psycherelic
I'm not an old hippy!
The afgan who?
do they have someone from yo la tengo in their line up?
do they have someone from yo la tengo in their line up?
The Long Overdue Afghan Whigs Appreciation Thread
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psycherelic said:The afgan who?
do they have someone from yo la tengo in their line up?
no, it was a diversion..
They were Greg Dulli's, now of the Twilight Singers, old band. See http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=AFGHAN|WHIGS&sql=11:be8j1v0jzzxa~T1 for more details.
if you've got bit torrent and a demonoid accounts, there's a great German TV recording of the Whigs live 
Boris Sprinkler
Dont be scared
I like them. Rather worryingly my gf is OBSESSED by Greg Dulli, to the extent I fear she probably closes her eyes when we have sex and thinks of him.
he does have a certain something, as Pie Face is coming to realise. I had a brief chat with him years ago and I'm sure i sort of wanted to fuck him 
I was gonna redownload all their stuff the other day and then oink got shud down 
Boris Sprinkler
Dont be scared
she says there's a queue.Dubversion said:he does have a certain something, as Pie Face is coming to realise. I had a brief chat with him years ago and I'm sure i sort of wanted to fuck him
although he's carrying a little too much extra these days, to be honest..
poului said:
to be fair - and this is in no way a slur - i didn't think for a minute you'd like them
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
I think it's wrong to say that none of their stuff sounded grungey. Just listen to 'congregation', it's very reminiscent of Dinosaur Jr
not sure anyone said they never sounded grungey - you should hear the first 2
felixthecat
are we there yet?
Love 'em. I fancy Greg Dulli too - I'm in the queue too
1965 is my favourite....I think. Well, it is today anyway.
1965 is my favourite....I think. Well, it is today anyway.
Dubversion said:
Right, it's just that in your first post you moaned that they often got lumped in with grunge... but the time when grunge was at its height, 92-93, was when they released those first couple...
To me on those couple of albums they are similar to early Screaming Trees with a bit of Dinosaur Jr... it's only later, on stuff like Black Love, that they went more out and out soully...
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
RenegadeDog said:
I'd still say it was all down to being on Sub Pop and virtually nothing to do with the sound of the band,
Big Top Hallowe'en sounds like The Replacements.
Which is not quite the same as sounding like a grunge band if you ask me.
The guitars were getting less noisy and distorted by Congregation and the Soul thing was made explicit just after that with their fantastic cover of 'My World Is Empty Without You' and the Uptown Avondale EP
Gentlemen has plenty of the soul influence on it too.
So long, long before Black Love anyway.
The Dinosaur thing I just can't see at all
RenegadeDog said:
nah, i think they'd already moved on from grunge before anyone knew who they were.. only the pre- Sub Pop album was that grungey. and even that as ouchbastard says, not THAT grungy.
my issue is more that they got tagged as grunge early on and then this was never revised when they moved SO far from all that, cos journalists are lazy cunts.
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
Yay!
I fucking love Thalia.
she's brilliant,
and long overdue an appreciation thread.
probably just be me and you though twisted
I fucking love Thalia.
she's brilliant,
and long overdue an appreciation thread.
probably just be me and you though twisted
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
Mind you, if we did a Come Appreciation Thread, it would attract many of those arseholes that hang out in the general forum though I doubt many would be interested in music of that ilk.
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