Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia [Enhanced]

Amazon.com's Best of 2000
"I wear my influences like a f***ing badge," proclaims lead singer-songwriter Courtney Taylor regarding Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia. But while the Dandy Warhols liberally steal Rolling Stones riffs, Iggy Pop vocals, Britpop sonic surfing, and even Burt Bacharach horn sections, they give it back in spades, delivering one of the best rock albums of 2000: a masterpiece of sex, beauty, strife, and wry, raunchy-cool attitude. --Beth Massa

Product Description
Third Album, the follow up to 1998's 'Come Down', which produced two singles: 'Everyday Should Be a Holiday'& 'Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth'. This new album adds further depth to the band's sound. It's the most complete D.W. record to date.

Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia [Enhanced]

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Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia [Enhanced]

Average customer rating:

Their best so far; a good choice for Dandy's newbies
One hit wonder?
Buy this album now!
This Album Is Incredible
I don't smoke...but I just may need a cigarette

Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
The Dandy Warhols
Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004TA8K
Release Date: 2000-08-01

Tracks:

Godless
Mohammed
Nietzsche
Country Leaver
Solid
Horse Pills
Get Off
Sleep
Cool Scene
Bohemian Like You
Shakin'
Big Indian
The Gospel

Amazon.com's Best of 2000

"I wear my influences like a f***ing badge," proclaims lead singer-songwriter Courtney Taylor regarding Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia. But while the Dandy Warhols liberally steal Rolling Stones riffs, Iggy Pop vocals, Britpop sonic surfing, and even Burt Bacharach horn sections, they give it back in spades, delivering one of the best rock albums of 2000: a masterpiece of sex, beauty, strife, and wry, raunchy-cool attitude. --Beth Massa

Amazon.com

The long hiatus that led to the Dandy Warhols' masterful third album, Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia, promoted leaps-and-bounds growth in this already excellent band's music. Layers, layers, and more layers of guitars coexist here with trippy soundscapes, doot-doo-doo choruses, and even an eyebrow-cocked nod to hip-hop ("Yo, bitch," frontman Courtney Taylor mutters, sounding like Lou Reed reading an Ice Cube lyric sheet). By turns galloping, propulsive, hushed, and majestic, this is music that openly steals--from the Stones, Kinks, and Cars, among others--while fusing its sources into a unique whole of its own. Taylor lives up to the wide-screen promise of the disc's title, offering a series of what Game Theory once called "pointed accounts of people you know." The characters here brag about how they "got a beautiful new Asian girlfriend" ("Solid"), live the bicoastal high life in "itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny ridin'-up-your-butt bikini[s]" ("Horse Pills"), seek reassurance that an affair is "just a casual, casual, easy thing" ("Bohemian Like You"), and offer advice in the middle of a breakup argument: "Hey, man, turn that shit off." Seedily glamorous and replete with the best vocal asides since Jarvis Cocker let it bleed all over Pulp's Different Class, Thirteen Tales will convince you that rock is alive--and that you should still care. --Rickey Wright

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Album Details

Third Album, the follow up to 1998's 'Come Down', which produced two singles: 'Everyday Should Be a Holiday'& 'Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth'. This new album adds further depth to the band's sound. It's the most complete D.W. record to date.

Customer Reviews:

Their best so far; a good choice for Dandy's newbies.......2007-07-11

I think this is the best Dandy Warhols album so far, and I like the band a lot. "13 Tales" is much more solid than the previous "Come Down" and consistently better songwriting. If you don't know their music, this album is a tasty starting point.

It is a rockin' album, but it is very dynamic - from quieter and melodic tunes to 'balls to the wall' blasts of fuzz and distortion intended to annoy neighbors. Song-writing varies from fairly simple and repetitive (Nietzche) to clever songs with hooks, complex chord structure, and intricate harmonies. At times dissonant, at others sweetly harmonious, and sometimes a bit of both. Harsh fuzz guitar sounds are mixed with clear, ringing acoustic guitars.

The album's sound is basic alt-rock, but draws from a variety of classic bands (Stones, Iggy Pop, Velvet Underground and others). They add a unique sound, sensibility, and tongue-in-cheek attitude that makes it refreshingly their own. There even hip-hop beats on one track. Some tracks are deliberately dissonant, others with sweet harmonies. It is the musical variety here that makes this one fun to listen to from top to bottom, meriting many listens without getting old or sounding the same.

