Your Personal Soundtrack: Afghan Whigs
So apparently, I don't write for the site anymore. The last time I did anything was November 19th. I guess maybe I quit, or got fired, I don't remember. Oh, I think I recall now - I was conserving energy for the year-end music podcast. That's it.
I don't know if I've ever covered Afghan Whigs on the blog and it's high time I did. Arguably one of the 90s drunkest bands, but for the Whigs, that's a compliment. Their endearing quality is vocalist Greg Dulli's cigarette-filtered, whiskey-inspired swagger. Black Love, their 1996 masterpiece is definitely among my top 25 albums ever and "Honky's Ladder", the song below, was my introduction to the band.
This bizarre video blurs your standard band performance shots with random images straight out of somebody's heroin trip. You may want to turn up your volume for this one though, as the recording was obviously dubbed over from a road-weary VHS tape. Also, I know it's a foreign concept, but don't pass out when you see the MTV logo on the screen. They actually used to play some music once upon a time and 120 Minutes was a stand-out show on the network for quite a while.
YPS is a semi-daily feature showcasing music that gets stuck in our heads, forming a kind of personal soundtrack.
