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Track Listings
| 1. Welcome To The Monkey House |
| 2. We Used To Be Friends |
| 3. Plan A |
| 4. Wonderful You |
| 5. Scientist |
| 6. I Am Over It |
| 7. The Dandy Warhols Love Almost Everyone |
| 8. Insincere |
| 9. The Last High |
| 10. Heavenly |
| 11. I Am Sound |
| 12. Rock Bottom |
| 13. (You Come In) Burned |
Product Description
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The Dandy Warhols’ fourth album arrives with a cover that melds Sticky Fingers and The Velvet Underground and Nico. One therefore assumes that leader Courtney Taylor-Taylor’s claim that predecessor Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia was "the last classic rock album" was a bit tongue-in-cheek. (Actually, one had assumed that already.) Reversing rock’s usual guitars-front-keyboards-as-filigree, Monkey House takes the Dandys into a challenging sphere while remaining undeniably organic sounding. The band and co-producers Nick Rhodes (Duran Duran and Tony Visconti (Low, Electric Warrior) have built elaborate but never stifling arrangements of these songs--check out the way guest Nile Rodgers’s rhythm guitar part subtly funks up the last minute of "Scientist," or how the group makes the pulsing "(You Come In) Burned" perhaps the best yet of its trademark trancelike album closers. Taylor-Taylor continues to display growing self-knowledge in his "words of comic wisdom": "I Am Sound" isn’t a declaration of aural omniscience, but a simple affirmation of OK-ness, while "The Last High" dissects the end of a high-style love affair. Miss this and miss one of the year’s finest rock & roll records. --Rickey Wright
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Avec une pochette mi Sticky Fingers des Rolling Stones, mi Velvet Underground sponsorisé par Andy Warhol, les Dandy Warhols trompent leur monde. Welcome To The Monkey House, enregistré principalement dans leur studio de Portland (Oregon) quitte l’axe rock habituel – en plein soulèvement garage’n’roll – pour dériver vers un magma pop-électronique circa années 80 dû aux choix de leurs talentueux collaborateurs : deux ex Duran Duran, Nick Rhodes et Simon Lebon, le Chic Nile Rodgers et le producteur de David Bowie Tony Visconti. Promu des claviers à la production, Nick Rhodes ressuscite cette transe disco/funk aux rythmes robotiques sur laquelle Courtney Taylor-Taylor pose un murmure sexy ou un intriguant falsetto. Ce quatrième album bâti sur un mur de synthés et de basses ronronnantes au lieu des rifs de guitares d’antan, permet aux Dandy Warhols de divaguer sans capitaliser sur le succès de Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia. Un audacieux contre-pied qui ravira davantage les fans de Bowie que ceux des Rolling Stones. --Sabrina Silamo
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5.0 out of 5 stars
it's different and it's good!,
By Ron Pettit (London, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Welcome To The Monkey House (Audio CD)
The first time I heard "We Used to be Friends" I wondered what had happened to my favourite band. But after listening to the entire album a couple of times I can say, without a doubt, that this is the best Dandy's album yet. Tracks that have been put down by critics (I am Sound, Hit Rock Bottom, Heavenly, I am a Scientist) have turned into my favourites. The album is great from start to finish, those who take the time to give it a chance will agree. I loved 13 Tales and thought they would never surpass it's greatness, but I believe that they have with Welcome to the Monkey House. Courtney Taylor-Taylor is brilliant.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Dandies Crank Up Keyboards, OK?,
By Dave (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Welcome To The Monkey House (Audio CD)
Before you even listen to this album, there are a lot of red flags. The Dandy Warhols decide to move away from their distinctive guitar oriented sound in favor of synths. They hire the guy behind regrettable songs like "Union of the Snake", "The Reflex" and "Wild Boys" to twist the knobs. Like the Charlatans mediocre "Wonderland" album they're suddenly going to sing a lot of falsetto on some retro funky sounding tunes.Against all odds, they manage to pull it off well. This album sounds a lot better than Wonderland and anything Duran-Duran has ever put out (although it won't sell anything like Duran Duran at their peak, you can be sure of that). It sounds retro and fresh all at once and is very catchy. A lot of these songs would go down well at a party. Songs like "We Used To Be Friends" and the T-Rex inspired "Hit Rock Bottom" still manage to rock out a bit and poppy tunes like "Plan A" and "The Dandy Warhols Love Almost Everyone" are undeniably catchy. Other songs like "I Am A Scientist" sound a bit too much like 80s tunes that that don't need to be revisited. What has made the Dandies great, in my opinion, has been the guitar. The guitar is still here on a smaller scale but I miss the cool riffs of "Ride", "Boys Better", "Nietzsche", etc. They've gone in a softer direction by toning the guitars down, sounding more funky, and singing a lot of falsetto. They do it well, but I say bring back some of the bombast.
2.0 out of 5 stars
I want my $17 back,
By athensaudrey "athensaudrey" (Athens, GA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Welcome To The Monkey House (Audio CD)
After hearing a few of the awesomely catchy songs by the Dandy Warhols ("Boys Better," "Cool Scene," "Not if You Were the Last Junkie and Earth," and "Bohemian Like You") I was hooked on the addictive sound of the group. So I took a chance and decided to buy the new album instead of 13 Tales From Urban Bohemia. BAD choice. "Welcome to the Monkeyhouse" sounds like the Warhols were forced back to the 80's and aren't very happy about it. The sound here isn't trippy, it's just narcotizing. It pretty much put me to sleep behind the wheel. The CD captured all of the annoying synth sounds of the era and none of the power. As one reviewer noted, if I had wanted to listen to some new wave, I would have bought the real thing, not a tired tribute. Some reviewers seem to think this CD has merit becuase it's "experimental"-- well, that's fine, but I wish the experiment came with a cash back guarantee.
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