The Dandy Warhols
Plan A
Welcome to The Monkey House
(2003)

Buy CD
Buy MP3
178 comments:lyrics:add your comment
volnomad
Apr 30, 2013 - 13:20
Love me some Dandies! {#Bananapiano}


Foot
Apr 06, 2013 - 19:45
planet3one9 wrote:
I'm so glad bill likes the dandy's ... They are so fun !!
Foot
Apr 06, 2013 - 19:43
Too good - 9 > 10


MassivRuss
Mar 06, 2013 - 08:05
{#Bananapiano} {#Bananajumprope} {#Dancingbanana} {#Bananasplit} {#Bananajam} {#Dancingbanana_2}
I think this cover art is a blatant suck-up to RP.


fredriley
Feb 26, 2013 - 09:21
rdo wrote:

How can a band be cursed by commercial success?

Because they can get so remote from their roots that their material becomes bland and generic. Because major success brings enormous pressures to tailor their output to 'audiences' to increase sales. Because they can become ruled by record corporations looking to blandify the 'product'. Because they get 'recuperated by The Spectacle', their rebellion and edge removed, repackaged in acceptable formats, and resold to the very streets it came from at a hefty premium.

"What other kind of success is there?"

You do have a very limited view of life. Money isn't everything, nor does every artist think that it is. Or even every ordinary person.


ubuntourist
Nov 16, 2012 - 11:40
What did Kurt Vonnegut think of the album?


oldsaxon
Sep 30, 2012 - 12:43
rdo wrote:

How can a band be cursed by commercial success? What other kind of success is there? Broke, penniless, obscure, sitting-on-a-street-corner-busking success? Some group performing for their cats, dogs, friends and relatives only? Is that success? Is there a music scene that I don't know about that has performers who do not want their music to be appreciated, and who do not want to be remunerated? How do these notions get traction?

It's a freaking pose. Don't be so gullible.

No. They mean that the fact that they get a lot of airplay means, to some, that they suck. It's a hardship most good bands live with. I could list a dozen bands with amazing catalogues that are cursed because, for the mere fact that they are good, they are panned by the critics, particularly this bunch of critics. A band that succeeds must be crap or must have sold out, the quality of thier music means little compared to our ability to say they suck.


bitchyryan
Jul 29, 2012 - 13:40
boooooooooooooooring.


rdo
Jul 13, 2012 - 15:39
Carl wrote:
Maybe one of the best examples of a band that has been blessed/cursed with commercial success. They certainly have an appealing sound (to me, anyway); their songs are really catchy. The ones I hear on RP (Bill's filter Rules) I generally rate high. I vaguely recall them from their day but was too preoccupied to notice then. Now that I have the leisure to appreciate them (and all the other RP fare), I count TDW among my favs.

How can a band be cursed by commercial success? What other kind of success is there? Broke, penniless, obscure, sitting-on-a-street-corner-busking success? Some group performing for their cats, dogs, friends and relatives only? Is that success? Is there a music scene that I don't know about that has performers who do not want their music to be appreciated, and who do not want to be remunerated? How do these notions get traction?

It's a freaking pose. Don't be so gullible.


gypsyman
Apr 25, 2012 - 12:38
Carl wrote:
Maybe one of the best examples of a band that has been blessed/cursed with commercial success. They certainly have an appealing sound (to me, anyway); their songs are really catchy. The ones I hear on RP (Bill's filter Rules) I generally rate high. I vaguely recall them from their day but was too preoccupied to notice then. Now that I have the leisure to appreciate them (and all the other RP fare), I count TDW among my favs.

What Carl said.


Carl
Mar 24, 2012 - 19:30
Maybe one of the best examples of a band that has been blessed/cursed with commercial success. They certainly have an appealing sound (to me, anyway); their songs are really catchy. The ones I hear on RP (Bill's filter Rules) I generally rate high. I vaguely recall them from their day but was too preoccupied to notice then. Now that I have the leisure to appreciate them (and all the other RP fare), I count TDW among my favs.


icemang
Feb 06, 2012 - 02:21
Was reading something else, I noticed I was jiving to this unconsciously. It's groovy, it'll move yo hips if you let it. Let it.


srose96
Dec 20, 2011 - 16:37
Stingray wrote:
GOOD BAND - STUPID SONG!




all the songs are kinda stupid, good band tho .. how does that work?
planet3one9
Oct 18, 2011 - 08:29
I'm so glad bill likes the dandy's ... They are so fun !!


Proclivities
Aug 16, 2011 - 09:05
On_The_Beach wrote:


+
sticky fingers = 3

I imagine this cover is an obvious nod to two iconic album covers, which both happened to have been designed by an artist/designer whom this band's name bears an uncanny resemblance to.




Foot
May 29, 2011 - 12:23
Can't believe I hadn't rated this previously: 9+


Businessgypsy
May 29, 2011 - 12:19

You have a banana in your ear.
What?
You have a banana in your ear.
WHAT?
YOU HAVE A BANANA IN YOUR EAR!
I CAN"T HEAR YOU, I HAVE A BANANA IN MY EAR !



drewd
May 29, 2011 - 12:18
Never heard this before. Don't know if I like it... {#Jump} but I can't stop my toes from tapping along !


cohifi
Feb 23, 2011 - 21:37
oreo737 wrote:
Just the kind of music I like to hear on RP.

yes, much better than the alternative



oreo737
Dec 07, 2010 - 08:15
Just the kind of music I like to hear on RP.


View this page on our desktop website