The Dandy Warhols – 13 Tales From Urban Bohemia (Expanded)

The Dandy Warhols 13 Tales From Urban Bohemia (Expanded) is the European deluxe edition of the Portland band’s defining 2000 Capitol Records release, presented here across two discs with alternate cover art and a substantial second disc of bonus material that makes this a meaningfully different object from the standard pressing.

The Dandy Warhols and the Album

The Dandy Warhols built their reputation on a particular kind of psychedelic rock that drew equally from 1960s pop, krautrock repetition, and the fuzzed-out indie guitar sounds of the 1990s. By the time they recorded this album, the band, fronted by Courtney Taylor-Taylor, had refined their approach into something genuinely distinct. The original thirteen tracks here, running from the motorik churn of “Godless” through the ubiquitous, infectious “Bohemian Like You” and on to the sprawling closer “The Gospel,” show a band operating with real confidence. This record got significant commercial traction in Europe in particular, and the continent’s longer attachment to the band is reflected in the existence of this expanded edition at all.

What Makes The Dandy Warhols 13 Tales From Urban Bohemia (Expanded) Worth Having

The second disc is the reason to seek out this specific edition. It is not a collection of polished B-sides. It is something more interesting: a sequence of Courtney Taylor-Taylor home demos and cassette four-track recordings that maps how these songs were built from the ground up. “Bohemian Like You” appears as a Courtney home demo. “Big Indian” shows up in two separate home versions plus a cassette four-track take. “Godless” and “Cool Scene” each have early alternate versions alongside their home demo forms. Hearing the finished album and then working backwards through this disc gives you a genuine picture of the band’s process, not just a contractual bonus disc.

Format and Catalog Details

This is a CD release on Capitol Records, catalog number 06025 3737973, pressed for the European market. The cover art differs from the original standard release, which makes it visually distinguishable on a shelf and adds a minor collectability factor for completists. The tracklist across both discs runs to twenty-six titles, including two previously released tracks, several alternate mixes, and the home demo sequence described above. If you already own the original pressing and want the bonus material, this is the copy to get. If you are coming to the album fresh, the expanded edition is simply the more complete document.

Tracklist

Media 1
1. GODLESS
2. MOHAMMED
3. NIETZCHE
4. COUNTRY LEAVER
5. SOLID
6. HORSE PILLS
7. GET OFF
8. SLEEP
9. COOL SCENE
10. BOHEMIAN LIKE YOU
11. SHAKIN'
12. BIG INDIAN
13. THE GOSPEL
Media 2
1. LATER THE SHOW
2. RAS TAFAR AND I
3. GODLESS (ALT. VOX MELODY)
4. COOL SCENE (EARLY MIX)
5. COUNTRY LEAVER (EARLY MIX)
6. BOHEMIAN LIKE YOU (COURTNEY HOME DE
7. MOHAMMED (COURTNEY HOME DEMO)
8. BIG INDIAN (COURTNEY CASSETTE 4-TRA
9. BIG INDIAN (COURTNEY HOME DEMO)
10. UNKNOWN
11. GODLESS (COURTNEY HOME DEMO)
12. COOL SCENE (COURTNEY HOME DEMO)
13. DUB SONG (COURTNEY HOME DEMO)