2 posts tagged “the auteurs”

The Auteurs - Car Crazy

The Auteurs

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I thought I was leaving for Chicago on Friday, but I guess we're leaving tomorrow morning. I haven't even thought about packing yet, but I'm a pretty light packer.

So, a while back, I thought about making a mix-CD of nothing but driving, fast driving, or car songs. It ended up being too depressing because a lot of those songs were about car crashes! Such as "Motorcrash", "Traffic Accident", "Crash" (The Primitives), and "Girl Singing in the Wreckage".

Anyroad, for our road trip this weekend, I thought I'd leave you with some Luke Haines car songs. Luke Haines has been around forever, I met and interview him during The Auteurs' "Now I'm a Cowboy" tour and have been following his career ever since. He joined in Black Box Recorder, which had some minor success. He's currently a solo artist (I believe he's still doing random gigs in England & Ireland).

Black Box Recorder - The Art Of Driving

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So! The two fitting songs are "Car Crazy", which has a very slow country-western feel to it. The lyrics seems to suggest that the narrator was trying to get a snog from the girl, but she denied him and took over the driving. And apparently she was a bad driver, running red lights and ignoring the law.

"The Art of Driving" is not really a song. It's more of a dialogue between Sarah Nixey and John Moore. The song is from the Facts of Life album, but I'm going to include a youtube video. If you want the mpeg video, it's available as a bonus file from their The Worst of Black Box Recorder album.

Well, off to Chicago we go! I don't know what kind of internet access I will have, but expect this to be my last entry until Monday.

vu Links: deeden.co.uk/auteurs (fan website)