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

my albums ballot:

Black Love
1965
Twilight
Gentlemen
In Spades
Blackberry Belle
Do to the Beast

50. The Twilight Singers - I Wish I Was
56 points, 3 votes
from Powder Burns

50. The Afghan Whigs - If I Were Going
56 points, 3 votes
from Gentlemen

interesting start lol. "i wish i was" is gorgeous

yeah it's a great closer

"kiss the floor" almost made my tracks ballot for the drum part alone, but i get the most out of the singles on congregation

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, June 15, 2021 8:13 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

i voted for it, hope it makes it!

my albs ranked top to bottom:

Black Love
1965
Gentlemen
In Spades
Powder Burns
Do The Beast
twilight as played by the twilight singers

voted for i wish i was. dulli by way of blue nile.

that explosion about halfway through is stunning. i really like dullis vocals on it too

48. The Afghan Whigs - Neglekted
56 points, 4 votes
from 1965

i knew a girl
extraordinary
suggested something
unsanitary

u can fuck my body baby
but pls
don't fuck my mind

"neglekted" was def one of the most difficult songs to cut from my ballot

47. The Afghan Whigs - It Kills
60 points, 3 votes
from Do To The Beast

46. The Twilight Singers - Verti-Marte
62 points, 2 votes
from Twilight

46. The Twilight Singers - Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair
62 points, 2 votes
from She Loves You

"Verti-Marte" is a cool jam thing but i wish it had been developed into a proper song because there's a great idea there

cheers to the other voter for these

wow, two people voted for "verti-marte," that rules

goodbye motherfucker

*46. The Twilight Singers - Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair*
62 points, 2 votes
from _She Loves You_

songs where dulli looks jealously/longingly on someone else are some of my favorites and "it kills" is no exception

44. The Twilight Singers - That's Just How That Bird Sings
64 points, 3 votes
from Twilight

i love the bridge(?) of "it kills," when van hunt takes over/"you don't know my name!"

43. The Twilight Singers - Esta Noche
68 points, 3 votes
from Blackberry Belle

i love "esta noche", the jazzy build at the end is great & the electric piano that just becomes part of the gigantic wall of soud

42. The Twilight Singers - Twilight
74 points, 4 votes
from Twilight

rock steady baby

such a gorgeous track, where everything really comes together on that album

everything's gonna be alright

really where "it's his sade album" makes the most sense

oh lol i mistook it for "the twilite kid" but yeah "twilight" is amazing

I ended up voting The Twilite Kid higher than Twilight but I might have changed my mind on that in the last week since I sent in my ballot. Beautiful song.

41. The Afghan Whigs - Brother Woodrow/Closing Prayer
76 points, 3 votes
from Gentlemen

last one for today

Ah Brother Woodrow/Closing Prayer was my last cut, nice to see it here.

always seemed weird to me that gentlemen closes with a cover and an instrumental, but it's a gorgeous piece of music

hey sorry if someone else was gonna do it but i wanted to follow along live as the results came out so i created a playlist for the rollout:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3bn77iz1OB0NQ1MqfimVBg?si=b80f819597f54a51

ufo are you staying up all night in the dark to match times with us?

it really was just for nintendo's e3 show, being able to roll out some results at a time when the board is actually awake was just a bonus

aww

my issue with 1965 is that 'sweet son of a bitch', 'citi soleil' and 'john the baptist' are over-the-top bad to the point that i'm not willing to give 'the slide song' or 'neglekted' the benefit of the doubt. i mean, we get it: sex!

the horns are great tho

whaat "john the baptist" is fantastic

"sweet son of a bitch" is definitely terrible but it's a tiny interlude that's the most skippable thing in the world

I hate to cross mookie, but I like both “John the Baptist” and “Citi Soleil,” and may have even voted for them as part of my selections from 1965, although the latter is in the same tradition of misspellings as David Johansen’s “Swaheto Woman.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpbAsJXS5xQ

time for 40-26...

https://i.imgur.com/EfOCbOp.jpg
40. The Afghan Whigs - Algiers
80 points, 4 votes
from Do To The Beast

gorgeous song, and ny some distance their most streamed, possibly thanks to ray donovan

*by

ray donovan

i remember listening to this for the first time and thinking wahhhh this doesn't sound like the afghan whigs but it sounds rad???? still true

yeah it was a strange comeback single, not really being representative of the rest of the album, not the classic whigs sound, not quite its most accessible moment

but it's a solid song

re: discussion upthread, "john the baptist" is a classic, come on

https://i.imgur.com/sZVn5Ir.jpg
39. The Twilight Singers - Papillon
88 points, 3 votes
from Blackberry Belle