The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen (Official Music Video)

Watch the official video for "Gentlemen" by The Afghan Whigs from the album "Gentlemen". Gentlemen is the fourth studio album by the alternative rock band The Afghan Whigs. It was released in 1993.
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[@indiemixtape]

what does this song make you nostalgic for? subscribe for more: uproxx.it/mrln2hd

[@ttidforever7416]

The Buzz coffee house in Cincinnati. Alas, no longer there, but nostalgic just the same.

[@kindkidbk]

being little again

[@donramonito]

Working at the Tower Records store in NY.

[@flip65515]

Making playlists for my ex girlfriend who was a stripper. And the douchebags in the club looking around as if to say "What the fuck?"

[@frankmorton514]

White America.

[@thehnicee]

One of the most underrated alternative bands...this song will never get old

[@MixedRogueKhorri]

so true

[@miguelacosta5446]

true

[@michaelallison9956]

Amazing tune

[@matthepworth5035]

Yeah these guys took off when Kurt was dead and Mudhoney sucked

[@jm3921]

Its a shame that they didnt become more famous. They deserved far more recognition. Super talented group

[@annunakigaming2207]

i discovered this band when i was in highschool in 2005 and never stopped listening. I thought i was late to the party back then i cant even begin to understand how kids feel when they discover this music today

[@GrauzoneBay]

I saw them 95 and 2016, Can you believe they even got better??? No more underrated band

[@gigz-econ5625]

Back in the day they were to become the next stones. What heppened next was a joke! Glad they came back. In spades was good

[@yelkhan2002]

I discovered them recently. Awesome band, can't believe how unknown they are

[@Lucholosabe]

Dont ask me why, but this video have strong David Lynch vibes. I love it.

[@soumage]

Phil Harder directed the hell outta this video. Combines voyeurism with pure angst.

[@markbommarito1300]

This entire Album is Brilliant. A harrowing song cycle chronicling the death throes of a relationship. If you've only listened to this song, you missing the rest of the story.

[@moirajean8]

How this band did not become a long term major band is beyond me. Very talented line-up. Just goes to show some times it's better to be lucky than good.

[@JRockG123]

Twilight Singers was another band that was great

[@fd9447]

I've always felt Greg Dulli's voice and style are an acquired taste. I certainly love his singing, but it's just not for everyone.

[@dalekay9ine]

Because their from my home town, Cincinnati and we can't do anything right or get noticed for the large amount of talent here for some reason. Always treated like a second rate town even though we have professional sports teams on a nation level, one of which won a championship in 1990 and the other has never won and lost to the same team both times they made it to the super bowl....

[@jayk9777]

they did ..huge band

[@sweetforthetitties]

Afghan Whigs are the true meaning of underrated. Why they were not massive Ill never know. Deep lyrics, killer funk swagger, a frontman that had everything and the drummer is just a powerhouse. All their albums are consistently good. This song is just timeless.

[@PabloGonzalez-wf1fo]

Por la sencilla razón de que la década del 90 estaba llena de bandas de rock alternativo Gigantes, afghan wighs Gigantes entre Gigantes.

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

They were a tad too clean cut for the Grunge explosion, I guess. Pearl Jam's music was far worse in my opinion and they got all the attention because they were part of the Seattle "scene".

[@Sr.ChilePepper]

Amazing how this song crept into my mind after not having listened to this album in about 20 years. It still holds up incredibly well. Gotta dig up this CD. From start to finish its a great listen.

[@itmslove]

every time i hear this song it sounds more amazing than the last.

[@ald668]

I'm late to their party, but I'm so glad I came.

[@rjonboy7608]

I know. I had Debonair for years before I realized how deep it really was. And that "quiet-screaming" is good vocals.

[@ald668]

@@rjonboy7608 You are so correct!

[@nunyabidness3554]

I just heard this album last night thanks to a friend. Mind was officially blown. 😍

[@thepayne7862]

Gentleman is a fantastic album highly recommend their album Black Love quite a different feel to to it bus still fantastic. Also if you like Greg Dulli the lead singer he had band after Afghan Whigs called The Twilight Singers which was quite good as well.

[@feelinghippie4264]

So happy for you, This band has an incredible discography! I am so happy they are still at it today :)

[@DVDgal75]

Greg was so hot 🔥

[@deedeediro1430]

This song never gets old...RIP David Rosser

[@AaronLakes-ge9su]

One of the most underrated bands of grunge era music besides screaming trees and both are awesome oh and when Greg isn't doing afghan whigs he moonlights as page Hamilton of helmet 😂😂😂😂 and available for childrens birthday partys

[@colin-nekritz]

Only Whigs weren’t grunge any more than the Stones were grunge.

[@matachresis]

This is the most 90s song.

