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13 Tales From Urban Bohemia, the third album from the Dandy Warhols, has the band departing from the degenerate slacker psychedelia of their previous works. Well, mostly. From the first three tracks of Urban Bohemia, you'd be forgiven for thinking that it's business as usual for the Dandys. However, when the slide guitar (and, yes, banjo) of "Country Leaver" kicks in, it's clear that Courtney Taylor is taking his Portland, Oregon-based band somewhere different. From that point, the album changes tack and becomes one of the catchiest--and sardonic--American rock albums in recent memory. "Solid" is all upbeat harmonies about the joy of getting over a previous lover, while "Horse Pills"--which starts with Taylor's deadpan and indifferent command to "kick it"--is all big, fuzzy guitars and hip-hop beats wielded against too-rich, silicon-and-valium-addicted divorcées. Easy targets, to be sure, but it's when the Dandys focus their attention on wannabe artsy types on "Bohemian Like You" that this album truly proves its worth, with a guitar riff lifted straight off of the Rolling Stones, backed by some Hammond organ and one of the catchiest sing-along choruses since Pulp's "Common People". With obvious influences ranging from Lou Reed to the Cult to Adam and the Ants, 13 Tales From Urban Bohemia is a classic, and classy, rock album. --Robert Burrow
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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Have owned this Cd for about two days and i love it
From the quirky opening of Godless, the chilledslide guitar of Mohammed and the harsh riffs of Nietschze the album opens with a glorious stack of songs that won't leave your mind for ages.
Then things only get better - the singles Get Off and Bohemian Like You are similarly catchy and sandwhich the sublime Sleep between them.
Overall there's not a bad track on the album, and although showing obvious influences from the Beatles and The Velvet Underground, Thirteen Tales is a thoroughly interesting collection of music.
Make this your soundtrack for the Summer
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Darkness seeps through the Dandies' third album, and the exuberance of 'Come Down' is missing. It starts well, with a familiar, catchy Taylor chord progression on 'Godless' jazzed up with brass, followed by the sinister, mournful 'Mohammed'. Taylor has a remarkable ability to make distinctive and beautiful music from the simplest, most familiar elements in the rock'n'roll toybox, a trick he repeats later on the gorgeous 'Sleep'. But 'Nietzsche' doesn't really take us anywhere we haven't been before - and then they let the chickens out. The hillbilly blues of 'Country Leaver' must have been fun to record, but surely there was a moment when someone was sober enough to wipe it from the masters? It's not till the single 'Get Off' - a mellower 'Grunge Betty' - that they get back properly on track. 'Cool Scene' rips off early Beatles fairly well, while 'Bohemian Like You', with its viciously ironic lyrics, gets a better pay-off from mugging the Stones. They keep up the swirling, energetic rhythms in the middle of the album, and some tracks are real growers, but - in a break with tradition - the closing track is just dreary, leaving just the hint of a worry that the Dandies have lost some of their enthusiasm for this business. It's more uneven than 'Come Down', but the high points are much higher.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Dandy Warhols, possibly one of the greatest. Thirteen tales from urban bohemia, a smashing success by all accounts. Even without the help of a certain phone company. Most of the tracks on this CD give you and impression its just a continuation from the previous CD (this is not a bad thing as the second album was just as good as this one.) But then they through in tracks like Get Off with its Western style, Country Leaver, with a story we can all identify with and the up-beat Bohemian Like You, with its Rolling Stone Intro, the track Sleep could quite possibly put you to sleep with its fantastic slow pace. All in all this is a fantastic album with a lot of new and old styles coming from the dandy's. It would certainly be a shame for someone to buy this album and to only listen to one track because its on a advert. Buy this album listen to it from start to end and if you like it buy the first two albums before the true new one comes out early 2002.
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Best album I have bought for ages
This is an extraordinary album by any standard. I bought it on the strength of a TV ad and five live football where the background music was Bohemian like you. Read more
Published on 9 Aug 2009 by Mark Mewell
pretty much chilled out cool
i got into this band quite sometime after hearing heroin is so passe which i always liked but never owned. Read more
Published on 13 Mar 2008 by Am Williams
Absolutely marvellous throughout
On the process which brought about the formation of The Dandy Warhols' third published album (ignoring the secretive Black Album which the record company blanched at the thought of... Read more
Published on 12 Mar 2007 by Mark Thomas
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Not many modern bands exude this much class and nous. The Dandy Warhols have perfected that trick of being an alt rock and pop band all at the same time ( remember the 1970's... Read more
Published on 1 Dec 2006 by Mr. A. G. Liddle
Truly wonderful
This album is an absolute Gem!
I'll be honest, I bought it after haring Bohemian Like You on the Vodafone ads, but quickly became bored of it after hearing it... Read more
Published on 28 Feb 2006 by S. Nutley
Just can't get enough of it
It took me about six months to get this record in Italy, but it was worth the time & struggle...
This album from the very first track on to the last is simply perfect. Read more
This album from the very first track on to the last is simply perfect. Read more
Published on 19 Aug 2004 by "guimxm"
Summer's here
A few years ago this would have been unthinkable - a record with nodding references to (amongst others) Beck, Johnny Cash, The Stones, and Ride in the space of 13 tracks. Read more
Published on 23 July 2004 by "doctor_vison"
Like being stuck on an island with 13 very strange people...
When you first arrive on that strange land that is 'Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia' you realize straight away this is definitely not what you saw in the travel brochure. Read more
Published on 3 Jan 2004 by "ashwinder"
Eclectic
If there were ever an album that lived up to the tag 'eclectic', it is this, the album that finally propelled the Dandy Warhols to the global superstardom that they probably... Read more
Published on 6 July 2003 by "thinwhiteduke2001"
Suggestive of everything good
How often do you buy a record and like every track the first time you play it ? Thirteen Tales is an absolute joy. Read more
Published on 31 Mar 2003
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