Henry Cow - War

[ElliotGKnapp]

Yikes, this mix is pretty bad--what was Tim Hodgkinson thinking? Great song, great album, but make sure to check out the more recently released original mix CD reissue!

[MonicaReally]

yes thank you please very much so.

[Hirudinaceous]

Tragic that music which, when set free is bold and innovative like science, as per their first album, can become reduced to being the backing track to a brainwashed spastic knee-jerk Leftie rant. If only they had avoided writing lyrics about what they clearly knew nothing about their music could have stood the test of time. They are best forgotten really, apart from the first album. Everything that followed has made them look naive and stupid, until the Science Project reiteration.

[Tidicappahacca]

@Hirudinaceous

"Knee-jerk leftie rant"...

What a brain-dead, sad person you must be.

[houseofelyse]

such good poetic lyrics

[ciaobebbo050]

The Rhythm is great...13+13+14+14+15+14. The 6/8 part in the middle is great too...the sax is so beautiful! Then it goes into 5+8+6+8++7+8, with the sax accenting the last 8th note in each group. Instrumental 13/8 part, then back to 13+13+14+14+15+15. Very deep lyrics, too.

Someone needs to hurry up inventing that time machine.

[edwatom]

Reminds me of the Laughing Song, by The Residents.

[alcoholya]

this song rocks ass

[mikeface1]

this is what yoko ono wish she sound liked.

[Mentox2]

This would be a nice Ending music in many animes...

=)

[jorgetiz99]

@MsDIMENO jajaja subnormal consigue vida das pena

[theoneandonlytisme]

what the hell is this crap!!!

[PorroFirst]

Great song.

[Rottenhatable]

Dagmar at her best :)

[Harvey3rdman]

All you need to say : "Violence completes the partial mind". Comes to fruition with harrowing rapidity as time passes.

[Zax901250]

I've been a Cow fan for literally decades, but despite this stuff having been remixed for CD that's still the worst edit ever at 1.41. I immediately forgeive them, of course.

[crisdpa]

¡Carajo!, que canción tan exquisita...bien Cow

[Chesterton7]

i love this

[malinikola3]

i love it

[rigmarole55]

Too clever by half these blokes (and Lindsay & Dagmar) - but it's fantastic, unique. What more could you ask for? More vicious than the most doom-laden guitar cruching deathmetal guys, somehow... More viscous too...

[HelenusMaximusIII]

exactly. proof that you don't need howling, distorted chords to make a track sound powerful and disturbing. too many musical stereotypes and cliches today...

[then00best]

It's the bass, man

[then00best]

very inventive music..

[enialbsitruc]

Fantastically intelligent timing in this song.

[mobyboy]

she was ahead Nina Hagen. no Doubt !

[TuxmanXP]

I would rather compare Nina Hagen to Kate Bush... who also beats her anyway. Dagmar Krause is someone special. :)

[sabrinaeden]

This is the second mix isn't it? Not complaining - you get a little more of Mongezi Feza!

[Doobie1975]

I used to get this song and "A Worm is at Work" mixed up.

[Teabonesteak]

so they told me to check out henry cow.. this was the first song I listened to.. I ...can't get it out of my head............!

[Teabonesteak]

This guy sounds a little like Frank Zappa.

[Teabonesteak]

forget it, I'm an idiot.

[WrBinITA]

You're not an idiot, Henry Cow was influenced by FZ

[RickHenry]

Anthony More (member of Slapp Happy) did a fantastic rendition of this song on his 1979 album "Flying Doesn't Help".

[TuxmanXP]

Thunderrrrous herrrrbs :-D

[Skydigibeef]

the horns that start about 1:15 in : O

[pontello3]

mad band!

but really creative ,different !

in the 70's everybody were dare to try to be different

now everybody try to sounds the same

[uncleboheeka]

I think this music is spiffy, really great, but I can't not laugh when I hear Dagmar Krause sing this song.

[thespoonisbent]

Stacking the bones on the empty aerodrome, tinted turtle green haunts the slender submarine. She shakes her gory locks over the deserted docks.

Come follow me out of dark obscurity, follow my torch, pilgrims at the double march through meadows and seas, abattoirs and libraries.

The pilgrims increase boasting, they are led by peace. They gut huts with gusto, pillage villages with verve; war does what she has to, people get what they deserve.

[alezander666]

@thespoonisbent how AMAZINGLY TRUE,i see the sarah palin's,the right wing fearing everything,VIETNAM,WHAT DID THEY DIE FOR,IRAQ,WHAT DID THEY DIE FOR,KOREA,NOW AFGHANISTAN,RELIGION WILL TAKE OVER OUR DEAD MEN'S LAST STAND.

[CarolSuemoo]

@thespoonisbent Thanks for posting the lyrics - such delightful poetry!

[thespoonisbent]

Tell of the birth; tell how war appeared on earth!

Thunder and herbs, conjugated sacred verbs, musicians with gongs fertilised an egg with song.

Asleep in the sphere her foetus was a knot of fear. She butted with her horn, split an egg and war was born. A miracle of hate: she banged her spoon against her plate.

Upon her spoon this motto wonderfully designed: "Violence completes the partial mind".

[angelinakitty]

so glad i found your vids. this is one of my favorite albums of all time. THANKS

[getorphan]

I love that evil laugh chorus part. Of course in stereo it is far more haunting. Thanks for posting.

[krapulaz]

dagmar krause on vocals