''Baader Meinhof'' is a 1996 album by

Luke Haines Luke Michael Haines (born 7 October 1967) is an English musician, songwriter and author. He has recorded music under various names and with various bands, including The Auteurs, Baader Meinhof and Black Box Recorder. Career ''New Wave'' Haine ...

, under the pseudonym Baader Meinhof. The name is taken from two of the main members of the

Red Army Faction The Red Army Faction (RAF, ; , ),See the section "Name" also known as the Baader–Meinhof Group or Baader–Meinhof Gang (, , active 1970–1998), was a West German far-left Marxist-Leninist urban guerrilla group founded in 1970. The ...

Andreas Baader Berndt Andreas Baader (6 May 1943 – 18 October 1977) was one of the first leaders of the West German left-wing militant organization Red Army Faction (RAF), also commonly known as ''the Baader-Meinhof Group''. Life Andreas Baader was born i ...

and

Ulrike Meinhof Ulrike Marie Meinhof (7 October 1934 – 9 May 1976) was a German left-wing journalist and founding member of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in West Germany, commonly referred to in the press as the "Baader-Meinhof gang". She is the reputed author ...

, and the album, composed of 10 tracks, tells the history of group, since the ideas that might have inspired the group (in the first track, there's a quote from the student movement leader

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: "Rudi said 'we got to be wise and we got to get armed'"), their first actions ("Burn Warehouse Burn"), their travel to Jordan ("Meet Me at the Airport"), their capture, the hijacking of a Lufthansa airplane by the members of the "second generation" of the RAF, in 1977 (one of the events that marked the

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) ("Mogadishu"). In 2014, British independent record label 3 Loop Music re-released the album on heavyweight 180gsm vinyl and as an Expanded CD Edition which included four remixes from a previously unreleased EP.

Reception

In a retrospective review, Jake Kennedy of ''

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'' considered it one of Haines' best releases that "stands the test of time remarkably well".

Track listing

#"Baader Meinhof" – 3:01 #"Meet Me at the Airport" – 2:50 #"There's Gonna Be an Accident" – 3:25 #"Mogadishu" – 3:38 #"Theme from "Burn Warehouse Burn"" – 1:37 #"GSG - 29" – 2:58 #"....It's a Moral Issue" – 3:24 #"Back on the Farm" – 3:53 #"Kill Ramirez" – 3:26 #"Baader Meinhof" – 2:56

References

1996 albums Luke Haines albums Hut Records albums Albums produced by Phil Vinall Cultural depictions of the Red Army Faction {{1990s-pop-rock-album-stub