History Lesson: Dandy Warhols

The Dandy Warhols

Original video located here. Accessed 29th March 2014

Another example of my brother playing something to me on the insistence that it was ace. Upon hearing Come Down, I thought there were, well, weird (little did I know what was going to happen in the years to come). Yet there were some gems there: Not if You Were the Last Junkie and Everyday Should Be a Holiday were pop songs par excellence. Orange and Good Morning were wonderful exercises on sinister atmospherics. These came across as being the two key strengths of the Dandys and represented an acumination of the musical knowledge I had been building up over the years. In the years that followed, it may have became a challenge finding gems in amongst the weirdness but when the Dandy’s hit the bullseye, it certainly hits. Their humour doesn’t hurt either.

Key Album: Thirteen Tales of Urban Bohemia (2000) Again, this is an album that, for me, represents a particular time and place. This came out when on my first year at University and pretty much became a frequented listen. This is my music for that Sandy bay campus, Art School, watching anime, making new friends, and for the first time feeling I was accomplishing something. Sure Bohemian Like You is the most recognisable song on it but I prefer the atmospherics (like Mohammed and Asleep) as being far more vindictive of the Dandy’’s strengths.