Gentlemen is the fourth studio album by the alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band The Afghan Whigs

The Afghan Whigs

The Afghan Whigs were a soul-influenced American rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio. PopMatters described the band as "beyond simple genre categorization, and though lauded by the music press, never got their just due."-Band history:...

. It was released in 1993 on Elektra Records

Elektra Records

Elektra Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group. In 2004, it was consolidated into WMG's Atlantic Records Group. After five years of dormancy, the label was revived by Atlantic in 2009....

 in America and Blast First

Blast First

Blast First is a sub label of one-time independent record label, Mute Records, founded in approximately 1985. It was named after a phrase taken from the first number of the radical Vorticist journal Blast, published by Wyndham Lewis in 1914...

 in England and was produced by Greg Dulli

Greg Dulli

-Biography:Greg Dulli was born and brought up in the working-class city of Hamilton, Ohio. Although he was raised a Catholic, he is now agnostic. Dulli first came to public attention in the late 1980s with The Afghan Whigs when he joined D.C. transplant bassist John Curley and Louisville, Kentucky,...

.

Track listing

All tracks written by Greg Dulli

Greg Dulli

-Biography:Greg Dulli was born and brought up in the working-class city of Hamilton, Ohio. Although he was raised a Catholic, he is now agnostic. Dulli first came to public attention in the late 1980s with The Afghan Whigs when he joined D.C. transplant bassist John Curley and Louisville, Kentucky,...

 except where noted.

1. "If I Were Going" – 3:05
2. "Gentlemen" – 3:54
3. "Be Sweet" (Dulli/Rick McCollum) – 3:37
4. "Debonair" – 4:15
5. "When We Two Parted" (Dulli/McCollum) – 5:47
6. "Fountain and Fairfax" – 4:21
7. "What Jail Is Like" – 3:30
8. "My Curse" (sung by Marcy Mays of Scrawl
   Scrawl
   Scrawl is a musical trio based in Columbus, Ohio. The founding members are Marcy Mays , Sue Harshe , and Carolyn O'Leary . Their first show, in the summer of 1985, was a 20-minute opening spot for the Meat Puppets...
   
   ) – 5:45
9. "Now You Know" – 4:10
10. "I Keep Coming Back" (Leo Austell/Leo Graham) – 4:52
11. "Brother Woodrow/Closing Prayer" – 5:40

An LP version of the album also included a bonus 12" vinyl limited edition containing the following 4 tracks, originally recorded for a radio session (Goodier Session, BBC Radio 1):

1. "Rot" (Mays/Harshe/O’Leary)
2. "Fountain and Fairfax"
3. "Keep Coming Back" (Austell/Graham)
4. "Tonight"

External links

• Album track listing on the Summer's Kiss website