[@j.dovales8713]

This song still makes it for me, over 20 years later and it's still as fresh today as when I first heard it. Especially the power in some of the verses that stand out: "I stayed in too long But she was the perfect fit And we dragged it out so long this time Started to make each other sick" and "Let me in I'm cold All messed up but nowhere to go You got indecision, and indecision is my enemy Well, unlock the cabinet, hey I'll take whatever you got, got, got Now I'm on it, now I'm on it And you're done" Wow! Fuckin' brilliant.

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

For me it captures that feeling of aimlessness of 20-something relationships that was very prevalent in Gen Xers who didn't know what the fuck we were doing. Add in drugs to the mix, and it's a recipe for despair and chaos.

[@FabioPagan]

One of the best 90´s singles and videos! Awesome!

[@nullc0ntext]

I remember we took a family trip to Pensacola for a skate meet my sister competed in and I'd just picked this album up - on tape - and walking through the hotel lobby and seeing the OJ Simpson white Bronco car chase playing on every tv in the place... Quite some memory right there.

[@moirajean8]

This is a great rock 'n roll song

[@SexyAssDanny4]

Greg Dulli looks like a hero and a villain

[@stoneage1971]

What a song..savage & video matches it perfectly

[@tross6380]

Top 10 songwriters and albums of my life.

[@boykillshorse]

Same 🖤

[@stevesullivan8963]

This one and "Debonair" just... wow!

[@brianoneil9662]

"I waited for the joke, it never did arrive..." Yeah. That's a gut punch put to perfect words.

[@corzich]

those lyrics never left me. why I'm here, lol

[@patrick19761976ify]

Cincinnati baby! Saw them in '93 at Bogart's. Excellent show

[@joeseymour4073]

This belongs on the Mt. Rushmore of '90s videos....

[@garyhicks1473]

Great song by an amazing band!

[@christophermaynard1902]

Kick ass..saw them 6 times

[@loreranfagni3772]

Gentleman album is a Timless masterpiece..... from the cover to all the songs......still love it after all these years, my kids love it too!.

[@heatha8188]

27 years today this album changed my life. 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@BrutusMcCrunch]

The single most underrated band of the 1990's. Greg Dulli's stage act was phenomenal.(I saw them in 1993 at the Roxy in LA)...they blew me away.Funk alternative with true class.

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

I love the way they changed out the singer for other dudes of different ages and races in parts. That's a very interesting idea I've never seen implemented that well.

[@patrickanderson1806]

I cannot remember the Baltimore Orioles' player, but this was his intro song walking up the plate to bat. It was awesome!!!!!

[@MrPetcoBoulevard]

No idea who?

[@americasevilgenius]

If the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial had an official theme song...this should probably be it.

[@HeidiHaaland]

and the award for Best 4th Wall Break!

[@her_biggest_fan]

Hot fire

[@tross6380]

Best break up album of all time. I lived every second of it.

[@jrsmink]

I take whatever you got ... !

[@The_One_Banks]

This whole album is a how-to guide of exactly what steps to take to ruin a relationship. Pure brilliance.

[@raceyboy]

It's a tried and true process!

[@americasevilgenius]

And as such, it served as somewhat of a guidebook for my relationships in college!

[@RyDawg084]

Great comment!. Very true

[@thac0twenty377]

eh. I manage doi gthst quite well on my own, sir :)

[@panagiotisgavellas8577]

What a song,what a band..long live 90's

[@billdane4759]

Remember MTVs ;;Big 80's '' Show back in the 90's anybody?

[@snoopydance71]

greg was a handsome bastard back in those days,huh?

[@Reprodestruxion]

Along with Gavin friday and the singer from Therapy?

[@zangster2k]

Man, that is a very 90's video.

[@incredibleXMan]

That’s what makes it cool.

[@sarys73]

Much better than a 2000s video of waving money, and riding jet skis eh? lol

[@martinijazz9]

Lyrics: Your attention, please Now turn off the light Your infection, please I haven't got all night Understand, do you understand? Understand, I'm a gentleman I'm a gentleman I stayed in too long But she was the perfect fit And we dragged it out so long this time Started to make each other sick But now I've got time for you For you, you, you and me to Well, come and get it, come and get it Cause I'm done Understand, do you understand? Understand, I'm a gentleman I waited for the joke, it never did arrive And words I thought I'd smoke Let me in I'm cold All messed up but nowhere to go You got indecision, and indecision is my enemy Unlock the cabinet, hey hey hey I'll take whatever you got, got, got Now I'm on it, now I'm on it And you're done I waited for the joke It never did arrive And words I thought I'd choke I hardly recognize

[@fabianogaltaroca8210]

Love it

[@chocomanger6873]

Justin Trudeau had a band in the 90s? Fuckin' cool. He just gained all the more respect from me.

