Music : Welcome to the Monkey House
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724358202205
Format: Enhanced, Import
Label: EMI Int'l
Manufacturer: EMI Int'l
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: EMI Int'l
Release Date: May 26, 2003
Sales Rank: 341083
Studio: EMI Int'l
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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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because life before the Dandy Warhols was full of sadness and despair...;-)
It IS a radical change of sound for them but they've pulled it off because well, everything the Dandys do is cool. "You Were the Last High" is an instant classic, one of the most gorgeous tunes they've ever done. I didn't think they'd be able to top 13 Tales either but I took an immediate liking to this CD because it reminds me of the music I heard when I was sneaking into nightclubs underage in the '80s (only better...)
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And finally did. But, At first "Welcome to the Monkeyhouse" feels like a disappointment. Didn't like it. Was hoping it would click for me. But it didn't. Until maybe the 11th time through. Then, it works.
While I still find "The Dope" absolutely unlistenable, and the disc in general wears thin in the middle, "Monkeyhouse" starts and ends beautifully. "The Last High" and especially "Heavenly" may be among the Dandy's all-time best.
So, what at first seems a bitter disappointment ends up sounding sweet, if perhaps a trifle bit TOO sweet. Give it some time, enjoy, and hope we don't wait three more years for the next left turn.
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"Welcome to the Monkeyhouse" is full of gems. But, unless you are a complete duran-ophile, you may want to skip some of the lightest fare and enjoy what would have been a classic EP.
Try it like this... Tracks 1-3 followed by tracks 8-12. Classic stuff, some of the Dandy's best ever, without the bitter disapointment.
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The slight electronic treatments that appeared on 2000's NOT QUITE U.S.-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 ... Read More
Rating: -
The slight electronic treatments that appeared on 2000's NOT QUITE U.S.-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.
>
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.
>
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 ... Read More
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