This album changed my life. I was all STP and Candlebox in 1993 as a 15 year old like everybody else and then I saw this video on 120 Minutes and I was floored. I was like "WHO IS THIS EVIL MAN JUST SITTING THERE WHILE PEOPLE FIGHT?!" It opened my eyes to a whole other world of music and I've never been the same since. This album has never left my top five since 1993. 100% masterpiece.
@lavalady55712 жыл бұрын
I was 17, saw it on 120 Minutes, and thought it was such a powerful song. Bought the album and there are some really incredible songs on it, Debonair was only the tip of the iceberg. The whole 'Gentleman' album still moves me to this day.
@katrinakovalenko6206 Жыл бұрын
Same !!!! I was 15 in 1993 and this album was one of the soundtracks of my life growing up in the 90’s. Such a rad time to grow up. Miss the 90’s. Such an underrated album. Truly a masterpiece
@ggab7969 Жыл бұрын
I’m 15 now and i am a candelbox, Stp and afghan whigs fan.
@HzHzder Жыл бұрын
I discovered the Whigs 2 years ago and they made me a man, praise Dulli, that man got style!
@ylewis11 Жыл бұрын
Same!!
@michaelgass43218 жыл бұрын
EASILY one of the most UNDERRATED COMPLETE albums of the early 1990s...from beginning to end, nothing dissapoints. YEAH I SAID IT
@leonidaskotrozinis11547 жыл бұрын
Michael Gass Agreed....
@berlinsaintclair91006 жыл бұрын
Michael Gass Hell to the yessss.
@scottnichols83896 жыл бұрын
Preach.
@snapsprovolone15095 жыл бұрын
Absofuckinglutely
@drunkenramble41204 жыл бұрын
So True. Not too many Artist can pull that off.
@Nekorbmi3 ай бұрын
This whole album is the soundtrack to my drug induced high school experience. That was the best year of my teenage life. Thank you afghan wigs
@davidballarotto71713 жыл бұрын
I was moving some CDs a few minutes ago and found this. Hard to believe I had forgotten about it. And that it was nearly 30 years ago when I got it. I miss buying CDs at the record store that isn't there anymore. I miss being in my 20s. I miss the 90s and the years of mainstream alt rock that brought bands like this to my attention
@eldubya79723 жыл бұрын
Amen brother. And to think we believed it would get better. How naive.
@itookallthenames2 жыл бұрын
@@eldubya7972 haha man that's so true
@GrauzoneBay Жыл бұрын
I know what you mean,,,,same here David, same here.....
@GrauzoneBay Жыл бұрын
oh man everything you say is what I think....everything
@iesus688 жыл бұрын
Still remember the first time I've heard this masterpiece. That stupefaction. That sense of wonder which still goes on. Timeless song from a timeless album.
@michaelgass43218 жыл бұрын
totally 110% with you brother
@blakehewitt2377 жыл бұрын
Amazing band...can't believe they didn't hit it big...
@blakehewitt2377 жыл бұрын
"This time I won't repent, somebodies going down" Is one of the great lines in music.
@Snugdajoina7 жыл бұрын
Blake Hewitt You know, in a way they did hit it big. They're all alive, and are still making wonderful music, under the guise of many monikers...I'm not arguing, just kind of positively ruminating. They should have been huge as shit though.:-)
@VendettaMadame7 жыл бұрын
I agree. I heard it on the radio back in the day. I was like: " what the f*** was that?" I remember listening to that same radios tation for 2 weeks with my tape recorder ready to record and eventually , finally, I could press record.
@igotjams1 Жыл бұрын
Greg Dulli is a genius storyteller. You feel like you needed a shower after listening to his dark, seedy tales of vice and malice
@cheerwhiner78292 жыл бұрын
I went to school with the lead singer, and graduated with his younger sister, Sharon. She had the prettiest smile in our class. 😊 Go Rams 🐏
@joeyunger64602 жыл бұрын
We're from Ross, couldn't be prouder, we got pigs and nuclear power!
@RichRawDawgdrums Жыл бұрын
I graduated from Fairfield 🪶 and my good friend also from Fairfield was in Twilight Singers.
@angelofdeath64325 жыл бұрын
Everytime I'd listen to that beginning riff, I'm instantly transported to the times in the boiling summer haze where I was cruising alone in St. Marks with this song on full blast. Crazy how each song we'd listen to from the past holds a memory.
@berlinsaintclair91006 жыл бұрын
I could listen to the whole Gentlemen album on repeat for hours and still just be in bliss! Thank you to Ohio. The home of my grandparents and the Afghan Whigs!!!!