[@das11270110]

Weirdest episode of friends ever

[@FormerSaint80]

I was searching for this song for the longest time!

[@timothypane]

everybody in college who was cool had this album

[@stevemandl5140]

fuck college

[@corzich]

Yep. That was the one moment in life I was cool.lol

[@ericwhitehead6451]

This album is a fucking masterpiece.

[@andresespinoza2900]

In the US whatever crap showed in MTV and be a high school crap is an underrated masterpiece… long live to social media and nostalgic assholes

[@MrDobolinaMrBobDobolina]

So I mentioned in a work meeting that I’d gone to a show for the first time in forever, “a band called The Afghan Whigs,” and a coworker asked if they’d done anything she might recognize. So I was going to send her a YT link to one of their old videos, and realized that sending any one of these videos to a coworker would, at minimum, get me a tense meeting with HR. 🤣

[@settlestone]

this was a good album.

[@eskarinablack4830]

What a fucking masterpiece of a song.

[@mgrzx3367]

this is going to get messy, afterh this Faith no More Epic then Primus my name is mud. fuck you youtube your trying to get on my good side. Arigatou senpei Uproxx

[@Zaxxon2008]

I dunno... kinda got a point on dressing the part. You want a hot chick? Dress like you deserve one! Not funky indie t-shirts & tight jeans. Dress in a suit & tie suited to you scores mega-bonus points with any broad worthwhile. Not judging either way, just stating from personal experience

[@kathy92404]

I remember seeing this video and wanting that model in red look

[@pepemolina]

pedazo de tema

[@sanabriaadrian]

Her stare at 2:30 drives me crazy

[@rmiller2020]

I listened to this album so much I think I wore out the shine on the CD. Takes me back...

[@Lunathiel_]

Fucking hell, this came out more than a year before I was born and I'm discovering it now?! What the actual fuck? I mean, I was basically raised on grunge-y alternative stuff (and post-punk/goth rock, but let's not get sidetracked xD), so it makes me super sad to think that I missed moping to this in highschool

[@hitman6191]

MTV's 120 Mins Brought me here

[@bcancun123]

Me 2

[@donramonito]

What a shitkicking song ! Loved this then love this now and will love this song in the future! Greg got all the parts to move just right when this song came together. Brilliant !

[@IAmTheUngod]

I found this band to be the "thinking man"s alternative. Just like Tool is the thinking man's metal. Book T is the thinking man's funk, etc. This whole album speaks so strongly to what it is to be a man in our society and all of the conflicts that go with it. I absolutely LOVE this band and this was my first album of theirs I picked up. So much respect for them and for the material! This album STILL holds up.

[@nuffzed2001]

the voice sounds like Trent Reznor

[@mattliable1987]

Dulli should be an actor

[@Bumbumawangis]

Right up there with "Buffalo Tom",in the bleeding angst stakes.

[@kitoyobeni1]

I'd throw in early Everclear as well...

[@seanoneil277]

@@kitoyobeni1 World of Noise, and Sparkle & Fade for sure.

[@awelshhooligan9178]

Afghan Whigs, Dramarama and Sunny Day Real Estate......all amazing bands but heavily underated.....45243

[@UvuloidFriction]

Sunny Day Real Estate 🤙👌

[@supergirl0526]

I first heard sunny day on this obscure compilation and then became obsessed. I think they were the pathway to emo

[@bibsma3401]

I think you mean Bananarama

[@jime6688]

Always remembered the "morphing" for lack of a better term to a black man and then an old man. The old man absolutely nails his singing parts and his expressions are priceless.

[@elisaalcaraz7155]

Bldo el cambio que meten, es uno de los mas lindos que escuché

[@radimpetricek]

can't get enough of this piece

[@jonnysolarius6995]

Utter genius. Floored by this album when I first heard it two years ago and it hasn't let go of me since. Best CD I've ever heard.

[@danielherrera-mata3900]

this song is so fucking awesome ,,,,uuuuuuggggghh hurts so good to listen the afghan whigs ladies and Gentlemen

[@shanetruth1970]

I Love These Guys!!!! One of the MOST underrated Bands EVER!!!! Way ahead of their time!!!

[@prozacpeople]

Everything Greg does is a masterpiece! I love this band!

[@nathanlester9985]

I was riding shotgun in my own car, being driven home because I was drunk as hell when I heard this song.🤣 luckily I shazammed it cuz this morning I would not have remembered..

[@kpec3]

Love this song. The Afghan Whigs from Cincinnati, Ohio! A big hit for a hometown band, with heavy rotation on MTV.

[@danielherrera-mata1760]

+KPEC3arrival those were the good old days man mtv use to play videos

[@ericfisher1360]

Late to the post but... 97x... Bam The future of rock and roll.

