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The Twilight Singers

veddermanvedderman Posts: 801
edited December 2006 in Other Music
Does anybody know this band? Their last album was Powder Burns and it is interesting.
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  • ChrisChris Posts: 116
    Im a bit of Twilight Singers nut - Powder burns is intersting is an understatement. Greg Dulli is a legend - check out the Afghan Whigs too, maybe start with 1965
  • veddermanvedderman Posts: 801
    Yes i know Afghan Whigs, too. They did some great music. I was wondering if you know where can i get "I Wish I Was" (withouth vocals, only the instrumental version) of The Twilight Singers. This song plays in the background if you start their official web site. I kinda like it more without vocals... do you know if that version even exists??

    Anyways, The Twilight Singers are playing tomorrow in Croatia with Mark Lanegan as a special guest!
    2000 Ljubljana
    2006 Vienna, Zagreb
    2007 Munich
    2009 Berlin
    2010 Dublin, Belfast, Berlin, Venice
    2011 Montreal, Toronto 1&2
    2012 Manchester 1&2, Amsterdam 1&2, Prague, Berlin 1&2, EV Manchester
    2013 Worcester 1&2, Brooklyn 1&2
    2014 Amsterdam 1&2, Manchester 1&2, Milano, Trieste, Vienna, Berlin
    2017 EV Firenze, Taormina 1&2
    2018 Amsterdam 1&2, Padova, Prague, Krakow, Berlin
    2019 EV Firenze
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    I'm pretty obsessed with Twilight Singers right now, Greg Dulli has such an amazing ear for melodies, and chosing amazing musicians to perfrom with. I'm listening to their cover of Live with Me with Mark Lanegan on vocals at the moment, incredible stuff!
  • piaget77piaget77 Posts: 156
    Yeah, I'm becoming obsessed too. It's almost a problem - I had to drop "Powder Burns" off at home because I stopped working. Saw them a few weeks ago in Brooklyn, Lanegan was beyond words.
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    Yeah I saw them a couple of weeks ago too, one of the very finest shows I've ever been to, and I've probably seen hundreds over the last ten years or so. Lanegan is indeed amazing, I loved how he kind of appeared from nowhere and suddenly you just heard this voice, man it was spine-tingling stuff.

    It's cool how prolific Dulli is too, there's always something in the works.
  • piaget77piaget77 Posts: 156
    I CANNOT wait for Lanegan and Dulli's project together, and I really hope Lanegan tours the US with Isobel Campbell. He was incredible, he has such intensity.

    I wonder how Dulli will ever top "Powder Burns."
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    piaget77 wrote:
    I CANNOT wait for Lanegan and Dulli's project together, and I really hope Lanegan tours the US with Isobel Campbell. He was incredible, he has such intensity.

    I wonder how Dulli will ever top "Powder Burns."

    What I really like about Dulli is that he isn't interested in repeating an album. Each record he makes has a distinctive feel to it. Black Love is my favourite Whigs album, but 1965 was an incredible follow up record, loaded with great pop-rock hooks and a good-time party atmosphere. I liked the fact that Powder Burns returned to a more rocking kind of sound after slightly more sedate records. But ultimately you know that whatever mood or style he captures on a record, it will never be short of thrilling.
  • piaget77piaget77 Posts: 156
    facepollution wrote:
    What I really like about Dulli is that he isn't interested in repeating an album. Each record he makes has a distinctive feel to it. Black Love is my favourite Whigs album, but 1965 was an incredible follow up record, loaded with great pop-rock hooks and a good-time party atmosphere. I liked the fact that Powder Burns returned to a more rocking kind of sound after slightly more sedate records. But ultimately you know that whatever mood or style he captures on a record, it will never be short of thrilling.

    Absolutely, Powder Burns was such a departure; I only owned Blackberry Belle at the time, and was completely shocked. It is so much more sinister than his other records. Have you heard his solo cd? I haven't and was wondering if it was worth checking out.
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    piaget77 wrote:
    Absolutely, Powder Burns was such a departure; I only owned Blackberry Belle at the time, and was completely shocked. It is so much more sinister than his other records. Have you heard his solo cd? I haven't and was wondering if it was worth checking out.

    To my absolute shame, I don't own his solo cd, purely because I was skint at the time it came out, and I'd read some reviews that said it was ok, but more of a stop-gap til the next Twilight Singers cd. I will be buying it at some point, because I'm told some of it is very good indeed.

    Have you got their covers album She Loves You? It's pretty damn good, very diverse yet it all fits together so well.
  • piaget77piaget77 Posts: 156
    facepollution wrote:
    To my absolute shame, I don't own his solo cd, purely because I was skint at the time it came out, and I'd read some reviews that said it was ok, but more of a stop-gap til the next Twilight Singers cd. I will be buying it at some point, because I'm told some of it is very good indeed.

    Have you got their covers album She Loves You? It's pretty damn good, very diverse yet it all fits together so well.

    Yeah, I have the covers album. Haven't listened to it nearly enough. I just remember being completely haunted by "Strange Fruit." He really redefined all of those songs.
  • Shawn Smith CollectiveShawn Smith Collective Posts: 986
    vedderman wrote:
    This song plays in the background if you start their official web site.... do you know if that version even exists??

    EDIT: The "looped version" I referred to was from the original website intro. The instrumental has not been released, but I ripped it from the website myself.
    piaget77 wrote:
    Have you heard his solo cd?

    Much of the solo disc was recorded during the Blackberry Belle sessions and actually features songs written for the Blackberry Belle project, so this kind of fits into the Twilight catalog

    Check out my Twilight collection: http://www.newjeruzoo.com/twilight
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    (Shawn Smith's official website, but not Thee Shawn Smith)
  • piaget77piaget77 Posts: 156
    pjny wrote:
    EDIT: The "looped version" I referred to was from the original website intro. The instrumental has not been released, but I ripped it from the website myself.



    Much of the solo disc was recorded during the Blackberry Belle sessions and actually features songs written for the Blackberry Belle project, so this kind of fits into the Twilight catalog

    Check out my Twilight collection: http://www.newjeruzoo.com/twilight

    Thanks! What do you think of the album?
  • sadprofessorsadprofessor Posts: 1,034
    Saw them a few weeks ago... I have really been getting into this band lately. Number Nine has become one of my favorite songs ever.

    And to be quite honest, I think I like them more than the Afghan Whigs.
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  • Shawn Smith CollectiveShawn Smith Collective Posts: 986
    piaget77 wrote:
    Thanks! What do you think of the album?


    It's terrific!

    1. So Tight
    This was originally released as a Twilight b-side to The Killer Teenage Wristband. Serious rocker!

    2. Cigarettes
    Sounds like it fits in with the tracks from 1965

    3. Domani
    Original from Twilight's Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair EP. Mellow and beautiful!

    4. Early Today
    Nobody makes you want to feel disturbed like Dulli.

    5. Golden Boy
    I'm not big on this song. Not sure what to compare it to...maybe some early Whigs?

    6. Black Swan
    Another solid track that can fit on Black Love or 1965.

    7. Pussywillow
    It's good...it' always great when Dulli pairs up with a female vocalist

    8. Wicked
    Another Twilight track - original released as a very limited 7", re-released on the Japanese Blackberry Belle and again on this disc. It's a great f*ckin' song!

    9. A slow, piano driven version of a section of Cigarettes.
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