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

“Step into the Light” was one of the few I reluctantly cut from Black Love to make room for other stuff.

step into the light got a number 1 vote, nice. i love their ballads

if i woulda ordered my ballot i woulda had into the floor in my top 5. the song is in a constant state of falling forward.

https://i.imgur.com/BDCfWHE.jpg
31. The Twilight Singers - Candy Cane Crawl
122 points, 5 votes
from Powder Burns

the studio version of this is alright but obviously when they turn it into an 8 minute epic live is the real deal

eh the studio cut has its own magic too, v gorgeous gentle ballad, appropriate it placed next to "step into the light"

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

here's a great live version

the studio version has a similar low-boil magic to "set the ray to jerry" imo

which was the new live wrens song that sounded like dulli?

I was thinking of "Get Out of this Hopeless Town" but "Well it's Right then it's Wrong" (both seen here) fits as well I think. There's some Dulli-esque intensity to "Boys You Won't" as well, so maybe it's Kevin-specific.

"boys you won't" even has the high "ooooh"s that are a dulli trademark

https://i.imgur.com/VmHJlVR.jpg
30. The Twilight Singers - Bonnie Brae
126 points, 4 votes
from Powder Burns

this song deserved so much better than a rescue me needle drop

too low!

https://i.imgur.com/4Wz5QdJ.jpg
29. The Twilight Singers - There's Been an Accident
126 points, 5 votes
from Powder Burns

what an amazing song. in my top five

there's something steinman-ian in the build to this one

three straight from powder burns

bonnie brae too low!

https://i.imgur.com/3MHc42k.jpg
28. The Afghan Whigs - Somethin' Hot
130 points, 4 votes
from 1965

good song about butts

https://i.imgur.com/90rkjeK.jpg
27. The Afghan Whigs - Double Day
134 points, 5 votes
from Black Love

oh man couldn't fit this track on my ballot no matter how hard i tried but it's like wow another phenomenal song on black love, big whoop

it's one of the weaker tracks on black love and still phenomenonal and full of great tricks like letting the backing vocalist go wild during the guitar solo

portends 1965 a lil

https://i.imgur.com/fUN8H2n.jpg
26. The Afghan Whigs - Demon in Profile
136 points, 6 votes
from In Spades

oh wait it's a tie i forgot

https://i.imgur.com/W2hTSu7.jpg
26. The Afghan Whigs - Citi Soleil
136 points, 6 votes
from 1965

funky tie

and that's all for now

ty for your service

Voted for everything less than or equal to 28.

And yeah, thanks.

I've really only dug into Gentleman, 1965, and especially, Black Love, and if they (and Dulli) have 26 songs better than Double Day, sign me up.

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

Nothing Dulli has made since Black Love has made a connection -- will keep trying, thanks in part to you all -- but I've heard Telefon Tel Aviv's "I Lied" as a Whigs piano ballad since 2004, word to "Nolia Clap."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPkcd1qpZJw

Surprised that neither "Rot" nor "Chalk Outline" received any covers votes.

If elected, my team and I will do everything in our power to facilitate a discussion between Dulli and Linda Ronstadt that enables Ronstadt to air out her legitimate objection to the cover of Gentlemen and ends with her hearing the Whigs' version of "Dark End of the Street" (which would have been number two for me, after "Come See About Me").

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKBvG8XJrSU

Whoa, basically a whole day of too lows. Algiers, Papillon, Crazy, 66, Into the Floor, Double Day all in my top ten.

so far:

26. The Afghan Whigs - Citi Soleil - 136 points, 6 votes
26. The Afghan Whigs - Demon in Profile - 136 points, 6 votes
27. The Afghan Whigs - Double Day - 134 points, 5 votes
28. The Afghan Whigs - Somethin' Hot - 130 points, 4 votes
29. The Twilight Singers - There's Been an Accident - 126 points, 5 votes
30. The Twilight Singers - Bonnie Brae - 126 points, 4 votes
31. The Twilight Singers - Candy Cane Crawl - 122 points, 5 votes
32. The Afghan Whigs - Step Into the Light - 118 points, 4 votes, 1 #1 vote
33. The Afghan Whigs - I'm Her Slave - 114 points, 5 votes
34. The Afghan Whigs - Into the Floor - 112 points, 5 votes
35. The Afghan Whigs - 66 - 112 points, 4 votes
36. The Afghan Whigs - Retarded - 102 points, 4 votes
37. The Afghan Whigs - Lost in the Woods - 100 points, 3 votes, 1 #1 vote
38. The Afghan Whigs - Crazy - 88 points, 4 votes
39. The Twilight Singers - Papillon - 88 points, 3 votes
40. The Afghan Whigs - Algiers - 80 points, 4 votes
41. The Afghan Whigs - Brother Woodrow/Closing Prayer - 76 points, 3 votes
42. The Twilight Singers - Twilight - 74 points, 4 votes
43. The Twilight Singers - Esta Noche - 68 points, 3 votes
44. The Twilight Singers - That's Just How That Bird Sings - 64 points, 3 votes
46. The Twilight Singers - Verti-Marte - 62 points, 2 votes
46. The Twilight Singers - Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair - 62 points, 2 votes
47. The Afghan Whigs - It Kills - 60 points, 3 votes
48. The Afghan Whigs - Neglekted - 56 points, 4 votes
50. The Twilight Singers - I Wish I Was - 56 points, 3 votes
50. The Afghan Whigs - If I Were Going - 56 points, 3 votes

Wondering how high the song I keep replaying in my head will place.

https://i.imgur.com/EvF5R4b.jpg
24. The Afghan Whigs - Conjure Me
146 points, 6 votes
from Congregation

^voted for this one

I apologize for failing to vote. I realized I couldn’t hack it emotionally!! Too intense for me rn, but I’ll follow the rollout when I can. My love for this band isn’t going anywhere ❤️💕❤️

https://i.imgur.com/6woHaJL.jpg
23. The Afghan Whigs - When We Two Parted
148 points, 10 votes
from Gentlemen

wow way too low!

Sorry, that's one I prized out of my ballot with a crowbar to make room for other stuff.

https://i.imgur.com/u40ra0G.jpg
22. The Afghan Whigs - Turn on the Water
160 points, 6 votes, 1 #1 vote
from Congregation

^and the same here

"When We Two Parted" is a favorite... it's got personality

yeah "when we two parted" just missed the ranked section of my ballot, now i kinda wish i ranked it

the steel guitar make when we two parted for me. everything is just so perfectly weepy.

https://i.imgur.com/zQwKBsX.jpg
21. The Twilight Singers - Teenage Wristband
168 points, 7 votes
from Blackberry Belle

https://i.imgur.com/vXhabQC.jpg
21. The Afghan Whigs - Now You Know
168 points, 7 votes
from Gentlemen

I know this is a lame thing to say but I feel "teenage wristband" was a decent-sized hit in a slightly different universe

bit into a rotten one xp