TS: Arular Vs. Baader Meinhof

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Inspired by this thread. Let's see: Luke Haines builds a whole album around (white) terrorist chic ("when you've decided / meet me at the airport", "we made the cops look dumb on the borderline", writes it off as a Situationist stunt, gets a full pass. M.I.A., well, you know the story.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 14 March 2005 05:24 (twenty years ago)

Me, I'll take "You're going home in a fucking ambulance" over "Pull up the people / pull up the poor" any day. At least there's no righteousness to it, just pure teenage sadistic exhilaration.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 14 March 2005 05:37 (twenty years ago)

do we really need ANOTHER luke haines thread?

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 14 March 2005 05:43 (twenty years ago)

Er, I was hoping this would be a thread about playful radical stances. But maybe we've had enough of those as well.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 14 March 2005 05:52 (twenty years ago)

(it was a joke!)

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 14 March 2005 06:05 (twenty years ago)

Baader should be in the "coolest rock star look" thread.

― deru, Monday, 14 March 2005 06:18 (twenty years ago)

"Like Luke Haines I don’t matter."

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 14 March 2005 10:28 (twenty years ago)

i'm sure i tried to bring this up *in* one of the arular threads. did haines go for a more ironic approach than MIA? possibly not: it is kind of outrageous that baader-meinhof are seen as 'cool' terrorists. baader was a bibble in reality, but they had a snappy logo and some hot chixxors on their side.

― N_RQ, Monday, 14 March 2005 10:35 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

I think Haines' record is about the RAF, without being obviously for them. The last track suggests an awareness of their failure.

The first MIA album - much as I love it, the lyrics are a bit oblique to me. I think she is just going for kewl terrorist chic, but I could be wrong.

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Sunday, 30 November 2008 20:28 (sixteen years ago)

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