The tracklisting for Unbreakable/A Retrospective out May 1 on Rhino Records
1- Retarded2- Crazy3- Turn On The Water4- Debonair5- I'm A Soldier6- 667- Be Sweet8- Come See About Me9- Uptown Again10- What Jail Is Like11- Magazine12- I'm Her Slave13- Going To Town14- Gentlemen15- Let Me Lie To You16- John the Baptist17- Crime Scene Part One18- Faded
Not chronological, very incomplete, but it's something, I suppose. :-/
― StanM (StanM), Friday, 26 January 2007 11:59 (seventeen years ago) link
Search: pretty much everything not on hereDestroy: the people who decided not to rerelease/remaster the whole catalog (maybe they will, though, someday, who knows?)
― StanM (StanM), Friday, 26 January 2007 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Friday, 26 January 2007 12:14 (seventeen years ago) link
One disc is always going to be incomplete, isn't it?
― StanM (StanM), Friday, 26 January 2007 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― jimbo (electricsound), Friday, 26 January 2007 12:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Friday, 26 January 2007 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 26 January 2007 12:46 (seventeen years ago) link
(hell, just click on "whigsbitch" and check out all the other stuff this guy/girl has uploaded on youtube)
― StanM (StanM), Friday, 26 January 2007 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Friday, 26 January 2007 13:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link
was really going ham on "black love" a week or so ago, listening to basically nothing else. some pretty amazing moments but all in all it's a really frustrating record. the magic of "gentleman" is missing somehow, greg dulli's singing struck me as really lazy, out-of-tune for no good reason. the worst is the mixing, it must be dulli's rhythm guitar that's pushed up so far, why? he just grinds away on like two notes. isn't this supposed to be funky? let the bass lead. rick mccollum is some kind of rough genius tho. and the drumming is really good; i read in an interview years and years ago that dulli booted a drummer for basically being a druggy raver? was that this guy?
songs like "night by candlelight", i don't get why the strings don't even seem like they're arranged. there are these big crescendos, but the bass and the chords aren't even the same, everyone is sawing away with emotion. yeah yeah i get the stonesy shambolic thing but this is a big unfocused mess.
― goole, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link
hmm...interesting i've always liked it more than gentlemen...not really scrutinized the mix though.
but honestly i loved this album at a point in my life when i was very young, very depressed, and very drunk and it was so perfect for that i can't really judge it from a distance.
― for HOOM the bell tolls (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
ha i feel the same way about gentlemen!
the "hard bitten lifer dude at the bar telling you kids crazy stories" steez about dulli that made a HUGE impression on me as a kid. hard relationships, drugs, booze, bad decisions, leather jackets, old records, sexy ladies with crazy problems, getting your shoes shined, bailing out your friend who got caught at a cockfight, bad shit going town to-ni-ee-ight, all that. i dunno if i'm just OLD now but it doesn't wear very well anymore. half the time i just want to say, greg, come on, your life isn't really like this. relax.
― goole, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
a friend of mine worked on a whigs video shoot a looong time ago and said that dulli showed up way way late, drinking a bottle of whiskey and walking with a pimp cane
― for HOOM the bell tolls (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
gentlemen was the last one with the original drummer, then black love had a new drummer, then 1965 had another new drummer iirc
yeah dulli is totally over the top with the shtick, but somehow it seemed to usually work. dude is v. good at playing rock star.
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Their version of Come See About Me is still probably my favourite cover of all time.
― Jamie_ATP, Sunday, 13 June 2010 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^ YES
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Monday, 14 June 2010 03:44 (fourteen years ago) link
like their Creep and Can't Get Enough Of better, I think
― BIG SAUS aka the porkbanger (sic), Monday, 14 June 2010 11:50 (fourteen years ago) link
still can't figure out what the hell honkey's ladder is about. Is this song about race and class? or is it just about some crime movie that I haven't seen?
