Search And Destroy: Afghan Whigs

yes!

I would partake

oh yeah i already have a ballot in my head

heck yeah

I'd come up with a ballot for this.

i'll go ahead with it next week then

i'm in

taking terrible pun thread title suggestions in the meantime

don't forget the afghan poll (ooh baby) (ooh baby)

I'm in.

Put on your old fur POLL it's 1973.
A lie, the truth, which one should I POLL?

will vote.

Poles iz Dead

Whoops, lol.

Polls iz Dead

I got a dick for a brain, and my brain is gonna poll my ass to you

hey cuz, i'm polling who wants to get hiiiiiiiigh?

been a long time since i listened to any whigs btw, be interesting to see how they hold up. also i'm pretty sure there's some ugly stuff in their music that i didn't really dwell on too much the first time round and i'm not sure how i'm going to process that in 2021. i mean i just watched the video for 'sister brother' and jfc wtf, someone is going to have to unpack that one for me

ill prob be in on this

I have never listened to the pre-Congregation stuff at all

Up In It has some great songs imo! Have never heard the first album though

go to town
burn it down
turn around
and get your poll on baby

just to whet people's appetites, this was them on uk tv in '94, playing in front of boy george and a bunch of ravers. i remember watching this at the time and it totally floored me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsGPDAvPMMM

^^such a monster of a song, Still one of my favourites by them

Every secret has its price
This one's set to poll

So the stink of your poll
Sinks into my memory

actually really excited for the covers side poll

and i'm idly wondering if the poll could be won by the one song the singer didn't sing

mention Brother Woodrow and real heads will know

"Have never heard the first album though"

Couple songs from 'Big Town Halloween' (which I think the band put out) were on 'Up In It'. I was always curious about it as the studio where their first record was recorded was just around the block from me in Broad Ripple/Indianapolis when I lived there. Paul Mahern lead singer of the Zero Boys recorded that record, which I think was one of the first he did.

Get Your POLL On, Baby: ILM Artist Poll #109 - The Afghan Whigs

unchain yr mind
become divine

BEST LIVE BAND IS TOURING!!!!!!
https://theafghanwhigs.com/tour/

aghghghghghghghghgh this is making me wave Kermit arms even though there is no Chicago date...yet

there’s also a new song……..

no mpls either but milwaukee date is on a saturday could be doable

oh wait there's a milkwaukee date!!!
yeeeeeeeeeesssss

any info about when tickets go on sale?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5r_vOBgiC8

here's the new song, it's pretty good!

would probably expect the album's going to be out in may for the tour

This official playlist updated to lead with the new tune: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4XJK1Fcl2tTdTtiHVWu5Q8

Hey
Welcome home

some hawkwind vibes in there? or some kinda 70s thug rock thing anyway

https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2022/05/how-do-you-burn-1651501485.jpeg

new album how do you burn out 9/9

Greg Dulli’s frequent collaborator Mark Lanegan sang on two tracks, and provided the name How Do You Burn? Susan Marshall, who sang on the Whigs album 1965, guests on “Catch A Colt,” and Van Hunt (who’d previously toured with the Whigs and was on Do The Beast), appears on both “Jyja” and “Take Me There.” Marcy Mays, who sang on Gentlemen‘s “My Curse,” returns for “Domino And Jimmy” here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fblcAv6GRNU

Great news! They'll be playing in my hometown in August

This dream is not a dream
I wake with it
Inside of me
Alone, I swear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im2fGcu7B5k

Seeing them tomorrow. Psyched.

really impressed with the new album especially the two tracks that van hunt features on ("jyja" and "take me there")

doesn't really remind me of any other whigs record in the catalog except in spades, and only in that every song does something different but there is a sustained, mean/forbidding/defeatedly gorgeous atmosphere they share. my thoughtless one-sentence review would be this is what i wanted dynamite steps to be

this is the most obnoxiously brickwalled album i've heard in a while

it's a shame because otherwise it's yet another quite good album from dulli. "jyja" is a real highlight

tentatively would put it better than do to the beast, not quite as good as in spades

Seeing them tomorrow, first headlining gig I've seen from them in a while. Last time was opening for Built to Spill on that weird bill, which I mostly remember for being loud. I'm taking a blank slate friend who I think has never even heard of them, I'm curious what he thinks.

love this record