The Afghan Whigs
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Oct 27, 2026
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It has songs like Sail Away to Avalon.
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In 1998, the Afghan Whigs released 1965.
speaker_0HOST
This brought about the atmospheres of New Orleans, and it peaked at number 176 on the Billboard Albums chart.
speaker_0HOST
It had album cuts like Something Hot and 1966.
Yasi SalekHOST
My next one...
Yasi SalekHOST
The Afghan Whigs.
Yasi SalekHOST
The Afghan Whigs put out an album called Soft Control.
Yasi SalekHOST
As you guys know, I am a long and deep Afghan Whigs fan.
Yasi SalekHOST
I love them.
Yasi SalekHOST
Someone came for me in one of our little cute bandswain memes that said that I was 10 years old listening to the Afghan Whigs thinking I knew about alcoholic situationships.
Yasi SalekHOST
And they were like, no one listens to the Afghan Whigs when they're 10.
Yasi SalekHOST
And I did, bitch.
V. Paul JanbazianHOST
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
LGGUEST
It kind of got a little famous because of the singer Marcy Mays did a song with the Afghan Whigs, a pop band, which is probably one of my favorite bands of all time.
V. Paul JanbazianHOST
Same.
V. Paul JanbazianHOST
Yeah.
JerryHOST
Great album that starts off with the 120 minutes classic Stop, Drop and Roll.
JerryHOST
Before the Agitpop, you heard the Afghan Whigs with Turn On the Water from their third album, Congregation, pressed up by the Sub Pop label back in 92.
JerryHOST
I have to thank Jer for sending that one along for the show.
JerryHOST
I have to admit that I really didn't listen to that band besides the songs on the radio at the time, and I've had a lot of fun digging into their catalog lately.
Yasi SalekHOST
You come to, to me on the day of my daughter's wedding often- [laughs] ... and you're just like, "Who's gonna do this Bandsplain episode?" The day of his daughter's wedding- And I was like, "How do The Strokes-" ...
Yasi SalekHOST
was we were going to an Afghan Whigs concert and having a delicious burger and a beer with his beautiful wife Phoebe.
Yasi SalekHOST
Mm-hmm.
Yasi SalekHOST
And I just brought up casually that I was going to do a Strokes episode.
Bethany CosentinoHOST
And how the hell exactly does one get a record deal? If you're Matthew Caws, also by a chance meeting.
Bethany CosentinoHOST
Caws ran into a guy who worked at Number Six Records, which in the '90s released EPs from Luna, The Afghan Whigs, and other cool bands.
Bethany CosentinoHOST
It had some ties to Elektra, which is where Nada Surf's tape got passed.
Bethany CosentinoHOST
A meeting with an A&R guy at the label ended with the band being offered a deal on the spot.
Ray HarkinsHOST
It is completely not a new record, but I just recently revisited it on vinyl, and man, this record is so good.
Ray HarkinsHOST
The record is called, from the band called the Gutter Twins, Saturnalia, and this is a project from Mark Lanegan from the Screaming Trees, and he also played in Queens of the Stone Age, and then Greg Dulli from the Afghan Whigs.
Ray HarkinsHOST
This thing is awesome.
Ray HarkinsHOST
It's basically like a more polished version of both of their bands filtered through this, like, weird sort of, you know, haunted [laughs] overtone of the whole record, and it is exceptional.
Tom OsmanHOST
Well, do you know what? This is, like, so incidental, and this is probably just my own ear 'cause of bands I listen to.
Tom OsmanHOST
But one of the things that stood out for me, which was mid-'90s, but not, uh, emotional hardcore, I actually found myself from time to time thinking about The Afghan Whigs.
Zak DenhamGUEST
Oh, yeah.
Tom OsmanHOST
I don't know what it was.
Tom OsmanHOST
It, there was just, like, some, m- maybe, you know, like, they're so, they're so soul influenced.
Zak DenhamGUEST
Mm-hmm.
Tom OsmanHOST
And there are certain aspects of The Afghan Whigs' music that's very kind of soaring.
Tom OsmanHOST
It has that kind of, like, tugging at your heart, and also kinda like with what Zach was talking about, about the, the sort of balance between pulling people down and then lifting them back up again.
Andy YoungHOST
What I've just been doing is, like... is my friend recommended it to me, and I've just been, like, picking bands I'm interested in.
Andy YoungHOST
So I'm, like, nearly finished the Afghan Whigs one, um, a band I really love.
Andy YoungHOST
And so I- But it's like, what's interesting is that it's very kind of warts and all.
Andy YoungHOST
Like, it's, it...
Andy YoungHOST
They talk at the start, they're like, "So you know, Afghan Whigs was never a major band, but they had a devoted fan base.
Andy YoungHOST
Well, they had a devoted male fan base.
Andy YoungHOST
Well, they had a devoted male fan base who probably all need therapy." And I'm like, "I so hard relate- [laughs]
Beth MartinHOST
[laughs]
Noah KahanGUEST
Oh, dude
Zane LoweHOST
... and the Afghan Whigs.
Noah KahanGUEST
Yeah.
Zane LoweHOST
Who are still to this day like in my top three most played bands of all time.
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