Track Listing

1. Godlesss
2. Mohammed
3. Nietzsche
4. Country Leaver
5. Solid
6. Horse Pills
7. Get Off
8. Sleep
9. Cool Scene
10. Bohemian Like You
11. Shakin'
12. Big Indian
13. The Gospel

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5425 in Music
• Released on: 2001-11-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Enhanced, Limited Edition
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
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

CD Description
Third effort from these Portland, Oregon rockers featuring the singles 'Get Off' and 'Bohemian Like You' which was a Top 5 hit second time around after being used on a Vodafone advert. 'Thirteen Tales...' is an eclectic mix of 60's influenced pop and more dreamy soundscapes which display a heavy MyBloody Valentine influence.

Customer Reviews

Crazy and Very Very Cool
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

Darker Dandies
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.

Dandy Warhols, possibly one of the greatest.
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.