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

and here's the full results:

1. The Afghan Whigs - Faded - 552 points, 15 votes, 2 #1 votes
2. The Afghan Whigs - My Curse - 552 points, 15 votes, 1 #1 vote
3. The Afghan Whigs - Debonair - 434 points, 14 votes, 1 #1 vote
4. The Afghan Whigs - Bulletproof - 398 points, 13 votes, 1 #1 vote
5. The Afghan Whigs - What Jail Is Like - 378 points, 12 votes
6. The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen - 362 points, 12 votes, 1 #1 vote
7. The Afghan Whigs - Uptown Again - 348 points, 11 votes, 1 #1 vote
8. The Afghan Whigs - Summer's Kiss - 326 points, 11 votes, 1 #1 vote
9. The Afghan Whigs - Honky's Ladder - 300 points, 10 votes
10. The Afghan Whigs - Miles Iz Ded - 296 points, 12 votes
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
51. The Afghan Whigs - I Know Your Little Secret - 52 points, 2 votes
52. The Twilight Singers - On the Corner - 52 points, 2 votes
53. The Twilight Singers - Annie Mae - 50 points, 1 vote, 1 #1 vote
54. The Afghan Whigs - The Slide Song - 50 points, 2 votes
55. The Twilight Singers - Decatur St. - 48 points, 3 votes
56. The Afghan Whigs - The Vampire Lanois - 48 points, 2 votes
57. Greg Dulli - Lockless - 46 points, 1 vote
58. The Afghan Whigs - Kiss the Floor - 46 points, 2 votes
59. The Afghan Whigs - Sister Brother - 46 points, 1 vote
60. The Twilight Singers - Last Temptation - 46 points, 1 vote
61. The Afghan Whigs - Mr. Superlove - 44 points, 1 vote
62. The Afghan Whigs - Hey Cuz - 42 points, 1 vote
63. The Afghan Whigs - Creep - 40 points, 1 vote
64. The Afghan Whigs - Can Rova - 40 points, 2 votes
65. The Twilight Singers - Please Stay (Once You Go Away) - 40 points, 1 vote
66. The Twilight Singers - King Only - 38 points, 2 votes
67. The Afghan Whigs - Matamoros - 38 points, 1 vote
68. The Afghan Whigs - The Spell - 36 points, 3 votes
69. The Afghan Whigs - Congregation - 34 points, 1 vote
70. The Twilight Singers - The Twilite Kid - 34 points, 1 vote
71. Lo Fidelity Allstars feat. Greg Dulli - Somebody Needs You - 34 points, 1 vote
72. The Afghan Whigs - Come See About Me - 32 points, 1 vote
73. The Afghan Whigs - Hated - 32 points, 2 votes
74. The Afghan Whigs - I Got Lost - 30 points, 2 votes
75. The Twilight Singers - Underneath the Waves - 30 points, 2 votes
76. The Afghan Whigs - Let Me Lie To You - 30 points, 1 vote
77. Greg Dulli - Cigarettes - 28 points, 2 votes
78. The Twilight Singers - The Killer - 28 points, 2 votes
79. The Twilight Singers - Follow You Down - 28 points, 1 vote
80. Greg Dulli - Sempre - 28 points, 1 vote
81. The Gutter Twins - The Stations - 28 points, 2 votes
82. The Gutter Twins - Circle the Fringes - 28 points, 1 vote
83. The Afghan Whigs - Tonight - 26 points, 1 vote
84. The Afghan Whigs - Light as a Feather - 26 points, 1 vote
85. The Twilight Singers - Get Lucky - 26 points, 1 vote
86. The Afghan Whigs - Too Tough to Die - 26 points, 1 vote
87. The Afghan Whigs - White Trash Party - 26 points, 1 vote
88. The Twilight Singers - Martin Eden - 26 points, 1 vote
89. The Afghan Whigs - Toy Automatic - 26 points, 1 vote
90. The Twilight Singers - Number Nine - 26 points, 1 vote
91. The Twilight Singers - Live With Me - 26 points, 1 vote
92. The Twilight Singers - St. Gregory - 26 points, 1 vote
93. The Gutter Twins - God's Children - 24 points, 1 vote
94. The Twilight Singers - Powder Burns - 24 points, 1 vote
95. The Gutter Twins - Front Street - 22 points, 1 vote
96. The Afghan Whigs - You, My Flower - 20 points, 1 vote
97. The Afghan Whigs - The Lottery - 20 points, 1 vote
98. The Afghan Whigs - Arabian Heights - 18 points, 1 vote
99. Greg Dulli - Black Moon - 16 points, 1 vote
100. The Twilight Singers - Feathers - 16 points, 1 vote
101. The Afghan Whigs - Parked Outside - 14 points, 1 vote
102. The Afghan Whigs - I'm a Soldier - 12 points, 1 vote
103. The Afghan Whigs - I'll Be Around - 12 points, 1 vote
104. The Twilight Singers - Clyde - 10 points, 1 vote
105. The Gutter Twins - I Was In Love With You - 10 points, 1 vote
106. The Twilight Singers - Love - 10 points, 1 vote
107. The Afghan Whigs - These Sticks - 8 points, 1 vote
108. The Twilight Singers - I'm Ready - 6 points, 1 vote
109. The Afghan Whigs - Dead to Rights - 6 points, 1 vote
110. The Twilight Singers - Waves - 6 points, 1 vote
111. Greg Dulli - Pantomima - 4 points, 1 vote
112. The Gutter Twins - Idle Hands - 4 points, 1 vote
113. The Afghan Whigs - The Singer - 2 points, 1 vote
114. The Gutter Twins - Down The Line - 2 points, 1 vote

