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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9U8jseaqxU

one last shout-out for late period whigs, "oriole" is the best song ever

lol duly added to my 'songs brad ne1son has described as best in the world' playlist

How can I follow that playlist?

01    The Blue Nile - The Downtown Lights (6:31)
02    Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere (3:47)
03    Machine - There But for the Grace of God Go I (5:19)
04    Van Halen - Panama (3:32)
05    Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (5:23)
06    Evelyn 'Champagne' King - Love Come Down (6:15)
07    The Jets - Crush on You (6:20)
08    Patrice Rushen - Haven't You Heard (6:45)
09    Mariah Carey - Always Be My Baby (4:20)
10    Saint Etienne - He's on the Phone (4:08)
11    John Martyn - Small Hours (8:45)
12    Womack & Womack - Teardrops (5:04)
13    Luomo - Tessio (12:07)
14    Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World (4:11)
15    Sade - By Your Side (4:34)
16    Underworld - Jumbo (6:57)
17    ABBA - Knowing Me, Knowing You (4:02)
18    Prefab Sprout - The Sound of Crying (4:43)
19    Boz Scaggs - Lowdown (5:17)
20    Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time (4:03)
21    Steely Dan - Sign in Stranger (4:23)
22    Cameo - Candy (5:39)
23    Scritti Politti - Oh Patti (Don't Feel Sorry for Loverboy) (4:23)
24    Amy Grant - Every Heartbeat (3:33)
25    Janet Jackson - Escapade (4:43)
26    Taylor Swift - Treacherous (4:00)
27    Kylie Minogue - Get Outta My Way (3:38)
28    Prince - Mountains (3:57)
29    Anita Baker - Sweet Love (4:26)
30    Moloko - Forever More (7:22)
31    George Michael - One More Try (5:50)
32    Fall Out Boy - Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes (4:17)
33    Maze - Back in Stride (7:06)
34    Maxwell - Pretty Wings (5:10)
35    Rickie Lee Jones - We Belong Together (5:03)
36    Luther Vandross - Never Too Much (3:49)
37    Little Big Town - Lost in California (4:47)
38    Van Morrison - Summertime in England (15:37)
39    Michelle Branch - Breathe (3:31)
40    Orbital - Halcyon + On + On (9:27)
41    Mama - Unmask Me (Ashley Beedle Vocal Mix) (9:17)
42    Sarah McLachlan - Sweet Surrender (4:00)
43    Jennifer Paige - Crush (3:20)
44    Force MD's - Tender Love (3:55)
45    Aerosmith - Combination (3:39)
46    Genesis - Keep It Dark (4:35)
47    Madonna - Take a Bow (5:21)
48    DeBarge - I Like It (4:39)
49    Annie Lennox - Why (4:54)
50    Tori Amos - Raspberry Swirl (3:58)
51    Afghan Whigs - Oriole (4:06)

dammit that was supposed to be hidden

lol solid playlist

The “Creep” cover is pretty faithful but is infected with this slightly ambiguous, tense undercurrent which is something that Dulli does with his covers so well

It’s hidden on Zing, but MacZing still seems to have a bug, thought they were fixing it.

Oh, hey I found this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFzL0X9pLNA

Lasat number is incredible.

Last.

Maybe better served here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVM32SCSX1c

backbeat vmas performance is one of my favorite videos on youtube

There is something about this band that is like The Band. They have these funky little grooves that they work to death, never quite just playing a simple, um, backbeat. Also, hope I don't type everything in think in the polling thread and run out of things to say on the rollout.

I think Brad is onto something with "Oriole."

Loving the Stooges moments in "On the Corner."

that last Helter Skelter clip makes me want to digitally insert dulli into road house in the jeff healy role

loool

"esta noche" is such a cool track, the way it starts out with that two note electric piano bit that continues through the entire song and that eventually becomes part of the wall of sound where you kinda feel it more than anything else, and that jazzy crescendo rules so much. interestingly kamasi washington plays on it, one of his earlier session gigs. i don't understand the live versions at all though, it's sped up ridiculously and completely loses the groove

okay i would say best cover alongside Come See About Me has to be this one from the Beautiful Girls soundtrack... can't find the studio version on spotify but live version from the launch party:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAxIYG3bo0E

ooh that's a good one, hadn't heard it before

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX77K1gL5z0

i'm going through dulli covers and i found the twilight singers reinventing "when doves cry" with apollonia! definitely going on my ballot, it's wonderful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ0ndA1-CSQ

fairly straight but fantastic live cover of "i could never take the place of your man", plays to their strengths as well as you'd expect

terrible quality but here's covers of "i wanna be your lover" & "madinka"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYC4HjDla6U

great cover of "ex-factor" starting at 5:22 or so

oh I forgot to make a note but unranked ballots are welcome too, just say in the email

yeah I'mma need to go unranked lol

cowards

j/k

i have always wanted to cover "mandinka" as a blown-out rawk song and i can't help but be happy that dulli got there before me

iirc i saw it as an encore to the bowery ballroom show where they played in spades front to back

holy shit I would have died of happiness if they'd broken out into that "ex-factor" cover when I saw them

iirc i saw it as an encore to the bowery ballroom show where they played in spades front to back

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, May 27, 2021 5:52 AM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

remembering now this also functioned as the dave rosser memorial show. been thinking about him a lot as i've been listening to the twilight singers/gutter twins/late whigs stuff

should be your top 25 ranked plus up to 100 unranked (and up to 25 covers ranked)

lol that "when we two parted"/"ex factor" clip begins with a modified version of prince's "let's go crazy" monologue

ABC: always be covering

any notable bootlegs kicking around on slsk or whatever? I poked around the web archive but didn't see anything

Second prize: What Jail Is Like

i'm well overdue to see if there's a decent tape of the 2012 bowery ballroom show

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

not sure I can get away with not voting for "the killer"

here's a 1965-era show i found looking for it just now xp

https://heavysoundboard.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-afghan-whigs-live-bowery-ballroom.html

i really wanted to vote for "decatur st." but... only 25 slots

i'm well overdue to see if there's a decent tape of the 2012 bowery ballroom show

it's on there, happy to report the quality is excellent

ugh love to relive my own life

sadly this copy of the show is missing both encores... main set is still perfect though

tonight tonight i say goodbye
TO EVERYTHING THAT THRILLS ME

AS I THROW THE CHAINS I FORGED IN LIFE
TO SHATTER ON THE FLOOR

come for the duende, stay for the DRAMA

There are soooooo many covers that work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g7TznJLd50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6hX3CbWOl8

My friend and I have a theory that everything can be reggae-fied and work, and I guess the same holds true for Afghan Whigs.

happy to report the quality is excellent

― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Thursday, May 27, 2021 7:40 AM (thirty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

literally can't believe how good it sounds, you can totally hear the overwhelming three guitar attack that had me spellbound from instant the show started

yeah it's release-quality

my kingdom for a decent recording of the whigs doing "climax" with usher

https://www.thefader.com/2014/10/05/usher-afghan-whigs-music-hall-of-willaimsburg