the afghan whigs: black love

i think in spades gets really close to the narrative quality of whigs records like black love and gentlemen (or really probably more like the twilight singers' blackberry belle). i love so much of that record

Saw them in the mid 90s at the Town and Country. Dulli was aggro all night and eventually took a swing at someone in the crowd with his mic stand. He waded into the crowd shortly afterwards. Didn't drop a note. What a fucking show.

And Crime Scene for me. Faded is a close second.

God, the guitars on this album. Summer's Kiss makes me want to crash my car.
For no particular reason, other than the guitars I guess, I totally twin this with a Dust by the Screaming Trees.

Up in It and Congregation have become relatively undervalued over the years I think

It's weird, I would crawl over broken glass to defend this record but I don't really love any other Whigs records (except "Gentlemen" and even that is tempered compared to this one).

God "Summer's Kiss" is so awesome...I don't know if I can pick a favorite

1965 forever undervalued ;_; (i think it's only sliiiightly less good than this record)

I think Howlin' Maggie even opened the show we saw. Man the 90s were fucking great!

Inspired to play In Spades, yeah, it's pretty good.

I mean, I knew it was good, but I hadn't played it in a while. The Afghan Whigs are one of those bands that once I start listening I have trouble stopping. I have to be careful.

1965 is my favorite, it would sound like its cover if floating in space was unceasingly warm (and hot). also dulli singing "least that's what nas says" is the best thing ever ofc

as good as the guitar tones are on this record they are even richer on 1965. eric otm

cf. end of "crazy"

going through the same experience as when it came out, really want to like 1965 but there's something that keeps me at arms length

one the drumming (drum machine?) is that really "90s loop" feel, like Primitive Radio Gods I been downhearted babe since the day we met/Eels/Beck type vibe

i can't think of a moment on 1965 that isn't live drums. "66"? the '90s loop feel is way stronger on twilight

"crazy"'s got those super dilated prim radio gods drums i guess but the song is so beautiful

essentially i think the record has dulli's best pop songs

okay yeah i couldn't tell sometimes if he was drumming or it was a loop, like on crazy they are kinda squashed and give it a machine feel

at least part of it is i like black love way out of any common sense and i don't know if anything would have been good enough for me, but certain records are funny like that

even though I only like half of 1965 I do always appreciate it when bands recognize they've gone as "big" as they can and no longer attempt to one-up themselves in terms of scale, instead choosing new angles to refine

it isn't even possible to go bigger than 'faded' so yeah

even though I only like half of 1965 I do always appreciate it when bands recognize they've gone as "big" as they can and no longer attempt to one-up themselves in terms of scale, instead choosing new angles to refine

― Simon H., Monday, February 5, 2018 3:47 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah enough people seem to really like 1965 that i'm willing to think it's not the record it's me

i prefer In Spades tbh

1965 is great and sometimes I think 66 is their very best song (there's a drum machine + live drums on it but that's the only place on the album I think)

i am not a huge fan of 1965
i basically only like the first three songs and even then, there is some seriously cheesy stuff in there
the "who's hot, who's not" bit was embarrassing imo
while enjoyable, it almost feels like self-parody, a parade of whigs-themed sex content (the giving/taking of rides, lover's lane, "little rabbit")

however, a friend of mine covered "somethin' hot" with her band and it made me literally giddy to hear a woman singing a whigs song (that isn't "my curse")

oh man I would LOVE to hear an all-female Dulli tribute comp

i'll work on that

dulli's tropes expanding into self-parody is part of what i like about that album—it's the funniest whigs record

i also feel like everyone should love "omerta" but i won't push it lol

it's also kind of an inverse of the darkness and sadness on twilight

Omerta into The Vampire Lanois is a pretty great closer

I have them edited as a single track on my phone lol

Man, 1965 is great, too. Not as heavy, super songs.

Can I vote for the final three sons??? Shit, I'm prob gonna have to flip a coin between Faded and Summer's Kiss

*songs

... i think i'm gonna vote "bulletproof" and regret it immediately

btw not this album but "lost in the woods" is a top five whigs song for me easy

went with summer's kiss. love the tension/release--that tease of the chord progression in the beginning, then the build, and then "DID YOU FEEL THE BREEZE MY LOOOOOOOOVE"

you forgot GO

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Has there ever been a rock band not helped by horns?

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Is that the Mighty Mighty Bosstones? Not helped by those clothes, that's for sure. Regardless, pretty sure they would be worse without the horns.

indeed, horns are the very essence of rock

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TP9_i41y_HE/hqdefault.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2crST10hP-s

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Went w Faded at the last minute. Good results tho.

faded was my "haven't-heard-LP-for-5-years" pick - but got hold of the reissue on account of this thread and fuck it's all great

musically honky's ladder might be the purest distillation of the whigs sound? that song ATTACKS - but lyrically maaaaybe a bit too heavy on the michael mann schtick (it's a fine line with Dulli i know (i know i know))

Best Afghan Whigs cover would be a fun poll.
Kind of partial to Come See About Me.

mr superlove

Every song got a vote - that's great b/c it's a great album.

Best Afghan Whigs cover would be a fun poll.

― campreverb, Thursday, February 15, 2018 8:02 PM (one hour ago)

Amphetamines & Coffee - Paul K & The Weathermen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2203GPIlhI

their cover of "if there's hell below" slaaaaaaaaays