1965 | 
| Artist: The Afghan Whigs
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $9.98
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Rating:  59 reviews
Sales Rank: 123836
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 69450
UPC: 074646945025
EAN: 0074646945025
ASIN: B00000DFRU
Release Date: October 27, 1998
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| Tracks:
| • | Somethin' Hot | | • | Crazy | | • | Uptown Again | | • | Sweet Son of a Bitch | | • | 66 | | • | Cito Soleil | | • | John the Baptist | | • | Slide Song | | • | Neglekted | | • | Omerta | | • | Vampire Lanois |
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For close to a decade, Cincinnati-based alt-rock combo Afghan Whigs created music that hurt so good. Rooted in an emotive hybrid of self-loathing punk and exhibitionistic soul, the band's tunes writhed and roiled, cutting to the core of dysfunctional relationships. But after their bleak, bitter 1995 release, Black Love, was met with general disinterest, the discouraged band took four years off to reevaluate its art. 1965 indicates that if the Whigs were suffering identity crisis, they've certainly found themselves. Instead of wallowing or brooding, as they did on past efforts, the band struts and staggers lustfully, coming across with the drive and vibe of the Rolling Stones' hormone-fest Some Girls. Many songs on 1965 are augmented with braying horns, gliding strings, and jaunty piano, and the hedonistic mood clearly reflects the downtown New Orleans environment the record was created in. High points include the swarthy surge of "Something Hot," the torch-lighted drama of "Crazy," and the sleazy pulse of "66," which begins with a 23-second recording of one of frontman Greg Dulli's intimate encounters. --Jon Wiederhorn
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| Customer Reviews: Read 54 more reviews...
 wonderful. Rejuvenating. Restored my faith in rock. December 6, 1999
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This album blew me away. I am a very tough critic of modern rock...most of it totally sucks, and the rest is mediocre or pop and wears quickly. But this album..., I don't know what to say. I spent five months overseas in the middle of nowhere (long story) and had to travel light. I took my CD portable and five CDs. This was one of them. And I listened to it everyday. It not only kept me going, it totally restored my faith in rock, which I though died in the early 80s. If you are tired of wimpy REM songs, tired of yawning paeans to juvenile angst you hear on the radio, and want something that stretches your limbs, your lust, and your learning, unwind with this album at nine and a half on the volume knob. I am so refreshed to find a band that can blend blues, hard rock rhythym, lyrics that are both introspective and overtly sexual, and key physical elements like brass and superb bass...it reminds me of the Stones. And John the Baptist has got to be one of the best rock songs ever written. Man, I love this album.
 wicked dark fun January 27, 2006
Teflon Kid
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
It's pretty obvious I think the Whigs are among the most underrated bands in rock history--otherwise, I wouldn't be writing this.
After several albums mining such dark subjects chronicling love gone bad, addiction, murder, remorseful sex, and generally living the life of a modern American male Tarintino style, the boys are back with a collection of tracks that are, for a lack of a better term, light hearted. I mean, they're actually having fun here, without all that downer self-torture business (okay, maybe there's a bit of that, but it's way muted). Production values are high. Soulful background vocals, ballsy horns, and winning arrangements; this LP absolutely shines.
I know I'm gonna take a lot of flak for the following closing comment, but honestly, this is the album the Rolling Stones _wish_ they recorded.
SKIP MY REVIEW AND JUST BUY IT December 31, 1999
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Okay, if you have to read this, here it goes. I was never quite the fanatic when it came to this band, so when I first heard this album, I was blown away at how good they have become. I was always a fan of their R n' B flavored work, especially the "Uptown Avondale" EP back in '92. This album is that good and more, much much more. It's a lusty, sweaty rock record that follows poor Greg Dulli from one failed relationship to another. He quotes Nas and Pink Floyd, he includes pounding piano solos and gospel backgrounds, and basically shapes together one of the most solid albums of the '90s. Think mid-eighties Replacements, early seventies Stones, and a little Bauhaus thrown in for good measure. While critics were peeing their pants over the latest French techno bores, this album went unfairly unnoticed, but if you buy it, you can avenge the Whigs fate!
SEXED AGAIN April 23, 2000
Michael DiMarco (New York, NY)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Never more focussed or melodic, cool cat Greg Dulli once again winds through the tales of revenge, pain, and wanting we all relate to. The formula still works as the music, increasingly innovative, manages to stay true to the trademark Whigs form. Each track snakes beautifully around gritty guitars, infectiously layered beats, and Dulli's soulful loverboy croning, keeping to the spirit of sexed up and sweaty late-nite R&B. Check out the the passion of "66," the harmonics of "Uptown Again," and the sultriness of "John The Baptist" to name a few. The album as a whole triumphs over the mass-produced, cookie-cutter, record-company dictatorship of the late '90's, while crawling desperately through the bedroom of every young, dirty, defenseless girl. Go on in.
Sexy and soulfull December 17, 1999
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This band continues to define itself creatively. The music is rich, layered and transforming. The mood (a la Dhulli) ranges from lusty to spiritual.
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