Don't Forget The AlcoPOLL (ooh baby! ooh baby!): ILM Artist Poll #109 - The Afghan Whigs - RESULTS

would argue it is the best cover of all time xp

"creep" cover is amazing ofc, always felt a kinship with the whigs bc they covered six-year-old me's favorite song

i'm guessing "lost in the supermarket" took this? great result tbh, despite my earlier complaining

real three dimensional cover

1. The Afghan Whigs - Lost in the Supermarket
94 points, 6 voters
originally performed by The Clash, written by Strummer/Jones
released on Burning London: The Clash Tribute
studio version

really stunning cover, love the "train in vain" drums & snippets at the end, and those soaring backing vocals!

Yeah, I had that as my #2, which is fine, as my left field #1 didn’t place.

Honky’s Ladder EP apparently also had this other non-original which I hadn’t known about until just now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph_yW2OHKFE

there are so many dulli covers i had no idea about before doing this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHoY0cTiGbk

"be for real" was a real favourite (from the beautiful girls soundtrack but even better than "can't get enough of your love babe") but i only discovered it right before voting closed

the "when you sleep" cover was also another i had no idea at all about until it showed up in someone's ballot

and full results... will put together a playlist of everything soon

1. The Afghan Whigs - Lost in the Supermarket (The Clash cover) - 94 points, 6 voters
2. The Afghan Whigs - Creep (TLC Cover) - 85 points, 7 voters, 1 #1 vote
3. The Afghan Whigs - Come See About Me (The Supremes cover) - 74 points, 4 voters, 2 #1 votes
4. The Afghan Whigs - Lovecrimes (Frank Ocean cover) - 73 points, 6 voters, 1 #1 vote
5. The Afghan Whigs - Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe (Barry White cover) - 69 points, 5 voters
6. The Twilight Singers - Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair (traditional cover) - 60 points, 4 voters, 1 #1 vote
7. The Afghan Whigs - Mr. Superlove (Ass Ponys cover) - 42 points, 5 voters
8. The Afghan Whigs - My World is Empty Without You (The Supremes cover) - 38 points, 4 voters (14 points for "My World is Empty Without You/I Hear a Symphony")
9. The Twilight Singers - Too Tough to Die (Martina Topley-Bird cover) - 36 points, 4 voters
10. The Afghan Whigs - Regret (New Order cover) - 36 points, 2 voters, 1 #1 vote
11. The Afghan Whigs - Miss World (Hole cover) - 30 points, 3 voters
12. The Afghan Whigs - The Temple (Lloyd Webber/Rice cover, from Jesus Christ Superstar) - 28 points, 2 voters
13. The Twilight Singers - Please Stay (Once You Go Away) (Marvin Gaye cover) - 26 points, 3 voters
14. The Afghan Whigs - Every Little Thing She Does is Magic (The Police cover) - 23 points, 3 voters
15. The Afghan Whigs - Ex-Factor (Lauryn Hill cover) - 23 points, 2 voters
16. The Afghan Whigs - I Keep Coming Back (Tyrone Davis cover) - 21 points, 2 voters
17. The Afghan Whigs - I'll Be Around (The Spinners cover) - 20 points, 1, 1 voter
18. The Twilight Singers - When Doves Cry (Prince cover) - 20 points, 1, 1 voter
19. Greg Dulli - Isn't It A Pity/Atlantis (George Harrison/Donovan cover medley) - 20 points, 1, 1 voter
20. The Afghan Whigs - Nightime (Big Star cover) - 20 points, 2 voters
21. The Afghan Whigs - Beware (Al Green cover) - 18 points, 1 voter
22. The Afghan Whigs - Beast of Burden (The Rolling Stones cover) - 18 points, 2 voters
23. The Afghan Whigs - Band of Gold (Freda Payne cover) - 18 points, 1 voter
24. The Afghan Whigs - Dark End of the Street (James Carr cover) - 18 points, 3 voters
25. The Afghan Whigs - Be For Real (Marlena Shaw cover) - 16 points, 1 voter
26. The Afghan Whigs - One Day (The Church cover) - 14 points, 1 voter
27. The Twilight Singers - Live With Me (Massive Attack cover) - 13 points, 2 voters
28. The Afghan Whigs - (Don't Worry) If There's a Hell Below, We're All Going to Go (Curtis Mayfield cover) - 12 points, 1 voter
29. The Afghan Whigs - Superstition (Stevie Wonder cover) - 12 points, 2 voters
30. Greg Dulli - Paper Thin Hotel (Leonard Cohen cover) - 11 points, 1 voter
31. The Afghan Whigs - Moon River (Henry Mancini cover) - 11 points, 1 voter
32. Greg Dulli - A Crime (Sharon von Etten cover) - 11 points, 1 voter
33. The Twilight Singers - Hyperballad (Bjork cover) - 10 points, 1 voter
34. The Twilight Singers - Don't Call (Desire cover) - 10 points, 1 voter
35. The Twilight Singers - When You Sleep (My Bloody Valentine cover) - 8 points, 1 voter
36. The Backbeat Band - Helter Skelter (The Beatles cover) - 4 points, 1 voter
37. The Afghan Whigs - Little Girl Blue (Rodgers/Hart cover, from Jumbo) - 4 points, 1 voter
38. The Afghan Whigs - I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (Prince cover) - 2 points, 1 voter
39. The Afghan Whigs - Purple Rain (Prince cover) - 2 points, 1 voter