great job, thank you!

thanks ufo! great poll, great band(s)

someone else should have voted for powder burns, smh

Yeah great poll that top two was the same as mine. It’s been nice to relisten to all Dulli’s stuff again it had been a while.

thanks for running it i too loved spending some time really diving in

this was a fun poll

yeah, great rollout, thanks! just needed a bit more Gutter Twins imo

looks like it's time for a Scrawl poll

I enjoyed the rollout even if I couldn’t bring myself to assemble a ballot
Viva Dulli, the rhythm section, the horn section, the guest singers, and his songwriting 🙌

Great poll everyone. I just got heavily into them because of the voting thread so I really enjoyed this rollout.

ballots?

Uptown Again
My Curse
What Jail Is Like
Crazy
Double Day
Into the Floor
Papillon
Algiers
Be Sweet
66
My Enemy
If I Were Going
I Know Your Little Secret
God's Children
Demon In Profile
When We Two Parted
Going To Town
Black Moon
Citi Soleil
Decatur St.
I Was In Love With You
Conjure Me
Waves
Pantomima
There's Been An Accident

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Gentlemen
1965
In Spades
Saturnalia
Black Love
Blackberry Belle
Random Desire

this was my tracks ballot:
Bulletproof
Faded
John the Baptist
My Curse
Teenage Wristband
Crime Scene Part One
Omertà
66
Blame, Etc.
My Enemy
Esta Noche
Follow You Down
Summer's Kiss
Lost in the Woods
Demon in Profile
Twilight
Uptown Again
Feathers
Miles Iz Ded
Gentlemen
When We Two Parted
Debonair
Cigarettes
I Wish I Was
Into the Floor

Lost in the Woods
Bulletproof
Last Temptation
Crime Scene Part One
There's Been an Accident
Omertà
Debonair
Faded
Summer's Kiss
Miles Iz Dead
Oriole
Circle the Fringes
Bonnie Brae
The Slide Song
Cigarettes
Fountain and Fairfax
Uptown Again
My Curse
Going to Town
Crazy
Candy Cane Crawl
I'm Her Slave
John the Baptist
My Enemy
Now You Know

