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

I will definitely vote whatever the deadline be

I will try to make that deadline but...

I’d appreciate an extension.
Has any attention been paid to how Dulli is a master cover-chooser?? The Whigs’ (Dulli’s??) choice of cover songs has been a defining aspect of my love for the band, beyond the songwriting and musicianship of the band

Always has the band’s strengths and the audience’s needs in mind and I swear I’ve lost my shit at more Whigs covers than any other band??

they're a rock band whose taste is part of their appeal and their ongoing project in a way i can't really compare to any others

by "band" there i think i kinda mean the whigs and the twilight singers and dulli solo all at the same time. but it's also down to the way rick mccollum plays guitar like he's a '70s r&b session dude with his distortion pedal cranked

mccollum is really such a fantastic player & it's a shame he wasn't able to stick around for the reunion albums, like those are still great without him but imagine what could have been.

I think it's neat that Dulli seems to only get good enough at instruments himself to convey his ideas, but then also surrounds himself with incredible talent to make up for it. It's a good approach!

Is Black Love the closest anyone gets to the paranoiac muddle of Exile on Main Street's production?

lol, possibly for many of the same reasons!

if you haven't been reading dulli interviews from the mid to late 00s...there's a lot of wild shit in there

Was he a big heroin guy? I know nothing about him.

coke, as the 1998 bootleg evidences

there are other subtle indications elsewhere lol

have sent out confirmations to those who've sent ballots so far

i'll extend the deadline until at least monday

This is impossible

Temptation comes not from hell
But from above

your kisses scourge me, hyssop in your perfume

This is impossible

yeah, I've got all my Dulli stuff by the stereo but everything's far too consistently great, how to choose

only thought so far is that 1965 will benefit from current heat wave

here to highlight this, one of the best on She Loves You:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-uatQxzQQQ

Please Stay (Once You Go Away) is also sounding great on this listen; this album really holds up well.

This is too hard. I thought I had a good handle on them but there's too much I don't know! I'm basically going to be choosing from Gentlemen, Black Love, 1965 and the first Twilight Singers' record.

I feel like She Loves You is OK, but not quite up to the standards of Dulli's best covers for the most part

i really like she loves you

however.... had the whigs put out a covers full-length in the ‘90s........

around half of she loves you is really good and the other half is just ok

yeah i remember being unmoved by the choices on She Loves You, so much that i didn't buy it. I don't think I want to hear Dulli singing "Strange Fruit" tbh. Uptown Avondale/live covers are where it was at for me. I remember slowly realizing what song they were playing and losing my shit when they played "Creep" at a show I saw in Cleveland.

Not looking good for finalizing a ballot.

i believe in y'all

My brane hurts

i believe in y'all

What’s the submission date? Sorry if I’ve missed the answer to this already

Was supposed to be today, theoretically was extended to tomorrow

I can’t even rank the tracks on Gentlemen, never mind the whole oeuvre.

Can I just post Gentlemen and Black Love and be done with it?

I just realized I have some bootleg comp of covers, b-sides & rarities called "Now We Can Begin." Nice to have a bunch of odds and ends in one place.

end date is: please get your ballots in as soon as you can, but if people need more time that's fine. no hard deadline at the moment, just want to get as many ballots as possible so we can have something of a decent rollout since turnout has been pretty low

if you're having trouble, remember you can do an unranked ballot! (just make sure to say so in the email)

Will get mine in today - just need to relisten to the last few albums chronologically... on it.

This is too hard. I thought I had a good handle on them but ... I'm basically going to be choosing from Gentlemen, Black Love, 1965 and the first Twilight Singers' record.

― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, June 4, 2021 11:18 PM (three days ago)

otm...

i really like she loves you

however.... had the whigs put out a covers full-length in the ‘90s........