What makes this album great is the wide range of sounds and styles, and the fact that there's not a bad track on it. The songs are seg'ed together to give a nonstop music experience, great for listening to the whole album. The seg transitions make for disruptive transitions on mix tapes, unless you do some editing.. When you play the entire album on most mp3 or computer music players, there is a brief gap in the transition as the player switches from one to the next track, unless you have gapless playback capabilities (like foobar2000, or are playing directly from the CD). For that reason I ripped the mp3s both separately and altogether as one track.

Tracks:

The first three tracks ("Godless", "Mohammed, "Nietche") are a powerful opening, starting slow and gaining strengthy until finally bursting out all over with "Nietchzhe"... a splendid trio. "Country Traveller" comes next. It's a great country-ish song on its own, but in terms of the mood it's an about face from where they took us with the first three.

The most obvious pop singles are "Bohemian Like You" (which got some airplay) and "Get Off" (which I have not heard on the radio). "Solid" and "Horse Pills" are hilarious snarky tunes that would be more at home on college radio.

The closing track, "The Gospel", is my least favorite, because it is slow and somber, and because it marks the end of a great album. But overall, there isn't a bad track on the album, though of course some are stronger than others.

There are various CD singles you can get from Amazon delears featuring tracks from this album. The title cuts on the singles are identical to the album tracks, so it is the alternative versions that are the reason to buy them. "Godless (mix)," from the "Horse Pills" single, reworks the song considerably. I like the result a lot - not better than the original, but as much as I like the song it's fun to hear a reimagined version.

I would give the album 4 1/2 stars if it were available. I usually reserve 5 stars for one of the best albums of all time. Objectively, I don't think that it is, because the quality varies; subjectively, it is certainly one of my essential favorite albums.... so 5 stars here.

One hit wonder?.......2007-05-07

This band is known to be a one hit wonder in Europe. Since one of it's most well known hit, A Bohemian Like You, has been used for a commercial (Vodafone, around the year 2000). Unfair, because this band has more to offer than just that.

If a equasion should be made, I would say it is a mixture of The Stones, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed. Loungy when it comes to numbers like "sleep" and energatic when it comes to songs like "Solid". A CD you can listen to when driving the country. Singing along with "a Bohemian Like You" and leaving the gas closed when listening to things like "Nietzsche".

I, for one, am very hapy to have obtained this cd. It will be one of those which is at the front row in my collection!

Buy this album now!.......2007-04-19

Just to add a few words to echo most of the other reviews. Yes, there are a couple of weaker songs, so really it's not a perfect five stars, but it's close. As a whole, the album plays well and seems to be a rarity these days: an album that evokes a mood and makes sure all of its songs follow it. Most albums out there are a collection of songs thrown together. This group knows how to write listenable music. You won't be disappointed.

This Album Is Incredible.......2007-03-04

I'll keep it short: If you need an album to strut around town feeling cooler than everyone else while listening, this is the one to do it with.

However, if the Dandys are going to do country, they really need to keep it off the front-porch hoedown vibe (Country Leaver), and keep it more on a "wearily crawling the dusty trail home after seeing some spirit visions" mentality (The Gospel). The latter is done really well, while the former is done poorly at best.

Country Leaver is really the only downside to this record, but do not let that dissuade you from getting one of the best indie rock records ever made.

I don't smoke...but I just may need a cigarette.......2007-02-27

The Dandy Warhols take a lot of guff for being posed, insincere, and party-addled. The irony is thick enough to use as a construction material: it is in fact this appearance of pose that IS the pose. Ultimately, the joke is not on the listener, though, as the post-Velvets/post-13th Floor Elevators confections that they (regularly) drop with such casual nonchalance betray a workmanship and a sensitivity to songwriting that tips its hand. This is not a band of party-hardy dilettantes, but an informed and eclectic group of talented musicians who probably have stupefyingly impressive record collections. They (wisely) steer clear of change-the-world soapboxing and churn out anthem after anthem -- and "13 Tales" is their magnum opus (so far).

There are weaker tracks, where the pose is overplayed, like "Horse Pills" or "Solid." But on the whole, "13 Tales" carefully balances bombast with craft in such a seductive way that lyrical foibles are quickly forgiven and the cohesive, anthemic whole -- thick with winking guitar and snaky organ riffs -- becomes as satisfying as morning sex.

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Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000IJ7LLO
Release Date: 2006-11-21

Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia/Welcome to the

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Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia/Welcome to the

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000SO7IS0
Release Date: 2007-08-07

Album Description

Exclusive Australian-only two CD set featuring a double dose of Dandy Warhol albums packaged together. Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia was released in 2000, followed three years later by Welcome To The Monkey House. EMI. 2007.

