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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 10 2016 at 07:09
All four studio albums are great but for me Legend gets the most listens, while War and Living in the Heart of the Beast are classic tracks.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 10 2016 at 08:23
Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Each and every HC album is superb. Hard to choose a favourite, although the track Amygdala is unbelievably beautiful. Love the Canterburian feel of much of it. The tone of Hodgkinson's organ is pure magic.
Western Culture is BRILLIANT. All their music sounds as fresh today as it would've been back then. I know many folks can't stand 'em.


To me, Western Culture has a bit of a Legend-esque feel to it. "Amygdala" is indeed phenomenal. It took me a while to figure out that the lush sound in the beggining is organ, not a synthesizer. I also like how the piece is placed after the dynamic, jazzy "Nirvana For Mice". Very good piece!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 10 2016 at 08:39
So many talents in the same band, it is almost unthinkable today. 
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Originally posted by hellogoodbye hellogoodbye wrote:

So many talents in the same band, it is almost unthinkable today. 


Stuff like this is often regarded grumpy, but it's true man! It is unthinkable that another Henry Cow could exist today. Not only were they great instrumentalists, but there was a very strong musical bond detectable there!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 11 2016 at 06:43
Someone wrote somewhere that the subsequent projects of Henry Cow's members would be enough to provide a lifetime of satisfying listening.  The musical bond was forged in the face of adversity as their label (Virgin) lost interest and the band took matters into their own hands.

I consider myself lucky at having seen them twice, in Nottingham (UK), in 1977 (Feb. then Oct.) - my most treasured musical memories!
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Mammmmaaaa ! 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 11 2016 at 09:43
Originally posted by Flight123 Flight123 wrote:


Have you seen Wigwam, too? A great band, too!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 11 2016 at 10:00
True. Thumbs Up Wigwam and the Cow the same night, it's not a concert, it's a miracle. Big smile

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 11 2016 at 10:28
I never got to see Wigwam live.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 11 2016 at 16:21
All this love for a band I hate (as well as Area).
"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 12 2016 at 03:49
I am used to it - when I was a teenager I had to deal with my Rush loving friends who tried to take the piss out of the Cow!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 12 2016 at 05:20
Originally posted by Flight123 Flight123 wrote:



That Lindsay and Dagmar ?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 12 2016 at 05:22
Yes - extensively interviewed in the mag!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 12 2016 at 09:16
Lindsay was a really interesting figure if you consider all her political activity, too.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 12 2016 at 09:45
Originally posted by Flight123 Flight123 wrote:

I am used to it - when I was a teenager I had to deal with my Rush loving friends who tried to take the piss out of the Cow!
Now I'm feeling badly. Admittedly, there's about four major 'Cow albums I haven't heard, so perhaps I speak out of my nether regions. But what I have heard - I-Yie-Yie!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 12 2016 at 10:56
I realise the Cow are not everybody's cup of tea.  The first album I heard was Desperate Straights, which was more of a Slapp Happy album (the result of the 'merger' between the two bands).  Despite loving it, 'Caucasian Lullabye' was inexplicable!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 12 2016 at 18:54
Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:

All this love for a band I hate (as well as Area).

Two of the greatest bands ever.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 12 2016 at 19:10
Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:

All this love for a band I hate (as well as Area).

Two of the greatest bands ever.

Amen.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 13 2016 at 08:02
What got me into Henry Cow was their guesting on Egg's Civil Surface. An excellent album by the way, one of my all-time favorites.

Tim Hodgkinson and Lindsay Cooper get some really nice parts here, especially towards the end.



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