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

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