The Washington Post's Dandys Rule OK review
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The Washington Post
Dandys Rule O.K.
by Mark Jenkins
November 24, 1995, sec.WW, Pg. 19
The Dandy Warhols would like to be the Velvet Underground, but on their self-titled debut, they're mostly content to play at it. One of the disc's more amusing offerings is "(Tony, this song's called) Lou Weed," in which singer-guitarist Courtney Taylor parodies Lou Reed's monotone delivery, while "It's a Fast-Driving Rave-Up with the Dandy Warhols Sixteen minutes" attempts to rival "Sister Ray"- in length if not intensity.
Such homages aside, however, this quartet owes as much to My Bloody Valentine as to the Velvets; tracks like "Ride" and "Not Your Bottle" mix lullaby melodies and smudgy guitar in a Bloody manner. Whichever they're emulating, the Warhols are reasonably entertaining, if only for the presumption of making their album a self-indulgent 74 minutes long and including not just a 16-minute song, but eight and six-minute ones too.
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