THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS – DAY 6: THE AUTEURS

Originally released in 1993 after The Auteurs had issued a demo cassette, landed a tour supporting Suede and had record companies fighting to sign them, New Wave was the vanguard of the emerging, post-Nirvana British music scene. It was justly nominated for a Mercury Music Prize though the gong was taken by Suede.

Mr Luke Haines says “Some 21 years later and the album still sounds great. There is not a note that I would change.”

The album features the singles Showgirl and How Could I Be Wrong and now includes key b-sides, live and session recordings and previously unreleased demos, taken from the actual cassette that got them signed to Hut Records.

The Auteurs - New Wave

THE AUTEURS – NEW WAVE CD1

Original Album
1. Showgirl
2. Bailed Out
3. American Guitars
4. Junk Shop Clothes
5. Don’t Trust the Stars
6. Starstruck
7. How Could I Be Wrong
8. Housebreaker
9. Valet Parking
10. Idiot Brother
11. Early Years
12. Home Again

Bonus Tracks
13. Subculture (They Can’t Find Him) – original LP bonus 7”/CD hidden track
14. She Might Take a Train – original LP bonus 7”
15. Glad To Be Gone – Showgirl b-side
16. Staying Power – Showgirl b-side
17. Wedding Day – How Could I Be Wrong b-side
18. High Diving Horses – How Could I Be Wrong b-side

THE AUTEURS – NEW WAVE CD2

Rarities, sessions and demos
1. Housebreaker – Rough Trade Singles Club 7”
2. Valet Parking – Rough Trade Singles Club 7”

3. Starstruck (acoustic)
4. Junk Shop Clothes (acoustic)
5. Housebreaker (acoustic)
6. Home Again (acoustic)

7. New French Girlfriend(BBC Radio Session – 2.1.93) *
8. Government Bookstore (BBC Radio Session – 2.1.93) *
9. How Could I Be Wrong (BBC Radio Session – 2.1.93) *
10. Junk Shop Clothes (BBC Radio Session – 2.1.93) *

11. Bailed Out (4 track demo) *
12. American Guitars (4 track demo) *
13. Showgirl (4 track demo) *
14. Glad to Be Gone (4 track demo) *
15. Starstruck (4 track demo) *
16. Early Years (4 track demo) *

* previously unreleased

Now I’m A Cowboy was released in 1994 and is home the smash hit Lenny Valentino. In reflection, Mr Luke Haines remembers: “After we had finished recording ‘New Wave,’ I was determined not to get caught out by ‘difficult second album syndrome’, so I kept writing. New French Girlfriend, Lenny Valentino, Government Bookstore and Modern History were all written at the end of 1993. There was a truck load of ‘English’ stupid on the horizon. Against conformity, I rashly called the album Now I’m A Cowboy which was exactly how I felt, and the opposite of everything that was about to come.”

THE AUTEURS – NOW I’M A COWBOY CD1

ORIGINAL ALBUM
1. Lenny Valentino
2. Brainchild
3. I’m A Rich Man’s Toy
4. New French Girlfriend
5. The Upper Classes
6. Chinese Bakery
7. A Sister Like You
8. Underground Movies
9. Life Classes / Life Model
10. Modern History
11. Daughter Of A Child

BONUS MATERIAL – B-Sides
12. Lenny Valentino (Single Version)
13. Vacant Lot
14. Car Crazy
15. Disney World
16. Lenny Valentino (Original Mix)
17. Underground Movies (Alternative Mix)
18. Brainchild (Original Version)

THE AUTEURS – NOW I’M A COWBOY CD2

BONUS MATERIAL – B-Sides, Sessions and Live
1. Government Bookstore
2. Everything You Say Will Destroy You
3. Chinese Bakery (Acoustic)
4. Modern History (Acoustic)

BBC Radio 1 Evening Session – 27.4.94
5. Upper Classes
6. Rich Man’s Toy *
7. Underground Movies *
8. Everything You Say Will Destroy You

Mark Radcliffe BBC Radio 1 Session – 9.5.94
9. Lenny Valentino *
10. Chinese Bakery
11. New French Girlfriend
12. Modern History *

Live at Leeds Town & Country – 13.12.93
13. How Could I Be Wrong *
14. Don’t Trust The Stars *
15. The Upper Classes *
16. New French Girlfriend *
17. Showgirl *
18. Lenny Valentino *
19. Modern History *
20. Early Years *

* previously unreleased

Recorded in under two weeks at Abbey Road Studios, After Murder Park marked a new direction and needed a new sound provided by the production of Steve Albini. Mr Luke Haines considers the recording sessions the high point of The Auteurs career: “My only regret is I didn’t know just how good this stuff was at the time. Sure, I knew we were on to something. But really, ‘After Murder Park’ …fucking Woah!”

