![]() ![]() "Because I had the benefit of everything that came before it, I was able to custom-write that song. ![]() "In almost every way, that song put me in my place and the performance of 'My Curse' is all Marcy Mays."ĭulli, however, had the last word with the song "Now You Know": "It was written in Memphis, and I needed another song," he remembered. "And when I looked at the lyrics - this goes back to the culpability - I fully accepted the culpability and handed it down to the young lady."įor her part, Mays stood in for the ex-lover admirably: "I remember when we started doing the song, I sat in the studio trying to direct her and she tried it a couple of times that way, then told me to get the fuck out of the studio and have lunch and let her do her thing," Dulli recalled. "I felt at that point I had gotten too close to the record in my mind, and felt that the woman in question deserved a voice in the proceeding," Dulli revealed. Things got so serious that when he wrote the song "My Curse," it felt so personal that he cast someone else-Marcy Mays of the band Scrawl-to sing the lead vocal. The album finds Dulli ranting and raging over the inner turmoil it creates an ongoing (and harrowing) narrative of "a gentle man" ready to take some of that rage out on the unsuspecting rebound, and by any means necessary. I had no second guessing of what that said. "A lot of the time, I would freestyle vocals, and I remember I was day-drunk and spit out that whole first verse in the soundcheck and immediately took off my guitar and wrote it down on the back of a notebook. Written while the band was on tour, Gentlemen is packed with Dulli's grim and obsessive ruminations on the end of his relationship, with the songs coming to him in a fast and furious fashion: "(Guitarist) Rick McCollum wrote the riff to 'Be Sweet,' and we were playing it in a soundcheck in Paris," Dulli told SPIN about the album's third track. It was totally helping me figure out larger issues that were going on.” “And I think playing guitar after hours was my way of comforting myself. “I was kind of depressed,” he told SPIN in 2014 about the earliest inspirations for the record. Their sound, according to The Quietus, was "pitching at a mid-point between Hüsker Dü and Prince." Dulli, however, was also at the tail end of a brutal relationship breakup and spiraling. The group's third full-length, Congregation, was successful enough to land the outfit a major label deal with Elektra Records. It was the early 1990s, and Greg Dulli, the lead singer of Cincinnati band The Afghan Whigs, was going through it.
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