oh i messed that up lol... let me try again

17. The Afghan Whigs - I'll Be Around (The Spinners cover) - 20 points, 1 voter, 1# vote
18. The Twilight Singers - When Doves Cry (Prince cover) - 20 points, 1 voter, 1# vote

just these two

& 14 points for "Please Stay (Once You Go Away)" were for it as part of "A Love Supreme/Please Stay (Once You Go Away)"

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxWLJazbXOakAdy9duG4og7bz6Fsd-QSg

here's a playlist of all those covers, i even uploaded a few that weren't on youtube before

amazing work

Wow, great job!

the "when you sleep" cover was also another i had no idea at all about until it showed up in someone's ballot

yeah it didn't quite make my ballot but it was wonderful to discover

my ballot fwiw (ranked)
When Doves Cry
Lost in the Supermarket
Be For Real
Miss World
Ex-Factor
Mr. Superlove
Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe
Nightime
Lovecrimes
I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man

my ranked covers ballot:

Come See About Me
Band of Gold
The Temple
Lost in the Supermarket
Lovecrimes
Don't Call
Mr. Superlove
Creep
Little Girl Blue
Miss World

i was the number one voter for lovecrimes, which runs rings around the frank version

my short, ranked covers ballot

Lovecrimes
Creep
Regret
Lost In The Supermarket
Beast of Burden

what are y’all’s dream whigs covers? i mentioned the following on the voting thread:

neil young - powderfinger
tears for fears - woman in chains

yeah "woman in chains" would be a great fit

hmm... "Why Don't You Move In With Me?" by Roberta Flack?

just spitballing here but i could imagine them taking the Cure's 'fascination st' by the scruff of the neck and making it tuff and funky and vicious

iirc the Lost In The Supermarket cover was recorded after the band split (it's just Dulli and Curley, plus Susan Marshall and the drum track), so they go from that to Lovecrimes

great work ufo!!

it was released march 1999 and they were still touring behind 1965 until september or so

the tracks released between then & 2012 are "nightime" (a big star cover) which was recorded in 1996 but not released until 2006 for a tribute album, and "i'm a soldier" and "magazine" on the greatest hits comp, which were tracks they originally demoed in 2000 in the failed sessions for their planned next album before breaking up, but they finished recording them in 2006 for the greatest hits album

yeah I was cheating the Unbreakable tracks as not-entirely-new recordings there. ty for fact check

Live With Me video not available.

ah it was available for me here in australia. replaced it with one that should hopefully work worldwide?

Yes, now I can see, thanks!

going to count down albums now, and then tracks #50-41

https://i.imgur.com/Jao7t2Z.jpg
10. The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
18 points, 4 voters

about half of the tracks on this record are perfected rawk gloom

https://i.imgur.com/2tguNGE.jpg
9. The Afghan Whigs - Do to the Beast
28 points, 6 voters

manages to split the difference really nicely between self-consciously returning to the classic Whigs sound and continuing on with the sound of the Twilight Singers, even if McCollum's absence is noticeable

it was nice for poll purposes to reconfirm that do to the beast is significantly more inspired than dynamite steps (even though dulli never really steps below "good" ever)

yeah he certainly seemed a bit reinvigorated from the whigs reunion, even though he never put out a bad album from congregation onwards

https://i.imgur.com/n93cUDO.jpg
8. The Twilight Singers - Powder Burns
32 points, 5 voters

contains like eight of dulli's best songs ever and one of his worst

Yeah nice to see powder burns show up, I felt bad not voting for it considering how much I love some of the songs on it but it’s just so inconsistent

which one's the dud? it's got some real gems on it but ultimately feels just like blackberry belle except not quite as good to me. i love blackberry belle so that's fine of course

https://i.imgur.com/w96PjJc.jpg
7. Twilight as played by The Twilight Singers
44 points, 6 voters

