Dandys Rule OK

Dandys Rule OK
Studio album by The Dandy Warhols
Released	April 6, 1995
Recorded	Winter, 1994–1995
Genre	Neo-psychedelia Garage rock Power pop Shoegaze
Length	74:02
Label	Tim/Kerr
Producer	Courtney Taylor-Taylor, Tony Lash
The Dandy Warhols chronology
Dandys Rule OK (1995) ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down (1997)
Singles from Dandys Rule OK
"Ride" Released: 1995 "The Dandy Warhols T.V. Theme Song" Released: 1995 "Nothin' to Do" Released: 1996

Dandys Rule OK^[1] is the debut album by American alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols. It was released on 6 April 1995 on Tim/Kerr Records. Unlike their later work, it has more of a garage rock and shoegaze sound.

The album is sometimes referred to as The White Album,^{[citation needed]} in reference to the album cover which bears similarities to The Beatles album The Beatles (which is also known as The White Album), in contrast to the band's The Black Album, recorded the following year in 1996.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Courtney Taylor-Taylor, unless otherwise stated. 

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Introduction by Young Tom"		0:26
2.	"The Dandy Warhols' T.V. Theme Song"		2:50
3.	"Ride"		4:10
4.	"Best Friend"		3:27
5.	"Not Your Bottle"		4:00
6.	"(Tony, This Song Is Called) Lou Weed"		4:17
7.	"Nothin' to Do"		2:23
8.	"The Coffee and Tea Wrecks"		4:06
9.	"Genius"		6:08
10.	"Dick"		8:07
11.	"Just Try"		4:41
12.	"Nothing (Lifestyle of a Tortured Artist for Sale)"		3:52
13.	"Grunge Betty"		3:32
14.	"Prelude: It's a Fast Driving Rave-Up with The Dandy Warhols"	Taylor-Taylor/Peter Holmstrom/Eric Hedford	0:51
15.	"It's a Fast Driving Rave-Up with The Dandy Warhols Sixteen Minutes"	Taylor-Taylor/Holmstrom/Hedford	16:04
16.	"Finale: It's a Fast Driving Rave-Up with The Dandy Warhols"	Taylor-Taylor/Holmstrom/Hedford	4:58

A hidden track starts at 3:11 into "Finale: It's a Fast Driving Rave-Up with The Dandy Warhols".

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
Alternative Press	(favourable)[3]
NME	[4]
Q	[5]
Piero Scaruffi	[6]
Select	[7]
The Washington Post	(mixed)[8]

The album received a mixed critical reception. Piero Scaruffi gave it a 7 out of 10 rating, calling it "an impressive post-modernist survey of the Sixties, from the garage-psychedelic refrain of Dandy Warhols' T.V. Theme Song to the colossal anthemic riff of Ride to the dreamy velvety Nothing."^[6] Q magazine gave it two out of five stars and wrote it's "what the Portland quartet sound like on bad drugs".^[5] NME also gave it two out of five stars and called it an "Unfocused, sprawling debut album notable for the piledriving classic ‘TV Theme Song’, an awful lot of stoned noodling and pretty much sod-all else."^[4]

Personnel

• Courtney Taylor-Taylor – vocals, guitar
• Zia McCabe – keyboards, bass
• Peter Holmstrom – guitar
• Eric Hedford – drums
• Zedekiah Pariah – Jew's Harp on "Grunge Betty", lap Steel and harmonica on "Just Try"
• Derek Ecklund – sitar on "Dick"
• Julianne Johnson – vocals on "Just Try"
• Tim Rooney – congas on "The Coffee and Tea Wrecks"
• Teddy Deane – flute on "(Tony This Song Is Called) Lou Weed"
• Tony Lash – percussion

References

1. ^ Courtney Taylor-Taylor (17 October 2009). "Twitter". Twitter. http://twitter.com/#!/CourtneyTaylor2/status/4923731350. Retrieved 10 October 2011. 
2. ^ Nitsuh Abebe. "Dandys Rule OK? - The Dandy Warhols". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r223757. Retrieved 10 October 2011. 
3. ^ Dave Thompson. Alternative Press 88 (November 1995). 
4. ^ ^{a b} "Courtney's track-by-track guide to Odditorium". NME. http://www.slabtown.net/articles/article_nmecourtowom.html. Retrieved 14 October 2011. 
5. ^ ^{a b} Nick Duerden. Q (January 1999). 
6. ^ ^{a b} "Dandy Warhols". scaruffi.com. Piero Scaruffi. http://www.scaruffi.com/vol5/dandywar.html. Retrieved 10 October 2011. 
7. ^ Roy Wilkinson. Select (March 1996). 
8. ^ Mark Jenkins (24 November 1995). The Washington Post: p. 19. 

External links

• Dandys Rule OK at The Dandy Warhols' official website
• Dandys Rule OK at Allmusic
• Dandys Rule OK at Discogs (list of releases)