Unranked tracks:
Martin Eden
Decatur St.
If I Were Going
Gentlemen
Be Sweet
Debonair
Fountain and Fairfax
What Jail Is Like
My Curse
Now You Know
Brother Woodrow
Double Day
Blame, Etc.
Going to Town
Honky's Ladder
Bulletproof
Summer's Kiss
Faded
Conjure Me
Oriole
Demon in Profile
Somethin' Hot
Uptown Again
Citi Soleil
John The Baptist

Think I was the only one to vote for Martin Eden.

it's a great song but I suspect the vote count was low because it feels so much (to me at least) like an intro in the context of the album. "Black out the windows / it's party time" definitely in contention for best/most Dulli line though obv

yeah it's quite good but not quite as good as the other blackberry belle songs i voted for which generally do a similar thing

Simon H otm about party time! LOL
I also want to shout out this lesser Twilight Singers song "Domani" that always sounded very quintessentially Dulli to me. Emotional swells in the chorus, talkin bout drugs & being high, a well-placed "yeah", it's just musically delicious in every way to me.

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

idk why there is an animated girl in the video + i apologize if this song has already been discussed. i just listened to it and got a little excited :)

‘do you want to make party?’ very much the theme of the full-band 1965-era show i saw

Finally listening to and enjoying “I’m a Soldier” and wondering who is the one person who voted for it.

Party at the mansion, y’all

Looks like nobody voted for that one.

Hope it’s not too late to change my ballot

xp I voted for I’m A Soldier! def a half-remembered/impressionistic vote as I remember being impressed by it when that Unbreakable comp came out - listening to it now maybe it feels a little like a collection of great bits that don’t totally cohere but I really dig the restrained tension of the intro and I still think it’s a cool tune

No worries. Feel like there are no wrong answers in this poll, at least in the upper reaches.

Should I still be listening after the poll is over?

thanks for running the poll ufo!

who's hot who's not

Did anyone think about this for their covers ballot?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-6dhxaMJNo

Oh, I see that sic mentioned it in the nominations/runup thread.

But don't you let me breathe/Let it wash all over me
=
Now it's up to me/To bow out gracefully

WIkipedia says when they toured the album they would interpolate the one song into the other.

And I guess they did it later as well.

they do that a lot! the other day i youtubed a live performance of Faded that started with I Can't Make You Love Me -- tbrrwu I heard the opening chords on the piano and my face literally exploded with tears, then the Bonnie Raitt song? Then more Faded? I felt like I had an ecstatic experience aka that's what the best Whigs shows felt like.

the soul, the screen, the smoke in between
the rise, the fall, the thrill
the first, the last, the sins of the past
the burn, the fade, the skin that you flayed

come see
the sun
kill everyone

but me
i’m free
indubitably

brad

indubitably

I think a lot of it's just time constraints, but I can be quite monomaniacal about bands - only really sticking to or only needing/able to handle a single record, maybe two or three at a push. What I love about the polls on here, among other things, is how they open up discographies and force one to listen to a wider range. Short version: this band, and offshoots eh?

This isn't any great revelation, but it strikes me that Dulli does quite a lot with not very much: particular rhythms, themes of betrayal and desperation, the endorphin rush of drugs and love and fucking, the vocal lines that complement those themes and don't venture a huge amount beyond 'baaayybeee, let me/can I/will you...' Which is his own kind of monomania and thank god for it.

Current top 10 would be something like:

Crime Scene Part One
Summer's Kiss
There's Been An Accident
When We Two Parted
Faded
Fountain and Fairfax
Candy Cane Crawl
Into the Street
Debonair
What Jail is Like

Good posts, Chinaski.

I've only heard Black Love, and only liked "Night by Candlelight" on that, which I see got no votes. Is there likely anything else in their work for me?

Doubt it

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

neil young - powderfinger
tears for fears - woman in chains

― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Monday, June 14, 2021 10:48 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

was listening to Talk Talk yesterday and "Living in Another World" reminded me of this question

meant to post here, whatever

they just played “gentleman” in full over the p.a. at camden yards during the yanks-orioles game

― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Thursday, September 16, 2021 7:50 PM (0 seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

Wow

haha according to lindsey adler warmups was a festival of 90s deep cuts