Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	73/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The A.V. Club	favorable
Robert Christgau	A−
Drowned in Sound
Entertainment Weekly	B
Kludge	6/10
Pitchfork	3.3/10
PopMatters	favorable
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Welcome to the Monkey House is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols. The album was recorded between September 2001 and December 2002 and released on May 5, 2003 by record label Capitol.

The album was originally mixed by Grammy Award-winning soul music engineer Russell Elevado, but Capitol Records were unhappy with releasing it, and instead released a more polished, synthpop-influenced mix by Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran. The original mix of the album was later released as The Dandy Warhols Are Sound in 2009. The album's lead single "We Used to Be Friends" was the theme to Veronica Mars during its run as well as its subsequent film adaptation.

The album's title was inspired by Kurt Vonnegut's short story of the same name.

The album cover painting is by Ron English, and is a prime example of his signature mash-up style – the visual pun of a banana half-exposed by a zipper down its peel cannily melds two of the most famous classic rock album cover designs, both by one of English's acknowledged major influences, Andy Warhol: The Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers and The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground & Nico.

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