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

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

love this track

funnily enough, however, nothing from my ballot has showed up yet

the transition from country-tinged ballad to the blown out chorus with synth strings & electric piano is great, blackberry belle has such a cool sound overall

https://i.imgur.com/wm449LI.jpg
38. The Afghan Whigs - Crazy
88 points, 4 votes
from 1965

great pop song i wish i could have fit on my ballot

ugh the best song ever

algiers was one my last to be cut. castanets ftw.

"crazy" is the first thing from my ballot to place, contains both the perfect guitar tone and my favorite whigs lyric ever:

so what's gonna happen to you now?
therapy
the pharmacy

when i saw them in ~2018 i dont think they played anything from 1965. shame really.

https://i.imgur.com/2FGOCwx.jpg
37. The Afghan Whigs - Lost in the Woods
100 points, 3 votes, 1 #1 vote
from Do To The Beast

totally classic soaring chorus

I wish I had more to say than "unbelievable song"

unbelievable song

beautiful song, voted for it. the only afghan whigs song that reminds me of the wrens.

actually one of the new live songs the wrens did a while back was a dead ringer for a dulli number

i was the no. 1 vote btw :D

there's a lot of whigs songs that remind me of the wrens actually, they have a similar sort of soar to them. "crime scene part one" for instance has a pretty similar vibe as an opener as "happy". which was the new live wrens song that sounded like dulli?

https://i.imgur.com/rA0ke5k.jpg
36. The Afghan Whigs - Retarded
102 points, 4 votes
from Up In It

this is just like a fairly average alt-rock song without much of the charm of their later stuff and of course a straight up terrible lyric dulli should be ashamed of

hmm looks like "lost in the woods" is officially way too low

honestly love the groove of "r*******"

and the opening line

way worse song than "lost in the woods" though

https://i.imgur.com/TKSiCqp.jpg
35. The Afghan Whigs - 66
112 points, 4 votes
from 1965

another that's way too low, fantastic shimmering pop moment

the one weakness is lack of a strong bridge but they make up for that live by throwing "little red corvette" in there

https://i.imgur.com/XeCHdzF.jpg
34. The Afghan Whigs - Into the Floor
112 points, 5 votes
from In Spades