@brucetrueasblue6 жыл бұрын
'Heard this song ONCE on KROQ and dropped everything to run down to Tower Records to by the CD. So much passion & energy-- blistering lyrics & guitar riffs.
@garybeltrand58028 жыл бұрын
Rick's unique and amazing guitar playing was such a big part of their sound and it's a crime they released an album as The Afghan Whigs without him on it.
@bibsma3401 Жыл бұрын
Couldn’t agree more. The reunion albums aren’t Whigs albums IMO
@kasdfg7765 жыл бұрын
They were TOTALLY underrated.
@jasonwells41123 жыл бұрын
Not by fans. They destroy most "popular" bands in their peer group.
@ferrybasman19693 жыл бұрын
It wasn't Michael Jackson no, but loved by thousands of alternative music lovers. What's wrong with that?
@snidelywhiplash3 жыл бұрын
CRIMINALLY SO. SOMEONE SHOULD BE IN JAIL FOR THAT SHIT.
@bethschettino778121 күн бұрын
They weren’t anything. They’re still making music and touring.
@6828Lu2 жыл бұрын
This amazing song sounds even more amazing 30 years later. So glad they're still rocking in 2022.
@scottcastle23843 жыл бұрын
Completely underrated band and especially this album. The most unique voice in any genre.
@indigojones811 ай бұрын
This album is perfection, all these years on.
@brennanwallin12702 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest songs from the best bands on the planet, impeccable
@BerserkerVision5 жыл бұрын
bass lines are so sick
@wenders993 жыл бұрын
Agreed. He's a beast.
@erwinstada18113 жыл бұрын
Yup, 100% absolutely
@chez58605 жыл бұрын
I can remember 1993, high school graduation party all nighter, it was dawn and on the tv came Conjure me. I was mesmerized, in love with this band from that day on. Couldn't understand how everyone wasn't in love with them too. So underrated. A hidden treasure.
@MjBurns884 ай бұрын
Man does this bring back great memories of youth. Whigs are the seriously one of the most criminally underrated bands history. Have no idea how they weren't absolutely huge🙄
@quincee33763 жыл бұрын
It's February 2021 and this song still rocks. Great band. Great voice!
@mrconancat2 жыл бұрын
November, 2021: No change
@quincee33762 жыл бұрын
@@mrconancat lol. Right on.
@steveb74332 жыл бұрын
Jan 2022 Baby! Love this song since release!
@quincee33762 жыл бұрын
@@steveb7433 right on. Happy New Year!
@steveb74332 жыл бұрын
@@quincee3376 Happy New Year to you as well Brother! Auckland, New Zealand! Go the "Whigs!"
@slynngray9 жыл бұрын
Uh oh, I can always tell I have fallen deep into the void of self loathing anger when I start on the Whigs...
@berlinsaintclair91006 жыл бұрын
RockityRoll Haha! Well said.
@wenders993 жыл бұрын
Good stuff. Dulli drags us under.
@jacobadam68043 жыл бұрын
Dude, why is this so accurate lol
@SexyAssDanny43 жыл бұрын
makes me feel vengeful like i need to get even with someone haha
@stevesullivan896310 жыл бұрын
Love this track. Haunting... for some reason. Think it was the point in time... a perfect choice for the soundtrack of the era.
@patg6557 Жыл бұрын
I love this song now as much as I did almost 30 years ago, great band!
@JosedeNoche Жыл бұрын
Must admit: first time I listen to The Afghan Whigs. Can't believe I missed these guys way back. They just blew me away 🤯🎧🎼
@thepayne786212 жыл бұрын
It was my favorite album in the 90's Afghan Whigs had a good following but they should have been 10 times bigger than they were.
@lincolnhirschi25275 жыл бұрын
The greatest song off of the greatest album by the greatest band of the'90s. And that's about the long and short of it.
@Reprodestruxion3 жыл бұрын
Well now Trent puts on a suit and has choir girls onstage
@Snafubar235 жыл бұрын
So many bittersweet memories attached to this song.
@fishtanksamurai778610 ай бұрын
Love you guys! Mr. Dulli and I almost duked it out once at a show back in the early 90s in Denver. Cooler heads prevailed and a great time was had by all, and I left with great admiration and a cool story to tell.
@WonderSluts11 жыл бұрын
Taking a trip down memory lane, and I just had to pull over for a minute and wave at Greg Dulli and the boys as they went by. One of my favorite albums that I purchased in the 1990s.
@Technickcall11 ай бұрын
I was in awe when that opening riff comes in with those panning shots of houses and neighborhoods
@itmslove10 жыл бұрын
im so glad that i had parents and siblings who listened to EVERYTHING.while i was entering my teens in the early nineties i had this good shit to listen to.
