Henry Cow - Beautiful as the Moon

[shimeonmorpheus]

sounds like an omen

[Big77Jim]

These guys were wierd and creative.It took me a while to get used to them and other cantubury acts for that matter.The RIO/Zhuel scene in France and Belgum where based on this stuff.

[ricardo7338]

otro rollo esto ,,,,buenisimo,, que ambiente con esta voz, uuuffffff

[bunnykin]

This is the best! Love!

[ceilingkatt]

genius, does anyone know who played the piano solo?

[Saloq]

@ceilingkatt It must be John Greaves.

[Bragemenn]

"Art is not a mirror - it is a hammer"

[PorroFirst]

Interesting music

[MagicalSunrise1984]

very interesting music - intense and sense-[full[filling

[usernamecanon]

in dood

[usernamecanon]

beautiful as the moon indood

[HatEtHePolicENo2]

WOW, this is... hard to listen to. not in the sense of bad music, this is just... music for taught

[DeadPixel2009]

wow now I can see where sleepytime gorilla museum and idiot flesh got part of their sound from...

[feralmusic]

mother's of invention meets early gentle giant. the 70's were the best.

[7Beyonder]

@feralmusic ..GG and Zappa were a huge influence,

but also Stockhausen, Oliver Messiaen, Anton Webern and Igor Stravinsky.

Yea, the 70's were phenomenal. Real music played by real musicians and not computers.

[bardobound]

a-maze-ing

[ArtZoydNosferatu]

by far their best song, no competition.

[mitzjob]

one of the best art bands to ever play a chord...You'd have to be gay (as a musician) not to have a crush on Dagmar...

[BannersOfCrimson]

great song.

[elephanta2]

I like their artistic music very much...but sometimes I feel they are pretended.

[alyksjosh]

ROCK IN OPPOSITION IS GREAT!

[kosmischesynth]

like egolessboy this is the first time I've heard Henry Cow, and I like it. They do have an enourmous rep and I was expecting more experimental, but this is beautifully disjunct, like some caboret band that decided to swap instuments for a laugh.

[mobyboy]

I like this uncompromised sound !

[egolessboy]

you're not wrong, of course. it's not an atrocious song. i like it in fact. i think i was just a wee disppointed coz it's not as "far out" as i imagined by virtue of their rep. it's the first henry cow i ever heard...and it's their similiarities with mainstream prog rock that strike me more than anything utterly new...like albert ayler in jazz or something. now that's uncompromising!

[SolarionSeadragon]

it was a product of its time; it was around the prog generation, and probably just took it to an interesting far-away point.

[egolessboy]

is this music really that great? if it had been "mainstream" and not "underground" is suspect it wd've suffered a worse fate than, say, uriah heep.

[mobyboy]

not every strange track is pracitclly good, just because its underground, but this is really a good wired one !

I dont think it will ever go into mainstream defintions

[bassik123]

this was mainstream back in the 70s m8

[goingfortheone1]

@egolessboy Try 'In the Heart of the Beast' the full version.

[egolessboy]

mousetrapreplica? no, more than the captain's album, the name reminds me of a film by adoor. the mouse trap, indeed the very one.

[jollygoodfeification]

Careworn and all alone - First days / Charon the unborn - Days erased / Death: Venus unfurled - / The world we lost we found - spoiled / No sun No birds No stars No form

Even we are fallen all - before time / Lief lorn we unlearn all crime / Lives - leveled as lies /

A star mourns souls ungraved - ignored / Slow wheels: Mira. Algol. Maia

Rose Dawn Daemon Rise Up / and seize the mourning - your due / Love solves worlds - with words / Arise Amidnight and heaven

stumbles - / as time ends

[jollygoodfeification]

Last days hollow souls view / The glass maze science sees us through / History moulds men

Selves men made / its tyrannies end when

its ghosts are laid.

Dark Class marches past to war / Class cause carries all before / Capital steals Fire

Fools no more / his factories free dreams

his Kings expire

Rose Dawn Day Moon / Take Care! Banners of Crimson / are razed / Time solves words - by deeds / Arise work men and seize

the future / Let Ends Begin.

[mitzjob]

Man...you can't beat it...Hard to top the 'Red Sock' album as one of the signature prog albums ever recorded...Long live Dagmar...Maybe' Udu Wudu' by Magma comes close.

[p0werlunch]

both Henry Cow and Magma are killer!

PRAISE GREAT MUSIC!!!

