What a great farking band. Saw them in Providence, RI a few years back in a room that held, at most, 250 people. One of the best gigs I'd ever been too. Thanks Subby.

Wildly underappreciated. Thank you, submitter.

if i was gay or a woman I'd let Greg Dulli has his way with me.

Oh, and Dulli fans should check out Saturnalia (new window). it's Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegen together as a super duo.

I've been a fan for about two years. I was 12 when they released their last album, so I never really had a chance to get into them in their heyday. I am completely enamoured with their style and baffled that they never achieved grand-scale success.

/Submitter
//Also a tremendous fan of The Twilight Singers
///Enjoying The Gutter Twins, as well

Skeletall: I've been a fan for about two years. I was 12 when they released their last album, so I never really had a chance to get into them in their heyday. I am completely enamoured with their style and baffled that they never achieved grand-scale success.

I'm sure you've already got it, but Black Love is the best, IMHO. Unfortunately, I don't have any Twilight Singers or Gutter Twins, and I don't know where to start...

Any suggestions?

Besides Saturnalia, or course.

hillbillypharmacist: Skeletall: I've been a fan for about two years. I was 12 when they released their last album, so I never really had a chance to get into them in their heyday. I am completely enamoured with their style and baffled that they never achieved grand-scale success.

I'm sure you've already got it, but Black Love is the best, IMHO. Unfortunately, I don't have any Twilight Singers or Gutter Twins, and I don't know where to start...

Any suggestions?

I initially heard/bought "1965" and then "Gentlemen" and "Black Love." I agree with you that "Black Love" is their best work. "Gentlemen" is a powerfully emotional album, while maintaining Dulli's signature brashness and lecherousness. "1965" is the perfect album for a party with friends or a night in with a significant other; either way, it gets you excited. Somewhere in between is "Black Love." It's dramatic, moving, rousing, and experimental, while not moving too far from Dulli's comfort zone; plus, it's narrative is quite compelling. Dulli achieves the perfect balance between introspective eccentric and hyper-Lothario.

As for the Twilight Singers, my favourite album would have to be 2006's "Powder Burns." Their other albums are great, but they lack the same kick and energy. Once you hear the opening (the first two tracks, "Towards the Waves" and "I'm Ready"), you'll understand. I think it's been described as the "Whiggsiest" Twilight Singer's album yet. For the most part, though, The Twilight Singers is distinctive from the Whigs, which is fine. After "Powder Burns," you should check out "Blackberry Belle" and "She Loves You," working your way back to the beginning. The Gutter Twins just released their first album, Saturnalia, on the 3rd of March, I believe; it's pretty great, more mellow than I expected, but certainly enjoyable. Happy listening!

I saw them cover the first half of Pink Floyd's "The Wall" at Small's K.O. on Melrose(by Paramount Studios). The place was so tiny they took the table from the corner booth & stuck the drumkit inside of it, so the drummer sat in the booth instead of on a drumthrone. He was so drunk he'd fall facefirst onto his snare, & they'd jab him back up with their guitars. When that quit working the show was over.

/good times

Approve.

The Afghan Whigs were 56 different kinds of awesome. That is all.

I love me some Whigs.

Black Love has the best songs of any Whigs album, but Gentlemen is a more even album, no throwaways.

//Is Rick doing anything of note right now?

I don't care what anyone says, Amber Headlights is a great album.

kanesays: I love me some Whigs.

Black Love has the best songs of any Whigs album, but Gentlemen is a more even album, no throwaways.

//Is Rick doing anything of note right now?

Moon Maan

kanesays: Is Rick doing anything of note right now?

According to the liner notes of The Whig's retrospective, "Unbreakable," "Rick's in the Twin Cities, leading the stellar Moon Maan (www.moonmaan.com)." (pops)

I saw them in Baton Rouge, LA, at the Varsity Theater. Sadly, I didn't make the legendary Howlin' Wolf show. Dulli came out dressed in all black save for a purple feather boa, looking like he hadn't bathed or shaved in days, and he still radiated this Jim Morrison mojo. Every woman and half the men in there would have let Dulli fark them.

Great stuff there. I had tickets to see them once in Dallas, but the night before the show Greg Dulli got his head bashed in by a bouncer in Austin and the Dallas show got canceled...

My favorite band of all time. I've seen them and Twilight countless times. Saw Gutter twins the other night. I was super hammered, but remember it being as good as I have come to expect from Dulli & co.