I'm really sorry but I do not like that other guy's vocals. lots of good stuff in the mix though

which one's the dud

"my time (has come)"

i love shawn smith and harold chichester and twilight is way too low

it's a pretty weird exploratory record, not quite like anything else he's done. there's parts of the sound dulli brought over to the later twilight singers records but a lot that's very distinctively on its own. i'm not huge on the other two singers either. there's a few great tracks and a lot of stuff that's just fine?

I couldn't get into Twilight at all, sorry.

"my time (has come)" is not good but not bad enough to actively bother me i guess

again, twilight is his sade record

it's possible i'm unduly influenced by the fact that it was my introduction to dulli. i listened to it on repeat while reading watchmen for the first time in hs. huge record for me

Party at the mansion, y’all

Looks like nobody voted for that one.

Hope it’s not too late to change my ballot

xp I voted for I’m A Soldier! def a half-remembered/impressionistic vote as I remember being impressed by it when that Unbreakable comp came out - listening to it now maybe it feels a little like a collection of great bits that don’t totally cohere but I really dig the restrained tension of the intro and I still think it’s a cool tune

No worries. Feel like there are no wrong answers in this poll, at least in the upper reaches.

Should I still be listening after the poll is over?

thanks for running the poll ufo!

who's hot who's not

Did anyone think about this for their covers ballot?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-6dhxaMJNo

Oh, I see that sic mentioned it in the nominations/runup thread.

But don't you let me breathe/Let it wash all over me
=
Now it's up to me/To bow out gracefully

WIkipedia says when they toured the album they would interpolate the one song into the other.

And I guess they did it later as well.

they do that a lot! the other day i youtubed a live performance of Faded that started with I Can't Make You Love Me -- tbrrwu I heard the opening chords on the piano and my face literally exploded with tears, then the Bonnie Raitt song? Then more Faded? I felt like I had an ecstatic experience aka that's what the best Whigs shows felt like.

the soul, the screen, the smoke in between
the rise, the fall, the thrill
the first, the last, the sins of the past
the burn, the fade, the skin that you flayed

come see
the sun
kill everyone

but me
i’m free
indubitably

brad

indubitably

I think a lot of it's just time constraints, but I can be quite monomaniacal about bands - only really sticking to or only needing/able to handle a single record, maybe two or three at a push. What I love about the polls on here, among other things, is how they open up discographies and force one to listen to a wider range. Short version: this band, and offshoots eh?

This isn't any great revelation, but it strikes me that Dulli does quite a lot with not very much: particular rhythms, themes of betrayal and desperation, the endorphin rush of drugs and love and fucking, the vocal lines that complement those themes and don't venture a huge amount beyond 'baaayybeee, let me/can I/will you...' Which is his own kind of monomania and thank god for it.

Current top 10 would be something like:

Crime Scene Part One
Summer's Kiss
There's Been An Accident
When We Two Parted
Faded
Fountain and Fairfax
Candy Cane Crawl
Into the Street
Debonair
What Jail is Like

Good posts, Chinaski.

I've only heard Black Love, and only liked "Night by Candlelight" on that, which I see got no votes. Is there likely anything else in their work for me?

Doubt it

what are y’all’s dream whigs covers? i mentioned the following on the voting thread:

neil young - powderfinger
tears for fears - woman in chains

― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Monday, June 14, 2021 10:48 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

was listening to Talk Talk yesterday and "Living in Another World" reminded me of this question

meant to post here, whatever

they just played “gentleman” in full over the p.a. at camden yards during the yanks-orioles game

― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Thursday, September 16, 2021 7:50 PM (0 seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

Wow

haha according to lindsey adler warmups was a festival of 90s deep cuts