Instead of blue-eyed soul, let’s call it black-hearted. While Kurt Cobain re-branded the hellish blues torture of Robert Johnson, Dulli glorified the melancholy-but-libidinous tunes of the Supremes, Barry White, and even TLC, albeit with a darker twist. So while rock bands emulated rock bands, Dulli took things back to basics, taking his cues from soul and R&B music. The Afghan Whigs, and especially guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Greg Dulli, understood that even the most Caucasian rock is at its heart derived from African American music, and sexuality is an intimate part of that - they don’t call him Elvis the Pelvis without good reason. On the other hand, their approach to cock-rock was distinct from the woman-devouring bands that preceded them. Unlike their contemporaries, though, the Afghan Whigs gloried in bacchanalia, making them unique among the bands they often shared labels with. The Cincinnati four-piece came into their own in the late ’80s and early ’90s alternative scene, a collective of bands that rejected the cock-rock ethos, and for good reason: The ’80s hair metal scene had taken sexual rock and roll to such extremes as to render it absurd. And yet, somewhere along the way, it became un-hip to write music about sex, at least too overtly.īut let’s cut away the bullshit. The urge to fuck is one of the most basic, relatable mental processes in the world, and one intimately related to love - the subject of more songs and poems than any other subject (my money is on war in second place, and just plain physical sex as a close third). To the best of our scientific knowledge, six billion years of evolution has gone into making all of us, men and women, want to bang. However, I know damn well what the point of life is: to procreate, and in so doing, fornicate.

That is unknowable, and maybe nonexistent. Never trust a man who says he knows what the meaning of life is.

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