1.Somethin' Hot 2.Crazy 3.Uptown Again 4.Sweet Son Of A Bitch 5.66 6.Citi Soleil 7.John The Baptist 8.The Slide Song 9.Neglekted 10.Omerta 11.The Vampire Lanois
1965 is the name of the sixth and final album by The Afghan Whigs. Its cover photograph shows astronaut Ed White on the first American space walk as part of the Gemini 4 flight which took place in, you guessed it, 1965. The Music On Vinyl edition includes 7 bonus tracks plus an 8-page booklet.
Where some artists write from the head and others from the heart, Whigs' songwriter/frontman Greg Dulli writes from the groin. His lyrics are filled with dark images of romantic obsession. Perhaps no other band can play with such restraint, letting musical tension build until it can do nothing other than explode. [...more...]
... Recorded in New Orleans, the album is plainly the product of its environment -- sultry, sleazy, and more than a little menacing here more than ever, Greg Dulli is the frontman, strutting and swaggering his [...]