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, June 5, 2021 1:05 AM (two days ago)

...but only because doing a separate covers ballot makes it possible to focus even that much. In order to help myself think properly about this, and then throw together a last-minute basic bitch main ballot, here are the covers I am trying to whittle down from (and a few I haven't heard):

OLD WHIGS

The Temple by Rice/Lord Sir ALW from Jesus Christ Superstar
Amphetamines & Coffee by Paul K. & The Weathermen
Mr Superlove by Ass Ponys
Dark End of the Street by Penn/Chips, first recorded by James Carr
Little Girl Blue by Rodgers/Hart in 1935, recorded variously inc Nina Simone in 1959
You've Changed by Carey/Fisher in 1941, recorded variously inc Billie Holiday in 1958
Moon River by Mancini/Mercer for Breakfast at Tiffany's
If I Only Had A Heart by Hap & Yip for The Wizard of Oz
Creep by Dallas Austin for TLC
Miss World by Hole
Papa Was A Rascal by James Booker
Be For Real by Frederick Knight, recorded by Marlena Shaw and, later, Laughing Len
Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe by Barry White
Nightime by Big Star
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? by Goffin/King for The Shirelles
Lost in the Supermarket by The Clash
Superstition by Stevie Wonder (as Somethin' Hot medley, usually)
Rot by Scrawl
Ready by Scrawl
True Love Travels On A Gravel Road by Frazier/Owens, recorded by Percy Sledge & al
Come See About Me by HDH for The Supremes
I Hear A Symphony by HDH for The Supremes
My World Is Empty Without You by HDH for The Supremes
Band of Gold by HDH for the Supremes but instead recorded by Freda Payne
I Keep Coming Back by Austell/Graham, recorded by Tyrone Davis
Beware by Al Green
If There’s A Hell Below, We’re All Going To Go by Curtis Mayfield
Revenge by Patti Smith Group
Easily Persuaded by Paul/Broadax/Shelby/Cooper for Martha & The Vandellas
I Want to Go to Sleep by Happy Chichester

TWILIGHT / GUTTER / SOLO

Dixie Peach Promenade by Skip Spence
Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair (trad.)
Feeling of Gaze by Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions (written w/ Colm O'Ciosoig)
Too Tough to Die by Martina Topley-Bird (written w/ David Holmer)
Hyperballad by Björk
Strange Fruit by "Lewis Allan," recorded by Billie Holiday
What Makes You Think You're the One by L-Bux in F-Mac
Real Love by Rooney/Morales for Mary J. Blige
Hard Time Killing Floor by Skip James
A Love Supreme by John Coltrane
Please Stay (Once You Go Away) by Marvin Gaye (written w/ Ed Townsend)
Summertime by Heyward/Gershwin/Gershwin for Porgy & Bess
Her Majesty by the Beatles
All You Need Is Love by the Beatles
Hey Ya by Outkast
Roses by Outkast
You Was For Real by Doug Sahm
Live With Me by Massive Attack
Flashback by Fat Freddy's Drop
Belles by Vetiver
Down The Line by Jose Gonzalez
Deep Hit Of Morning Sun by Primal Scream
Flow Like A River by Eleven
St. James Infirmary (trad.)
Duchess by Scott Walker
My Funny Valentine by Rodgers & Hart from Babes In Arms
Hard Luck Guy by Eddie Hinton
Cover Me by Eddie Hinton
Paper Thin Hotel by L. Cohen
A Crime by Sharon Van Etten
Modern Love by Bowie
When Doves Cry by Prince
Let It Be Me by Gilbert Decaud (lyrics by Pierre Delanoë, translated by Mann Curtis)
Girl From The North Country by R. Zimm
Shadowboxing by Ed Harcourt

NU-WHIGS

Lovecrimes by Frank Ocean
See And Don't See by Marie Queenie Lyons
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic by The ACABs
You Want Love by Pleasure Club

You missed a couple.

Hey, looks like one of you made a covers playlist, albeit not quite as extensive as what’s posted above.

You missed a couple.

Probably! If only my ipod hadn't died...

You should really fill in those gaps, for the record.

can get a tracks ballot in by tomorrow, probably. that work, ufo?

sent mine! thanks x

i really wanted to vote in this but only know two albums. will watch the results thread and have fun there.

can get a tracks ballot in by tomorrow, probably. that work, ufo?

that's fine!

You should really fill in those gaps, for the record.

I did mean to include Climax

Somebody Needs You To Vote For This

i'm intending to start the rollout monday next week so any last minute ballots will have until sunday to get them in