Welcome to the Monkey House (album)

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Welcome to the Monkey House
Studio album by The Dandy Warhols
Released	May 5, 2003
Recorded	September 11, 2001–December 2, 2002
Genre	Rock
Length	48:27
Label	Capitol Records
Producer	Courtney Taylor-Taylor, Nick Rhodes
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link PopMatters link Rolling Stone link
The Dandy Warhols chronology
Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia (2000) Welcome to the Monkey House (2003) The Black Album (2004)

Welcome to the Monkey House is the fourth album by The Dandy Warhols. It was produced by Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Courtney Taylor-Taylor unless otherwise stated.

1. "Welcome to the Monkey House" – 1:04
2. "We Used to Be Friends" – 3:20
3. "Plan A" – 4:01
4. "The Dope (Wonderful You)" – 4:37
5. "I Am a Scientist" (Taylor-Taylor/Bowie) – 3:13
6. "I Am Over It" – 3:50
7. "The Dandy Warhols Love Almost Everyone" – 1:54
8. "Insincere Because I" – 3:49
9. "You Were The Last High" (Taylor-Taylor/Dando) – 4:46
10. "Heavenly" – 3:36
11. "I Am Sound" – 4:00
12. "Hit Rock Bottom" – 2:53
13. "(You Come In) Burned" – 7:24

"I Am a Scientist" contains a sample of "Fashion" by David Bowie.

[edit] Personnel

• Courtney Taylor-Taylor – vocals, guitar
• Zia McCabe – keyboards, bass, vocals
• Peter Loew – guitar
• Brent De Boer – drums, vocals
• Nick Rhodes – synthesiser on "We Used to Be Friends", "Plan A", "I Am a Scientist", "I Am Over It", "The Dandy Warhols Love Almost Everyone", "Insincere Because I", "The Last High", "Heavenly" and "I Am Sound"
• Tony Visconti – bass on "The Dope (Wonderful You)" and "Hit Rock Bottom", backing vocals on "Hit Rock Bottom"
• Nile Rogers – guitar on "I Am a Scientist"
• Simon LeBon – backing vocals on "Plan A"
• Yoad Nevo – guitar on "Welcome to the Monkey House", "Plan A" and "Heavenly"
• Adam Flick – bass on "Plan A", "I Am Sound"
• Mark Tinley – guitar on "I Am Over It"
• Jamie Jackson – piano on "I Am Sound"
• Parker Posey – mandolin on "I Am Sound"
• Sally Boyden – backing vocals on "We Used to Be Friends"
• Sam Dodds – backing vocals on "We Used to Be Friends"
• Cloudia Tinley – giggles on "We Used to Be Friends"

[edit] Miscellanea

• Ron English painted the cover art for the album, which it would seem was inspired by Andy Warhol's covers for the album The Velvet Underground and Nico as well as for The Rolling Stones'album Sticky Fingers.
• "We Used to Be Friends" was featured in the Pilot episode of the glitzy drama, Las Vegas. It is also used as the theme song for Veronica Mars and is featured on Music from The O.C.: Mix 1 as well as the short-lived Fox series Wonderfalls. It was also used as the theme song for the Australian reality TV show, My Restaurant Rules, and is one of the tracks on FIFA 2004. It was also mashed-up with Beastie Boys' "Intergalactic" under the title "Intergalactic Friends". The track is also heavily influenced by Feeder's 1999 top 40 hit single "Day in Day Out", as the bassline is heavily duplicated and was once mentioned by the band that they heard the track being played by Feeder at the Glastonbury festival.
• The film 9 Songs includes a live performance of "(You Were) The Last High" as one of its episodes.
• The song "I Am a Scientist" is used as the opening theme to the radio show This Week in Science, and was used on Sky's Brainiac: Science Abuse.