Black Love

The Afghan Whigs - Black Love

Black Love
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Artist: The Afghan Whigs
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-03-12
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
  1. Crime Scene Part One
  2. My Enemy
  3. Double Day
  4. Blame, Etc.
  5. Step Into The Light
  6. Going To Town
  7. Honky's Ladder
  8. Night By Candlelight
  9. Bulletproof
  10. Summer's Kiss
  11. Faded

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Free Music Review: Best Album of the 90's
Hit: 5 Stars

I know my review title is a bold statement, but I believe this album stands above all the music I purchased or experienced in the 90's. I am always completely shocked and surprised when I see other Afghan Whigs fans rank this lower than their other albums like Gentleman and Congregation. I see this as the clear pinnacle of their career. 1965 is also a very good album, but I will take this album end to end over it every time.

When I first bought this album, I must admit I didn't enjoy it on the first listen. But on each later listening, the underlying melancholy, emotion, and conceptual flow through the songs began to create a stonger and stronger attachment to the album. It is that kind of connection, along with albums that get better with each listen, that lifts an album to be one of my favorites. Of the 50+ alt-rock genre albums I purchased in the 90's (plus many many more listened to, but not purchased), this is now at the top of my list, and is still a must play in my collection.

Part of me is disappointed that this is not more critically acclaimed amongst other great albums of all time, but then I come to my senses and realize I get to really enjoy this relatively hidden gem with a select few.

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Where some artists write from the head and others from the heart, Whigs' songwriter/frontman Greg Dulli writes from the groin. Filled with dark images of romantic obsession, Black Love is more like a movie than an album with each musical image building on the next. Perhaps no other band can play with such restraint, letting musical tension build until it can do nothing other than explode. Dulli is in his finest voice, moving from desperate screams to a quiet sinister crooning at the turn of a chord. Guitarist Rick McCollum plays everything from '70s funk to '90s grunge without missing a beat, and the rhythm section of John Curley (bass) and Paul Buchignani (drums) is as tight as they come. If '93's Gentlemen left any doubt about the true talent of the Whigs, Black Love puts it to rest. --Bill Snyder

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