News 04 Dec 2013

Luke Haines / Auteurs and Baader Meinhof expanded reissues coming

By Paul Sinclair

Cherry Red Records will reissue expanded versions of two pivotal albums from Luke Haines-fronted outfits in January 2014.

The Auteurs’ debut New Wave was released early in 1993 on Hut Records just as the Britpop scene was emerging and arguably contains some of Haines’ best known songs, including the singles Showgirl and How Could I Be Wrong. The album was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize although it lost out to Suede in the end.

Cherry Red’s forthcoming two-CD deluxe reissue adds 21 bonus tracks to the original album, including, B-sides, BBC sessions, six previously unreleased four-track demos and other rarities. See full track listing below for more detail.

Two further Auteurs long players followed their debut, including 1996’s After Murder Park, before Haines released an album called (and credited to) Baader Meinhof (also 1996).

The record is effectively a concept album about 1970s German “urban guerilla” group called ‘The Red Army Faction’. Ulrike Meinhof was a left-wing journalist whose role in helping RAF leader Andreas Baader escape from custody 1970 turned her from a provocative commentator to an active participant in the terror group whose policy of ‘armed resistance’ led to many deaths and violence. In the media the group become known as ‘Baader Meinhof’.

The ten-track album is bookended by different takes on the title track and features an effective and unusual combination of acoustic guitars, tabla percussion, and occasional diversions into scuzzy-funk (most noticeable on Meet Me At The Airport and Kill Ramirez). More or less ignored at the time, Baader Meinhof ranks as one Haines’ very best albums under any moniker, and was an early signpost to his recent solo albums (9 1/2 Psychedelic Meditations on British Wrestling… and Rock And Roll Animals) which are strongly anchored to, or preoccupied with, one theme or idea.

Baader Meinhof has been remastered and is being reissued as an expanded CD with five bonus tracks, including two previously unreleased remixes. Unlike New Wave, the album has been out of print for a long time and has been quite expensive to pick up on the used market.

Luke Haines has written new sleeve notes for both albums. They are released on 27 January 2014.

The Auteurs – New Wave

Baader Meinhof

Track listings

New Wave

DISC ONE: ORIGINAL RELEASE:

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
13. SUBCULTURE (THEY CAN’T FIND HIM)

Bonus tracks

14. SHE MIGHT TAKE A TRAIN
15. GLAD TO BE GONE
16. STAYING POWER
17. WEDDING DAY
18. HIGH DIVING HORSES

DISC TWO:

BONUST MATERIAL – RARITIES, SESSIONS AND DEMOS: RARITIES

1. HOUSEBREAKER – ROUGH TRADE SINGLES CLUB 7”
2. VALET PARKING – ROUGH TRADE SINGLES CLUB 7 “
3. HOUSEBREAKER (ACOUSTIC)
4. JUNK SHOP CLOTHES (ACOUSTIC)
5. STARSTRUCK (ACOUSTIC)
6. HOME AGAIN (ACOUSTIC)

BBC RADIO 1 SESSION- 1993

7. JUNK SHOP CLOTHES
8. NEW FRENCH JUNKSHOP*
9. GOVERNMENT BOOKSTORE
10. HOW COULD I BE WRONG*

DEMOS

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

Baader Meinhof

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. GOD IS WAR- DALAI LLAMA*

The Auteurs – New Wave

Baader Meinhof

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