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Gentlemen

~ Afghan Whigs
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Product details

  • Audio CD (1 Nov 1999)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Blast First
  • ASIN: B000026ZMP
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 72,069 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. If I Were Going 2:56£0.69
Listen  2. Gentlemen 4:03£0.69
Listen  3. Be Sweet 3:36£0.69
Listen  4. Debonair 4:14£0.69
Listen  5. When We Two Parted 5:48£0.69
Listen  6. Fountain And Fairfax 4:21£0.69
Listen  7. What Jail Is Like 3:30£0.69
Listen  8. My Curse 5:45£0.69
Listen  9. Now You Know 4:10£0.69
Listen10. I Keeping Coming Back 4:51£0.69
Listen11. Brother Woodrow/Closing Prayer 5:41£0.69

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Amazon.co.uk Review

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


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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 describedhere. Opening with a claustrophobic swirl, "If I Were Going" sets the mood, a warm bassline picking at the scabs of Dulli's cracked intonation ("It's all a lie, it's nearly dead, it's in our hope, baby, it's in our bed"). Taking cues from blues, soul, and rock, the Whigs crank out a hybrid 'alternative' sound borne on the scorching guitars of Rick McCollum.After the summation of "Bit into a rotten one now, didn't you?" ("Now You Know") and "I Keep Coming Back," a cover of the Tyrone Davies soul classic, the instrumental "Brother Woodrow/Closing Prayer" adds violin and piano to the mix, finally offering a reprieve from the Whigs' poisonous psychic exorcism. Though not a record to listen to often, GENTLEMEN is a stunning achievement.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Probably one of the greatest records of the last 10 years, 1 Mar 2002
To overstate just how brilliant this record is would be a difficult task indeed. To overstate what a tragedy it is that the Afghan Whigs never became as huge as they should have done is even harder.

Put simply, 'Gentleman' is as close to genius as any rock band either side of the Atlantic came during the 1990's. It really is that good.

This record is the pinnacle of their career - there are many influences here (and I won't do the band the discredit of making lazy comparisons), but the sound is unquestionably all their own. As for the lyrics; there's a depth and poetry to them that any lyricist would die for.

Your actions from here should be:

1. Buy this record.
2. Let the music grow on you (as all the best music does).
3. Lay back and say: 'This is it. How did I let myself miss this one?'

You are going to be totally slain by what you hear. Enjoy.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Under-rated and overlooked classic, 18 Oct 2003
Without doubt one of the most under-rated bands of their era, The Afghan Whigs were unlucky enough to reach their peak when their Sub-Pop contemporaries were turning out formulaic tripe of the worst order and found themselves labelled "grunge". The fact that The Afghan Whigs shared nothing more than a label with mediocrities like Tad didn't matter. With this album and "Black Love" the Whigs found their creative and commercial peaks, unfortunately nobody seemed to care. The heart-broken soul lyrics and anxious rock backing combined to excellent effect the Whigs finest hour on Gentlemen, particularly "What Jail Is Like". After this they produced the mixed "1965" and finally split.

It seems unlikely that the Whigs will ever receive their proper dues. There won't be a "Pixies" style re-evaluation. Mojo won't devote a four page spread to the recording of "Gentlemen". That only leaves the records, which still sound as good ten years on. Not many of their more successful contemporaries can say that.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute Genius, 11 April 2003
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I remember being unsure about this album when I first bought it in 94 but then after a few listens it had me hooked. I've listened to it constantly since then (along with black love)and it never fails to get my heart pounding and make my eyes grow tearful. Pure genius, I feel sorry for anyone who hasn't discovered the Afghan Whigs...Incredible
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5.0 out of 5 stars Best Album of the 90's. IMO.
Afghan Whigs never made a bad album, but this is on a different plane altogether.

A perfect journey through melancholia that leaves the listener exhausted but oddly... Read more
Published 10 months ago by SJ

5.0 out of 5 stars "If I were going" to buy 1 album this year..
Superlatives are often thrown out ten a penny in modern society, but the only genuine superlative that can do this album justice is perfect. Read more
Published on 1 Feb 2006 by Neil G

5.0 out of 5 stars It is all true...
... the Whigs really were that good. If the prostpect of dirty, sleazy rock bursting with soul is at all interesting then buy all their albums.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most eclectic and interesting albums I've heard!
This album is a must for all rock / guitar based music fans. The album is a botched DIY job of angry discordant grunge and "wallow in self pity" blues. Read more
Published on 17 Jul 2001 by P. Beadling

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb
Although the others are fantastic, "Gentlemen" is the classic Whigs album, a glorious golden patch of form which they have never quite emulated since. Read more
Published on 4 Jan 2000

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