This is their best album by quite some distance - more fully formed songwriting than Gentlemen and not as hammy as 1965. Even if the hamminess is part of the point this album just hits the perfect midpoint between the fire, the sleaze, the darkness and moments of unexpected beauty.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 21 June 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
my main arguments for Black Love > Gentlemen is the production is fuller and it has a real ending
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Sunday, 21 June 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link
imo you can also throw twilight in there
No less good, but entirely different players*, and the character is writing in a tone of regret & reaching toward redemption, instead of celebrating their assholism. Which makes for a great sequel, after the increase of swagger:self-loathing ratio across the last three, but further marks it as separate.
* bar a couple of guest stars obv
― an, uh, razor of love (sic), Sunday, 21 June 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
As I throw the chainsI forged in lifeTo shatter on the floor
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 2 November 2020 17:33 (three years ago) link
chinaski i used to cry A LOT (like a lot a lot a lot) while listening to this album -- while walking, while driving, while seated at home. it wasn't nostalgia and it couldn't have always been pms, so i think this album has some magical quality that zings right to the feelings and electrifies them. bulletproof was my personal ultimate catalyst for uncontrollable weeping.― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 20 June 2020 13:38 (four months ago) link
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 20 June 2020 13:38 (four months ago) link
This is just one of those rare albums that for whatever reason (I'm not really even sure what it is) it connects with certain listeners on level different anything else. Like if I put this record on right now it would completely wreck me or possibly send me on a drug/booze/crime bender
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 2 November 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
This album has duende
― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Monday, 2 November 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
Just imagining the first wall of guitar in Summer's Kiss and is making me want to walk into the midnight sea.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 2 November 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
I haven't heard anything by Afghan Whigs other than this. I remember a lot of wah-wah guitar and clavinet and no tunes, except Night by Candlelight, which I love and makes me think of Prince gone goth.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 2 November 2020 20:42 (three years ago) link
this is the best afghan whigs album but everyone who's ever liked them really needs to hear In Spades if they haven't already
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 16:23 (three years ago) link
"Faded"....jesus what a fucking epic song, actual goosebumps right now
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Monday, November 2, 2020 2:19 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
love this. seems like a good thread idea.
― glengarry gary beers (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
btw 'faded' > 'purple rain'
I know it's a night for the biggest of takes, but this still shakes the foundations. And is true.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 9 January 2021 00:54 (three years ago) link
<3
― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 January 2021 00:55 (three years ago) link
still most amazed because i was much more a fan of ppl gazing at shoes than dulli's over-the-top entertainer thing . . . but somehow the shtick still worked on me
obviously it didn't work on a lot of people, and he certainly wasn't in prince's class, but he was much better at it than seems reasonable
― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 January 2021 02:45 (three years ago) link
I've been luxuriating in the Twilight Singers discography and the thing is Dulli is just a really consistently awesome songwriter
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Saturday, 9 January 2021 03:43 (three years ago) link
Considering some of the bands that DID get tons of FM Xradio play, I just don't get why they did not play these guys. I think that about a few of the other 90s bands too.
― earlnash, Saturday, 9 January 2021 15:07 (three years ago) link
25 years ago today. pic.twitter.com/Xb9eBA9yNt— greg dulli (@MrGregDulli) March 12, 2021
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 March 2021 14:50 (three years ago) link
really it's about as perfect as rock albums get
― ufo, Friday, 12 March 2021 15:04 (three years ago) link
Agreed
― Oor Neechy, Friday, 12 March 2021 15:08 (three years ago) link
bought this the day it came out ffs
still an incredible record on every level
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 12 March 2021 15:09 (three years ago) link
fuck
― mookieproof, Saturday, 13 March 2021 04:07 (three years ago) link
we should also be very thankful that Dulli's movie never got made, could have needlessly sullied this project if it sucked (which let's be real it probably would have)
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Sunday, 14 March 2021 17:29 (three years ago) link
It’s just Dulli in a belted leather jacket going for a ride/going to town in different settings and different times of day for 95-100 minutes
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 14 March 2021 19:24 (three years ago) link
the weird thing about a movie is that presumably the characters would have to have jobs, whereas in greg dulli songs it always feels like everyone's occupation is "lover"
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Sunday, 14 March 2021 19:44 (three years ago) link
straight in
― mookieproof, Monday, 1 May 2023 04:48 (one year ago) link
It was a SaturdayI came home earlyDrunk with loveAnd other things
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Saturday, 11 November 2023 21:33 (six months ago) link