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We haven't had one of these in a while, so a quick refresher - this is where you confess your musical sins - bands that you like even though you know full well that you absolutely shouldn't, for reasons aesthetic and/or moral, spiritual etc.
This could be a potlatch thread, but if it is whoever follows me would have to claim to find the sound of goats being raped (on Warp records, natch), for I call...the Dandy Warhols.
Yes, I know. Vodafone ads. Novelty singles. Gratuitous use of Tijuana brass. Courtney Taylor Taylor. Drugs being cool. Whacky little Lou Reed impressions. Zia McCabe's, topless keyboardist. Really fucking ludicrous hair. I saw them on "Later, I will be even more smug, with Jools Holland", and I wanted nothing so much as to enlist them all in the army. And the vocals sucked, the sound was soupy and indistinct and the whole thing utterly reeked.
And yet....damn it if there isn't something about the studio work that I like, that sets me a-bouncing and a toe-tapping. Possibly this is nostalgia - the first Dandy Warhols album was one of the first albums I reviewed, and I associate it with a brief but largely happy summer. Also, I got the word "huggle" from a misheard lyric, and thus was an empire of horror born.
And yet, and yet, and yet. Even as we speak Flux and a hundred others are buying airline tickets specifically to come over to London and kick my arse. And they are right to, as well. that's the real tragedy.
How about you? Who do you feel slightly dirty about liking when you hear them play? |
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