@DykeBot3 жыл бұрын
the whigs were my post adolescent soundtrack of the 90's. Dulli a genius entire band very talented. I mean listen to the bass lines!
@jdthree2 жыл бұрын
Great music…has NO “expiration date” I FEEL this.
@drucerito11 жыл бұрын
Debonair was an immediate favorite of mine once I first heard it back when it was released on Gentlemen and yet... still til this day... it remains one of my all time favorite songs ever!
@ripleysigningoff12315 жыл бұрын
The pain in this song is so evident. I love it. It reminds me of my life.
@Markcroriganscuz9 ай бұрын
Sitting in a coffee shop in late 2023 and this song comes on and sends me down the path - saw them play in cincy back in the 90s. Epic song and the video is unmitigated violence and despair
@deanrane19618 жыл бұрын
Great song!!! One of my faves.
@loreranfagni37724 жыл бұрын
Gentlemen!. Here comes the Afghan whigs!. Still love them after 30 years!. This is a masterpiece album!
@prozacpeople7 жыл бұрын
The Afghan Whigs FOREVER and EVER baby!
@vasiliskaragiorgis66895 жыл бұрын
It was love at first hearing and after all these years the same feeling every time
@adg_874 жыл бұрын
Yezzir!
@fedecastagna Жыл бұрын
30 years of this song. The fking 90's, best alternative music ever...
@alanrossiter88938 ай бұрын
Always love this song 90s classic
@lewasil2 жыл бұрын
God I love this song.
@Ktonrider2 жыл бұрын
Very Dark, such a great tune
@federicolabanti81012 жыл бұрын
one of the best song ever....
@backtotheninetiesbyvictora29096 жыл бұрын
It's in our heart, it's in our head It's in our love, baby, it's in our bed Tonight I go to hell For what I've done to you...🎵
@jamesbelljr10 жыл бұрын
MTVs 120 minutes bought me here to the Whigs
@aaronjacobwillman9 жыл бұрын
James Bell jr. holy crap, 120 Minutes! i remember when that show premiered this video! :D
@jamesbelljr9 жыл бұрын
aaronjacobwillman Me too that show helped me discover a lot of great music they show Classic 120Minutes on VH1 Hits late at nite but it is not as good though
@MrSKINFLICK8 жыл бұрын
+James Bell jr. 120 minutes was also my "food for thought + feeling" in Germany back then in the first half of the 90s, until MTV London suddenly canceled it overnight in 1995. What was THAT? I could realize it when MTV was bought at the stock exchange by Viacom in 1998. This "step" dramatically worsened our "western culture". I really miss the MTV of the first half of the 90s. Afterwards "religious" people like Putin or George W. Bush "arrived":...yuck. The Clintons were very naive back then.
@thomasdrish64914 жыл бұрын
I first watched it on JBTV back in 1993. I didn't like it at the time, but wow, has this song grown on me! Has a unique maturity to it.
@martinrking5 жыл бұрын
frickin' love this bass line
@sc45384 жыл бұрын
This song just suddenly popped into my head, so I googled it, been rocking out to it, brings back early 90s memories for me, I have the album on a cassette tape, have to dig it out, at least they made a kick ass video for a kick ass song
@indigojones811 ай бұрын
Best live show I've ever seen when they were touring with this album at Tipitinas in New Orleans.
@trainelavalais62803 жыл бұрын
I remember when this song came out in the fall of 1993. Every teenager should listen to this song. Very deep.
@chocomanger68735 жыл бұрын
Totally forgot about this band and this song until Billy Corgan recently mentioned them at a concert, talking about how his band opened for them about 30 years ago.
@BrandonHex Жыл бұрын
The most underrated band in existence.
@WhiteThugNo3 Жыл бұрын
it's like I'm back there at that sleepy suburb circa 93, at the store with checkered floors; the unseemliness just below the surface. It's not the same now that I can just dial it up and watch it.
@brigland37267 жыл бұрын
I'd forgotten how good this album is... how much I love it!!! still awesome.. play it loud!
@christophermaynard1902 Жыл бұрын
Greg dulli definitely has swag....og...
@derekwhitaker552810 жыл бұрын
The video comes across as dated, but the song and the album are among the very best ever by anyone.
@alecwomack67186 жыл бұрын
I was lucky enough to wake up at 4am for a glass of water to see this playing on MTV 90's house videos. Immediately was stopped in my tracks, not because MTV was actually playing a music video for a change but how I managed to miss this band growing up in the 90's! I love this song!