THE AUTEURS – AFTER MURDER PARK CD1

ORIGINAL ALBUM
1. Light Aircraft On Fire
2. The Child Brides
3. Land Lovers
4. New Brat In Town
5. Everything You Say Will Destroy You
6. Unsolved Child Murder
7. Married To A Lazy Lover
8. Buddha
9. Tombstone
10. Fear Of Flying
11. Dead Sea Navigators
12. After Murder Park

BONUS MATERIAL
13. Back With The Killer Again
14. Kenneth Anger’s Bad Dream
15. Former Fan
16. Light Aircraft On Fire (Single Version)
17. Car Crash
18. Buddha (4 Track Band Demo)
19. X-Boogie Man
20. Everything You Say (Early Steve Albini recording) *
21. Tombstone (Alternate Recording)
22. Unsolved Child Murder (Early Version)

BBC John Peel Session – 9 March 1996
23. Kids Issue
24. A New Life A New Family
25. Buddah
26. After Murder Park

THE AUTEURS – AFTER MURDER PARK CD2

BONUS MATERIAL – The Black Session
5 March 1996
1. Starstruck *
2. After Murder Park *
3. Kenneth Angers Bad Dream *
4. Unsolved Child Murder *
5. Bailed Out *
6. Light Aircraft On Fire *
7. Buddha *
8. How Could I Be Wrong *
9. Married To A Lazy Lover *
10. American Guitars *
11. Junk Shop Clothes *
12. Kids Issue *
13. Early Years *
14. Lenny Valentino *
15. Showgirl *
16. Land Lovers *
17. Home Again *
18. Tombstone *
19. Housebreaker *

* previously unreleased
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The Auteurs fourth and ultimately final album, How I Learned To Love The Bootboys was released in July 1999, a 3-year gap since After Murder Park. During that hiatus, Mr Luke Haines released albums as part of Black Box Recorder and under the guise of Baader Meinhof.

Mr Luke Haines says “On listening to …Bootboys again, I’m actually surprised how focussed it sounds. There’s a straightforward ‘pop side’ and an unstraightforward ‘experimental’ side. My only regret is not putting more on the album – really stretching it out and making it a sprawling double, songs like Breaking Up and Get Wrecked At Home were far too good for B-sides”.

THE AUTEURS – HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE THE BOOTBOYS CD1

ORIGINAL ALBUM
1. The Rubettes
2. 1967
3. How I Learned To Love The Bootboys
4. Your Gang, Our Gang
5. Some Changes
6. School
7. Johnny & The Hurricanes
8. The South Will Rise Again
9. Asti Spumante
10. Sick Of Hari Krisna
11. Lights Out
12. Future Generation

BONUS MATERIAL – B-sides and Rarities
13. Get Wrecked At Home
14. Breaking Up
15. Politic
16. ESP Kids
17. Johnny And The Hurricanes
18. Future Generation
19. School *
20. Essex Bootboys
21. The Rubettes (Acoustic) *
22. 1967 (Acoustic) *
23. Some Changes (Acoustic) *
24. Lights Out (Acoustic) *

* previously unreleased

THE AUTEURS – HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE THE BOOTBOYS CD2

NO DIALOGUE WITH CUNTS
The Auteurs Last Stand
Live At LSE November 1999
On CD for the first time
1. Baader Meinhof
2. Meet Me At The Airport
3. Burn Warehouse Burn / There’s Gonna Be An Accident
4. Back On The Farm
5. Baader Meinhof 2
6. Unsolved Child Murder
7. 1967
8. The Rubettes
9. How I Learned To Love The Bootboys
10. Your Gang, Our Gang
11. How Could I Be Wrong
12. Buddha
13. After Murder Park
14. Light Aircraft On Fire
15. Lenny Valentino
16. Future Generation

In 1995, Mr Luke Haines found himself with time on his hands after completing The Auteurs third album, After Murder Park.  so he headed back into the studio and recorded Baader Meinhof, an album art project recounting the story of the Baader Meinhof group, a bunch of 1970s West German urban revolutionaries. 

Armed with an array of synths, a head full of funk and a super-top classical Indian percussionist, the result is dance music for the brain, movies for the ear.  Just imagine George Clinton producing a malevolent KC and the Sunshine Band all jacked up on militant Last Poets bongo rhyme.

Mr Haines says “Whack up the low end and dig with open mind and ears. All recorded on tape and executed with intent. Headphones on. Volume way up”.

As voted by The Quietus for their Re-issues Of 2014

BAADER MEINHOF TRACKLIST

Original Album
1. Baader Meinhof
2. Meet Me at the Airport
3. There’s Gonna be an Accident
4. Mogadishu
5. Theme From Burn, Warehouse, Burn
6. GSG – 29
7. ….It’s a Moral Issue
8. Back on the Farm
9. Kill Ramirez
10. Baader Meinhof

Bonus Tracks
11. I’ve Been A Fool For You – LP Bonus 7”
12. Baader Meinhof (Confrontation Remix) *
13. There’s Gonna Be An Accident (Fuse Remix) *
14. There’s Gonna Be An Accident (Muziq remix) *
15. Mogadishu (Dalai Lama Remix) *

* previously unreleased