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

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

xp that applies to so many dulli songs lol

you wanna go for a riiiide

love the vanessa carlton intro

yeah that piano part is brilliant

also love all those vocal parts in the bridge

my ex used to refer to teenage wristband as dulli’s tori amos song, due to the piano; i thought this was facile, so we broke up

(not really)

https://i.imgur.com/LhFCud2.jpg
19. The Afghan Whigs - Omertà
184 points, 7 votes
from 1965

absolutely too low. it's great on record with "the vampire lanois" but live it's really taken to the next level

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joIR_qQ4-aw

yeahhhhhhhhhhhh yeahhhhhhh yeahhhhhhhhhh

too fuckin low!

why didnt i vote for this.

https://i.imgur.com/lBytHJ9.jpg
18. The Afghan Whigs - Oriole
186 points, 6 votes
from In Spades

one of the biggest surprises for me was seeing how well this did. it's fine but not really a standout among their post-reunion work or anything?

it's a clear standout! those strings! that choogling groove

it does choogle btw, won't hear arguments against that!

I voted for "Oriole," whether because Brad swayed me or of my own accord, I could't tell you right now.

https://i.imgur.com/xtR94uq.jpg
17. The Afghan Whigs - My Enemy
186 points, 8 votes
from Black Love

love the interplay between the guitars on this one, kinda post-punk

"oriole" is amazing, dulli apparently dreamed the chord progression in the second half of the song

Right

https://i.imgur.com/24dvdDR.jpg
16. The Afghan Whigs - Blame, Etc.
198 points, 8 votes
from Black Love

Voted for almost all of Black Love, including those two.

Didn't get around to a ballot in the end, but loving the rollout. Biggest revelation so far has been There's Been An Accident, which has taken the top of my head off three times today. Omerta fucking rules.

didn't vote for blame, etc. but love the funhouse mirror motown thing it has going on

in some ways this is the purest distillation of what made black love so great, everything's there

https://i.imgur.com/Vbx1a6g.jpg
15. The Afghan Whigs - Be Sweet
216 points, 7 votes
from Gentlemen

what a ridiculous song lol

the guitar sounds incredible, obviously

a song so precise, I even found it pretty uh legible when I was like 11

https://i.imgur.com/ZSPe4qY.jpg
14. The Afghan Whigs - Going to Town
264 points, 12 votes
from Black Love

YESSS
I would like subpoll of all songs where Dulli 1) goes to town 2) takes a ride

haha otm

lol

how many are there, "going to town", "teenage wristband", "follow you down"/"get the wheel"/"cigarettes", any others?

https://i.imgur.com/PPHsO4l.jpg
13. The Afghan Whigs - Fountain and Fairfax
272 points, 9 votes
from Gentlemen

Angel
Come closer
So the stink of your lies
Sinks into my memory

ugh, the best song

love this performance where dulli tries to charm an unresponsive german audience lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS0UUE_emEk

https://i.imgur.com/JK5c9FC.jpg
12. The Afghan Whigs - Crime Scene Part One
278 points, 10 votes
from Black Love

too low

an all time great opener

and now another that's still too low...

https://i.imgur.com/uUPZdqU.jpg
11. The Afghan Whigs - John the Baptist
290 points, 10 votes, 1 #1 vote
from 1965

that's the last for now

i didn't really realise just how incredible it was until revisiting 1965 for this poll, those horns are fantastic

i guess it's nothing but perfect songs from here on out

yup

I'll pop in and say a few words about a few numbers later

objectively i guess i can understand that a band might have 12 songs considered better than Fountain and Fairfax but… wow

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

Damn are no solo Dulli songs gonna make it at all? I thought one was a lock.

with a slightly longer ballot I'd have thrown in "marry me"

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