Oh yeah, and let's tighten things up even more. If you're going to answer S you have to answer D, and vice versa.
― Tom, Tuesday, 13 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Destroy: Greg Dulli's face fungus. Okay, fine, it's not *musical*, Tom, but as you've argued yourself, image is just as much a part of the situation, is it not? ;-)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Destroy: 1965. Just 'cos.
― alex thomson, Tuesday, 13 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Anyway. Search: The first side of '1965' - the sleekest rock they ever made but somehow the sexiest too.
Destroy - the second side of '1965' - a sudden descent into Primal Scream style Southern kitsch.
― jel, Tuesday, 13 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andy, Tuesday, 13 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Destroy: All of 1965 *except* "Omerta/Vampire Lanois."
― J.Lu, Tuesday, 13 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Search: Bootleg copy of a CONGREGATION-era show I saw where Greg Dulli returns to the stage during Teenage Fanclub's set to put the lead vocals on TFC's "Everything Flows". Or was it "The Concept"...? I was in such bliss maybe I blacked out...
Destroy: A lot of BLACK LOVE. A few great songs but...
― Tim Baier, Tuesday, 13 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Destroy: Most of Up in it & Congregation; second side of 1965 (but only because the album would be absolutely perfect without it; as it is, it's still pretty good); fat, drunken, bar-fighting Greg Dulli
― larmey, Tuesday, 13 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― simon, Tuesday, 13 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
'Gentlemen' - dire and tuneless - Destroy. 'Black Love' - little better. '1965' - the best of a bad lot. Search for "Uptown Again"
Yeah, I know there's other, earlier stuff that I haven't heard. Yeah, I know there's an EP of, no surely not, SOUL COVERS! Who cares.
― Dr. C, Thursday, 15 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Omar, Thursday, 15 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
destroy: i really didn't like that twilight singers record all that much, with the exception of the first track. can that count?
(hey, you want the blues brothers, by the way, you should listen to the first track off the delta 72's '000.')
― maura, Thursday, 15 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Antoine harris, Monday, 10 December 2001 01:00 (twenty years ago) link
Only because after giving it some time, and many listens, I realize 1965 is a brilliant record. It's hard to get passed the production, which is so sleek it cuts them off, but I love the songs, and the guitar work and vocals are amazing.
― David Allen, Saturday, 8 November 2003 05:56 (eighteen years ago) link
Destroy: Black Love. A meandering, hookless soup of despair.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 8 November 2003 06:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 8 November 2003 06:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Nick H, Saturday, 8 November 2003 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link
It's many things, Black Love is -- but "hookless" isn't one of them.
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 8 November 2003 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Saturday, 8 November 2003 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link
Definitely, see their "Lost In the Supermarket", too.
-Colin
― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Saturday, 8 November 2003 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 8 November 2003 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 8 November 2003 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link
destroy: that horrific remix of "Milez Is Ded" called "Rebirth Of The Cool" on Uptown, the songs on Congregation I didn't search (ESPECIALLY "The Temple"), the second Twilight Singers album (though a stray great track might reveal itself to me later), and if we could bleep out the bullshit references to the devil from all tracks that'd be great.
I haven't heard anything before Congregation.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 8 November 2003 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link
Oh, no! It's the Strokes argument all over again!
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 8 November 2003 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link
Dulli sounded great, his band sounded great--and not unlike the Whigs at all. There's something about when he's playing (and I use that term loosely, because while he had a guitar strapped on, I'm not convinced that it was actually plugged in) that no matter what he quotes or plays (a Kate Bush song, A Love Supreme, etc.) it seems like music was absolutely meant to sound exactly this way and no other.
On the other hand, he rambled more than I remember--no one to rein him in, I guess. And he made a long, convoluted (I guess) tribute to Elliott Smith which was frankly awful. If he was your friend, fine, play a song and shut the fuck up--it's not something I want to hear him use in his Mr Superlove shtick.
