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The Afghan Whigs - Congregation Audio CD

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The Afghan Whigs Band: The Afghan Whigs
Title: Congregation
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Release Date: 1992-01-31
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Her Against Me 2: I'm Her Slave 3: Turn On The Water 4: Conjure Me 5: Kiss the Floor 6: Congregation 7: This Is My Confession 8: Dedicate It 9: Temple 10: Let Me Lie to You 11: Tonight

A dark, bleak masterpiece!
Full of intense lyrics, screaming, slippery, sliding guitar, rock steady and energetic bass and some of the most ass kicking drumming anywhere. This album will not appeal to those who don't like to confront their demons. The music is smart and powerful. I first heard this album as background music in a Seattle bar and immediately was hooked. The menacing howl of Dulli's matched only by the wail of Rick's guitar all painted over that incredible rhythm section. These guys sound like no one else. . . ever. How many bands can you say that about? Like your first bad break up or your first punch in the face. . . this album will haunt you. Don't forget the alcohol. . . .


The Afghan Whigs
Lots of guitar distortion and soulful singing by Greg Dulli. An awesome rock record. Great songwriting,real catchy lyrics. I love Rick McCollum's abrasive guitar playing,it gives the songs more intense vibe. A nice stylistic bluesy album.


AMG Review
Slipping with ominous ease into the sinister, self-obsessed Lothario guise which would serve him so well from here on out, Greg Dulli announces his arrival as a truly magnetic presence -- by turns predator ("Tonight") and prey ("I'm Her Slave"), he's the guy your parents always warned you about, delivering each syllable of his remarkable lyrics with equal measures of innuendo and venom. The grunge era's most overlooked masterpiece, Congregation was the Afghan Whigs' breakthrough album, an incendiary and insidious set which bridges the gap between the noisy aggression of the band's early releases and the soulful swagger of their later work. Equally startling is the Whigs' musical growth -- while still unmistakably a member of the Sub Pop stable, there's a greater maturity and depth to their sinewy sound, with a newfound grasp of mood and nuance on tracks like the opening "Her Against Me" and "Let Me Lie to You" -- the wah-wah guitar which dominates "Turn On the Water," meanwhile, offers the first taste of the funk ambitions to follow. It was hardly a surprise when the Whigs jumped to Elektra soon after -- Congregation was clearly their ticket to the big leagues. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide.


Only one great song on this album
I have tried to like this band, but Greg Dulli just won't shut up. or in their entire career for that matter. Every song is his snide lyrical diatribing, on and on and on. The guitarist keeps things mildly interesting, but on this album in particular, the drummer also won't shut up and play a straight beat for once. It's like three guys in their own worlds, and they mash it together and call what they've done songs. EXCEPT for the one decent song they did, the only rock song I can think of that is hard, psychedelic, passionate, powerful, and set to a waltz beat of all things. "LEt me lie to you" is the best song they ever made, BECAUSE everyone in the band is given room to breathe by the song's framework and tempo. Instead of piling in on top of each other till the end of the song like they usually seem to do, everyone agrees to hold back until the rushing choruses, and it's less muddled and better orchestrated for it. IT's a shame they didn't do any other songs like this, at least none that I have heard. I tried to like them, I really did. I wanted to find the band that made that one song, and discover a whole treasure chest of dark, passionate, noisy music like that. Too bad, no wonder they drifted apart.


best of All

One can listen to this album over and over again w/o boredom, unlike Gentleman's 2-or three pop hits and droning monotony. This was the Best Whigs Album imho before they went more "Mainstream" and "Commercial" with Gentleman.
Although different genre it would be like comparing the passion of Metallica's "Kill em' All" to the more mainstream="And Justice for All".


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