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Rating: In 1996, the Dandy Warhols found themselves with the task of following up their debut "Dandy's Rule, Ok?".
They recorded an album that, once completed, was rejected by Capitol, which deemed it insufficient. The recordings began anew, resulting in their second studio effort, titled "...The Dandy Warhols Come Down".
The "rejected" album, however, was later self-released in 2004 by the Dandys (exclusively online) under their label Beat The World Records, under the name "The Black Album". The "ghost album" of Courtney and company thus materializes and, surprise of surprises, turns out to be one of the best works from the Portland group.
The sound of the tracks is acidic, distorted, sick. The splendid "Good Morning" is exhaustive in this regard; unlike the "calm" version included in "...The Dandy Warhols Come Down", here the piece is raw, violent, structured on an impenetrable wall of guitars from which Taylor-Taylor's sing-song voice emerges. Two other songs ended up in the "official" release ("Boys", basically similar, and "Minnesoter", instead devastated and minimal). For the rest, we are facing the usual "orgy" of influences from the American group: it starts with two tracks, "Arpeggio Adaggio" and "Crack Cocaine Rager" (the latter enriched by the use of a vocoder), which essentially echo the band’s most classic style (as does the closing "Twist"), leading to a heartfelt homage to electropop in "Head" and the unfettered country of the fantastic "White Gold". A couple of acidic and expansive instrumentals also stand out, where the band’s drugged and distorted musical vision emerges in all its completeness. Even the more carefree and oblique works, like the acoustic "Earth To The Dandy Warhols", or the anti-melodic and alienating ones (the hypnotic "Shiny Leather Boots", written by Taylor along with McCabe), fit perfectly into the "sound logic" of the work.
A great work, unfortunately little known but excellent, to be discovered (or rediscovered) to fully understand the evolution of the American band, also in view of the new studio release expected (probably) this year.
Key tracks: Head, Good Morning, White Gold, Shiny Leather Boots
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 Arpeggio Adaggio (04:16)
The chips fall
I've been there before
I got years to win and I've found, want it more
Like a whore, ah
Want it more, ah
I lose oars
But that was before
Before I found out that in time, that's how you tore
Like a whore, ah
Want it more, ah
03 Good Morning (03:44)
In my good good morning
I'm up before the sun can bring,
early morning, and everyone
like a shiny thing.
All my angels appear
before my window saying
"good morning"
in my good morning
In my good, good morning
I feel before my thoughts all spring.
Am I conscious or
is this my unconscious being
No more like a dream than a
God before my conscious saying
"Good morning" in my good morning?
In my good, good morning
I'm up before the sun can bring,
Early morining, and Everyone like a shiny
thing.
No more like a dream, then a God before
my conscious saying
"Good Morning" In my good morning.
04 Head (03:11)
There's 50 men in your bed.
Oh, that's what I said that you'd get.
I'd sit and pick you them
But then, then again, it's your head.
That's what you said that you get,
So now won't you get with your set.
Because when I sit and pick you men,
Well, then, once again, it's your head
09 Minnesoter (03:31)
Yeah, I could rock her
Like a doctor
If I found a way to get her off first
I could own her, the crazy loner,
If I found my way to Minnesoter.
In a slumber, I'm sawing lumber
I saw my baby dance a Latin
number with her shirt off
Man her skin's soft
But in a mood she'd rather
if I jerked off.
If I found my way to Minnesoter
Minesoter, Oh yeah.
Repeat 1st verse.
Repeat chorus
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