Search And Destroy: Afghan Whigs

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Back together!? (for four tracks on a forthcoming compilation, but hey)

http://www.summerskiss.com/category/news/

StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh. Sorry.

Search: everything between their first and last albums.
Destroy: their first and last albums.

StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe it wasn't their best album but I don't think there was anything wrong with 1965.
Congregation to 1965 was a fine run of albums.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

As I've said on other threads, "Gentlemen" is THE best break-up album ever, full stop.

Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I've lost two copies of Black Love over the years, mysteriously, the CDs are gone but the jewel cases lingered. Anyway I think that's still a great album; together with Gentlemen certainly the only things I needed by them (uptown avondale is good too. and I like "retarded" from Up In It). 1965 is so terrible though.

kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link

the same thing happened to my first copy of Black Love. true!

kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link

four months pass...
Tracklist and release date revealed:

The tracklisting for Unbreakable/A Retrospective out May 1 on Rhino Records

1- Retarded
2- Crazy
3- Turn On The Water
4- Debonair
5- I'm A Soldier
6- 66
7- Be Sweet
8- Come See About Me
9- Uptown Again
10- What Jail Is Like
11- Magazine
12- I'm Her Slave
13- Going To Town
14- Gentlemen
15- Let Me Lie To You
16- John the Baptist
17- Crime Scene Part One
18- Faded

Not chronological, very incomplete, but it's something, I suppose. :-/

StanM (StanM), Friday, 26 January 2007 11:59 (seventeen years ago) link

So...

Search: pretty much everything not on here
Destroy: the people who decided not to rerelease/remaster the whole catalog (maybe they will, though, someday, who knows?)

StanM (StanM), Friday, 26 January 2007 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

No "My Curse" no credibility.

The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Friday, 26 January 2007 12:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Fountain and Fairfax, Milez is Ded, ...

One disc is always going to be incomplete, isn't it?

StanM (StanM), Friday, 26 January 2007 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link

the sub pop discs are still in print, surely?

jimbo (electricsound), Friday, 26 January 2007 12:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not sure all of them are: Up In It couldn't be ordered when I asked about it in a record store a while ago (ordered it online at amazon.com , but now amazon.co.uk only has it "used and new," so I don't really know what to think)

StanM (StanM), Friday, 26 January 2007 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll tell you something, that YouTube video of them doing Faded live is seriously the absolute tits:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq9Dq1I1yM4

NickB (NickB), Friday, 26 January 2007 12:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Aren't all live videos with Greg Dulli in them the tits? Observe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvBW9XRefuo

(hell, just click on "whigsbitch" and check out all the other stuff this guy/girl has uploaded on youtube)

StanM (StanM), Friday, 26 January 2007 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link

That is one odd tracklist.

Andy_K (Andy_K), Friday, 26 January 2007 13:08 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...
I'm A Soldier, one of the two new tracks, is online at Spin.

StanM, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link

two years pass...

was really going ham on "black love" a week or so ago, listening to basically nothing else. some pretty amazing moments but all in all it's a really frustrating record. the magic of "gentleman" is missing somehow, greg dulli's singing struck me as really lazy, out-of-tune for no good reason. the worst is the mixing, it must be dulli's rhythm guitar that's pushed up so far, why? he just grinds away on like two notes. isn't this supposed to be funky? let the bass lead. rick mccollum is some kind of rough genius tho. and the drumming is really good; i read in an interview years and years ago that dulli booted a drummer for basically being a druggy raver? was that this guy?

songs like "night by candlelight", i don't get why the strings don't even seem like they're arranged. there are these big crescendos, but the bass and the chords aren't even the same, everyone is sawing away with emotion. yeah yeah i get the stonesy shambolic thing but this is a big unfocused mess.

goole, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link

hmm...interesting i've always liked it more than gentlemen...not really scrutinized the mix though.

but honestly i loved this album at a point in my life when i was very young, very depressed, and very drunk and it was so perfect for that i can't really judge it from a distance.

for HOOM the bell tolls (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link

ha i feel the same way about gentlemen!

the "hard bitten lifer dude at the bar telling you kids crazy stories" steez about dulli that made a HUGE impression on me as a kid. hard relationships, drugs, booze, bad decisions, leather jackets, old records, sexy ladies with crazy problems, getting your shoes shined, bailing out your friend who got caught at a cockfight, bad shit going town to-ni-ee-ight, all that. i dunno if i'm just OLD now but it doesn't wear very well anymore. half the time i just want to say, greg, come on, your life isn't really like this. relax.

goole, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link

a friend of mine worked on a whigs video shoot a looong time ago and said that dulli showed up way way late, drinking a bottle of whiskey and walking with a pimp cane

for HOOM the bell tolls (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link

gentlemen was the last one with the original drummer, then black love had a new drummer, then 1965 had another new drummer iirc

yeah dulli is totally over the top with the shtick, but somehow it seemed to usually work. dude is v. good at playing rock star.

mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link

three months pass...

