The Dandy Warhols Come Down

Dandy Warhols

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 15, 1997)
• Original Release Date: July 15, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B000002U2S
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #15,468 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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The major-label debut from Portland's psychedelic-pop protagonists swirls earfuls of 1960s guitar riffs around 1990s Brit-pop nuances. If Come Down occasionally sounds like Neil Young fronting Oasis ("Boys Better," "Minnesoter") or Lou Reed doing The Verve ("Good Morning"), it just as often turns self-referential and obscure. The quartet constructs a slavishly fashionable sound rife with drug references (the relentlessly jangly post-Cobain anthem, "Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth," includes the memorable chorus: "Heroin is so passe") and sleepy, detached elegance. There's sweeping beauty here, too, in the lush, intricate guitar work (courtesy Courtney Taylor and Peter Holmstrom) and the cooing female backing vocals (Zia McCabe). --Mark Woodlief

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eclectic and marvelous., September 21, 2001

By	Allyn West (Muncie, IN) - See all my reviews

The Dandy's second release is one of the greatest records in the 90's...by far. The sonic grooves the Dandy's take you on again and again leave a listener exhausted and overwhelmed by feeling. From the beginnings of the feedback rumbles on "Be-In" to the closings on "The Creep Out", a note is hardly wasted. Stand-out tracks are "Be-In", "Boys Better" "Minnesoter" "Good Morning" "Green" "Hard On For Jesus". The Dandy Warhols can trip you out, and swell your mind in 10 different directions, then chill you out with 4 minutes of pop perfection. Mr. Taylor (now Taylor-Taylor) is a brilliant songwriter, and Pete Holmstrom pushes the guitar and its sonic textures beyond belief. The music is hard to describe with words...the textures and the sounds are amazing. If you take the best melodies from the 60's, plus the darkest moments of the Rolling Stones, plus 70's rock bravado, plus 80's new wave creepy-isms, plus 90's studio and technical mastery, you've got this album. It grabs and utilizes the best moments from the past 4 decades...without sounding pretentious. Truly an amazing rock record. Do yourself a favor and buy it.

27 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This COULD BE the best CD from an American band in the '90's, November 24, 2003

By	Brent A. Anthonisen "Johnny Sideburns" (Alpharetta, GA, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Before 2000's "Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia" came out and had Dandy Warhols songs in TV ads for everything from Michelob beer to Nissan automobiles to pretty much everything else, "Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth" was winning accolades as being one of the most entertaining videos to run on MTV since the glory days of Russell Mulcahy's work with Duran Duran, "Boys Better" was spicing up the soundtrack to "Good Will Hunting" and "Every Day Should Be A Holiday" was adding a touch of class to "There's Something About Mary" (admittedly not so difficult to do).

"The Dandy Warhols Come Down" marks Portland, Oregon's most enigmatic (yet sonically accessible) band's major-label debut with Capitol/EMI, and considering the massive wave of neo-psychedelic indie-pop that flooded the music industry in 1997 (not in the least among the stand-outs being Cornershop's "When I Was Born For The th Time" and Primal Scream's masterpiece "Vanishing Point"), it is probably understandable that "...Come Down" managed to slip beneath the radar of most music fans. However, those who have made the effort to experience this CD are seldom regretfull for doing so. From the dreamy and extended introduction of "Be-In" (the song used to open most Dandys live shows to this day) to the experimental soundscapes of "Pete International Airport" and "The Creep-Out" there are a vaiety of trippy grooves and joyful summertime pop tunes, including the afforementioned pop hookfests "...Last Junkie...", "Boys Better", "...Holiday", as well as the aural equivalent of a flower opening its bloom and facing the sun, "Good Morning" and the name-dropping hipster chic of "Cool As Kim Deal".

Just to prove it's not all about catchy pop songs, the Dandys can navel/shoe-gaze with the best of 'em with songs like the two-chord simplicity of "I Love You" (surely one of the most honest love songs ever written), the Sergio Leone/Ennio Morricone-inspired "Whipping Tree", which segues not quite seamlessly into "Green"...as well as "Orange", arguably the first great song to be written (and performed?) under the influence of a bottle of Ny-Quil.

I had bought "Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia" before this CD, but it was buying this CD that convinced me that the Dandy Warhols were one of the few bands in the music business whose name meant quality with no questions asked; after listening to this album once I knew that anything with the Dandy Warhols name on it was worth buying sight unseen (or sound unheard, as it were); they are just that good, and this CD represents them at their best. If you're at all curious about what this band is about, start with this CD...you'll be a most willing convert afterward, I promise.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best Albums of the 90's, August 2, 2000

By	"dannyh12" (Brockton, MA United States) - See all my reviews

After hearing the catchy radio tune "Not if you Were the Las Junkie on Earth", I rolled the dice and bought the album. Greatestinvestment I ever made. Hypnotic guitar riffs and smooth, flowing British sounding beats. The harmony of this music is unexplainabley beautiful even when it's layed down hard. A must have of an album. You can get lost in "Orange" the more you listen to it. Their new album came out yesterday and I knocked over 3 people en route to the music store....so far sounds unreal. Bring the Dandy's to BOSTON!