Gentlemen [Us Import]

• Artist : The Afghan Whigs
• Binding : Audio CD
• EAN : 0075596150125
• Format : Import
• Label : Elektra/Sub Pop
• Languages : Original Language: English
• Manufacturer : Elektra/Sub Pop
• MPN : 075596150125
• Number Of Discs : 1
• Package Dimensions : 0.54 inches (Height) x 5.55 inches (Length) x 0.18 pounds (Weight) x 4.97 inches (Width)
• Package Quantity : 1
• Part Number : 075596150125
• Product Group : Music
• Publisher : Elektra/Sub Pop
• Release Date : 1999-12-23
• SKU : A075596150125
• Studio : Elektra/Sub Pop
• UPC : 075596150125

The album on which Cincinnati's finest came into their own, melding their unique blend of white grunge angst and dark, horny soul. Singer/songwriter Greg Dulli had always shown a fascination for Sixties Stax music. The Whigs' previous EP, Uptown Avondale, featured covers of old soul songs like "Come See About Me" rendered in Dulli's typically torn-up guitar style. On Gentlemen, he writhes in the dilemma between his lust and his low self-esteem for being such a slave to his basest urges: "Ladies and gentlemen . . .I have a dick for a brain", he sings on "Be Sweet", while on the title track he declares, "This time I go to hell/For what I did to you". It's an unusual twist on rock's usual self-pity and macho posturing, conveyed in a subtly wrought, white-hot guitar-driven style with a steamy, Southern-fried undertow. An album which burns brilliantly with lust, shame and defiance. --David Stubbs

- Amazon.co.uk Review

Tracks:

• Disc 1

  • 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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