Twilight Singers

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damnit. I just got a promo copy of the thing today from the radio station. I won't get to hear it until late tonight if then. Damnit!

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 18 October 2003 18:40 (twenty years ago) link

I'm a little disappointed myself. Melodies and lyrics aren't hitting me too strongly, though the Dulli vibe remains. Sounds like the only thing that happened in the last three years was that his roster of collaborators got weaker.

Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 19 October 2003 18:49 (twenty years ago) link

two months pass...
one of the best albums dulli has ever made!

adam young, Thursday, 1 January 2004 04:43 (twenty years ago) link

I like 1969 and the Twilight Singers so much more than anything Dulli did before. Save for a few things on Black Love and some assorted covers.

Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Thursday, 1 January 2004 07:32 (twenty years ago) link

four weeks pass...
i was/am a HUGE whigs fan...wasn't to excited when i heard the earlier twilight singers stuff. However....this album is beautiful. welcome back mr.dulli!

Aaron Rooney, Thursday, 29 January 2004 01:05 (twenty years ago) link

Well, I posted a thread yesterday asking who else was going to see the Twilight Singers last night, and got no response... so I assume y'all missed it. Which is a crying shame as it was without a doubt the best gig I have seen in years. I went without expecting too much of the new stuff, but Greg fucking rocked the house for two hours, playing a few old Whigs songs, and about the best version of 'Hey Ya!' you could ever imagine, ever.

If anyone is interested, and can tell me how to, I will post a (v blurry) pic...

Mog, Thursday, 29 January 2004 11:24 (twenty years ago) link

about the best version of 'Hey Ya!' you could ever imagine, ever.

Heh. Sounds like something he'd do.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 January 2004 16:28 (twenty years ago) link

two months pass...
Best album by Dulli hands down..

Stevie Rolson, Monday, 12 April 2004 02:18 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...
I was never that much into the Whigs, something about the tinny production always annoyed me, but heard a Twilight Singers song once on the radio, which sounded pleasantly husky and mysterious.
Where should I start?

Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Thursday, 24 November 2005 16:54 (eighteen years ago) link

If you're not into the Whigs, start with Twilight As Played By The... - very much a deliberate departure from the rock/soul mode, half recorded with Happy Chichester & Shawn Smith, then finished with Fila Brazilia after a falling out.

kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 24 November 2005 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link

five years pass...

"tinny production" + Afghan Whigs? Were you listening to 20th generation dubs on beat up cassette tapes? The major label albums, at least, have a really warm low end.

Anyway, new Twilight Singers album just leaked. Haven't listened yet.

Johnny Fever, Saturday, 22 January 2011 05:23 (thirteen years ago) link

FYI, if you preorder it on subpop.com you get to hear a stream of the album. The leak is someone's recording of that stream.

StanM, Saturday, 22 January 2011 05:59 (thirteen years ago) link

Can't wait to hear this, I think I"m the only person alive who likes Twilight Singers more than the Afghan Whigs.

thirdalternative, Saturday, 22 January 2011 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link

i wouldn't go that far, but my fav. album by either band is probably Blackberry Belle

ilxor, Saturday, 22 January 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link

I just hope it's more crooning r&b then him trying to rock out.

bnw, Saturday, 22 January 2011 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link

I only hope there's nothing on there about vampires.

StanM, Saturday, 22 January 2011 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link

he has kind of overplayed that card

bnw, Saturday, 22 January 2011 16:39 (thirteen years ago) link

oh wait you meant... n/m

bnw, Saturday, 22 January 2011 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link

new record is completely fucking massive.

Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Saturday, 22 January 2011 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link

http://www.musicdirect.com/shared/images/products/large/LDT4412.jpg

the artwork.

Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Saturday, 22 January 2011 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link

it's sort of paced like blackberry belle, by which i mean: excellently. i think a lot of effort was put into the sound of this thing, which, dulli knows how to carry a mood, definitely, but sonically this record is a terrifying dark current. don't really know what i'm trying to say. still in awe.

Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Saturday, 22 January 2011 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link

yesssssss i am so pumped for this!!!

ilxor, Sunday, 23 January 2011 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link

i thought the gutter twins album was monstrous, so

ilxor, Sunday, 23 January 2011 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link

This is some good shit, liking it more and more with each listen.

thirdalternative, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 00:59 (thirteen years ago) link

eight years pass...

