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Not for the first or last time, Auteurs' songwriter Luke Haines was all at once out of step with, and a long way ahead of, his alleged contemporaries. More than a year before Pulp successfully adopted the class struggle as the backdrop for the monstrously successful Different Class album, Haines surveyed the trenches from a more or less neutral redoubt of disaffected middle-class rootlessness and, characteristically, decided that opening up on everybody was preferable to taking sides. Now I'm A Cowboy is a fine record, bristling with literate umbrage and riddled with great tunes. The centrepiece is "The Upper Classes", a lengthy invective which stands comparison with Bob Dylan's "Idiot Wind". Haines' indictment of class tourists continues on "Chinese Bakery"--a brutally funny sketch of a trust-funded bohemian not dissimilar to the one later depicted in Pulp's "Common People"--"I'm A Rich Man's Toy" and "Underground Movies". The latter is gleefully damning: "I lived in a flat without water running/Thought it was smart ... thought it was funny". Possibly best of all was "New French Girlfriend" ("I want a girl to hold my hand when the plane lands"), which Haines has always claimed was conceived as a duet with Vanessa Paradis, but who, oddly, never quite got around to recording her part. --Andrew Mueller
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Hand rolled,
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Angst crooning , superbly poised guitar bellyaching , look for 90's indie rock in the dictionary and this will be close by, but dont be fooled this album is one that will remain in the gold collection forever. Gladly not dragged through the fame spotlight treadmill in the truest sense and for me it is to its credit, at least I never noticed if it was.Perhaps the message on these song is too riske, but it is beatiful to hear such brilliantly written and performed music played with some passion. Get your air guitars out and prepare to jump around your living room a bit, and although the subject matter is mostly depressing I feel stragely uplifted by the whole experience. I am mad.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Brilliant second effort from terminally-underrated Brit band,
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'Now I'm A Cowboy' apparently had a painful gestation, but the results were hugely impressive. More guitar-led than the band's 'New Wave' debut, Luke Haines turns his bleary eye on the world with such crunching soundscapes as 'Lenny Valentino', 'Chinese Bakery' and the mordant closer, 'Daughter Of A Child'. None-stop brilliance, from one of the all-time great UK lyricists. Give him a chance.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
When pop reaches its best,
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This review is from: Now I'm a Cowboy (Audio CD)
Luke Haines seems to have the ability to transend above the particular tastes of the moment as dictated in the music press and connect with his audience on a "devotion inspiring" level. Probably the most well known of The Auteurs albums, "Now i'm a cowboy" is also the most accessable. Their influence on the new crop of British songwriters can be heard with impressive effect on bands such as "Hal & Roger" If you are unfamiliar with "The Auteurs", this album is well worth taking a chance on.
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