandys Rule, OK?, but was rejected by the band's label Capitol Records. The songs "Good Morning", "Minnesoter" and "Boys" (as "Boys Better") were later rerecorded and appeared on the …The Dandy Warhols Come Down album.
After many years of being traded by fans, the album was officially released by the band on their own Beat the World Records label in 2004, available exclusively from their official website, as part one of a two disc set along with the B-sides compilation Come on Feel the Dandy Warhols.
The name of the album is a reference to the Beatles' album "The Beatles" which is more widely known as The White Album. Taylor-Taylor has said in many interviews that he is a big Beatles fan.

disc 1: The Black Album (47:10)
1. Appreggio Adaggio
2. Crack Cocaine Rager
3. Good Morning
4. Head
5. White Gold
6. Boys
7. Shiny Leather Boots
8. Earth To The Dandy Warhols
9. Minnesoter
10. Twist
11. The Wreck

disc 2: Come On Feel The Dandy Warhols (72:47)
1. Not If You Were The Last Junkie In Tony's Basement
2. Retarded
3. Free For All (Ted Nugent)
4. Dub Song
5. Call Me (Blondie)
6. Relax (Frankie Goes To Hollywood)
7. Head
8. Thanks For The Show
9. Lance
10. Ohio (Neil Young)
11. One Saved Message
12. Hell's Bells (AC/DC)
13. The Jean Genie (David Bowie)
14. Stars
15. Dick
16. One Ultra Lame White Boy
17. We Love You Dick
18. The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Gordon Lightfoot)

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Dandy Warhols - Odditorium or Warlords of Mars (2005) (eac-flac-cover)

Dandy Warhols - Odditorium or Warlords of Mars (2005)

alternative, indie | 1cd | eac-flac-cue-log-cover | 445MB

Capitol/EMI | rar +5% recovery

AMG:
Although Dig! covered the symbiotic, love-hate relationship between the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre more than thoroughly enough, more proof that the Dandies still want to be taken as seriously as the Massacre's misunderstood genius Anton Newcombe arrives with Odditorium or Warlords of Mars, an album that's half-inspired, half-embarrassing, and completely self-indulgent. As if the title weren't enough warning, Odditorium's opening track, "Colder Than the Coldest Winter Was Cold" -- in which A&E announcer/journalist Bill Kurtis explains how the Dandy Warhols invented rock & roll "after the great war" -- gets things off to a strange start. Unfortunately, in this case strange doesn't mean interesting or good. Odditorium is bookended by two of the most meandering, pointless tracks the band has ever recorded. "Love Is the New Feel Awful" is merely a song that could've been good if it weren't bloated with several minutes' worth of fruitless noodling. It's the closer, "A Loan Tonight," with its irritating, oddly strangled vocals, clunky keyboards, and listless guitars that go on and on for nearly 12 minutes, that is so infuriatingly bad you wish you could somehow un-hear it, and maybe the rest of the album while you're at it. Which is a shame, because the middle stretch of Odditorium has more than a few tracks that rank with the band's best work. "Down Like Disco" and "All the Money or Is It the Simple Honey" show off their skills as a smart, satirical pop group, while moody, hungover ballads like "Holding Me Up" and "Everyone Is Totally Insane" make emptiness seem profound. Meanwhile, "Easy," a slinky, hypnotic track that builds on a simple groove, and "There Is Only This Time," a spacious meditation with close harmonies and brass flourishes, balance the Dandies' pop and experimental leanings far better than anywhere else on the album. Taken as a whole, Odditorium is scattered and half-baked (in more ways than one), but its best moments are ripe for adding to play lists and mixtapes. Something this indulgent could only be a labor of love, but even die-hard Dandy Warhols fans might find embracing this album to be too much work.

Tracks:
01 - Colder Than The Coldest Winter Was Cold
02 - Love Is The New Feel Awful
03 - Easy
04 - All The Money Or The Simple Life Honey
05 - The New Country
06 - Holding Me Up
07 - Did You Make A Song With Otis
08 - Everyone Is Totally Insane
09 - Smoke It
10 - Down Like Disco
11 - There is Only This Time
12 - A Loon Tonight

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Dandy Warhols - Welcome to the Monkey House (enhancedCD) (2003) (eac-flac-cover)

