Odditorium or Warlords of Mars

"Warlords of Mars" redirects here. For the book by Edgar Rice Burroughs, see The Warlord of Mars.

Odditorium or Warlords of Mars
Studio album by The Dandy Warhols
Released	September 13, 2005
Recorded	April 2004 – January 2005 The Odditorium, Portland, Oregon
Genre	Alternative rock, neo-psychedelia
Length	62:09
Label	Capitol
Producer	Courtney Taylor-Taylor, Gregg Williams
The Dandy Warhols chronology
The Black Album/Come On Feel the Dandy Warhols (2004) Odditorium or Warlords of Mars (2005) ...Earth to the Dandy Warhols... (2008)
Singles from Odditorium or Warlords of Mars
"All the Money or the Simple Life Honey" Released: 2005 "Smoke It" Released: 2005

Odditorium or Warlords of Mars is the fifth studio album by American alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols. It was released on 13 September 2005 on Capitol Records. The album features a return to the psychedelic guitar-rock of ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down, following their foray into electropop with 2003's Welcome to the Monkey House.

Track listing

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

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Colder Than the Coldest Winter Was Cold"		1:02
2.	"Love Is the New Feel Awful"		9:36
3.	"Easy"		7:32
4.	"All the Money or the Simple Life Honey"	Taylor-Taylor, Miles Zuniga	4:29
5.	"The New Country"	Taylor-Taylor, Peter Holmstrom	2:10
6.	"Holding Me Up"		7:15
7.	"Did You Make a Song with Otis"		0:55
8.	"Everyone Is Totally Insane"		3:41
9.	"Smoke It"	Taylor-Taylor, Zuniga	4:06
10.	"Down Like Disco"		4:54
11.	"There Is Only This Time"	Taylor-Taylor, Holmstrom	4:40
12.	"A Loan Tonight"	Taylor-Taylor, Holmstrom, Zia McCabe, Brent DeBoer	11:49

Japan bonus track
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
13.	"11cc"	Taylor-Taylor, Holmstrom	8:16

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Drowned in Sound	[2]
The Guardian	[3]
NME	[4]
Piero Scaruffi	[5]
Pitchfork	(1.2/10)[6]
PopMatters	[7]
Q	(favorable)[8]
Robert Christgau	[9]
Rolling Stone Australia	[10]

The album received a mixed critical reception, generally polarising critics. Allmusic called it "half inspired, half-embarrassing, and completely self-indulgent."^[1] Pitchfork gave the album an exceptionally low 1.2/10 rating, writing "only the truly earless would mistake this assortment of bloated in-jokes and interminable, sub-song drones for some kind of masterpiece.",^[6] while The Guardian called it "their best yet".^[3]

Personnel

• Courtney Taylor-Taylor – vocals, guitar, keyboard, percussion
• Peter Holmstrom – guitar, vocals
• Zia McCabe – keyboards, bass, vocals
• Brent De Boer – drums, guitar, vocals
• Bill Kurtis - narrates intro on track 1

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Heather Phares. "Odditorium or Warlords of Mars - The Dandy Warhols". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r786180. Retrieved 12 October 2011. 
2. ^ Sean Adams (14 September 2005). "The Dandy Warhols - Odditorium or Warlords of Mars". Drowned in Sound. http://drownedinsound.com/releases/4226/reviews/13131-. Retrieved 12 October 2011. 
3. ^ ^{a b} Dave Simpson (9 September 2005). "The Dandy Warhols, Odditorium or Warlords of Mars". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/sep/09/popandrock.shopping1. Retrieved 12 October 2011. 
4. ^ Mark Beaumont (19 September 2005). "The Dandy Warhols: Odditorium Or Warlords Of Mars". NME. http://www.nme.com/reviews/the-dandy-warhols/7767. Retrieved 12 October 2011. 
5. ^ "Dandy Warhols". scaruffi.com. Piero Scaruffi. http://www.scaruffi.com/vol5/dandywar.html. Retrieved 12 October 2011. 
6. ^ ^{a b} Marc Hogan (15 September 2005). "Album Reviews: The Dandy Warhols: Odditorium or Warlords of Mars". Pitchfork. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2164-odditorium-or-warlords-of-mars/. Retrieved 12 October 2011. 
7. ^ Maura McAndrew (9 September 2005). "The Dandy Warhols: Odditorium or Warlords of Mars". PopMatters. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/dandywarhols-odditorium. Retrieved 12 October 2011. 
8. ^ Q. 
9. ^ "The Dandy Warhols". robertchristgau.com. Robert Christgau. http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=The+Dandy+Warhols. Retrieved 12 October 2011. 
10. ^ Rolling Stone Australia. 

External links

• Odditorium or Warlords of Mars at The Dandy Warhols' official website
• Odditorium or Warlords of Mars at Allmusic
• Odditorium or Warlords of Mars at Discogs (list of releases)
• Odditorium or Warlords of Mars at Metacritic