The Henry Cow Box Redux: The Complete Henry Cow 50th Anniversary

Compilation by Henry Cow

Released 2019

avant-garde experimental rock

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CD 1: Leg End
1
Nirvana for Mice
4:56
4.0 ★
2
Amygdala
6:57
4.0 ★
3
Teenbeat Introduction
4:32
2.5 ★
4
Teenbeat
6:47
4.0 ★
5
Silence – End of Side 1
0:15
6
Extract From With the Yellowhalf‐Moon and Blue Star
3:37
7
Teenbeat (reprise)
5:04
4.0 ★
8
The Tenth Chaffinch
6:04
4.0 ★
9
Nine Funerals of the Citzen King
5:34
CD 2: Unrest
1
Bittern Storm Over Ulm
2:19
3.0 ★
2
Half Asleep; Half Awake
7:59
3.0 ★
3
Ruins
12:11
3.0 ★
4
Silence – End of Side 1
0:15
5
Solemn Music
1:11
4.0 ★
6
Linguaphonie
5:31
3.0 ★
7
Upon Entering the Hotel Adlon
3:04
3.0 ★
8
Arcades
1:58
3.0 ★
9
Deluge
5:25
CD 3: Desperate Straights (Slapp Happy / Henry Cow)
1
Some Questions About Hats
Slapp Happy / Henry Cow
1:51
5.0 ★
2
The Owl
Slapp Happy / Henry Cow
2:17
3
A Worm Is at Work
Slapp Happy / Henry Cow
1:52
5.0 ★
4
Bad Alchemy
Slapp Happy / Henry Cow
3:06
5
Europa
Slapp Happy / Henry Cow
2:48
5.0 ★
6
Desperate Straights
Slapp Happy / Henry Cow
4:14
7
Riding Tigers
Slapp Happy / Henry Cow
1:43
5.0 ★
8
Silence – End of Side 1
Slapp Happy / Henry Cow
0:15
9
Apes in Capes
Slapp Happy / Henry Cow
2:16
5.0 ★
10
Strayed
Slapp Happy / Henry Cow
1:54
11
Giants
Slapp Happy / Henry Cow
1:57
12
Excerpts From the Messiah
Slapp Happy / Henry Cow
1:49
13
In the Sickbay
Slapp Happy / Henry Cow
2:09
14
Caucasian Lullaby
8:25
CD 4: In Praise of Learning
1
War
2:31
2
Living in the Heart of the Beast
16:12
3
Silence – End of Side 1
0:15
4
Beginning; The Long March
6:00
5
Beautiful as the Moon; Terrible as an Army With Banners
7:02
6
Morning Star
6:03
CD 5: Western Culture / History & Prospects / Day by Day
1
Industry
6:57
4.0 ★
2
The Decay of Cities
6:55
4.0 ★
3
On the Raft
3:58
3.0 ★
4
Silence End of Side 1
0:15
5
Falling Away
7:38
4.0 ★
6
Gretel’s Tale
3:57
4.0 ★
7
Look Back
1:19
3.0 ★
8
Half the Sky
5:08
4.0 ★
CD 6: Concerts 1
1
Beautiful as the Moon, Terrible as an Army With Banners
5:40
2
Nirvana for Mice
5:30
3
The Ottawa Song
4:15
4
Gloria Gloom
4:13
5
Beautiful as the Moon (reprise)
3:11
6
Bad Alchemy
2:54
7
Little Red Riding Hood Hits the Road
5:49
8
Ruins
16:29
9
Groningen
8:53
10
Groningen Again
7:26
CD 7: Concerts 2
1
Oslo 1
5:37
2
Oslo 2
3:15
3
Oslo 3
3:23
4
Oslo 4
3:00
5
Oslo 5
3:00
6
Oslo 6
1:44
7
Oslo 7
4:54
8
Oslo 8
4:01
9
Off the Map
8:22
10
Cafe Royal
3:20
11
Keeping Warm in Winter / Sweet Heart of Mine
9:58
12
Udine
9:39
CD 8: Beginnings / With the Yellow Half Moon and Blue Star / Guider Tells of Silent Airborne Machine
1
Pre‐Teenbeat I
1:45
2
Pre‐Teenbeat II
1:28
3
Rapt in a Blanket
5:06
4
Came to See You
6:43
5
Amygdala Extract (pre‐Legend demo)
3:35
6
Teenbeat
10:19
7
Citizen King
5:21
8
Nirvana for Moles
4:09
9
Introduction
0:46
10
Invocation
2:08
11
Demi‐Lune Jaune
2:10
12
Three Little Steps
2:13
13
Red Riff
1:49
14
Chorale Flautando
1:51
15
Cycling Over the Cliff
4:08
16
First Light
0:51
17
Olwyn Grainger
2:24
18
Betty McGowan
6:12
19
Lottie Hare
1:18
CD 9: 1974–5 / Halsteren
1
Introduction
1:52
2
Ruins I
6:35
3
Half Asleep, Half Awake
4:11
4
Ruins II
0:59
5
Heron Shower Over Hamburg
2:28
6
Nix
0:07
7
Halsteren 1
1:08
8
Solo 1
1:08
9
Solo Extension 1
2:21
10
Halsteren 2
1:24
11
Extension 1
0:17
12
Halsteren 3
0:52
13
First Suspension
4:28
14
Extension 2
2:58
15
Extension 3
1:19
16
Solo 2
1:20
17
Solo Extension 2
2:32
18
Halsteren 4
0:17
19
Second Suspension
2:34
20
Extension 4
1:58
21
Solo 3
0:49
22
Solo Extension 3
3:17
23
Halsteren 5
1:21
24
Living in the Heart of the Beast 1
1:30
25
Living in the Heart of the Beast 2
1:01
26
