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Henry Cow

MUSIC

Marxist progressive rock band, active 1968-78. See also Slapp Happy, Art Bears.

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Chris Cutler
Drummer
4-Jan-1947   Henry Cow
Fred Frith
Guitarist
2-Feb-1949   Avant garde rock guitarist
Dagmar Krause
Singer
4-Jun-1950   Slapp Happy, Henry Cow

DISCOGRAPHY

Leg End (1973, Virgin)
1Nirvana for Mice
2Amygdala
3Teenbeat (Introduction)
4Teenbeat
5Nirvana Reprise
6Extract From "With the Yellow Half-Moon and Blue Star"
7Teenbeat (Reprise)
8The Tenth Chaffinch
9Nine Funerals of the Citizen King
10Bellycan

Unrest (1974, Virgin)
1Bittern Storm over Ulm
2Half Asleep; Half Awake
3Ruins
4Solemn Music
5Linguaphonie
6Upon Entering the Hotel Adlon
7Arcades
8Deluge
9The Glove
10Torchfire

In Praise of Learning (1975, Virgin)
1War
2Living in the Heart of the Beast
3Beginning: The Long March
4Beautiful as the Moon - Terrible as an Army With Banners
5Morning Star
6Lovers of Gold

Collaboration with Slapp Happy.

Desperate Straights (1975, Virgin)
1Some Questions About Hats
2The Owl
3A Worm Is at Work
4Bad Alchemy
5Europa
6Desperate Straights
7Riding Tigers
8Apes in Capes
9Strayed
10Giants
11The Excerpt from the Messiah
12In the Sickbay
13Caucasian Lullaby

Collaboration with Slapp Happy. Henceforth, Slapp Happy would be subsumed into Henry Cow.

Concerts (1976, Caroline Compendium)
1Beautiful as the Moon; Terrible as an Army With Banners / Nirvana For Mice / Ottawa Song / Gloria Gloom / Moon Reprise
2Bad Alchemy / Little Red Riding Hood Hits the Road
3Ruins
4Groningen
5Groningen Again
6Oslo
7Off the Map
8Cafe Royal
9Keeping Warn in Winter / Sweet Heart of Mine
10Udine

Live album. Robert Wyatt plays piano on Little Red Riding Hood Hits the Road.

Western Culture (1979, Broadcast)
1Industry
2The Decay of Cities
3On the Raft
4Falling Away
5Coretels Tale
6Look Back
71/2 the Sky



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