Music : Welcome to the Monkey House
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724359012322
Format: Enhanced, Import
Label: Emi
Manufacturer: Emi
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Emi
Release Date: May 19, 2003
Sales Rank: 546883
Studio: Emi
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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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The slight electronic treatments that appeared on 2000's NOT QUITE breakthrough CD "Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia" and the subsequent Dandy Warhols remixes that have sprung up since then seem to have hinted that the band was moving from a traditional Brit-pop based guitar sound to one where keyboards and other gadgetry would be a bit more prominent. When the word hit that Duran Duran synth stylist Nick Rhodes was assisting with the production with the (VERY long-awaited) follow-up to "Thirteen Tales", the cat was out of the proverbial bag.
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The result is an album that doesn't sound like any they've released before, yet still retains the inherent characteristic that makes the previous records sound so good (and is missing from so many other acts in the music business today): Quality songwriting and Courtney Taylor-Taylor's unabashed willingness to pay homage to (or completely rip off, depending on your point of view) the bands and artists he most admires.
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The increased electronics add additional flavoring to the CD, but in some cases the end-result is that the songs sound like premixed remixes of Dandy Warhols songs (particularly the case with "I Am A Scientist")...and Dandy Warhols fans who are also Duran Duran fans (like me) will realize that the sound is more influenced by "Medazzaland" era Duran rather than the classic "Rio" sound. With this comes an undeniable funkiness previously lacking on Dandy Warhols CD's, especially in "The Dope" and "I ... Read More
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On Welcome to the Monkey House, the Dandy Warhols bring the tunes and producer Nick Rhodes (of Duran Duran and The Devils) adds the new-wave sheen. True, this album is a departure for the band. But the album's early tracks, laden with '80s-inspired synths and bass, are fun, and it just gets better from there. Those who are turned off by Courtney Taylor-Taylor's falsetto should have nothing to complain about listening to the final third of the album. There isn't any filler here. The first single, "We Used to Be Friends," is infectious, and "You Were the Last High" is the best song Roxy Music never wrote. Taylor's a scientist, and Monkey House is progress for the Dandy Warhols.
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The Dandy Warhols have proven themselves worthy of creative and unique music. They equally blend pop and rock together extremely well. Yet, I, myself wouldn't call them pop-rock. That's a title for say, Matchbox 20 (who I don't care for at all!). 'Welcome to the Monkey House' is a departure from anything they've done previous. Still, it's truely a Dandy Warhol album. It's fun, upbeat, with synthasized keyboards and that 80s bass that some love and yes, hate. Though, I must say I thouroughly enjoyed it. Here's an outline.
1. Welcome to the Monkey House (5/10) Hey it's an opening track. It's a little over a minute long. It's not the greatest. Hang in there. "So come on come on come on you monkies."
2. We Used to be Friends (7/10) Their first single on the album. Very catchy with the hand-claps and bug guitar riffs. Fun.
3. Plan A (8/10) Very good, multi-layed-musically. Taylor-Taylor's voice is used very well high-pitched, then mellow.
4. The Dope (9/10) I love this song! Good beat. The heavy exhales of breath are amusing. Very retro and cool .
5. I am a Scientist (10/10) Obviously my favorite song on the album. It's a great mock-up of the whole idea of science taking over. YES!
6. I am Over It (7/10) Groovy and downbeat. Possibly a good stoner song with the repeatative line, "I am over it."
7. The D.W.'s Love Almost Everyone (9/10) Taylor-Taylor uses the same voice as in 'Plan A'. Plenty of "woo ooohs". ... Read More
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This is a really great and different album for the band. However if you listen, they still sound like themselves. The songs have a more electronic production but the upbeat pop, slow build ups and other dandy trademarks are all here. Don't take the first single as an indication of what the whole album sounds like. Highlights are Plan A, I am a Scientist, Insincere Because I, Heavenly and You were the last high. This album still rocks like there other albums. The only downfalls being The Dope (wonderfull you), courtney taylor-taylors falsetto. Why wasn't this album named after track 7!
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I have followed the Dandy's from the beginning.Their second, third, and new fourth album are great. Every friend I have played them for, loves them. I have seen them 3 times, the best being at the Crocodile Cafe in Seattle in 2000. While it would be cooler and better for me if you did'nt get into them, I would not be honest if I did'nt tell you just how incredible they really are. And Courtney is HOT to boot...so what are you waiting for??? Bowie loves them too...
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