Sunday, May 29, 2011
The Dandy Warhols are an American rock band formed in Portland, Oregon in 1994. The band was founded by lead singer Courtney Taylor-Taylor, keyboardist Zia McCabe, guitarist Peter Holmström, and drummer Eric Hedford. Hedford left in 1998 and was later replaced by Taylor-Taylor's cousin Brent De Boer. The band's name is a pun on the name of American pop artist Andy Warhol.
The Dandy Warhols are strongly influenced by The Velvet Underground, The Beach
Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, The Beatles, The Shadows, and The Rolling Stones. Front man Courtney Taylor-Taylor describes the band's beginning as a group of friends who "needed music to drink to."
"Bohemian Like You" is a song released in 2000 as a single from the band's third studio album Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia. On its original release, it failed to even reach the Top 40 in the UK, peaking at number #42. However, it was re-released in 2001 and after featuring in a popular Vodafone advertisement it peaked at a much more prominent #5.
The intro of the song is reminiscent of The Specials' "Little Bitch", and the song features riffs similar to The Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar".
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