Henry Cow Box

Henry Cow Box
Box set by Henry Cow
Released December 2006
Recorded 1973–1978
Genre Avant-rock
Length 329:47
Label Recommended (UK)
Producer Henry Cow and others
Henry Cow chronology

The Virgin Years – Souvenir Box
(1991)		 Henry Cow Box
(2006)		 Stockholm & Göteborg
(2008)

Henry Cow Box is a seven-CD limited edition[1] box set by English avant-rock group Henry Cow. It was released in December 2006 by Recommended Records and comprises the six original albums Henry Cow released between 1973 and 1979, including those recorded with Slapp Happy. A bonus 3" CD-single was given to advance subscribers of the box set which contains previously unreleased material taken from live performances in Europe by The Orckestra, a merger of Henry Cow, the Mike Westbrook Brass Band and folk singer Frankie Armstrong in 1977.

The CDs featured here are the 1998 to 2006 reissues by Recommended Records and contain the original LP mixes. (Remixed versions of Legend, Unrest and In Praise of Learning were issued in 1991 by East Side Digital.) Henry Cow Concerts and Western Culture include the bonus tracks present on their respective CD reissues. The box set's album covers are CD-sized cardboard replicas of the original LP covers.

The box cover art work is one of artist Ray Smith's "paint socks" that adorned three of Henry Cow's LPs.

Track lists

Disc 1: Legend

Contains all the tracks (the US/Japanese vinyl mixes) from the Henry Cow LP, Legend (1973).

  1. "Nirvana for Mice" (Frith) – 4:53
  2. "Amygdala" (Hodgkinson) – 6:47
  3. "Teenbeat Introduction" (Henry Cow) – 4:32
  4. "Teenbeat" (Frith, Greaves) – 6:57
  5. "Extract from 'With the Yellow Half-Moon and Blue Star' " (Frith) – 3:38
  6. "Teenbeat Reprise" (Frith) – 5:07
  7. "The Tenth Chaffinch" (Henry Cow) – 6:06
  8. "Nine Funerals of the Citizen King" (Hodgkinson) – 5:34

Disc 2: Unrest

Contains all the tracks from the Henry Cow LP, Unrest (1974).

  1. "Bittern Storm over Ülm" (Frith) – 2:44
  2. "Half Asleep; Half Awake" (Greaves) – 7:39
  3. "Ruins" (Frith) – 12:00
  4. "Solemn Music" (Frith) – 1:09
  5. "Linguaphonie" (Henry Cow) – 5:58
  6. "Upon Entering the Hotel Adlon" (Henry Cow) – 2:56
  7. "Arcades" (Henry Cow) – 1:50
  8. "Deluge" (Henry Cow) – 5:52

Disc 3: Desperate Straights

Contains all the tracks from the Slapp Happy/Henry Cow LP, Desperate Straights (1975).

  1. "Some Questions about Hats" (Moore, Blegvad) – 1:49
  2. "The Owl" (Moore) – 2:14
  3. "A Worm is at Work" (Moore, Blegvad) – 1:52
  4. "Bad Alchemy" (Greaves, Blegvad) – 3:06
  5. "Europa" (Moore, Blegvad) – 2:48
  6. "Desperate Straights" (Moore) – 4:14
  7. "Riding Tigers" (Blegvad) – 1:43
  8. "Apes in Capes" (Moore) – 2:14
  9. "Strayed" (Blegvad) – 1:53
  10. "Giants" (Moore, Blegvad) – 1:57
  11. "Excerpt from The Messiah" (Handel, Blegvad) – 1:48
  12. "In the Sickbay" (Krause, Blegvad) – 2:08
  13. "Caucasian Lullaby" (Cutler, Moore) – 8:20

Disc 4: In Praise of Learning

Contains all the tracks (the original mixes) from the Henry Cow/Slapp Happy LP, In Praise of Learning (1975).

  1. "War" (Moore, Blegvad) – 2:25
  2. "Living in the Heart of the Beast" (Hodgkinson) – 15:30
  3. "Beginning: The Long March" (Henry Cow, Slapp Happy) – 6:26
  4. "Beautiful as the Moon – Terrible as an Army with Banners" (Frith, Cutler) – 7:02
  5. "Morning Star" (Henry Cow, Slapp Happy) – 6:05

Discs 5 and 6: Concerts

Contains all the tracks from the Henry Cow double LP (with Robert Wyatt), Henry Cow Concerts (1976), plus the Henry Cow tracks on the double LP, Greasy Truckers Live at Dingwalls Dance Hall (1974).

Disc 5
  1. "Beautiful as the Moon – Terrible as an Army with Banners" (Frith, Cutler) – 5:41
  2. "Nirvana for Mice" (Frith) – 5:30
  3. "Ottawa Song" (Frith, Cutler) – 4:15
  4. "Gloria Gloom" (Wyatt, MacCormick) – 4:13
  5. "Beautiful as the Moon (Reprise)" (Frith, Cutler) – 3:11
  6. "Bad Alchemy" (Greaves, Blegvad) – 2:54
  7. "Little Red Riding Hood Hits the Road" (Wyatt) – 5:49
  8. "Ruins" (Frith) – 16:29
  9. "Groningen" (Hodgkinson, Henry Cow) – 8:53
  10. "Groningen Again" (Henry Cow) – 7:26
Disc 6

  1-8.   "Oslo" (Henry Cow) – 28:59

  1. "Off the Map" (Hodgkinson, Cutler, Frith) – 8:30
  2. "Cafe Royal" (Frith) – 3:22
  3. "Keeping Warm in Winter" (Frith, Greaves) – 1:00
  4. "Sweat Heart of Mine" (Henry Cow) – 9:06
  5. "Udine" (Henry Cow – 9:39

Disc 7: Western Culture

Contains all the tracks from the Henry Cow LP, Western Culture (1979).

History and Prospects
  1. "Industry" (Hodgkinson) – 6:57
  2. "The Decay of Cities" (Hodgkinson) – 6:55
  3. "On the Raft" (Hodgkinson) – 4:01
Day by Day
  1. "Falling Away" (Cooper) – 7:38
  2. "Gretels Tale" (Cooper) – 3:57
  3. "Look Back" (Cooper) – 1:19
  4. "½ the Sky" (Cooper, Hodgkinson) – 5:07
Bonus tracks
  1. "Untitled" (silence only) – 1:29
  2. "Viva Pa Ubu" (Hodgkinson) – 4:28
  3. "Look Back (alt)" (Cooper) – 1:21
  4. "Slice" (Cooper) – 0:36

Bonus 3" CD-single: "Unreleased Orckestra Extract"

Contains previously unreleased material taken from live performances in Europe by The Orckestra in April 1978. Given to advance subscribers of the box set.

  1. "Untitled" (Frith) – 3:40
  2. "Would You Prefer Us to Lie?" (Cutler, Greaves) – 8:03

Personnel

Henry Cow

Slapp Happy

The Orckestra

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 200 copies, box set liner notes.

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