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The Dandy Warhols
Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia
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AMG Review of Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia
Heather Phares
All Music GuideThough they still tend towards pastiche, the Dandy Warhols' third full-length, Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia, presents a bakers' dozen of their most focused and cohesive songs. Where their earlier albums were eclectic to the point of being scattershot, this release manages to limit the band's style-switching to dreamy, sweeping epics like "Godless" and "Nietzsche," sussed, sleazy power pop like "Horse Pills" and "Cool Scene," and country and gospel ventures like "Country Leaver" and "The Gospel." The group's increasingly strong songwriting makes most of these experiments successful and distinctive, though the Dandys fall into their old habit of appropriating sounds they like wholesale with "Shakin'," a "tribute" to Elastica's uptight yet sexy riffs and rhythms. Not surprisingly, the most successful songs on Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia are the least derivative ones, such as anxious pop songs like "Solid," "Get Off," and the delicate, lovelorn ballad "Sleep." On those tracks, as well as the satirical single "Bohemian Like You" -- this year's model of their hit "Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth" -- the Dandys reveal themselves as a savvy pop band with a voice of their own. Though they're not all the way there yet, Tales From Urban Bohemia is a worthwhile step in their developing creativity.
Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia
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Always fun to re-visit the Dandys. One of my favorites of theirs, the 2000 release "Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia". A rousing, enjoyable pastiche from start to finish, Thirteen Tales is an awful lot of fun... Spin Magazine L.A. WeeklyThere isn't the slightest pause between any of the tracks on Thirteen Tales, just one big schmeer of good-rockin' vibes cresting and troughing for the length ...
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Just a Casual, Casual, Easy Thing (Beware of Penis)
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Caution: There's a gratuitous nude penis thrown in there.Whoo hoo hoooooooSo, I'm talking to a friend of mine the other night and she's telling me how she's setting up her profile on Match.com because she wants to start dating. Good looking girl. Smart. Medical student. Big tits. So, I'm like, "Hey, you and I should go out!" To which, she replies, "Nah, I wouldn't go out with you. You're...
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Bohemian Like You (uncensored) - The Dandy Warhols
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Oh dear! Three pages of Dandy's on Mog and no one has put up the uncensored version of Bohemian Like You. Shame! Looks like your resedent pervert will have to do it;.
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Hi! Let me start off with a few confessions so we can get off on the wrong foot. I can't appreciate Bob Dylan. I've tried it before and it just doesn't work, and I can't understand what he did to deserve his near-legendary status. I do, however, have a somewhat embarrassing fondness for the Gorillaz. I've also never been to a concert, which most people find inexcusable, but I really don't think...
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Marcel Duchamp. Bohemian, Like You.
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Like I need another place to feel guilty about not updating, I start here.
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while engaging in a steamy adulterous affair- play THIS
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i was re-introduced to the dandy warhols last december by a 'friend' (wink). i know this sounds completely cheesy, but i had the best sex of my life while listening to this album- it has the perfect range of tempos and tones- from moody to snappy- playful to subdued. we both agreed that the music helped us along- so to speak- and we felt like liquid. no longer like 2 human beings, more like ...
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