Haines,Luke Is Alive & Well & Living In Buenos Aires: Heavy CD

Having played with The Servants in the late 1980s, Luke Haines carved a unique niche for himself in the 1990s with witty lyrics, wry humour and some stellar tunes with The Auteurs and other acts (Black Box Recorder, Baader Meinhof). By 1999, feeling aghast at the state of the Brit Rock scene in the UK, Luke decided to "start a righteous solo trip", having been commissioned to write the soundtrack for the film Christie Malry's Own Double Entry (2001). Sticking with Virgin Records, Luke then unveiled his first solo album proper, The Oliver Twist Manifesto, before fronting a new-look Auteurs for Das Capital. In due course, Luke switched labels to indie Fantastic Plastic for Off My Rocker At The Art School Bop (2006), followed in 2009 by 21st Century Man. Since then, he's curated a string of imaginative, amusing and always worthwhile albums for Cherry Red Records. Alive And Well... is the first-ever anthology of Luke's solo work, cherry-picking musical highlights from each of his long players as well as a smattering of B-sides, radio sessions, rarities and - on Disc 4 - a raft of previously unissued material. With sleeve-notes by Luke himself, Alive And Well... is a very personal statement spanning the last two decades of the musical life of Luke Haines.

1. Discomania 2. How to Hate the Working Classes 3. England Scotland and Wales 4. The Oliver Twist Manifesto 5. Never Work 6. Death of Sarah Lucas 7. The Mitford Sisters 8. Satan Wants Me 9. Bugger Bognor 10. Off My Rocker at the Art School Bop (Album Version) 11. Leeds United 12. Country Life 13. Bovver Boys 14. Queen Elizabeth I 15. All the English Devils 16. The Walton Hop 17. Bad Reputation (The Glitter Band) 18. English Southern Man 19. 21st Century Man 20. Suburban Mourning 21. Klaus Kinski 22. Peter Hammill 23. Russian Futurists Black Out the Sun 24. Fag Break 25. Inside the Restless Mind of Rollerball Rocco 26. Gorgeous George 27. Saturday Afternoon 28. Big Daddy Got a Casio V L Tone 29. Haystacks' in Heaven 30. I'm Not the Man You Think I Am Karen, I'm the Actor Tony Allen 31. The Morris Man Cometh 32. Enoch Powell - Space Poet 33. Rock 'N' Roll Animals 34. Magic Interlude 1 35. Gene Vincent (Rock N Roll Mums and Rock N Roll Dads) 36. A Badger Called Nick Lowe 37. Angel of the North 38. From Hersham to Heaven 39. Rock 'N' Roll Animals in Space 40. Lou Reed Lou Reed 41. Alan Vega Says 42. NY in the '70S 43. Bill's Bunker 44. Dolls Forever 45. Cerne Abbas Man 46. Caravan Man 47. Adventures in Dementia 48. British Nuclear Bunkers 49. Test Card Forever 50. Pussy Willow (Kids' Song) 51. Cold Field Morning Under Bliss 52. New Pagan Sun 53. Ulrike Meinhof's Brain Is Missing 54. Bomber Jacket 55. Marc Bolan Blues 56. The Incredible String Band 57. Smash the System 58. Are You Mad? 59. Black Sun (Early Band Demo) 60. Property 61. 1963 62. Dandification 63. Bomber Harris 64. Building for Britain in the '70S 65. Off My Rocker at the Art School Bop (Richard X Single Mix) 66. I Am the Best Artist/ Skinny White Girls 67. Suburban Mourning 68. Klaus Kinski 69. 21st Century Man 70. Me and the Birds 71. This Is Outsider Music 72. Natural Mystic Furry Freaks 73. John Barleycorn Must Die 74. Jeff Starship Superhero 75. Electronic Tone Poem 76. Hack Green 77. Chris from the Stars 78. 68P in My Pocket 79. Rave