Monday, August 09, 2004
Dandy Warhols
The Dandy Warhols new CD, Welcome to the Monkey House came out today. Still don't know quite what to make of it other than they've succeeded in making an eighties album. Swinging from Bowie's nuts on one song (You Were the Last High was a lot better when it was called Ashes To Ashes), trying to sound like Upstairs at Eric's on the next. It's not quite as awful as it sounds, but still a few miles south of spectacular.
It just came to me, Welcome to the Monkey House is what Gary Numan would sound like if he was hip. Better yet, what Thomas Dolby would sound like if he smoked a little grass and lost the mad professor shtick. With the exception of We Used to Be Friends, it sounds like everything but a Dandy Warhols album.
Change is good though, if everything stayed the same we'd still have a republican in office...oh, wait. I do question the use of Nick Rhodes as co-producer. Anyone who has heard Duran Duran's cover of 911 is Joke knows those men belong as far away from a mixing board as humanly possible.
Some albums instantly make an impact, good or bad, others you got to listen to a while to catch any kind of vibe. Curious indifference will eventually turn to passion or hatred. Until then, the verdict's out.
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