Dandys Rule OK

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Customer reviews

review by: Patrick Neylan date: 2003-03-02 rating:
Rough, but ready
There aren't enough stand-out tracks to justify five stars, and some of this is a little too derivative, but it's all good fun. "Ride", "Coffee and Tea Wrecks" and "Lou Weed" betray their influences in their titles, but the latter works in its own right as well as a parody/imitation. Just when the album seems to be running out of steam in the middle, it's rescued by the compulsive beat of Nothing, making a whole song out of a Led Zep cadenza ("Babe I'm Gonna Leave You"), with its distorted, almost falsetto 60s-style vocal. Then there's the straight-ahead garage-rock of Grunge Betty, before blasting out with It's A Fast-Driving Rave-Up With The Dandy Warhols Sixteen Minutes - the Velvets' Sister Ray meets Hawkwind's Valium 10 in what my mother-in-law called "a brutal cacophony". You can't get higher praise than that.

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review by: date: 2002-03-16 rating:
Oooph, buy this!
The first part of this album is really great, with lots of melodic, flowing numbers. The second half doesn't do it for me personally (that is basically to say that I think the producer should have arranged the songs differently, not that it bothers me, just that it may have been received better had he/she done so). To give you some sense of what this album is like, imagine how you probably know the Dandys, i.e. from Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia, and then combine this with a kind of easy Brit-pop and early American "alternative"sound, i.e. early "Feelies" stuff, and you're about there I like this album lots and consider it to be an undiscovered gem. You can definitely feel elements of what the Dandys will later evolve into, but this album without difficulty stands on its own and not just as some first step on the road to something "better". Not as psychedelic as their later two albums, but that is neither here nor there, in my humble opinion. I bought this just after it had bene released years ago and could sense that the Dandys were something special (although I also sensed that they'd be a commercial success and not just a great band destined to disappear into obscurity, held in esteem by a few connoisseurs who bother to look outside the main charts). Unquestionably more toned down and "pure" rock that their later two albums. Courtney Taylor (sounds like he ought to be living on a trailer park with that name, or is it just me - probably just me...) doesn't exhibit the vocal pliancy that he does in the later albums and you get a sense of what he sounds like when he sings naturally, not that I don't like him when he's doing his whole "other thing"vocally, i.e. Iggy, Beatles-stylee etc. vocals. I'd buy this, but as I said only the first half shows any musical development with some nondescript also-rans filling up the other half (the runts of the album if you will). Definitely a must-buy for Dandys fans.

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review by: date: 2002-02-19 rating:
Worth the price of admission
Lou Weed and Fast Driving alone are worth the price of admission. I've only recently gotten this album, so it may take a while to grow on me. As other reviewers have mentioned, this album definitely points the way to where Taylor-Taylor's songwriting is now - hooky, layered, rhythmic. This album is not as catchy/accessible as 13 Tales, but I have a feeling that after a while, it'll be a hard one to get out of my CD player...

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review by: date: 2001-10-26 rating:
75 Minutes Of Rock'N'Roll
Once your ears and mind have come through the song that finishes this album, 'It's A Fast-Driving Rave-Up With The Dandy Warhols Sixteen Minutes', you should know what The Dandy Warhols are all about. And whether you are fed up with their music or not.

In fact, this song which including its prelude and finale takes up about a third of the CD, is the best of the album. And very symbolic for The Dandy Warhols. It is one (very) long rhythmic journey, not to exciting places with a lot to see (hear), but more like driving down a long street on which sideroads are maybe seen but not explored, or at least very briefly, and the speed is only slightly changed from time to time before going back to its initial state.

Other, (a little) more varied songs on 'The Dandy Warhols Rule OK', include 'Nothing (Lifestyle Of A Tortured Artist For Sale)' and 'Ride'. Just the titles of these songs, along with the picture on the back of the CD (the band sitting on a hard couch in the middle of a seemingly endless and empty wide streey), do say what this rock'n'roll band stands for.

Despite this deliberate monotony, three stars are justified, since the album as a whole is pretty worth listening to.


review by: date: 2001-10-04 rating:
This album rules OK!!
If you've just heard of the Dandy's from that Vodaphone ad, check out where it all started.

'Rule OK' is not as commercial (or as full of 'singles')as the two later albums, but thats a part of its charm. From the bubblegum pop of opener 'TV Theme song', to the spazzed out grungy psychadelia of '..Rave Up', this album condenses everything I like about the Dandies on one disc. From the Velvets pastiche of 'Lou Weed', to the emotive genius of er,'Genius', and my personal fave 'Not your bottle' this album shows the blueprint for everything that came after. Perfect for drinkin and doing other decadent Dandy Warhols style things to.
DANDIES RULE OK!!

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