Melody Maker article - Pre-"...The Dandy Warhols Come Down"
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Melody Maker
by Mark Roland
April 18, 1998
The Dandy Warhols are almost certainly the coolest band in rock at the moment. Exploding drummer problems aside, they’ve turned in two blinding albums in the States, while the release of their sublime second, “Come Down”, is due any day now over here. With a list of influences as large as their appetite for the traditional recreational joys of rock’n’roll (sex, drugs and, well, rock’n’roll. And more drugs), they’ve reconstituted the likes of Neil Young, Lloyd Cole (no, keep reading!), The Byrds, The Velvet Underground (I could go on) and have come up with a psychedelic and supersexy stew of their own.
Live highlights at any Dandy Warhols show include trying to work out what on earth smack-slender head honcho Courtney Taylor is saying between songs and the inevitable appearance of keyboard player Zia McCabe’s tits. On their UK debut, her toplessness caused the gig to be halted while the band asked for a vote as to whether she should cover up again. But quite apart from these shock-fest tactics, The Dandy Warhols have around a dozen classically timeless songs, including the groovesome “Every Day Should Be A Holiday” and “Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth”, a song which is regularly mistaken as an anti-heroin song. “I like heroin as much as the next guy,” Courtney told The Maker, “It’s an anti-fuck-up-your-life song.”
All you need to love The Dandy Warhols is a taste for sleaze, monumental melody and good lovin’ Isn’t that all of us?
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