Welcome to the Monkey House (album)  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". The album was originally mixed by Grammy Award-winning soul music engineer Russell Elevado, but Capitol Records, the band's label at the time, were unhappy with releasing it, and instead released a more polished, synthpop-influenced mix by Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran. In 2009, Dandy Warhols guitarist Peter Holmström claimed it "was not the version I wanted released". The Elevado mix was released as "The Dandy Warhols Are Sound" on the band's own Beat the World record label in 2009. Three singles were released from the album: "We Used to Be Friends" on April 23, 2003, "You Were the Last High" on July 28, and "Plan A" on November 24. The album was generally well-received critically. "XRay Magazine" described the album as a "belligerent, snotty-nosed, speed-fueled romp through sinister electro punk, slightly corrupt melodic rock and skew-whiff handle of 80s glam-sodden pop, albeit refracted through a knowing noughties thrift store cool." AllMusic wrote, "With their fifth album [...] the band capitalizes on their pop sensibilities and even manages to turn their prior weaknesses into strengths, resulting in a collection of gloriously blank, cleverly stupid neo-new wave songs."