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Jonestown boys make heroin passé, while the Dandys make music cliché
In My Opinion
by Conner Jay | Photo Editor
While heroine is not quite passé, it is incredibly destructive. The Jonestown boys have always been riddled with drug addiction and drama. Incredibly, the band has always been able to produce fantastic albums, topping nearly a dozen albums thus far. But beyond music, they really aren't fit for society. Most of the performances seem to end in a fist fight between the members, and two-dozen musicians have joined and then left the band.
Genius, however, is often marred by mental illness. Most well-adjusted people don't create amazing music; they drive Volvos. Most talented artists aren't smart; they're genius. BJM will never gain money or fame, but they have already cemented infamy.
I don't mean to hate on the Dandy Warhols so much. The band has its own style and makes music, just not good music. If one is trying to find a sound that dances in the blood and courses through your soul, go down to the House of Records and pick up any BJM record. Buy the documentary "DiG!" that profiles the two bands. Listen to any cut you can find from BJM. Or perhaps, if you do make it to the show tonight, you could request, "Not if you were the last Dandy on earth."
That's good music.
cjay@dailyemerald.com
Genius, however, is often marred by mental illness. Most well-adjusted people don't create amazing music; they drive Volvos. Most talented artists aren't smart; they're genius. BJM will never gain money or fame, but they have already cemented infamy.
I don't mean to hate on the Dandy Warhols so much. The band has its own style and makes music, just not good music. If one is trying to find a sound that dances in the blood and courses through your soul, go down to the House of Records and pick up any BJM record. Buy the documentary "DiG!" that profiles the two bands. Listen to any cut you can find from BJM. Or perhaps, if you do make it to the show tonight, you could request, "Not if you were the last Dandy on earth."
That's good music.
cjay@dailyemerald.com
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Thom B.
posted 3/01/07 @ 3:08 PM PST
...and if you don't feel like shelling out your hard earned dollars to support the Brian Jonestown Massacre's self-destructive lifestyle, they'll let you download quite a few of their albums in their entirety for free from their website. (Continued…)
Corpsegoddess
posted 3/02/07 @ 9:54 AM PST
Guess you just don't "get it". BJM's music is shite, but it's highminded and arty, so it MUST be good, right? The Dandys craft perfect nuggets of pop goodness. (Continued…)
Katie Fidler
posted 3/02/07 @ 10:20 AM PST
If Conner Jay had ever actually known anyone with a severe hard drug habit, he would not find it so commendable that BJM was doing hard drugs, while the Dandies were just singing about heroin. (Continued…)
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