[mitzjob]

The red sock record...is Henry Cow's masterpiece

[rphunt2002]

I always loved the "sock" records, but this was one of my favorite records ever period.

[yorikke59]

seit mitte der 70er kenne und schätze ich henry cow sowie art bears und slap happy.habe sie leider aus den augen verloren-und hier wiedergefunden!eine zeitreise;hervorragend_gänseha­ut!!!!!!!!!!

[MehefinHeulog]

Dark Class marches past to war

Class cause carries all before

Capital steals Fire

Fools no more

his factories free dreams

his Kings expire

[tobycat11]

masterpeice, heard it before but didnt get it, was too young or something

[kenrayboy]

Can you believe the beauty of this song? One of the very greatest unknown LP's. A SUPER-CLASSIC. Top notch everything, dark, beautiful, elegant, abstract, rockin', sublime. BUT, Get the LP if you can because the CD re-master was botched badly, in my opinion. WAY too much reverb added to the vocals, and other overdubs added... very bad reverb. The original vocal dryness makes it stand out, here, it gets lost too much. Still, a great album. Dagmar Krause, the best prog female voice ever?

[7Beyonder]

@kenrayboy ..YEA..the CD re-master was a mess....it buried some of the more intricate parts..

I like the fact that the Cow brought a message against consumerism, abuses of power. Not to discredit the band YES, but their message wasnt about unicorns, fluffy atmospheres..future landscapes n shit.

[TouchingYou]

@7Beyonder FYI, YES wrote lots of songs about concrete issues. "death-defying, mutilated, armies gather near / crawling out of dirty holes, their morals disappear" - Yours Is No Disgrace is about soldiers trapped in Vietnam. Even "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" is about how it's better to have never loved than to have your heart ripped to shreds! "South Side of The Sky" is about freezing to death on the side of a mountain!

[Ridirkulous89]

@7Beyonder you act like you know what the message in music should be, little cocky if you ask me, there are musicians like bob dylan, where everything important is in the words, there are other musicians or bands where the voice is just another instrument, and jon anderson if you ask me plays that instrument pretty darn good; I love the fact that he makes the meaning obscure, so the listener will first of all focus on the sound of is voice rather than the meaning.

[7Beyonder]

@Ridirkulous89

You call it "cocky".,..I call it "having a opinion."

Relax.

[7Beyonder]

@Ridirkulous89..using your own words.. "you act like you know what the message in music should be, a little cocky if you ask me."

Hmph.

If U beleive "real music should never have lyrics regarding social matters, they butcher the music"....then why are you here, commenting on a obviously political music group? Cocky?

Fortunately for me, youtube is not a musically totalitarian state. Its rare chance for me to hear a phenomenal group, Henry Cow.

Why ruin my moment?

[Ridirkulous89]

@7Beyonder 1) I'm here because they're still damn great musicians.

2) Because you ruined MINE by writing such presumptuos and objectable things about one of the best bands ever, discretiding them for a detail which is infact one of their many strengths.

Good day anyway.

[7Beyonder]

@Ridirkulous89

awwww.....boo hoo.

back to the music.

[Ridirkulous89]

@7Beyonder continues: I respect your opinion, and I'll give you mine: real music should never have lyrics regarding social matters, they butcher the music, and divide many listeners misleading them from the music itself, socially committed lyrics are good only for simple songs, where the lyrics are the only message of the song.

[jjjohnthomasss]

@Ridirkulous89 I don't agree with your view and I would like you to define "Real Music". I think music with political or social content can work, but it's difficult to do.

[Ridirkulous89]

@jjjohnthomasss no it's like mixing oil and water to me, they work on totally separated level, also the idea that one could become easilly intoxicated with doctrine just by liking a song scares the hell out of my ant-totalitarianist self.. if you think about it that is a form of mind controlling which would be very popular in a orwellian world..

[TheOjalaqueque]

@kenrayboy Dagmar Crause!!!!!

[TheOjalaqueque]

@kenrayboy Dagmar Crause!!!!! Krause i mean

[brennanyoung]

@kenrayboy I totally agree about the cd version, but I think it was remastered and reissued again. Fabulous piece of music.

[Danorowski]

@kenrayboy Surely you jest...

[MehefinHeulog]

wonderful

[mousetrapreplica91]

Ho cancellato per sbaglio il commento dicometa1958 e quindi lo riposto:

Uno dei più grandi brani musicali di sempre. Un capolavoro assoluto! L'arte è un martello! ciao