I never really gave them a listen after Gentlemen, which I love.

In Spades is really good!

After many attempts I am completely fine with not having the capacity to enjoy the music of the Afghan Whigs.

C

Congregation is VG. Rest of the Lp's have some great tunes.

I like but don't love. Dulli's croon is more effective than his shout. Cool guitar riffs and grooves. There's a creepy sexual energy on some of their stuff that never totally sat right with me. That's totally subconscious/subjective btw and may not be a defensible argument.

Could be off-base but I remember the band having some similar characteristics as Shudder to Think except without the eccentric singer, and, in turn, also less interesting. I don't dislike them, but they kind of fade into the background for me at this point.

Could go either way with waffles. I'll go with a tentative NC.

Since this will probably be another one that will be more "Sparsely Attended Wake..." than "C/NC..."?

(Jetboy4EVA...)

bland boomer music

crap

Normal 90s rock band + soul influence + killer rhythm section + evil Randy Newman

Not crap

Of course, the best Whigs song is “My Curse” which Marcy Mays sings. But I feel like Dulli might agree with that.

The SXSW performance where they did an impromptu set with Usher (Whigs covering “Climax,” Usher leading “Something Hot”) is delightful

Gentlemen is a good album. I haven't followed much of what they've done since they've reformed. I saw them a few years ago, and they were better than I expected. To end the show, they did 'Faded' with a bit of Bobby Womack's 'Across 110th Street' thrown in. Not crap!

Congregation, Gentlemen, and Black Love are all fantastic records. But I also like a lot of Up In It, 1965, and In Spades.

Super not crap for me. Waffles for some lyrical misogyny. There was a time when they were among my favorite bands of all time. I saw them on the Congregation and Gentlemen tours and they delivered both times.