Blackberry Belle is the best thing in the world to me today, such a wonderful shoegaze soul sound that doesn't sound like anything else at all

ufo, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 12:40 (four years ago) link

lol @ me overrating dynamite steps itt

american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 13:07 (four years ago) link

gentlemen -> black love -> twilight/1965 -> blackberry belle is a hell of a run

american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 13:07 (four years ago) link

yeah dulli's peak period was seriously incredible

"teenage wristband" is a perfect song

ufo, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 13:27 (four years ago) link

one year passes...

"candy cane crawl" is the best song ever written

stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Saturday, 19 December 2020 21:22 (three years ago) link

"waves" and "the killer" two massive hits in an alternate universe

stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Saturday, 19 December 2020 23:18 (three years ago) link

I know you know which way to go
I want you to show me
So I can steal it

stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Saturday, 19 December 2020 23:21 (three years ago) link

lastly I'd never really listened to Twilight before and it sounds like...Pinback meets Sade??

stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Sunday, 20 December 2020 04:39 (three years ago) link

one month passes...

on further review Powder Burns is my favorite Twilight Singers album. thank you

stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Saturday, 23 January 2021 19:01 (three years ago) link

interesting! i mean it is a great record

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 23 January 2021 20:27 (three years ago) link

nothing will ever top twilight for me

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 23 January 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link

pinback meets sade otm

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 23 January 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link

Twilight As Played is basically one band, everything after is a different band whose members change all the time

shivers me timber (sic), Saturday, 23 January 2021 21:44 (three years ago) link

interesting! i mean it is a great record

shortly after I wrote this "my time (has come)" came on and I remembered why I underrated it in the first place, and it was because of that not good song

"I Wish I Was" one of his very prettiest, most aching numbers

stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Sunday, 24 January 2021 02:22 (three years ago) link

goodbye motherfucker

mookieproof, Sunday, 24 January 2021 05:54 (three years ago) link

I remember being awed by bonnie brae the first time I heard it, just the way it peaks and then peaks higher

the least famous person you were surprised to discover (emsworth), Sunday, 24 January 2021 07:17 (three years ago) link

my favourite twilight singers album will always be blackberry belle i think, the shoegaze vibes are incredible on it

ufo, Sunday, 24 January 2021 08:12 (three years ago) link

‘Blackberry Belle’ for me, but ‘Powder Burns’ was better than I remembered when I last played it.

hamicle, Sunday, 24 January 2021 11:59 (three years ago) link

I remember being awed by bonnie brae the first time I heard it, just the way it peaks and then peaks higher

otm and it isn't even five minutes long ffs

mookieproof, Saturday, 6 February 2021 03:55 (three years ago) link

i relistened to powder burns the other week and the first half it absolutely makes you think it is the best twilight singers and maybe the best dulli-related album ever

then "my time (has come)" happens

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 6 February 2021 03:57 (three years ago) link

tbh i think he struggled with second sides through the entire period of powder burns -> do to the beast. they all get a little less distinguished in the back half, even though they finish strongly

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 6 February 2021 03:59 (three years ago) link

situation dire

mookieproof, Saturday, 6 February 2021 04:03 (three years ago) link

is there a phrase/description/explanation for when a song goes all epic?

fuckin guy does it like 1000 times on powder burns

mookieproof, Saturday, 6 February 2021 04:17 (three years ago) link

the title track is hilariously bombastic, I love it

stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Saturday, 6 February 2021 04:21 (three years ago) link

lol (and <3) at how ani difranco is part of the bombast

mookieproof, Saturday, 6 February 2021 04:43 (three years ago) link

usher, ani, fila brazilia....dulli has such a random fuckin rolodex man

stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Saturday, 6 February 2021 04:54 (three years ago) link

my favorite song on twilight as played by the twilight singers is "king only", what a hot little number that is

stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Saturday, 6 February 2021 04:57 (three years ago) link

for me it is always "last temptation"

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 6 February 2021 05:18 (three years ago) link

twilight in general extends the cinematic quality of black love but on that song in particular

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 6 February 2021 05:19 (three years ago) link

Love -> Annie-Mae is the best song on Twilight As Played

shivers me timber (sic), Saturday, 6 February 2021 06:23 (three years ago) link


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