How I Learned to Love the Bootboys

by The Auteurs

How I Learned to Love the Bootboys cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 5 July 1999
  • Label: Hut
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 35:10
  • Community rating: 3.74/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Pete Hofmann, Phil Vinall, Luke Haines, James Banbury, Alice Readman, Sarah Nixey, Chris Wyles, John Moore, Barney C. Rockford

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Serving as the final studio album from Luke Haines's cynical indie pop vehicle, the record heavily incorporates analog synthesizers and electronic drum loops into their traditional guitar-driven sound. Haines's lyricism remains violently pessimistic, offering a stark, deeply sarcastic counter-narrative to the dying embers of Britpop.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, literate, satirical, british, witty

Tracklist

  1. The Rubettes (3:27)
  2. 1967 (2:41)
  3. How I Learned To Love The Bootboys (3:05)
  4. Your Gang, Our Gang (1:46)
  5. Some Changes (3:19)
  6. School (2:58)
  7. Johnny And The Hurricanes (3:51)
  8. The South Will Rise Again (2:24)
  9. Asti Spumante (3:27)
  10. Sick Of Hari Krisna (2:51)
  11. Lights Out (2:10)
  12. Future Generation (3:11)

Credits

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