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

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

there's a solid youtube version of that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1krNIh4_668

love to confirm that my memory isn't faulty and that the bowery ballroom show was in fact the best concert i've ever seen

bless u vc

it's not their best live cover or anything but I still find it wild that that happened

love to confirm that my memory isn't faulty and that the bowery ballroom show was in fact the best concert i've ever seen

the flow of this boot is insane, also I died at the immaculately timed joint exchange in "bulletproof"

I meant to mention re: the Backbeat performance that I love the disconnect between this furious and almost historic stage performance and the coldly unmoving seated VMA audience. the past is truly a foreign land

https://mega.nz/file/pBliSC4Y#W3JhUPSdYevuBoGmAF3A5l3_qYXK96aFMwJr-oi6_pM

^^ bowery ballroom show for anyone who wants it

idk how couth it is to share that here but i feel it is a near-perfect document of a moment in time worth sharing lol

Don't know if i'm alone in this but is anyone else praying for a remix/remaster of 1965? I've always felt it sounded really compressed and, to use a technical term, just very smooshed. It's a really unpleasurable listen at points despite how wonderful most of the songs are.

it's always sounded pretty good to me, some of the twilight singers records have uhh not-great mixing and mastering though

i looooooooooove the way 1965 sounds

it is pretty compressed but it's also crisp-sounding and the guitar sound is huge

"crazy" is a production marvel imo

my pettiest beef with 1965 is the decision to split "vampire lanois" into its own track, thus forcing me to splice the mp3s together lol

can it just be my ears? GUYS DON'T MAKE ME GO ON STEVE HOFFMAN FORUM

only song i have problems with is (probably controversially) "somethin hot," which does feel ultra-compressed to me. guitars sound like "larger than life" by the backstreet boys, not ideal.

there's a 12'' mix floating out there that's a bit deeper that i prefer

now I wanna hear dulli's take on "I Want It That Way"

lol he would annihilate "everybody (backstreet's back)"

The 1998 Bowery show is astonishing - I'm sure I've heard it before but it's wonderful to revisit.

I will admit that some of dulli's banter/persona in this period gives me pause lol

https://soundcloud.com/dperis/afghan-whigs-regret-new-order-cover-live

in addition to dulli's piano cover of "regret" there's also this full-band live version from 1994, which is fine but not one of their best covers

oh man that 1998 bootleg, great to hear their "ex-factor" in such nice quality

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

There's a full soundboard recording (or at least a CDs-worth) of the 1997 New Orleans show used for the Live At Howlin' Wolf EP

Random Desire is really great, for me the only thing holding it back is that, to my ears at least, Dulli sounds a bit weird on it from time to time, esp in the more animated sections (ie "The Tide"). the songs are uniformly strong and his sense of pacing and sequencing remains uncanny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKcEPQ46B_8

this is the only version of the Blackberry Belle bonus track I can find, it's real good

Bowery 2012 is very good. Have downloaded 1998 to check out later.

I never saw the Whigs the first time round, saw the Twilight Singers in Glasgow a couple of times, but passed on the I'll Be Your Mirror show in London in 2012 because I figured they'd be back with Rick and play shows further north...nope! Have seen the current iteration a couple of times though.

Will try and put in an entry to the poll - was going to listen through everything again but I could probably produce my lists from memory.

wow the Black Love review on allmusic is a travesty

Jesus christ what a band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im2fGcu7B5k

random desire is super solid. dulli was really reinvigorated by the whigs reunion tour it seems like because everything he put out since then has been great, and a big step up from dynamite steps, which wasn't bad or anything but it did feel a bit like twilight singers by numbers

it kinda falls apart at the end but the first 5 songs + "beginning of the end" are pretty great

there's just nothing on it that excites me as much as "there's been an accident", "i wish i was", or "bonnie brae" from powder burns, or the majority of blackberry belle

https://soundcloud.com/creationbaby/afghan-whigs-miss-world

hope no one misses this hole cover, it was a b-side to the "66" single iirc but isn't on streaming or youtube anywhere as far as i can see. just dulli on piano with a horn section backing him & it's gorgeous