Warwick Boar's Get Off re-release review (3 out of 5 stars)
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Warwick Boar
Get Off
by Steve Garrard
February 24, 2002
What the execs failed to mention to The Dandy Warhols was that adverts can really screw your band up, to the point of oblivion. Levi’s and The Sun did it in for Stiltskin and Babylon Zoo, and Hurricane # 1 respectively. Few will mourn their loss to the clutches of the capitalist machine. But The Dandy Warhols deserve better than to have garnered their fifteen minutes of fame by basking in the refracted glory of propagandist shit.
Get Off follows the top 5 woo-hoos of the Vodafone-fuelled Bohemian Like You. An amiable, rough-edged country stomp, it’s less immediate than either Bohemian Like You or the synth-driven euphoria of the band’s career-best single, Everyday Should Be A Holiday. But it does seep retro cool, and encapsulates the slightly slipshod, hedonistic tendencies of lead singer Courtney Taylor.
The oddball resilience of The Dandys should guard them against the dangers of being forever associated with mobile phones. We can only hope, because even Dom Joly would hate to suffer that unedifying fate.
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