So same old, I guess--way over the top, not someone I wanna be friends with, fucking sounded great. But not as good as the Whigs.
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 15 November 2003 06:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 15 November 2003 06:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 15 November 2003 06:39 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, did you stay for the second encore?
― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 15 November 2003 07:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― bnw (bnw), Saturday, 15 November 2003 08:02 (eighteen years ago) link
Last night Dulli praised The Darkness. And I so wished I had my cigarette lighter when they played "Faded."
― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 15 November 2003 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 15 November 2003 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― bnw (bnw), Saturday, 15 November 2003 21:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 15 November 2003 21:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 07:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 12:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 12:55 (eighteen years ago) link
Destroy: my current financial state which means I have no idea when I can get hold of the new Twilight Singers album.
― Flyboy (Flyboy), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link
I think it's an act, the whole asshole thing. I think he's a nice er gentleman.
― scott m (mcd), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link
Yeah, I was there, but had to leave early (i.e. 1:15) due to some, er, relationship issues. So I missed the encores. :(
See, the problem with these late shows is that it gives you way too much time to drink beforehand...
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link
there's a crappy mp3 floating around on soulseek.
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link
Among the reasons the Whigs never had a big crossover hit: most of their best songs wound up as import CD single b-sides.
― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.summerskiss.com/category/news/
― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Search: everything between their first and last albums.Destroy: their first and last albums.
― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 21:02 (fifteen years ago) link
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 22:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I like this tons, but the lower timbre of his voice seems to have changed. Not necessarily for the worse, just different.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 February 2020 23:51 (two years ago) link
started checking out in spades after catching up on the new album and......it rules. every song from oriole on is this incredible mini-epic. it's like he closes the album 6 times. i wasn't a big fan of do the beast which is why i ignored in spades but i probably need to reassess that one too.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 27 February 2020 00:17 (two years ago) link
do to the beast is fine with a few real highlights like "lost in the woods" and "the lottery", though in spades is definitely a step up. at the time i was a little disappointed in it as an afghan whigs reunion album since it felt a little more removed from their classic sound than i expected, but i've come around.
― ufo, Thursday, 27 February 2020 00:48 (two years ago) link
skimming through it now how did i forget about "can rova", it's beautiful
― ufo, Thursday, 27 February 2020 00:54 (two years ago) link
My old friend/old school Whigs fan and I both watched the solo Dulli concert (recording 👎🏻) and were actually satisfied to very satisfied w our experience. Anyone else watch it?? I loooooooved hearing his songs basically in demo form. It made me more interested in the new album too.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 2 August 2020 19:45 (two years ago) link
thinking about running an afghan whigs/greg dulli poll (since there's another lull in the poll no one else is filling) starting next week, there'd be interest for it right?
i figure there's no reason not to include twilight singers, gutter twins, dulli solo in the main poll since with the whigs reunion albums the distinction between all of dulli's projects has become very little. poll categories would be tracks, albums, and covers?
― ufo, Thursday, 20 May 2021 10:50 (one year ago) link
yes!
― g simmel, Thursday, 20 May 2021 11:00 (one year ago) link
I would partake
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Thursday, 20 May 2021 11:42 (one year ago) link
oh yeah i already have a ballot in my head
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 20 May 2021 12:09 (one year ago) link
heck yeah
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 20 May 2021 13:29 (one year ago) link
I'd come up with a ballot for this.
― BlackIronPrison, Thursday, 20 May 2021 14:50 (one year ago) link
i'll go ahead with it next week then
― ufo, Thursday, 20 May 2021 14:51 (one year ago) link
i'm in
― building a hole (NickB), Thursday, 20 May 2021 14:51 (one year ago) link
taking terrible pun thread title suggestions in the meantime
― ufo, Thursday, 20 May 2021 15:00 (one year ago) link
don't forget the afghan poll (ooh baby) (ooh baby)
― mookieproof, Thursday, 20 May 2021 15:10 (one year ago) link
I'm in.