[@toddsparks5413]

Greg 's from Hamilton ohio pretty sure he went to Ross high School

[@kpec3]

@@toddsparks5413 Hamilton? There is a really big high school up there, I went to camp with their marching band. Their band is massive. Or was.

[@crowoffroad1573]

Granola Boulder rolling down to Denver with freshly cracked Stress Free eggs

[@retrieversqbd]

Dayton, Ohio. Hara Arena. The Breeders and Afghan Whigs. The only thing missing was Guided By Voices. For a far too brief moment in time, SW Ohio was the real deal in alternative music. Long live WOXY 97.7 as well.

[@fragout9575]

True FACTS!!! From Cleveland's own NIN, The Pretenders and Chrissy Hind! Ohio definitely had it's foothold on the Alt Scene for a long time!!

[@kdwestbrooks]

WHIGS!!!

[@claudiokoehler6902]

The bomb also in 2022

[@viviennestitelman67]

greg dulli could get it back then, damn

[@Dezatron1612]

@fordid42 But from the ashes of The Afghan Whigs, we've gotten The Twilight Singers and The Gutter Twins, not to mention Greg's amazing solo stuff...Regardless, I agree. The world just wasn't ready for the mirror the Whigs held up.

[@owenkrupp5543]

So we are just ripping off Mark Mikel songs now??

[@hisshi2347]

I've recently found Greg Dulli's work. I'm happy that I did. It's amazing how everytime time that today's music dissapoints me, I take a look at older stuff and get smacked in the face with awesomeness like this. The '90's surely rocked! :D Wish I was born 10 years earlier.

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

Today's music has only gotten worse since you wrote your comment.

[@angelacapman1759]

I heard of them along time ago, but never really listened. 120 minutes threw them right in my face a few nights ago. Late bloomer, but, wow. Blew me away.

[@mariocastro3732]

It s Greg duly...very very good in back beat band with thurs ton Moore .....very hard Beatles......

[@greeko25]

sexy rock

[@TMoody]

I stayed too long but she was the perfect fit = greatest lyric ever.

[@FesterPussbucket]

The last time I heard this song, Bush had just been voted out of office, and grunge was exploding all over. I thought I remembered this song being more heavy. I thought I remembered the singer being old. I thought I remembered more distortion. Then I thought about it. I had forgotten that back then it wasn't about your electronics or effects, it was about playing your instruments and making something cool, deep, and intelligent. Do it yourself type stuff. 26 years later, music sucks ass, and nobody plays in instrument anymore. On top of that it's a mindfuck to think this song is over 25 years old.

[@lukegreen374]

" I stayed too long- but she was a perfect fit:.

[@jonnysolarius6995]

Fantastic description!

[@EyeWatchThemAll]

He looks like he's channeling his inner Andrew Dice Clay!

[@Zaxxon2008]

regurgitated??? This was an original. Unfortunately, YT has changed so that I can't see your age in a profile, but I will guess you are a noob to 90's alt-rock and that you assume everything in the 90's was Nirvana & Pearl Jam & that's it. Whigs were originals in the EARLY 90's. This was from their FOURTH album. Here's a quarter... hope that buys you a clue

[@gsmith207]

that never gets old.... F'n A

[@Romany1111]

The black guy looks like Geoffrey Holder, the Uncola guy from the 60's.

[@caseykane3845]

Was he the Caribbean guy? "Crisp and clean and no caffeine. Never had it--" [deep-voiced laugh: "Ha ha ha ha!"] --"never will!" I guess I ought to go check for myself. God, I remember him from the early '70s!

[@caseykane3845]

Yep, the guy in the "Gentlemen" video looks exactly like him. I didn't realize, but Geoffrey Holder did ads for 7 Up through the '70s and into the 1980s. He also did a variety of other things as well. Thanks for reminding me of him and letting me know his name. Here's a classic ad: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4nQlGp6fJmoq5o

[@samuelmcclung120]

I thought he was Seal at first

[@andrewhopko7130]

Gentlemen is the most underrated album of the 90s.

[@jrkchannel37]

By who?

[@lws7394]

Yeah sure. That is why all the critics rated it with 4 out 5 stars or 9/10 ratings by Rolling Stone, NME , Q etc mentioned in the book 1001 albums you must hear before you die, in top 30 'grunge' albums etc. Sales were under par , yes.

[@Duckfat00]

Great music from the 90's....

[@dalekstudios5729]

golden times when Val Kilmer was singing in AW

[@soundvision58]

resourceful !

[@noirclair]

Been a fan since I saw them live when I was 16 and have never actually seen this video before, and, well, Mr Dulli...

[@sergiomichelmusic]

Along with Blackie Onassis of Urge Overkill,....possibly the most underrated 90s drummer ever.

[@juconnor1]

Blackie is very underrated. I never him referenced.