@jmcmondego Жыл бұрын
Interpol guys say Afghan Whigs are a great influence
@Wellou592 ай бұрын
Bon son, indémodable
@frigidpony Жыл бұрын
Ah, the nineties... Back when goatees and cigarettes were still cool.
@phnigra1115 жыл бұрын
This songs got a nice little hook that kinda finds a comfy space in your mind for the day...
@PoemsAboutStars12 жыл бұрын
This video looks and feels exactly the way high school looked and felt back in '95
@dricedlk2 жыл бұрын
Damn, I remember having an Afghan Whigs tape in 1993. It was in my walkman when it was stolen.
@brennansweeney49503 жыл бұрын
listened to this album front to back 4 times today while working, it's so good!
@theengineer7047 жыл бұрын
damn, i need a smoke listening to this one. Someone pass me a smoke. Love this damn song.
@BadSneakers9 жыл бұрын
Holy schitt, this is good
@helolisztomaniac Жыл бұрын
Sempre voltando aqui 🖤
@carlindapierce659812 жыл бұрын
SAW THE WHIGS IN A CLUB HERE IN TAMPA,,,THEY WERE SO GOOD I STAYED SOBER TO REMEMBER THAT NIGHT.....
@russwr49467 жыл бұрын
having fucking good taste brought me here
@garyhicks14736 жыл бұрын
yeah me too!
@newtownbelievers5862 Жыл бұрын
Killer riff
@missnordstern2119 Жыл бұрын
Gentleman is still one of my favorite albums! ♥♥♥
@dimitraBlissDk8 жыл бұрын
i saw them live danced right in front. later that night walking around down town SLC my friends and i walked past their bus as they were getting on it. He stopped and pointed to me and said " I remeber you"
@berlinsaintclair91006 жыл бұрын
Dimitra Kambouris De Hoog That is cool as hell! I'm so glad you shared that story. AW shows were the best?! My friend and I made our way back stage in Cali in '94 when I was 19 and Greg Dulli planted huge red lipstick kisses on both of us. We just about died and went to Heaven.
@katherineetzel73284 жыл бұрын
same with me but it was the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Love AF's, wish I had seen them live sometime.
@Leo-qe3gl Жыл бұрын
@Dimitra. Beautiful. When did this happen? 1993?
@Vrten9 жыл бұрын
incredible.
@mauriciocarvalho8732 жыл бұрын
True. Masterpiece
@GoSolar6 жыл бұрын
I heard this song for the very first time on some indy radio station the other day. Now I've got it on repeat.
@lennyarias246512 жыл бұрын
I love this song! Still years later & it's like hearing it for the first time! Great song!
@xmarcal73 жыл бұрын
Played this song at my college graduation , back in 95. Never gets old
@raleghhowes27788 жыл бұрын
Whoever did their videos had a real Lynch thing going on. This is Blue Velvet, Gentlemen is a Twin Peaks revamp of Rear Window.
@raleghhowes27788 жыл бұрын
Ah the 90s rocked eh.
@j.aarontaylor35437 жыл бұрын
+Ralegh Howes Dulli had a real Lynch thing going on. This song was inspired by the Jackson 5's "I Want You Back" and the Twin Peaks theme song. Take a listen to those 2 and come back to this.
@j.aarontaylor35437 жыл бұрын
DL Beaven Dulli was focused on the two songs that inspired it and word association, and the lyrics aren't particularly ambiguous in the context of one song being about longing for someone and the other being about a passion murder. Dulli was obviously young when he wrote it, and in that youthful, self-destructive phase he has said that he wrote much of the album in a dark mood. The titles "Gentlemen" and "Debonair" are both plainly ironic, and the lyrics for "Debonair" tell the story of the young man getting into a lustful relationship for all the wrong reasons. Now that relationship is crashing at the point where everyone gets hurt, but that's part of his self-destructive nature and he welcomes it without apology.
@j.aarontaylor35437 жыл бұрын
My bad, you said succinct. Self-destructive young people getting into bad relationships. There ya go.
@angusbeefballfro7 жыл бұрын
David Lynch is exactly right. The video reminded me of Lynch's Lost Highway. Matter of fact, Dulli in this video reminds me of Bill Pullman who starred in that film. Maybe it's the clothing style idk.
@matthewdevereux12882 жыл бұрын
I remember listening to the Whigs at the age of about 15 at a mate's house in Guildford near Stoke Park whilst drinking tin after tin of rubbishy cheap Sainsbury's supermarket lager and we went roaring into the park signing Whigs songs and suddenly got collared by some police officers who had the temerity to nick our tins of lager off us just for being three years under the legal age!
