The old five-point scale has been retired in favor of just rating stuff 1-10, which allows me a much more nuanced final rating. Still don't take it that seriously. Most of these come from my own collection, so the grades skew rather high. Your results may vary if you send me stuff to review.

Each album is given three Essential tracks, my personal favorites, regardless of how weird and inconsequential they are. The Quintessential pick is the one I think best represents the album as a whole, so you can try one song instead of a whole album of songs. Non-Essential picks range from merely disappointing to outright unlistenable.

The Dandy Warhols

[#] Come On Feel The Dandy Warhols (2003)

Entirely too scattershot for what riches it goes for nowadays.

Reviewed January 19, 2026

Collecting every single Dandy Warhols b-side is kind of a gigantic fucking ballache. These guys scattered covers, remixes, and outtakes to the wind across multiple versions of the same single, either speaking to their trademark uncompromising self-indulgence or a realization that the material just isn't that good. Come On Feel The Dandy Warhols is a stab at collecting, well, some of it, and a very pricey, out-of-print, and incomplete stab at that. I paid $70 for my Black Album/Come On Feel set, and I still don't have everything through it. You could get the original singles of the best tracks here, with shipping, for less than half that.

Covers make up about half the set, and they vary badly in quality. The Dandys turning CSNY's "Ohio" into a fittingly tar black acoustic drone about state murder or imbuing the Brian Jonestown Massacre's "Stars" with blustery, chilly sadness is pretty kino, but a lot of the rest fail to start. As succulent as a Slabtown horn orgy for "Hells Bells" is, Courtney has this habit of turning Brian Johnson's triumphant howl or Debbie Harry's seductive croon to flat, narcotic mumbling. Others still, like "The Jean Genie", are audibly spur of the moment. Not even a boomy, muscular remix of "Last Junkie on Earth" or an irresistably bouncy pop throwaway named "Retarded" can save your album at that point.

Essential:	"Retarded", "Head", "Ohio"
Quintessential:	"Call Me"
Non-Essential:	"The Jean Genie"
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