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

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"

.

come on "Black Moon"

Here come flattop

it's 5am on the east coast guys

Faded ftw

11. The Afghan Whigs - John the Baptist - 290 points, 10 votes, 1 #1 vote
12. The Afghan Whigs - Crime Scene Part One - 278 points, 10 votes
13. The Afghan Whigs - Fountain and Fairfax - 272 points, 9 votes
14. The Afghan Whigs - Going to Town - 264 points, 12 votes
15. The Afghan Whigs - Be Sweet - 216 points, 7 votes
16. The Afghan Whigs - Blame, Etc. - 198 points, 8 votes
17. The Afghan Whigs - My Enemy - 186 points, 8 votes
18. The Afghan Whigs - Oriole - 186 points, 6 votes
19. The Afghan Whigs - Omertà - 184 points, 7 votes
21. The Twilight Singers - Teenage Wristband - 168 points, 7 votes
21. The Afghan Whigs - Now You Know - 168 points, 7 votes
22. The Afghan Whigs - Turn on the Water - 160 points, 6 votes, 1 #1 vote
23. The Afghan Whigs - When We Two Parted - 148 points, 10 votes
24. The Afghan Whigs - Conjure Me - 146 points, 6 votes
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

and now the top 10...

https://i.imgur.com/eDXsbFK.jpg
10. The Afghan Whigs - Miles Iz Ded
296 points, 12 votes
from Congregation

Yes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUKn9biSiuA

"miles iz ded"/"into the floor" from the reunion tour was sure something

also kind of wild to close your reunion tour with a new song

https://i.imgur.com/ofo5kNU.jpg
9. The Afghan Whigs - Honky's Ladder
300 points, 10 votes
from Black Love

https://i.imgur.com/l5UZBEW.jpg
8. The Afghan Whigs - Summer's Kiss
326 points, 11 votes, 1 #1 vote
from Black Love

This would have been my number one. It destroys me. The production, the guitars, the heart of it. Even in my mind's ear it's too much.

iirc dulli said it was his attempt at writing a who song

it's incredible, a song that's entirely just reaching out for something higher, never really settling into a groove, and it actually kinda gets there

the drumming is especially great

That's a great explanation - not so much a song as a reaching for the beyond. And some of the fills in this. Damn

summer’s kiss was my number one, that incredible tension and release. so anthemic.

it’s funny that dulli said he was trying to write a who song because it really does remind me of baba o’riley

i stare into a blinding light
alone, i stare

https://i.imgur.com/DA8957m.jpg
7. The Afghan Whigs - Uptown Again
348 points, 11 votes, 1 #1 vote
from 1965

I don't remember which version of the 'put on your old fur coat it's 1973' lyric I heard first, this or the Satchel song Suffering, but for such an obtuse lyric it's taken up residence in my subconscious and won't leave.

Xposts

great track that i didn't really expect to see this high. all about susan marshall's backing vocals

my #1. should be on the radio all the time, instead of never.

the ‘go’ in summer’s kiss

don’t understand how uptown again wasn’t a hit

https://i.imgur.com/zOa1BSw.jpg
6. The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
362 points, 12 votes, 1 #1 vote
from Gentlemen

"miles iz ded"/"into the floor" from the reunion tour was sure something

yeah! Still a bit dirty that they didn’t play this at the show i saw

That clip totally captures how strong those 2012 shows were tho - dulli in great voice, drummer a monster, inaudible cellist

"Gentlemen" was the first Whigs song I loved but when I put the album on again it seemed like the sixth best song, and I limited myself to five. feel kinda bad now.

https://i.imgur.com/znw6pJS.jpg
5. The Afghan Whigs - What Jail Is Like
378 points, 12 votes
from Gentlemen

it's a very solid track but not one i was expecting to see anywhere near this high

yah same

first time I heard what jail is like was the peel session on uk radio when I was visiting in 1994 - I was sitting in a coach and totally caught up in my own relationship mess - in the context of Indie Music 1994 it just seemed so much richer and complex and ambitious than anything else around it - had enjoyed gentlemen and debonair as cool miami vice rock but I guess this was the song that really sealed the deal for me wrt the whigs

It’s a personal favorite of mine, but my ballot was unranked anyway so I also figured it might not place that high.

Even as a title it's classic. And pure Dulli.

https://i.imgur.com/eD2YRxb.jpg
4. The Afghan Whigs - Bulletproof
398 points, 13 votes, 1 #1 vote
from Black Love

a beast

https://i.imgur.com/F7EKa20.jpg
3. The Afghan Whigs - Debonair
434 points, 14 votes, 1 #1 vote
from Gentlemen

dulli's writing process for this one was just combining "i want you back" with laura palmer's theme from twin peaks

a genius combo

seriously one of the best songs ever, probably deserves to be number one