The Best Song Ever: Afghan Whigs - My Curse (Peel Session) [MP3]

MP3: Afghan Whigs - My Curse (Peel Session)

As us Whig fans celebrate the mighty return of the giants that walk the earth, here is a track from a 1994 Peel Session. "My Curse" in it's context on Gentlemen is sung by Marcy Mays of Scrawl, which is quite great, but there's a reason we don't post mp3s by that band: that shit ain't Greg Dulli.

He finally sings on his song, bringing something already great to new levels, bumming you out in a completely different way. It's awesome.

I do love Mays singing on this track too, though. Here she is joining the dudes on stage at the Reading Festival (also in '94):

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First off: GENIUS album cover. The conception of such an idea is worthy of praise alone, but the fact that the photographer got these children to capture that moment so perfectly is nothing sort of incredible. I could seriously make this post about the cover alone, but the music contained inside demands to be written about.

My old boss at this record store I used to work at told me that the audio at the beginning of the Afghan Whigs' "Gentlmen" was the sounds of the highway leaving Cincinnati. It's a brilliant start to the lp and the soul and harshness that continues through cement it as an all time great. It's hard to not just post the whole album, but all 3 of these songs are a great start and a coda to the Whigs as a whole. Fuck yeah!