Band/artist whose name *sounds* like "Dandy Warhols"

Cafe Society
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So I was at this club, and the DJ played a nice tune, so I ambled over to him and asked what it was. He showed me the LP briefly, and said it was the first track, and I thought he said “Dandy Warhols” – he even said it twice, but the music was pretty loud.

I don’t know the DW well at all, but at the time I thought it sounded plausible. The song was pretty easy indie rock, male singer, not too noisy, melodic – musically something in the region of Snow Patrol, The New Pornographers, Beulah, Built to Spill, Eels, Elbow, Electric Soft Parade, The Good Life or The Shins, to mention a few.

However, after looking them up, I don’t recognize the cover among their discography. The cover he showed me had the painting of a large flower, possibly a lily, yellowy with a Van Gogh-ish background of blue and purple, I believe. Well, it was dark. No lettering or anything identifying the band, as far as I could see.

Oddly enough, DW’s Welcome to the Monkey House album, with its banana-on-black motif, does look a little like that, but I distinctly remember the cover as being colourful.

Anyone?

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It’s possible the cover he showed you was made specifically for vinyl and/or a specific single. Do you remember any of the lyrics?

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Is this it: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=306&item=4049266489&rd=1&tc=photo ?

It looks like it’s a special pressing of Welcome to the Monkey House

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Nah, that’s a black cover with a yellow banana. The cover I’m referring to had more like a Van Gogh expressionist look, I think.

Also, he said it was track one on the album, and it didn’t sound like track one of the Monkey album.

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Did you look at the picture? That version doesn’t have a black background.

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Yes it does. Everything else is reflection: the ceiling lights, a guy holding a camera and what appear to be knees.

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I thought the light was the moon.

Man, I’m dumb.