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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Afghan Whigs |
| Record Label: |
Elektra Entertainment |
| Genre: |
Rock and Pop |
| Subgenre: |
Alternative |
| Release Date: |
October 12, 1993 |
| Album Duration: |
49m:00s |
| Number of Discs: |
1 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. If I Were Going 2. Gentlemen 3. Be Sweet 4. Debonair 5. When We Two Parted 6. Fountain and Fairfax 7. What Jail Is Like 8. My Curse 9. Now You Know 10. I Keep Coming Back 11. Brother Woodrow / Closing Prayer |
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Afghan Whigs: Greg Dulli (vocals, guitar); Rick McCollum (guitar); John Curley (bass); Steve Earle (drums). Additional personnel: Marcy Mays (vocals); Barb Hunter (cello); Harold Chichester (piano, mellotron); Jody Stephens (background vocals). Engineers: Jeff Powell, John Hampton, John Curley. Recorded at Ardent Studios, Memphis, Tennessee between May and June 1993, and at Ultrasuede, Cincinnati, Ohio in April 1993. GENTLEMEN is a rare thing in rock music, a "concept album" so personal and painful that listening to it gives the impression of being privy to something that should never have been made public. Greg Dulli's lyrics about male inadequacies and overcompensation ring with uncontainable self-hatred and loathing. The shifting of emotions--from the brittle and internal to the brutal and external--forms the basis for the stagnancy and decay of the male/female relationships described here. Opening with a claustrophobic swirl, "If I Were Going" sets the mood, a warm bassline picking at the scabs of Du... |
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