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I'm not sure it gets any better than this.....

facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
edited June 2008 in Other Music
http://media.putfile.com/Faded---Afghan-Whigs

Bask in the sublime awesomeness that is The Afghan Whigs! This song pretty much epitomises everything this band did so well; epic, anthemic, soulful rock music of the very highest order. Enjoy!
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  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    I love this song. It's like a power ballad done right... not to mention the fact that it's an amazing end to a brilliant album. As if the song wasn't epic enough on its own, when it's topping off Black Love... shit. :cool:
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    I love this song. It's like a power ballad done right... not to mention the fact that it's an amazing end to a brilliant album. As if the song wasn't epic enough on its own, when it's topping off Black Love... shit. :cool:

    Absolutely. More people should know about this masterpiece.
  • Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,567
    well Johny... hmm its okay

    dont think its really my thing :S
  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    facepollution wrote:
    Absolutely. More people should know about this masterpiece.

    More people should know about Greg Dulli, end of story. Looking at his track record, the only album he's made since Gentlemen that I'm not a huge fan of is the first Twilight Singers album. Even Amber Headlights had some incredible stuff on it, and that was just unfinished stuffs.

    Best live Faded ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq9Dq1I1yM4
    Dulli is charisma. :D
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    I BrisK I wrote:
    well Johny... hmm its okay

    dont think its really my thing :S

    Go and wash your ears out young Edward! You should give the whole record (Black Love) a go, there's plenty of rocking stuff on there too.

    Check out this song:

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=_NiMK783cXY

    Any song that starts with the line "Got you where I want you muthafucker" is automatically cool! Even better in this video clip because they edit in an orgasmic moan instead of the word 'fucker'!

    And yeah Rhino, that is a fucking wicked version of Faded.
  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Don't forget this baby... Fucking great.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1iER2lv34M

    "And when you say, now we got hell to pay
    Don't worry baby that's okay... I know the boss..."
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    Don't forget this baby... Fucking great.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1iER2lv34M

    "And when you say, now we got hell to pay
    Don't worry baby that's okay... I know the boss..."

    Now you're talking! Did you ever catch the whigs live? I saw them 3 times around the 1965 album, and they were ridiculously cool! Going To Town, in particular, was brilliant, the way it starts with the drum loop, then the guitars, and then finally that funky bass line - I swear they don't make them like they used to!
  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    facepollution wrote:
    Now you're talking! Did you ever catch the whigs live? I saw them 3 times around the 1965 album, and they were ridiculously cool! Going To Town, in particular, was brilliant, the way it starts with the drum loop, then the guitars, and then finally that funky bass line - I swear they don't make them like they used to!

    Nah, I only really got into them about a year ago, through the Twilight Singers. But since then it's been a hell of a ride going through their catalogue, and realising what I'd been missing out on. Apparently, they've been tagging Crime Scene Pt 1 into a few Gutter Twins setlists, so I'm still holding out hope for seeing some semblance of a live Twigs song. :D
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    Apparently, they've been tagging Crime Scene Pt 1 into a few Gutter Twins setlists, so I'm still holding out hope for seeing some semblance of a live Twigs song. :D

    WOAH! I would kill to see that song live....

    for now we will have to make do with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJpULEdRQRU
  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    facepollution wrote:
    WOAH! I would kill to see that song live....

    for now we will have to make do with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJpULEdRQRU

    Nothing beats that first minute or so... Best build-up in a song I've ever heard, and that chorus might just be the best release. Why weren't the Twigs bigger than they were? :confused: Label stuff?
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    Nothing beats that first minute or so... Best build-up in a song I've ever heard, and that chorus might just be the best release. Why weren't the Twigs bigger than they were? :confused: Label stuff?

    I think they were just a bit too unconventional for the average 'grunge' fan back in the 90's. I'm just not sure Dulli's tales of lust and sleaze were what people were looking for at the time! It certainly wasn't for lack of catchy songs. A few songs from the 1965 album were used on film soundtracks during the late 90's/early 00's, but then they broke up.
  • mole1985mole1985 Posts: 1,119
    I've only got 'Black Love' from the Whigs. I love the Twilight Singers and there are some great stuff on 'amber headlights'.

