How I Learned To Love Luke Haines

*Christmas Special*

Pop over to The Vinyl District music blog, and pick up gratis *samples* of some of the best pop music from the 1990s. Five tracks from the Auteurs classic 1994 album, 'Now I'm A Cowboy', have been made available for your delectation.

Poor old Luke Haines. If the bloke had had the face and the hair to go with his musical chops, Damon Albarn would still be working in the Rucksack Dept of Millets to this day.

Friday's Playlist #12

An ongoing series:

Mission of Burma, 'Academy Fight Song' (Signals, Calls and Marches)

Manic Street Preachers, 'This is Yesterday' (The Holy Bible)

Mick Ronson, 'Only After Dark' (Slaughter On Tenth Avenue)

X, 'Johnny Hit And Run Pauline' (Los Angeles)

The Auteurs, 'Lights Out' (How I Learned To Love The Bootboys)

The Coup, 'Five Million Ways To Kill A CEO' (Party Music)

Melanie C, 'Goin Down' (Northern Star)

Westworld, 'Sonic Boom Boy' (Once Upon A Time)

Haircut 100, 'Fantastic Day' (Pelican West)

OMD, 'Souvenir' (Architecture & Morality)

Christ, I need to start listening to some new music.

UPDATE

On second thoughts, with choices 1 through 7 I was doing so well, as well.

A wee bit muso . . . a wee bit obscure. The recent announcement of the one-off reunion tour affording me the opportunity to splice in a solo song from the most talented Spice Girl to come off as oh so ironic (but secretly liking the song . . . the cynics can take a running jump off of Ger's old platform shoes). Throw in a bit of revolutionary hip hop from The Coup to impress any passing American student r-r-r-revolutionary politico who stumbles across the blog on their way to the next cute agit-prop event, but I fuck it all up by revealing my true colours in choices 8, 9 and 10: Laminated Smash Hits magazines parked neatly in the back of the wardrobe alongside my K-Tel compilation albums.

Update 11/12/ 22

There's a shock. Me moaning about listening to too much old music. I just couldn't accept that I was stuck musically in the 80s and always would be. The Coup still sounds brilliant, though.

Spotify Playlist Link. 

Friday's Playlist #3

An ongoing series:

Simple Minds, 'Hunter and the Hunted' (New Gold Dream 81-82-83-84)

Pulp, 'She's Dead' (Separations)

Moby featuring Debbie Harry, 'New York, New York' (Go)

Stephen Duffy, 'Eucharist' (I Love My Friends)

Felt, 'Primitive Painters' (Ignite The Seven Cannons)

The Auteurs, 'Bailed Out' (New Wave)

Luke Haines, 'How To Hate The Working Classes' (Christie Malry's Own Double Entry)

The Supremes, 'Stormy' (The Supremes Box Set)

Kristen Vigard, 'God Give Me Strength' (Grace Of My Heart Soundtrack)

Teenage Fanclub, 'Mellow Doubt' (Grand Prix)

Update 11/11/ 22
The Luke Haines and the Kristen Vigard tracks are both missing from the Spotify playlist. Click on the links above to find both tracks on YouTube. Both brilliant . . . but I would say that.

Spotify Playlist Link.