The Dandy Warhols Come Down

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Customer reviews

review by: Ninalodo date: 2007-12-20 rating:
Very good CD
One of America's best bands, yes definatly. Their album 'Come Down' is better than the rest and is a winner. br /The good new wave/rock/Techno style of all their songs makes it easy to like and the funny take-it-out-on-the-world lyrics are just as good. I love this CD and I can garentee that you will like this. Say hello to your new favourite band!

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review by: date: 2007-12-08 rating:
Beezer!
A truly brilliant album, this has always been in my top ten for the last decade despite stiff competition from the Pixies, The Stones, the Beasties, Beck, Lambchop, Elliot Smith etc. If you like music, you'll love this. Please don't buy it just for the singles - like all great bands, they do albums, just albums.

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review by: ld date: 2006-10-09 rating:
wicked
Dandys best album ever. With songs like Minnasoter, boys better, good morning and not if you were... this is easily a five star album. If only now they could come up with something similar.

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review by: Raymond Jess date: 2004-11-09 rating:
Flashes of brilliance.
It's obvious from most of 'Dandy Warhols Come Down' that the band is anxious to make catchy pop songs and occasionaly they succeed impressively. The opening track 'Be-In' sets the tone for much of the album in its trance-inducing, heavy layered guitars. The two following tracks are examples of what the Warhols do best. The formula is the same but the organ background on 'Boys Better' and the lead guitar riff of 'Minnesoter' shows the delightful results the band can achieve if they chose to put a little more effort in. The band return to a recurring theme of narcotic ambience with 'Orange' and then, ironically, move on to the best and most dynamic track on the album 'Junkie'. Another drug-themed tune, but this time trading a lot of the album's lacklustre feel for a real powerhouse performance.pThe powerful pop performances continue with the bright 'Everyday Should Be A Holiday' and the inventive backing vocals of 'Good Morning'. Then it's back for a moment to the drug induced banality of 'Whipping Tree' although the Warhols do manage to create some moments of shimmering beauty with 'Green'.pThe band hits a high again with 'Cool As Kim Deal' which has some of the best vocals on the album. As for 'Hard On For Jesus', if it wasn't for the vibrato sound, it would sound as pedestrian as much of the lazier tracks on the album. Then comes the absolutely pointless 'Pete International Airport' and the above average 'Creep Out'.pWhen the Dandies are good, their songs are the epitome of pop-punk hedonism, but too often that hedonism resorts to a lazy spaced out groove that ends up going nowhere.


review by: physics_mark date: 2004-07-26 rating:
The best rock album I own
The story goes that, on the back of a rough-edged recording presented to Capitol Records as the follow up to 'The Dandys Rule OK', the record company threw it back in their faces and told them to go write something decent, and quickly. These recordings, often referred to as The Black Album, slid unnoticed into history while a new CD was frantically created on a tiny budget and at high speed. Come Down is that product - hastily re-arranged, rammed together, cut up and released. It's a wonder then, that it sounds like such pure, unadulterated musical genius, years in the making.pI first borrowed this album from my library, and listened to the first track 8 (yes, EIGHT) times before I could bring myself to move onto the rest. It's a sound all of its own (if you except Love and Rockets and The Velvet Underground), so smooth, gradual, soaring and crashing, the likes of which I had never heard before - it was a totally new musical experience and I loved it immediately.brYou may vaguely recognise some tracks on the CD from backgrounds slots in various popular and not-so-popular films and TV adverts - Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth, Boys Better, Every Day Should Be A Holiday have all been used at some point, primarily because they're the most listenable tracks on the album with much more variety and layers than just those songs. It's sleazy and clean-cut, self-indulgent and generous, esoteric and mainstream, all in equal quantities. Listening to the whole thing in one slew can be a very private, and very rich, experience - the band have created an enveloping, almost tangible sound which engrosses the listener in a grunge world of self-analysis and personal enjoyment.pIf you ask people if they've heard the Dandy Warhols, they'll probably mumble something about "...the tune from that mobile phone advert...", but this album is really the heart and soul of what the Warhols are all about. It's fantastic.

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