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Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia
Dandy Warhols
Manufacturer: Toshiba EMI
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006ITYK
Release Date: 2002-10-21

Tracks:

Godless
Mohammed
Nietzsche
Country Leaver
Solid
Horse Pills
Get Off
Sleep
Cool Scene
Bohemian Like You
Shakin'
Big Indian
Gospel

Album Details

Japanese Version featuring a Bonus Track

Average customer rating:

It's so good I bought it twice.

Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia
The Dandy Warhols
Manufacturer: EMI Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005IBD5
Release Date: 2001-06-26

Tracks:

Godless
Mohammed
Nietzsche
Country Leaver
Solid
Horse Pills
Get Off
Sleep
Cool Scene
Bohemian Like You
Shakin'
Big Indian
Gospel

Tracks:

Hells Bells
Bohemian Like You [the Black Dog Lithium Carbonate 300mg Mix]
Dub Song
Boys Better
Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth (Heroin Is So Passe) [Live]
Get Off [Dub]
Bohemian Like You [Dub]

Album Description

Full title 'Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia'. Australian exclusive limited edition reissue of their 2000 album now includes a bonus 7 track CD. Bonus tracks, 'Hells Bells' (AC/DC cover), 'Bohemian Like You (The Black Dog Lithium Carbonate 300mg Mix)', 'Dub Song', 'Boys Better', 'Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth' (Live), & the CD enhanced videos for 'Get Off'' & 'Bohemian Like You'. 20 tracks in all. 2001 release. Slimline double jewel case.

Album Details

A strictly limited edition package to celebrate their 2001 tour down under includes a second disc with 2 enhanced videos & 5 audio tracks.

Customer Reviews:

It's so good I bought it twice........2001-09-20

The first time I bought this CD, it had included at no extra charge a limited edition 4-track bonus CD that included the tracks "White Gold", "Phone Call" (which I believe I've seen as an addition to at lest one of the imported CD singles, as well), and scorchingly intense live versions of "Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth" and "I Love You".
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The bonus CD alone (now sadly out of circulation) was worth the cost of the CD itself (which is, start to finish, an incredible work by a band that's really hit their stride), so I thought I'd see if the Australians were lucky enough to score with the bonus CD included with this import edition of "Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia".
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That's a most-reaffirming "HELL, YES", by the way. "Seven Tales For Urban Australia", as the bonus disc is known, is a multimedia effort that opens with a subdued (yet very menacing) cover of AC/DC's "Hell's Bells" that sounds so similar to track 1 of the full-length CD ("Godless") that I wouldn't be surprised to learn that it was recorded as part of a sound check when preparing to record that song. Reminiscent of some of the music from Ennio Morricone's scores of Sergio Leone's old Spaghetti Westerns, a recurring feature I've noticed on certain Dandy tracks from CD to CD. Next comes the "Black Dog Lithium Carbonate 300 mg Mix" of "Bohemian Like You", which demonstates very well what is both right and wrong with remixes. Taken on its own merit, it's not bad and it grows well on the listener...but having heard (and lived) "Bohemian Like You" so many times, I feel the need to play the CD to enjoy the song's proper version after listening to the remix. "Dub Song" (I think has also been released on an import CD single as a "B" track) is an aural soundscape recording in a similar fashion as "Phone Call", for those familiar with that song, but much livelier. For some reason it reminds me a bit of pre-"Kick" INXS (which may be why it was included on an Australian release). "Boys Better" is the exact same version that appears on "...Come Down", so its inclusion is somewhat questionable, unless it's to indoctrinate those unofrtunate masses who are yet to own the precursor to "Thirteen Tales Of Urban Bohemia"...but "Boys Better" had previously been released as a CD single, so I'm not sure why another track from "...Come Down" couldn't've been substituted. "Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth" is the last audio track included on the bonus disc, and it's the same version that appears on the limited edition 4-track bonus CD I mentioned before. As for the videos included, I'm not the biggest fan of this format...I would prefer that record companies release videos as enhanced DVD rather than CD ROM (DVD players being more likely to be integrated into home theatre systems than are PC's).
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All-in-all, anyone who liked the full-length "Thirteen Tales..." CD (which surely has to be anyone who's ever heard it) would do well to grab this import edition, particularly if you missed out on the edition that was marketed here in the U.S. with the 4-track CD. I don't rate the Australian bonus disc as being equal to that one, but it's a worthy substitute, if only for the AC/DC cover alone.

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