― akm, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 06:52 (fourteen years ago) link
oh also, after 3 years, I just found my copy of black love.
― akm, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 06:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Love Black Love, especially Night by Candlelight.
Anyone know the origin of the song title Vampire Lanois? Dulli get mad at Daniel Lanois or something?
― thirdalternative, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
It's not a dis. iirc they were New Orleans pals back then and its a nod to his fashion sense
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah. That's neat-o.
― thirdalternative, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Gentleman is a quite a good record. It has aged very well.
― earlnash, Thursday, 27 January 2011 04:38 (thirteen years ago) link
it has about three or four very good songs. and the rest is a mess. i can't work out whether it's an appealing mess or not.
― charlie h, Friday, 28 January 2011 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
REVIVE FOR RETURN OF WHIGS (i think the revive thread was on the sandbox)
http://www.zooborns.com/.a/6a010535647bf3970b011571a1f52b970b-800wiHyssop...in my perfume?
― La Lechera, Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
is it just coachella or a full tour?
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
...OR A TOUR AND ALBUM HUSH
they're not doing Coachella.
So far they're doing our shows in London and Asbury Park plus Primavera in Barcelona and Porto.
Cannot WAIT.
― Jamie_ATP, Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
Supported by Archers Of Loaf!
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
it's an ATP in London in May, then Dulli curating one in New Jersey in September
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
oops xpost
sorry, mixed up huge-festivals-i'd-never-do
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
no separate tour tho?
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
Haven't heard about one yet. I wouldn't say we're huge though.
ATP = approx 5000 people. Coachella = 90,000.
― Jamie_ATP, Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
I wonder if they'll play a Faith No More and barely play the U.S.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 12 January 2012 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
weren't FNM always bigger in europe anyway? I'm not too surprised that they mainly only played biggish european shows.
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 13 January 2012 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
they have too many fans in the US to not tour here too
― La Lechera, Friday, 13 January 2012 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.boweryballroom.com/event/120623
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
Curley!
"It will be nice to experience the Whigs again as a grown-up," jokes Curley. "In my mind, the Whigs were a live band above anything else. Playing shows always was our favorite part about being in the band, and the times when we felt the most freedom and release. I missed playing at that level; I missed playing the songs that we wrote, that meant so much to people - and to us."
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
i really hope they tour
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
I do too but I'm grouchy about Lollapalooza and their stupid 100 mi clause (or w/e it was called) because that means I am going to have to travel to see them because I sure don't want to go to gross Lollapalooza.
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
I told myself I'd buy a Lolla ticket for the day if they were on the same day as Black Sabbath. They are, so I go tone. Also Black Keys, Black Angels and Tame Impala.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, yeah Sabbath + Whigs is mighty tempting, but the vibe there is so overwhelmingly AWFUL that I don't know if I can stomach it!
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
I told myself I'd buy a Lolla ticket for the day if they were on the same day as Black Sabbath.
Same, though haven't done it yet. Of course, Friday is sold out...
Whigs live were one of the best live bands I've ever seen. I'm worried they'll pull a Faith No More and play Lolla then nothing else in America.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
wait is it Whigs + Eagles Of Death Metal or Whigs + Joseph Arthur (whose bio is posted under the Whigs')? Far more interested in the former, though I'm guessing these tickets will go in five seconds.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
EoDM site is promoting the show, so maybe Arthur backed out?
― da croupier, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
never mind, I'm an idiot. With Arthur in May, with EoDM in October.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
They already have other gigs booked in America - one of the first two announced in the reunion was American. I'm sure they'll play a proper NA tour once they've run out of festivals around the world.
They're playing one of their only club shows on the tour so far a whopping 12 minutes walk from my bedroom, such a pain in the balls that'll be :D
(they've never come to this country before though so)
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
your balls must hurt really badly :-/(congratulations btw, you will enjoy the show guaranteed)
― former personal denim advisor to the mayor, (La Lechera), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 02:39 (twelve years ago) link