Dandy Warhols  - Welcome to the Monkey House (enhancedCD) (2003)

alternative, indie | 1cd | eac-flac-cue-log-cover | 425MB

Capitol | rar +5% recovery

AMG:
Over the course of their career, the Dandy Warhols alternated between slick, smart, slightly smirky pop singles like "Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth" and "Bohemian Like You" and the ambitious yet somehow empty-sounding tracks that made up the rest of their albums. With their fifth album, Welcome to the Monkey House, the band capitalizes on their pop sensibilities and even manages to turn their prior weaknesses into strengths, resulting in a collection of gloriously blank, cleverly stupid neo-new wave songs. It's true that, once again, the Dandy Warhols look to other people's music for direction, but this time around, the new wave and synth-pop revivals that inform the album sound so natural that it's hard to imagine the band in any other incarnation. Welcome to the Monkey House's glossy mix of synths, guitars, and drum machines -- aided and abetted by co-producer Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran -- are the perfect complement to Courtney Taylor's knowing, flip outlook. The album gets off to a strong start with sharply crafted songs like "We Used to Be Friends" -- which feels a little bit like a follow-up to Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia's "Bohemian Like You" -- and "I Am Over It," a slice of electronic pop that's delivered in appropriately blasé, mechanical fashion. Not surprisingly, most of the album's best songs revolve around emptiness, drugs, and narcissism, such as "The Dope," an electro-inspired number that could give Fischerspooner a run for its money when it comes to jittery, vocodered trendiness. "I Am a Scientist" is the album's trashy zenith; a hybrid of sleazy beats, breathy samples and a rather nihilistic celebration of science's lack of emotion (not to mention its contributions to recreational chemistry). "You Were the Last High," however, confuses drugs and girls in an unusually bittersweet way. Some shades of paranoia and existential crisis creep into the album from time to time, more playfully on "Plan A" and more seriously on the brooding "Insincere Because I," giving a what-goes-up-must-come-down balance to party-hard odes such as "The Dandy Warhols Love Almost Everyone" and "Hit Rock Bottom." Like any party, things start to fall flat toward the end of Welcome to the Monkey House; "Heavenly," "I Am Sound" -- an "Ashes to Ashes" homage -- and "You Come in Burned" provide a sluggish comedown to the rest of the album's go-go pace, although they're not as distinctive as what came before them. Ultimately, in general and on this album, the Dandy Warhols work best when they don't try to inject weighty matters like meaning and substance into their jaded pop confectionery. Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia might still be the band's most accomplished album, but by embracing their emptiness and stylishness on Welcome to the Monkey House, they've crafted an album that is no less enjoyable because of its disposability.

Tracks:
1. "Welcome to the Monkey House" – 1:04
2. "We Used to Be Friends" – 3:20
3. "Plan A" – 4:01
4. "The Dope (Wonderful You)" – 4:37
5. "I Am a Scientist" (Taylor-Taylor/Bowie) – 3:13
6. "I Am Over It" – 3:50
7. "The Dandy Warhols Love Almost Everyone" – 1:54
8. "Insincere Because I" – 3:49
9. "You Were the Last High" (Taylor-Taylor/Dando) – 4:46
10. "Heavenly" – 3:36
11. "I Am Sound" – 4:00
12. "Hit Rock Bottom" – 2:53
13. "You Come In Burned" – 7:24
"I Am a Scientist" contains a sample of "Fashion" by David Bowie.

Enhanced CD Content
The enhanced CD contained the short film "The End of the Old as We Know It," written and directed by Courtney Taylor-Taylor, and a link to The Odditorium, a (no longer active) website "where fans can see band web casts, play games, and download exclusive music and mayhem."

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Dandy Warhols - The Dandy Warhols Come Down (1997) (eac-log-cover)

Dandy Warhols  - The Dandy Warhols Come Down (1997)

alternative, indie | 1cd | eac-flac-cue-log-cover | 450MB

Capitol | rar +5% recovery

AMG:
Power pop bands are often caught in a quandary. Their core audience praises them for their classicist approach, but if they ever want to break out into a larger audience, they have to modernize their sound, which makes their cult angry. The problem is especially difficult for bands that came of age in the early '90s, since they were weaned on not just the Beatles and Beach Boys, but also the Pixies and Sonic Youth. As a result, bands like the Dandy Warhols are restless, anxious to make catchy pop songs while keeping indie cred, and that's why their major-label debut, The Dandy Warhols Come Down, is so uneven. The band has talent for not just punchy hooks, but for layered sonics as well, but they don't know how to meld the two together. As a result, the most immediate moments on the record are awash in a sea of feedback, which can't be trance-inducing since its spell is punctured by pop hooks. And while those pop songs are good, they aren't enough to prevent Come Down from being a frustrating listen.

