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YANKEE DULLI DANDY
Depression. A broken heart. Heroin. A dodgy turn. It’s been a tough couple of years for The Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli. But things are most certainly looking up for our Greg and he’s got the album to prove it!
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Later
Station: BBC
Air date:10.30.98
City: London, UK
Source: TV
Length: 8 min
Notes: Performed “Somethin’ Hot” and “Uptown Again.”
1965 Promo Photo/Press Kit
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1965 - Entertainment Weekly
A
Whigs leader Greg Dulli remains a black-music ironist bar none. Merging cool- fire post-grunge into Puff Daddy quotes and symphonic blaxploitation sweep, he creates maximum premillennium tension. Yet he’s also one of rock’s finest lyricists: His noir vignettes read like a Jim Thompson novel, their erotic narratives expertly skewering the male psyche. “Whatever did happen to your soul?” he queries at the beginning of “Crazy”; its fascinating carcass, however, lies here for all to see.
–Matt Diehl
Consumable Online - JC
John Curley / Afghan Whigs, 1965- Chris Hill
You have to admire the nerve of a guy who records his lovemaking, titles a 23 second excerpt “Sweet Son of a Bitch”, and puts it on an album which should be in a million teenage stockings on Christmas morn. But that’s Greg Dulli - rogue and auteur - guiding force of a band (Afghan Whigs) with a potentially platinum new album ( 1965 ).
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1965 - MTV
The Afghan Whigs were supposed to be stars. The raucous Cincinnati band with the ’70s-soul obsession did the indie thing, earned the buzz and jumped to the majors with the awesome 1993 effort, Gentlemen, featuring the slithery single “Debonair.” Hugeness loomed around the corner, but Black Love, the solid, seamy, libido-powered jaunt that followed in 1996, failed to launch the band into the platinum stratosphere. So here we are, one commercial flop and about a million years away from the alt-indie-grunge revolution that initially spawned the band. The question is, do we give a damn anymore?
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1965 - Sonicnet
Losing Their Derision …
Dulli pays homage to Whigs’ hero Marvin Gaye by turning out some sultry soul numbers …
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1965 - Live Wire
7.5
If Greg Dulli weren’t up on stage, he’d probably be the wrong guy to bump into in the audience. His slovenly soul always seems to draw an inexplicable link between Iggy Pop and Marvin Gaye: he’ll incite you into looking at him wrong just so he can throw some drunken punches, yet he has a pocket full of come-ons that will melt your girlfriend like buttah.
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Whigs Mull Video, Tour
MTV News
Dial-a-Decade retro moves don’t come much more straightforward than the title of the Afghan Whigs new album, “1965,” the follow-up to the band’s 1996 record, “Black Love,” and its first as part of a new deal with Columbia Records.
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1965 - E! Online
Our Review:
A-
Sounding upbeat and refreshed after an extended New Orleans hiatus, the Whigs return with one of the year’s best albums. Infused with some of the Crescent City’s legendary good-time atmosphere, 1965 overflows with optimistic melodies that temper their crisp rock edge. Many of the tunes (notably “Somethin’ Hot”) give off a slinky soul vibe that successfully integrates lead singer Greg Dulli’s rakish persona and the band’s tight, powerful grooves. There’s a heavy Stones influence here, most obvious with Dulli’s crooning on “John the Baptist,” but the real homage lies in the wickedly grooving jam that ensues. Always a band on the verge of mainstream success, the Whigs may have finally recorded the album to put them over the top.
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