January 2012
2 posts
Watchbaudelairean:
Greg Dulli sings Leonard Cohen’s Paper Thin Hotel:
The walls of this hotel are paper-thin
Last night I heard you making love to him
The struggle mouth to mouth and limb to limb
The grunt of unity when he came in
I stood there with my ear against the wall
I was not seized by jealousy at all
In fact a burden lifted from my soul
I heard that love was out of my...
December 2011
6 posts
Watchnoiseofcarpet:
The Afghan Whigs - Honkey’s Ladder (Black Love, 1996)
A little birdie told me they may be reuniting above and beyond All Tomorrow’s Parties!
I would like to think morality would stop me but I’d be tempted to kill to see them again.
The Twilight Singers - Dynamite Steps
kjacko:
Rating:
7/10
Key Tracks:
On The Corner; Last Night In Town
Sounds Like:
The Verve, but more energetic
Sounds like nobody else but Dulli.
HOLY FUCKING HELL, THE AFGHAN WHIGS HAVE REUNITED?
comedowndaylight:
OH MY FUCKING GOD.
WHY DO I NOT KNOW ANYBODY THAT WILL FREAK OUT WITH ME?
HEART ATTACK.
I WILL FREAK OUT WITH YOU! Sadly I can’t go to either announced show but maybe they’ll do more. Considering that I wasn’t sure this, them playing again at all, would ever happen, it’s possible, right? The impossible, seeing them again, could happen, right?
“Any possibility of an Afghan Whigs reunion? No. They don’t have that much money,...”
– from a 2008 interview I did with Greg Dulli; this morning’s Billboard.com headline: “Afghan Whigs Reuniting for First Concerts in 13 Years” (via grungebook)
Ah but Dulli also said, a couple years ago, “Never say never, but I’m saying not right now.” And let’s not forget...
Lanegan's new single
Am I the only one who can’t stand his voice? It grates on my nerves. I only like him when he’s half of the Gutter Twins. Otherwise, I just really don’t want to listen to him. I never liked the Screaming Trees or anything else he did, and I only got into the Gutter Twins because I’ve never NOT liked anything Dulli’s ever done. At least the cover of the new Lanegan...
diegosapiamaia: Greg Dulli →
diegosapiamaia:
Deixaram esse comentário no YouTube em um vídeo que fiz do Twilight Singers no T in the Park deste ano:
When I hear/watch this, I hear a distillation of all Greg Dulli’s inimitable songwriting talents. Sure he got close to the golden ring in the (warped) grunge era of the 90’s, but…
I agree—I loved and miss the Afghan Whigs but I’ve never NOT loved...
October 2011
5 posts
robosamurai:
The Afghan Whigs - John the...
45rpm @ jukeboxgraduate.com: Greg Dulli gets the... →
jukeboxgraduate:
He’s releasing the most recent Twilight Singers show in NYC, but this is how they’re doing it:
Live In New York will be released digitally worldwide. However, a limited edition deluxe double CD will be made available directly thru the band’s website beginning today.…
I’m happy about this, already ordered, but I really really want a dvd of the SF show.
the Afghan Whigs - True Love Travels on a Gravel...
song-lyrics-and-meanings:
Full song lyrics: the Afghan Whigs - True Love Travels on a Gravel Road How many girls choose cotton dress worlds When they could have satins and lace Stand by her man through good times and bad And still keep a smile on her face
And how many hearts Could face the winters we’ve known And still not turn cold
True love travels on a gravel road
Love is a stranger...
1 tag
19. The Twilight Singers - Dynamite Steps
singlesentencereviews:
Nobody told me Richard Ashcroft was fronting Queens of the Stone Age these days…
Don’t know if that’s meant as a diss or not, but this is a great album by a great singer-songwriter, who has always been underrated except by the many devoted fans that flock to anything he puts out and any live show he graces.
September 2011
2 posts
8 tags
How stupid can the music industry be? There are two songs on the new Deus album that Greg Dulli sings on and I would like to buy them. However, if you live outside the UK you can’t buy MP3s from Amazon, apparently. And Amazon.com, here, only has the whole album at expensive import prices. So here I am, wanting to buy something they won’t let me buy. So now, I’m just going to get...
August 2011
2 posts
July 2011
5 posts
“I promise to be with you ‘till the end or somewhere near there.
at least...”
– The Twilight Singers, Last night in town (via ineluttabile)
THE TWILIGHT SINGERS TO PERFORM BLACKBERRY BELLE... →
acasualsigh:
Crying. Incredibly jealous. Can I please blow all my money and go to this?
I am blowing all mine to go to it, got a ticket. I’m so excited. Way to make it up to SF fans for canceling the Fillmore!
dansanthem:
‘Better get myself a drink Better get a couple so I can look you straight in the face Tell you that I think of you Almost as much as you think of you’
I love the way Greg Dulli wrote with the Afghan Whigs. He just had this sleazy heroin chic to him, the way he used this dark romanticism to address addiction and love is just brilliant. Gentlemen is a great example of this. He’s...