Tracks:
1. "Be-In" – 7:00
2. "Boys Better" – 4:31
3. "Minnesoter" – 3:03
4. "Orange" – 5:41
5. "I Love You" – 4:12
6. "Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth" – 3:11
7. "Every Day Should Be a Holiday" – 4:02
8. "Good Morning" – 5:01
9. "Whipping Tree" – 3:49
10. "Green" – 3:10
11. "Cool as Kim Deal" – 3:03
12. "Hard On for Jesus" (Taylor/Holmstrom) – 4:36
13. "Pete International Airport" (Taylor/Holmstrom) – 5:57
14. "The Creep Out" (The Dandy Warhols) – 8:59

Personnel:
* Courtney Taylor-Taylor – vocals, guitar
* Zia McCabe – keyboards, bass (synthesized)
* Peter Holmstrom – guitar, vocals
* Eric Hedford – drums, vocals
* Tony Lash – keyboards, percussion

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Dandy Warhols - Dandys Rule OK (1995) (eac-flac-cover)

Dandy Warhols - Dandys Rule OK (1995)

alternative, indie | 1cd | eac-flac-cue-log-cover | 505MB

Tim Kerr Records | rar +5% recovery

AMG:
The Dandy Warhols seem like they should be a great band — they bring together shoegazing, Brit-pop, lazy grunge, and Velvet Underground-style grittiness, all with a wicked sense of humor. Despite all this — and despite the fact that Dandys Rule OK? is fairly well written — their songs tend to slip by unnoticed, never really leaving an impression. The band seems to be at its best when it parodies other bands: "Lou Weed," "Ride," and "The Coffee and Tea Wrecks" are all affectionate pastiches of their namesakes, and "The Dandy Warhol's T.V. Theme Song" is a fine bit of bouncy pop. Unfortunately, none of the album's more clever segments stand out, buried as they are in a murky mess of forgettable material.

Tracks:
01. introduction by young tom
02. the dandy warhols' t.v. theme song
03. ride
04. best friend
05. not your bottle
06. (tony, this song is called) lou weed
07. nothin' to do
08. the coffee and tea wrecks
09. genius
10. dick
11. just try
12. nothing (lifestyle of a tortured artists for sale)
13. grunge betty
14. prelude: it's a fast-driving rave-up with the dandy warhols sixteen minutes
15. it's a fast-driving rave-up with the dandy warhols sixteen minutes
16. finale: it's a fast-driving rave-up with the dandy warhols sixteen minutes

Total Length: 1:13:50

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Dandy Warhols - 13 Tales from Urban Bohemia (Limited2CD) (2000) (eac-flac-cover)

Dandy Warhols - 13 Tales from Urban Bohemia (Limited2CD) (2000)

alternative, indie | 2cd | eac-flac-cue-log-cover | 530MB

Capitol | rar +5% recovery

AMG
Though they still tend towards pastiche, the Dandy Warhols' third full-length, Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia, presents a bakers' dozen of their most focused and cohesive songs. Where their earlier albums were eclectic to the point of being scattershot, this release manages to limit the band's style-switching to dreamy, sweeping epics like "Godless" and "Nietzsche," sussed, sleazy power pop like "Horse Pills" and "Cool Scene," and country and gospel ventures like "Country Leaver" and "The Gospel." The group's increasingly strong songwriting makes most of these experiments successful and distinctive, though the Dandys fall into their old habit of appropriating sounds they like wholesale with "Shakin'," a "tribute" to Elastica's uptight yet sexy riffs and rhythms. Not surprisingly, the most successful songs on Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia are the least derivative ones, such as anxious pop songs like "Solid," "Get Off," and the delicate, lovelorn ballad "Sleep." On those tracks, as well as the satirical single "Bohemian Like You" — this year's model of their hit "Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth" — the Dandys reveal themselves as a savvy pop band with a voice of their own. Though they're not all the way there yet, Tales From Urban Bohemia is a worthwhile step in their developing creativity.

Limited edition initial pressing with bonus disc.

Tracks
01. godless
02. mohammed
03. nietzsche
04. country leaver
05. solid
06. horse pills
07. get off
08. sleep
09. cool scene
10. bohemian like you
11. shakin'
12. big indian
13. the gospel

bonus disc tracks
01. white gold
02. phone call
03. not if you were the last junkie on earth (live)*
04. I love you (live)*
*live tracks recorded at the reading festival 1999

Total Length: 1:11:47

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