Put on your old fur POLL it's 1973.A lie, the truth, which one should I POLL?
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 20 May 2021 16:09 (one year ago) link
will vote.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Thursday, 20 May 2021 16:16 (one year ago) link
Poles iz Dead
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 May 2021 16:20 (one year ago) link
Whoops, lol.
Polls iz Dead
I got a dick for a brain, and my brain is gonna poll my ass to you
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 20 May 2021 16:21 (one year ago) link
hey cuz, i'm polling who wants to get hiiiiiiiigh?
― building a hole (NickB), Thursday, 20 May 2021 16:34 (one year ago) link
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
― building a hole (NickB), Thursday, 20 May 2021 16:50 (one year ago) link
ill prob be in on this
― i was too much listening to your accent (Spottie), Thursday, 20 May 2021 17:43 (one year ago) link
I have never listened to the pre-Congregation stuff at all
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Thursday, 20 May 2021 17:53 (one year ago) link
Up In It has some great songs imo! Have never heard the first album though
― building a hole (NickB), Thursday, 20 May 2021 18:04 (one year ago) link
go to townburn it downturn aroundand get your poll on baby
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 20 May 2021 18:09 (one year ago) link
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
― building a hole (NickB), Thursday, 20 May 2021 18:42 (one year ago) link
^^such a monster of a song, Still one of my favourites by them
― willem, Thursday, 20 May 2021 18:52 (one year ago) link
Every secret has its priceThis one's set to poll
― willem, Thursday, 20 May 2021 18:53 (one year ago) link
So the stink of your pollSinks into my memory
― Mule, Thursday, 20 May 2021 19:46 (one year ago) link
actually really excited for the covers side poll
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 20 May 2021 19:50 (one year ago) link
and i'm idly wondering if the poll could be won by the one song the singer didn't sing
― building a hole (NickB), Thursday, 20 May 2021 19:57 (one year ago) link
mention Brother Woodrow and real heads will know
― mookieproof, Friday, 21 May 2021 00:41 (one year ago) link
"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.
― earlnash, Friday, 21 May 2021 05:02 (one year ago) link
Get Your POLL On, Baby: ILM Artist Poll #109 - The Afghan Whigs
― ufo, Saturday, 22 May 2021 09:30 (one year ago) link
unchain yr mindbecome divine
― mookieproof, Sunday, 28 November 2021 01:52 (eight months ago) link
BEST LIVE BAND IS TOURING!!!!!!https://theafghanwhigs.com/tour/
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 17:00 (five months ago) link
aghghghghghghghghgh this is making me wave Kermit arms even though there is no Chicago date...yet
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 17:01 (five months ago) link
there’s also a new song……..
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 17:25 (five months ago) link
no mpls either but milwaukee date is on a saturday could be doable
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 17:47 (five months ago) link
oh wait there's a milkwaukee date!!! yeeeeeeeeeesssss
any info about when tickets go on sale?
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 17:49 (five months ago) link
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
― ufo, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 23:43 (five months ago) link
This official playlist updated to lead with the new tune: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4XJK1Fcl2tTdTtiHVWu5Q8
― Gary Gets His Tonsure Out (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 01:27 (five months ago) link
HeyWelcome home
― Gary Gets His Tonsure Out (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 02:23 (five months ago) link
some hawkwind vibes in there? or some kinda 70s thug rock thing anyway
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 06:41 (five months ago) link
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
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 15:14 (three months ago) link
Great news! They'll be playing in my hometown in August
― willem, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 07:56 (three months ago) link
This dream is not a dreamI wake with itInside of meAlone, I swear
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 29 July 2022 23:23 (two weeks ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im2fGcu7B5k
Seeing them tomorrow. Psyched.
― Mule, Sunday, 31 July 2022 10:25 (two weeks ago) link