The Afghan Whigs do not get enough fucking credit
acasualsigh:
This is my unsubtle post telling you all to listen to them.
Totally agree. Also goes for the Twilight Singers.
Strange Fruit - The Gutter Twins →
jenteschrijft:
This really is a haunting song.
I love anything Dulli does, and the Gutter Twins are no exception. Nice version of Billie Holiday’s song.
June 2011
5 posts
Once you know your way down, half belongs to you
….the path belongs to you
May 2011
1 post
Upon Furthur Review: The Long Dark 90's: The... →
judge215:
The Afghan Whigs - “Gentlemen” (1993)
After the onslaught of Nirvana and grunge, there was a period of time where it seemed like there was a hundred thousand “next great things”, and about 95-99% of those “things” never got past that “next” status, so I guess you could stick…
Dulli said in some interview that they didn’t meet in jail but in college and they just...
April 2011
2 posts
February 2011
2 posts
January 2011
1 post
Cowboy Junkies cover Vic Chesnutt
I know he’s not all that well-known, so maybe it’s good to have his songs out there regardless, but while I’ve always had a soft spot for the Junkies, listening to Margo sing ‘I’ll See You Around,” all I can think of is, she’s smoothed out all the jagged edges, the rough spots, and that’s who he was, those jagged edges and rough spots. I miss him a...
December 2010
1 post
October 2010
1 post
“I ain’t afraid of her
I’ve hurt so much it feels just like normal to me now
...”
– Now That You’re Gone (via letitride)
I thought the first line was ‘I ain’t afraid of hurt/I’ve hurt so much it feels just like normal to me now’ but maybe I’m wrong.
June 2010
1 post
NBA Finals
I can’t be the only one on Tumblr into this. I hate, have always hated, the Lakers, but once again, I get to actually cheer for a team I love instead of just rooting against the Lakers. Auerbach was a distant relation to my family and though I didn’t know him, really only met him once, I rooted for the Celtics at first because of that. (If I’d been older, I suppose I...
May 2010
3 posts
“I started on that last post just about an hour ago, and only finished it after...”
–
(original post here: melanyouth)
You aren’t alone. I have often felt guilty for not really loving my mother, beyond the obligatory, she’s my mother sort of thing. Nor do I much like her. She was never shy when I was growing up about telling me all the ways I was not the daughter she had wanted,...
“I started on that last post just about an hour ago, and only finished it after...”
– I hate to be a dark cloud on everyone’s wonderful mother love today, but man my nerves are shot after talking to her.
I called earlier and got her voice mail, but having made the attempt I had discharged my duty and could rest easy about it, though of course all that did was put off until later the...
what ryan adams should i buy next, kids?
letitride:
lostinallthelights:
i’ve got ‘heardbreaker’, ‘gold’, ‘demolition’, ‘love is hell’, ‘29’ and ‘cold roses’ (with the cardinals). i have all the whiskeytown too. looking at ‘jacksonville city nights’ and ‘rock ‘n’ roll’ as next purchases. what about ‘easy tiger’? i need opinions!
i love hearing what people make of the records. suggestions please!
Jacksonville City Nights. Then...
April 2010
6 posts
“I don’t believe “everything happens for a reason”, but I do think that...”
– (via melanyouth)
Cowboy Junkies to Make Album Covering Vic Chesnutt...
I saw this on several sites recently. Mixed feelings— I’m fond of the Junkies, and I know that they were good friends with him—he opened for them a number of times, and was part of the Trinity revisited project—but I so rarely like his songs done by other people. So much of what feels essential to his songs is his phrasing, his voice. I know people say he’s an...
nodnarb:
SONG: Wallace Stevens, by the late Vic...
March 2010
1 post
“Lost in Confusion,” written and sung...
February 2010
4 posts
sinkships:
youroldarchenemycatwoman:
...
one more comment on sexism.
melanyouth:
I honestly feel that in this society I gain so much more by being white than I lose by being female, so much so that it’s often hard for me take seriously the strain of feminist thought that says I, as a woman, need to constantly focus on ferretting out and addressing every little instance of sexism I encounter.
Frankly, I’m too focused on interrogating my white middle class...
“Today is yesterday when you don’t know
How to rebuild the walls that someone...”
– If I Am A Stranger (via letitride)
There’s a version where he says it-
‘so you won’t let them down,’ and I’ve always liked it that way better.
Shadow Boxing, I Suppose
“Suffering is richer in a cosmology where there’s gravity to individual suffering. In a godless universe, suffering is trivial, a drop in an endless ocean of suffering….It [The cosomology, I assume] is also a doorway out of the narcisism where you write about yourself.”
I saw this on some blog and it is my absolute bad that I didn’t note where or who wrote it. I...