Living in the Heart of the Beast 3
1:36
27
Living in the Heart of the Beast 4
1:48
28
Living in the Heart of the Beast 5
1:05
29
Living in the Heart of the Beast 6
2:48
30
Living in the Heart of the Beast 7
1:10
31
Living in the Heart of the Beast 8
0:59
32
Living in the Heart of the Beast 9
1:55
CD 10: Hamburg
1
Fair as the Moon
5:59
2
Nirvana for Rabbits
4:48
3
Ottawa Song
3:41
4
Twilight Bridge
2:04
5
Gloria Gloom
2:17
6
Hamburg 1
4:15
7
Hamburg 2
3:27
8
Red Noise 10
3:16
9
Hamburg 3
5:30
10
Hamburg 4
2:40
11
Hamburg 5
5:25
12
Terrible as an Army With Banners
3:34
13
A Heart
9:03
14
Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road
5:12
15
We Did It Again
6:29
CD 11: Trondheim 1
1
Trondheim I
7:07
2
Trondheim I
2:24
3
Trondheim I
4:53
4
Trondheim I
4:59
5
Trondheim I
4:46
6
Trondheim I
7:16
7
Trondheim I
3:49
8
Trondheim I
7:45
9
Trondheim I
4:54
10
Trondheim I
0:28
CD 12: Trondheim 2
1
Trondheim II
6:11
2
Trondheim II
1:13
3
Trondheim II
10:05
4
Trondheim II
4:44
5
Trondheim II
2:54
6
Trondheim II
6:43
7
The March
6:26
CD 13: Stockholm & Göteborg
1
Stockholm 1
6:36
2
Erk Gah (aka Hold to the Zero Burn), Part 1
3:28
3
Erk Gah, Part 2
2:55
4
Erk Gah, Part 3
2:27
5
Erk Gah, Part 4
6:17
6
Erk Gah, Part 5
1:59
7
A Bridge to Ruins
5:08
8
Ottawa Song
3:27
9
Goteborg 1, Part 1
6:06
10
Goteborg 1, Part 2
8:20
11
Goteborg 1, Part 3
2:27
12
No More Songs
3:35
13
Stockholm 2
6:13
14
The March
4:12
CD 14: Later and Post‐Virgin
1
Joan
5:28
2
Teenbeat 2
8:05
3
Would You Prefer Us to Lie?
4:28
4
Untitled Piece
11:31
5
Chaumont 1
9:01
6
Chaumont 2
2:14
7
March
7:00
8
Brain Storm Over Barnsley
3:23
9
Teenbeat 3
6:45
10
Post‐Teen Auditorium Invasion
3:56
11
Bucket Waltz
4:25
12
On Suicide
3:42
CD 15: Bremen / New Suite / Die Kunst der Orgel
1
Armed Maniac / Things We Forgot
11:54
2
New Suite: Van Fleet
1:49
3
New Suite: Viva Pa Ubu Instrumental Extract
4:35
4
New Suite: The Big Tune Begins
0:45
5
New Suite: The Big Tune Continues
2:11
6
New Suite: The Big Tune Ends
1:30
7
New Suite: March
3:46
8
Die Kunst der Orgel: Bremen 1
9:40
9
Die Kunst der Orgel: Bremen 2
6:20
10
Die Kunst der Orgel: Bremen 3
4:40
11
Die Kunst der Orgel: Bremen 4
10:09
12
Die Kunst der Orgel: Bremen 5
3:36
13
Die Kunst der Orgel: Erk Gah Instrumental Extract 1
5:15
14
Die Kunst der Orgel: Erk Gah Instrumental Extract 2
7:48
CD 16: Late
1
Joy of Sax
3:49
2
Jackie‐ing
1:15
3
Untitled 2
1:32
4
The Herring People
2:07
5
RIO 1
6:05
6
RIO 2
4:25
7
RIO 3
4:14
8
RIO 4
2:25
9
Half the Sky
5:05
10
Virgins of Illinois
2:13
11
Viva Pa Ubu
2:17
DVD 17: Vevey 1976
1
Beautiful As…
6:50
2
Vevey 1
8:49
3
Terrible As…
2:19
4
Tim Speaks
1:04
5
No More Songs
3:48
6
LITHOTB
16:57
7
Vevey 2
13:51
8
March
2:42
9
Erk Gah
18:28
CD 18: A Cow Cabinet of Curiosities
1
Pre Virgin Demo 1
4:00
2
Pre Virgin Demo 2
1:08
3
Unidentified Improvisation 1
1:31
4
Unidentified Improvisation 2
5:43
5
Unidentified Late Composition
2:10
6
Exploded Amygdala / Teen Introduction
3:46
7
Lovers of Gold
6:35
8
Hamburg 6
5:33
9
Ruins Extract
8:24
10
Hamburg 7
9:52
11
Half the Sky
5:07
12
Extract From the Glove
2:18
CD 19: Ex Box
1
Poglith Drives a Vauxhall Viva
11:05
2
Amygdala (remix)
6:55
3
9 Funerals of the Citizen King (remix)
5:26
4
Nirvana for Mice (live, June 1974)
3:07
5
Free (live, June 1974)
3:23
6
Fugue (live, June 1974)
2:15
7
Teenbeat Extract (live, June 1974)
3:44
8
Sundssvall, or Helsinki
6:19
9
Torchfire
4:52
10
[untitled]
3:40
11
Would You Prefer Us to Lie?
8:04
12
Viva Pa Ubu
4:24
13
Slice
0:38
14
Look Back (alt. version)
1:19
15
Erk Gah Extract (instrumental version)
3:35
16
Drones
2:37
17
Living in the Heart of the Beast (instrumental version extract)
6:14