Baader Meinhof is a 1996 album by Luke Haines

Luke Haines

Luke Haines is an English musician, songwriter and author, who has recorded music under various names and with various bands, including The Auteurs, Baader Meinhof and Black Box Recorder.-'New Wave':...

, under the pseudonym Baader Meinhof. The name was given after two of the main members of the Red Army Faction

Red Army Faction

The radicalized were, like many in the New Left, influenced by:* Sociological developments, pressure within the educational system in and outside Europe and the U.S...

, Andreas Baader

Andreas Baader

Andreas Bernd Baader was one of the first leaders of the German left-wing militant organization Red Army Faction, also commonly known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang.- Life :...

 and Ulrike Meinhof

Ulrike Meinhof

Ulrike Marie Meinhof was a German left-wing militant. She co-founded the Red Army Faction in 1970 after having previously worked as a journalist for the monthly left-wing magazine Konkret. She was arrested in 1972, and eventually charged with numerous murders and the formation of a criminal...

, 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 Rudi Dutschke

Rudi Dutschke

Alfred Willi Rudi Dutschke was the most prominent spokesperson of the German student movement of the 1960s. He advocated 'a long march through the institutions' of power to create radical change from within government and society by becoming an integral part of the machinery...

: "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 German Autumn

German Autumn

The German Autumn was a set of events in late 1977, associated with the kidnapping and murder of industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer, President of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations and the Federation of German Industries , by the Red Army Faction , and the hijacking of the...

) ("Mogadishu").

Track listing

1. "Baader Meinhof" – 3:01
2. "Meet Me at the Airport" – 2:50
3. "There's Gonna be an Accident" – 3:25
4. "Mogadishu" – 3:38
5. "Theme From" "Burn, Warehouse, Burn" – 1:37
6. "GSG - 29" – 2:58
7. "....It's a Moral Issue" – 3:24
8. "Back on the Farm" – 3:53
9. "Kill Ramirez" – 3:26
10. "Baader Meinhof" – 2:56