Their version of Come See About Me is still probably my favourite cover of all time.

Jamie_ATP, Sunday, 13 June 2010 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link

^^^ YES

ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Monday, 14 June 2010 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link

like their Creep and Can't Get Enough Of better, I think

BIG SAUS aka the porkbanger (sic), Monday, 14 June 2010 11:50 (thirteen years ago) link

one month passes...

still can't figure out what the hell honkey's ladder is about. Is this song about race and class? or is it just about some crime movie that I haven't seen?

akm, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 06:52 (thirteen years ago) link

oh also, after 3 years, I just found my copy of black love.

akm, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 06:54 (thirteen years ago) link

Love Black Love, especially Night by Candlelight.

Anyone know the origin of the song title Vampire Lanois? Dulli get mad at Daniel Lanois or something?

thirdalternative, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link

It's not a dis. iirc they were New Orleans pals back then and its a nod to his fashion sense

da croupier, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link

Ah. That's neat-o.

thirdalternative, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link

five months pass...

Gentleman is a quite a good record. It has aged very well.

earlnash, Thursday, 27 January 2011 04:38 (thirteen years ago) link

it has about three or four very good songs. and the rest is a mess. i can't work out whether it's an appealing mess or not.

charlie h, Friday, 28 January 2011 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

REVIVE FOR RETURN OF WHIGS (i think the revive thread was on the sandbox)

http://www.zooborns.com/.a/6a010535647bf3970b011571a1f52b970b-800wi
Hyssop...in my perfume?

La Lechera, Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link

is it just coachella or a full tour?

fauxmarc, Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link

...OR A TOUR AND ALBUM HUSH

fauxmarc, Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link

they're not doing Coachella.

So far they're doing our shows in London and Asbury Park plus Primavera in Barcelona and Porto.

Cannot WAIT.

Jamie_ATP, Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:00 (twelve years ago) link

Supported by Archers Of Loaf!

Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:02 (twelve years ago) link

it's an ATP in London in May, then Dulli curating one in New Jersey in September

Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:15 (twelve years ago) link

oops xpost

Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:15 (twelve years ago) link

sorry, mixed up huge-festivals-i'd-never-do

fauxmarc, Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link

no separate tour tho?

fauxmarc, Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:24 (twelve years ago) link

Haven't heard about one yet.
I wouldn't say we're huge though.

ATP = approx 5000 people. Coachella = 90,000.

Jamie_ATP, Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:29 (twelve years ago) link

I wonder if they'll play a Faith No More and barely play the U.S.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:39 (twelve years ago) link

weren't FNM always bigger in europe anyway? I'm not too surprised that they mainly only played biggish european shows.

Jamie_ATP, Friday, 13 January 2012 00:03 (twelve years ago) link

they have too many fans in the US to not tour here too

La Lechera, Friday, 13 January 2012 00:15 (twelve years ago) link

three months pass...

http://www.boweryballroom.com/event/120623

mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link

Curley!

"It will be nice to experience the Whigs again as a grown-up," jokes Curley. "In my mind, the Whigs were a live band above anything else. Playing shows always was our favorite part about being in the band, and the times when we felt the most freedom and release. I missed playing at that level; I missed playing the songs that we wrote, that meant so much to people - and to us."

former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:28 (eleven years ago) link

i really hope they tour

call all destroyer, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:34 (eleven years ago) link

I do too but I'm grouchy about Lollapalooza and their stupid 100 mi clause (or w/e it was called) because that means I am going to have to travel to see them because I sure don't want to go to gross Lollapalooza.

former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link

I told myself I'd buy a Lolla ticket for the day if they were on the same day as Black Sabbath. They are, so I go tone. Also Black Keys, Black Angels and Tame Impala.

Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link

Wow, yeah Sabbath + Whigs is mighty tempting, but the vibe there is so overwhelmingly AWFUL that I don't know if I can stomach it!

former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link

Just finally getting around to the new one, man that opener is like Afghan Whigs gone stoner rock, I dig it.

a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 3 October 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link

one month passes...

I was going through our kitchen cabinets and found an old jar of jam made with Afghan figs.

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 5 November 2022 22:43 (one year ago) link

one year passes...

god they were so good live

mookieproof, Friday, 23 February 2024 02:30 (one month ago) link

At least two of my fave shows of all time.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 February 2024 02:38 (one month ago) link


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