@SGtem Жыл бұрын
Yep that what us Gen X and generation before social media .. we would go hang out in parking lots listen to our rock loud and spend time outside interacting amongst each other
@sespro91710 жыл бұрын
Does everything in the 90s look brighter to anyone else? Or just me because i was really young in the 90s and i remember everything seeming so bright and colorful?
@OlChunkOfCoal10 жыл бұрын
Wow. This is so true.
@1brandtg10 жыл бұрын
It does seem like it was sunnier back then. Its probably because we spent more time outdoors :)
@superunknown28127 жыл бұрын
This is quite the.comment....i like it
@kmuck86776 жыл бұрын
Maybe not brighter but everything seems more colorful, so yea I get that too. I thought it was just the fashion and art style of the time but who knows.
@metal95356 жыл бұрын
That's because all media hit an emotional phase around the 00s.
@peterlorrequartet6559 Жыл бұрын
This rocks kids.....great music from a time and place....
@RonnieOwens-kv4oe8 ай бұрын
Bought this CD from hearing this one song. Fucking fantastic group!!
@Jim-sy3dp2 ай бұрын
Best album in rock and roll raw and real
@BorisBerlin Жыл бұрын
Just discovered you.... this is great!
@Ignorant3038 жыл бұрын
Once again, The Monster speaks...
@philipswain41222 жыл бұрын
A brilliant band
@taliashafrir4 жыл бұрын
It aint about regret,its about the truth
@AirelonTrading10 жыл бұрын
Phew, it's hard to believe I was ever 20 years old ...
@IvanoForgione3 жыл бұрын
same here...!
@thepayne786211 жыл бұрын
Definitely a fantastic albums rock music could use more of this type of swagger nowadays.
@lennyarias246512 жыл бұрын
With this type of music...they should've still been around! Great music!
@joemachine47142 жыл бұрын
They are still around, saw them about 4 yrs ago and got to meet them afterward. Check out a recent track "Arabian Heights" it's better than anything out today.
@stownsendnyc Жыл бұрын
These guys are legend. My band recorded in their cincy studio
@user-es2uf6li1o Жыл бұрын
Super underrated band. Great album.
@tjhunter243310 жыл бұрын
I'm so impressed that people know this song!!! I listened to them when Whale was out.
@TheEggplantThatAteChicago3 жыл бұрын
This is surreal because I'm a TJ Hunter and agree with your comment, but I definitely didn't make it, ha ha.
@captaintifany3 жыл бұрын
the first time i heard this song i brushed it off as being another 90s grunge song. But I kept thinking about it, and now I love the Afghan Whigs so much, really underrated band
@joey_da_blowy5 ай бұрын
First I found Soundgarden, then I found Alice in Chains, Blind Melon, and to a slightly lesser extent, Pearl Jam, and most recently, Screaming Trees and Mark Lanegan, and then Greg Dulli and The Afghan Whigs. Great music all around. Mark Lanegan and The Afghan Whigs went from me not listening to them really to being in the top 5 for these past 12 months.... And I listen to TONS of music, this only could've happened with me listening to even more music lately, and listening to solely them on repeat. Love this kinda stuff. Edit: Also been loving me some Queens of the Stone Age and even moreso Kyuss and Mondo Generator, that stuff goes crazy
@ericsierra-franco78022 жыл бұрын
Direly underappreciated band!
@bladerunner1b5 жыл бұрын
Ahh the Cincy/Dayton Ohio music scene that never was back in the early 90's. You at least got The Afghan Whigs, The Breeders, and Guided by Voices But there was more.. It would have rivaled Seattle.
@saintjabroni4 жыл бұрын
Name some band/artist names!
@djhamsterdam85784 жыл бұрын
@@saintjabroni listent to Brainiac
@CapysGardenShop4 жыл бұрын
I was from the early 90’s Mpls. scene. I do feel lucky to have lived in Seattle for the past 15 yrs tho. It’s a mood. 😎
@ibelieveicansoar4 жыл бұрын
Don’t forget Morella’s Forest and their noise pop masterpiece song “Hang Out”: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eK9_eqlym761dXk.html And the jangle poppers Belreve, especially their heaviest song on the essential “Sulk King” / “Always Crush Me” split 7” with GBV. FWIW, I saw the Whigs play in New Orleans on Thanksgiving ‘97 and this song was by far the most pulverizingly loud one I’ve ever heard in a club setting. Maybe only slightly topped by Swervedriver or Helmet...
@rob09213 жыл бұрын
@@saintjabroni Grafton, Psychological Vacation. WO Wrights and Canal Street Tavern
@zoolbondi5147 жыл бұрын
I'm not the man my actions would suggest love this song when I was younger I would listen to this song before almost every battle and dismantle who was in front of me man those were the Days