    If you already haven't heard this check it out. Click on 'This is a Landslide'

    http://www.myspace.com/intramural
    Dublin 2006
    Katowice 2007
    London 2007
  • muppetmuppet Posts: 980
    They're not my favourite band but they're good. Don't you think that "Going To Town" sounds a bit like the reworked version of "In My Tree"? I smell conspiracy.

    What's the Gutter Twins project like? Never really checked it out but I've heard great things.
  • mole1985mole1985 Posts: 1,119
    The Gutter Twins are awesome. Great album, and an even better live show. Go and buy it.
    Dublin 2006
    Katowice 2007
    London 2007
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    Honky's Ladder live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8r5Xvz9CjE

    Fucking a!
  • nocode23nocode23 Posts: 411
    I miss the Afghan Whigs. I do like the stuff that Dulli has done since, but, damn, the Whigs stuff was incredible.
  • muppetmuppet Posts: 980
    And it goes down EEEEEEEVEEEERY NIIIIIGHT...this must be what JAAAAAAIL is really LIIIIIIKE.
  • elmerelmer Posts: 1,683
    Other than Gentlemen I've struggled with everything Dulli has done.
  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Speaking of Gentlemen...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSZKlAAUfR8

    That might be the greatest video on Youtube. So. Fucking. Powerful.
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • elmerelmer Posts: 1,683
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    Speaking of Gentlemen...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSZKlAAUfR8

    That might be the greatest video on Youtube. So. Fucking. Powerful.
    Great performance,yeah I like that song especially! I never heard them in the 90's, decided to find Dulli's music after hearing Mark Lanegan and Shawn Smith had recorded with him, and despite the relative dissappointment of the Twilight Singers it was worth it for the discovery of that one album.
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    elmer wrote:
    Great performance,yeah I like that song especially! I never heard them in the 90's, decided to find Dulli's music after hearing Mark Lanegan and Shawn Smith had recorded with him, and despite the relative dissappointment of the Twilight Singers it was worth it for the discovery of that one album.

    :eek: Have you heard Powder Burns by The Twilight Singers? That album is IMMENSE.
  • elmerelmer Posts: 1,683
    facepollution wrote:
    :eek: Have you heard Powder Burns by The Twilight Singers? That album is IMMENSE.
    OK, am currently listening to it for the first time. (bloody itunes, why when I open a folder does it order it backwards?)
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    elmer wrote:
    OK, am currently listening to it for the first time. (bloody itunes, why when I open a folder does it order it backwards?)

    The song There Has Been An Accident is mind-blowing :D
  • greenmindgreenmind Posts: 34
    'faded' is one of my absolute most favourite songs ever and stuff.

    saw it live the first time i saw the twilight singers in 2004. if it had gone on a minute longer i would happily have missed the last train home and spent the night on january glasgow streets.

    'black love' is astonishing.. just incendiary... about the tightest most intense rock band performance i've ever heard... the guitars just explode against each other. and the songs...
    take a teenage riot to get me outta bed right now...
  • greenmindgreenmind Posts: 34
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    More people should know about Greg Dulli, end of story. Looking at his track record, the only album he's made since Gentlemen that I'm not a huge fan of is the first Twilight Singers album. Even Amber Headlights had some incredible stuff on it, and that was just unfinished stuffs.

    Best live Faded ever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq9Dq1I1yM4
    Dulli is charisma. :D


    this concert was my introduction to the whigs/dulli. i taped it off of german satelite tv around 2000.

    my tape cut out about 3 seconds after the guitars on faded cut in... yet i STILL could tell it was one of the greatest songs ever!

    its all the more beautiful being played outdoors on a late summer evening...

    when i discovered youtube, this was probably the first thing i searched for.
    take a teenage riot to get me outta bed right now...
  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    greenmind wrote:
    'faded' is one of my absolute most favourite songs ever and stuff.

    saw it live the first time i saw the twilight singers in 2004. if it had gone on a minute longer i would happily have missed the last train home and spent the night on january glasgow streets.

    'black love' is astonishing.. just incendiary... about the tightest most intense rock band performance i've ever heard... the guitars just explode against each other. and the songs...

    You saw Faded live? :eek:

    *seething with jealousy* :mad: :o:p
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
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