POO: The Dandy Warhols

...but "All The Money or The Simple Life Honey" made a surprising run. Must be the horns.

Seconding

Stuffing the ballot box with "It's A Fast-Driving Rave-Up With The Dandy Warhols 16 Minutes"

I'm breaking the rules and POXing:

Pete International Airport (Elvis, you should like this one)
Godless
Nietzsche
Ride
The Creep Out (Elvis, you should like this one too)
Be-In
Boys Better
The Dandy Warhols' T.V. Theme Song
Horse Pills
The Dope (Wonderful You)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8qUERnx_7Y

They are total douches, but I always thought this song was pretty awesome

the dandies are funny, i'm having a tough time picking only one song out of the 10 i like. the rest is mostly bad. there's not much in between for me.

"They" are actually really nice and awesome. It is Courtney who is a total douche.

courtney taylor taylor taylor.

Pete International Airport (Elvis, you should like this one)
The Creep Out (Elvis, you should like this one too)

Beware of making assumptions. I know both songs but if we're going with slow-burn droning then I vote for "Dick" off of the first album. Honestly, I turn off Come Down after "Cool As Kim Deal"

On that note, can you recommend me some bands that have mastered slow-burn droning a la PIA and Creep Out (e.g. Seefeel)?

man the drums sounds so awesome on come down.. hell everything sounds huge...

and yeah, the correct answer is "rave-up"

dandy warhols in 2000 was maybe the most fun i ever had a show.

it was maybe the only time i've seen a band where they played literally EVERY song I wanted to hear

On that note, can you recommend me some bands that have mastered slow-burn droning a la PIA and Creep Out (e.g. Seefeel)?

For starters go directly to 7% Solution's All About Satellites And Spaceships

"They" are actually really nice and awesome. It is Courtney who is a total douche.

Yes.

An yeah, repeating my vote for Rave-Up.

You know what, there was a track that I always liked but never knew the title or who it was by.

And if I hummed it to anyone, no-one knew.

Turns out it was "every day is a holiday"

See, I know no-one who could have told me.

(And don't say there's loads on here, how do you type in "D Dllldllll dlll dlddllll d dllll dllll do dah"

this band is amazing and fuck the haters, i'd like to see YOU write songs that explore the tragedy of rock's impermanence in such a plangent, catchy manner

POXX

1) Easy
2) Burned (either version)
3) Love Is The New Feel Awful
4) Holding Me Up
5) A Loan Tonight
6) Not Your Bottle
7) Genius
8) We Used To Be Friends (Are Sound version)
9) Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth
10) Be-In

11) Every Day Should Be A Holiday
12) Boys Better
13) Plan A (Are Sound version)
14) Best Friend
15) Nothing (Lifestyle Of A Tortured Artist For Sale)
16) Dick
17) The Last High (Are Sound version)
18) Just Try
19) Nietzsche
20) Down Like Disco

or maybe Everyone Is Totally Insane

Bohemian Like You is genuinely one of my least favourite DW's songs fwiw; they're ALWAYS best served by melancholy or at least contemplativeness

POX for DW moments

1) Middle-eight of Not Your Bottle ("Billy wants to be a rooooockstaaaaar...")
2) Bass groove kicks in towards end of Easy
3) Bendy vocal sigh into the chorus of Genius
4) Opening 30 seconds of Love Is The New Feel Awful
5) When the synths start playing those really lush background chords at the end of A Loan Tonight...or maybe big drum intro 2/3 of way through A Loan Tonight
6) Chord-change at the end of Orange
7) When Holding Me Up pulls almost exactly the same trick as Easy did and it's STILL AWESOME
8) Organ-complemented middle-eight of Last Junkie (these guys were SO good at middle-eights)
9) Instrumental chorus at end of Best Friend
10) Burned. Way out. Waaay ouuut. Waaaaaay oooooooout......

I disagree. Courtney's sneering dismissiveness of others is always tinged with the plangent sense that he is also including himself in his sidesnipes, whether consciously or unconsciously.

In fact, I'd say his better lyrics moments are the ones where you cannot actually tell if he is talking about himself or others, if he is ironic or not.

Bohemian has definitely suffered from being overplayed (but had it not been marketed so heavily, the band probably wouldn't exist, they were in such financial trouble at the time) but it remains utterly epoch-defining in the way it anticipated and defined the self loathing of the "hipster" baiters.

um I agree with your first two sentences entirely! his own impermanence is fully implicated! often pretty slyly and knowingly. cf 'genius', cf the beautifully double-edged lyrics to 'holding me up' (mostly just the title repeated over and over again until it clicks that he could mean it either way)

nothing you've said contradicts anything i've said!

So you like Bohemian, then?

oh wait apart from that bit, the music's just too jubilant and nuanceless

just a casual, casual easy thing

I still find it weird that they blew up like they did. Remember seeing them at Brownies before England discovered them and they seemed like they were going to put out a few clever/catchy records and remain kind of under-the-radar like Donner Party or Kiss Offs or something. I remember that they had the cheapest tour t-shirts I've ever seen.

They never made any sense to me as stars, and I never got the impression that Courtney TT really had the charisma to pull it off. Don't think they ever topped TV Theme Song, although I'll play bits of all their albums. Probably like MonkeyHouse best as a full album, though the debut's highlights are all higher.

Chr1s: this album is pretty great! what else would you recommend along the lines of highly textured loopy Seefeel-esque material?