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HENRY COW Albums (7 if you included "remastereds")

1973 Legend 3.91 (39 ratings)

1974 Unrest 3.37 (26 ratings)

1975 In Praise Of Learning 4.13 (26 ratings)

1979 Western Culture 4.48 (33 ratings)

ART BEARS Albums (3)

1978 Hopes and Fears 3.71 (15 ratings)

1979 Winter Songs 4.21 (17 ratings)

1980 The World As It Is Today 3.76 (9 ratings)

SLAPP HAPPY Albums (6)

1972 Sort Of... Slapp Happy 3.05 (4 ratings)	1974 Casablanca Moon 4.08 (4 ratings)	1975 Desperate Straights (with Henry Cow) 3.59 (9 ratings)	1980 Acnalbasac Noom 4.00 (1 ratings)	1998 Ça Va 2.75 (2 ratings)
2000 Camera 1.00 (1 ratings)

FRED FRITH Albums (17)

1974 Guitar Solos 3.05 (3 ratings)	1980 Gravity 4.07 (3 ratings)	1981 Speechless 4.09 (2 ratings)	1983 Cheap at Half the Price 4.75 (2 ratings)	1988 "The Technology of Tears" and Other Music for Dance 4.00 (1 ratings)
1989 The Top of His Head not rated	1997 Eye To Ear not rated	2000 Traffic Continues 4.00 (2 ratings)	2001 Clearing 4.00 (1 ratings)	2002 Digital Wildlife 4.00 (1 ratings)
2002 Freedom In Fragments not rated	2002 Accidental not rated	2003 Rivers and Tides { working with time 4.00 (1 ratings)	2004 Allies 4.00 (1 ratings)	2004 Eye to Ear II not rated
2005 Eleventh Hour not rated	2008 Back To Life not rated

CUTLER AND FRITH (avoiding live albums)

CHRIS CUTLER Albums (2)

1993 Domestic Stories (with Lutz Glandien) 4.00 (1 ratings)

2005 Twice Around The Earth not rated

JOHN GREAVES, PETER BLEGVAD & LISA HERMAN

JOHN GREAVES Albums (12 including Kew Rhone which is also listed above)

1977 Kew Rhône 4.67 (3 ratings)	1982 Accident 4.00 (1 ratings)	1984 Parrot Fashions 4.00 (1 ratings)	1991 La Petite Bouteille De Linge 4.00 (1 ratings)	1991 Greaves & Cunningham not rated
1995 Songs 4.00 (2 ratings)	2001 On The Street Where You Live not rated	2001 The Caretaker not rated	2003 The Trouble With Happiness not rated	2004 Chansons 3.00 (1 ratings)
2005 Tambien not rated	2008 Greaves Verlaine 4.00 (1 ratings)

SKELETON CREW Albums (2)

1984 Learn to Talk 3.00 (2 ratings)

1986 The Country Of Blinds 3.00 (2 ratings)

AKSAK MABOUL Albums (2)

1977 Onze Danses Pour Combattre La Migraine 3.94 (12 ratings)

1980 Un Peu De L'Âme Des Bandits (with Fred Frith) 3.65 (15 ratings)

NEWS FROM BABEL Albums (2)

1983 Sirens And Silences/Work Resumed On The Tower 4.25 (5 ratings)

1986 Letters Home 4.08 (3 ratings)

Don't have a cow if I didn't list an artist/ band that worked with Henry Cow, and didn't list an album that you desperately wanted to choose as your fourth favourite album on this list.  This has been getting broader (and will continue to even when I don't change the poll... Lots of excellent choices...)  THough i lack space for an "other" option please list it in a post.



Edited by Logan - March 20 2008 at 15:54

Kew Rhone is superb.  Excellent suggestions, in fact I really would like to add Skeleton Crew and Aksak.  If there are other ideas, I can edit out some of the lesser-rated options.

As many Frith albums as I have it's amazing that there's still so much out there I haven't explored.

Black Velvet wrote: Respectively I feel the musician visions were far better realised in a collective environment.

Another pair of tangentially Cow-related album that I love are Dagmar's two renditions of Eisler/Weill/Brecht songs, called Supply/Demand and Panzerschlact, or something like that but spelled correctly. =)

They're nothing particularly proggy so I won't force it onto your list, but I love the cabaret and political music, doubly so when they're connected, and perhaps I can blame my tastes directly on these two collections.

Like to amend this list with Hodgkinson's music later.  Thanks for the heads up on Dagmar Krause's albums.  I'm familiar with them, but haven't heard them.  I had intended to only list bands/ artists projects in the archives.  And I removed other the other option due to space limitations, but of course that doesn't mean that people can't choose other options in posts.

As generally with topics accompanied with polls, the results don't matter to me so much as the comments.  I hope to become familiar with lots of great music here.

Lots of albums I do know and love here.  Revisiting Chris Cutler's Domestic Stories now -- very good album.  As for my fourth favourite, I asked it, but I have no idea.  Thought it might be a good way to make sure that people had heard at least a few (well four to be exact) albums that chose to vote, since people so often vote in "vs." polls without knowing  more than one option.  Maybe I should have made this tenth favourite...

If I were to choose the four I've most been returning to of late, they would be The World as it is Today, Kew Rhone, In Praise of Learning, and Desperate Straits.  All very good, and suit my moods these days.  I'll choose Slapp Happy's.  Oops, still had Domestic Stories in mind, as it's playing, and voted for that.


Edited by Logan - March 18 2008 at 21:42

I found my surely fave to vote - that's Western Culture by Henry Cow!

Tell of the birth, tell how war appeared on earth..

Rainer Rein wrote: I found my surely fave to vote - that's Western Culture by Henry Cow!

Yes, but this poll is about your FOURTH favorite.  Read the poll question next time

Good to see you 'round again Christer. I'm just posting to echo the above thoughts. Music for Other Occasions is absolutely adorable in a sinister kind of way. Thanks for reminding me she's not in the archives, I will have to spend put some time aside to work on her addition, as I will be pleased to see her added along with a couple of fivestars sitting next to her name! Sometime early April I will try jumping to it, assignments coming up so I don't have too much time for additions.  

Edited by Black Velvet - March 21 2008 at 18:02