Rock Action: The Auteurs - Live Black Sessions (1996)
The Auteurs were quite simply one of the most perfect pop bands of the 1990s. Sparklingly vicious and witty autopsy's of British life coated in some of the most wonderfully composed indie pop tunes ever written. One perfect album (1993's New Wave, three brilliant ones, and then GONE without most people caring. Most people are morons. Luke Haines of course continues to write and release music under his own name and with Black Box Recorder, but for me he's never truly scaled the heights of those Auteurs records. Thus today I thought i'd provide you with a bumper crop of Auteurs live session action. These songs are taken from the legendary Black Sessions as broadcast on the Paris radio station La Maison De La Radio, and were recorded in 1996. We get songs from the firist three Auteurs albums plus a few welcome rarities, and the band are in top form. Enjoy the fuck out of them.
The Auteurs - 01 Starstruck (live)
The Auteurs - 02 After Murder Park (live)
The Auteurs - 03 Kenneth Anger (live)
The Auteurs - 04 Unsolved Child Murder (live)
The Auteurs - 05 Bailed Out (live)
The Auteurs - 06 Light Aircraft On Fire (live)
The Auteurs - 07 Buddha (live)
The Auteurs - 08 How Could I Be Wrong (live)
The Auteurs - 09 Married To A Lazy Lover (live)
The Auteurs - 10 American Guitars (live)
The Auteurs - 11 Junk Shop Clothes (live)
The Auteurs - 12 Kid's Issue (live)
The Auteurs - 13 Early Years (live)
The Auteurs - 14 Lenny Valentino (live)
posted by Jamie Summers at 8:43 pm
11 Comments:
Great ... great ... great ... great ... great. My favorite band. Thanks.
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Oh my god, it's brilliant. Thanks ever so much!
Eh....looks like I'll be downloading for a bit....
Agree 100% with your obseravtions. Bang goes my posting on The Autuers for while....
You rule so hard. That show is killer, almost better than the recorded versions. Cheers Jamie.
A band I miss... I was introduced to them by comic book writer Grant Morrison back in 1994. At a sparsely attended signing, we talked about music, since he used the Dylans lyrics in his comics, he told me about the Auteurs and guaranteed I love them, and 13 years later still do.
Fantastic...Luke Haines for PM
would you care for a repost?
Aaah, go on, go on... repost please?!
A repost would be the Greatest Thing Ever.
please please re-post these!
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