Henry Cow - Terrible as an army with banners

Suite de "beautiful as the moon", avec une coda sur ce que les membres du groupe sont devenus.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Henry
• Cow
• Fred
• Frith
• Chris
• Cutler
• Dagmar
• Krause
• Lindsay
• Cooper
• Tim
• Hodgkinson
• Georgie
• Born

[LittleDrummerBoy234]

interesting that georgie born sits as if she has a cello but is playing electric bass

[BernardMontmartre]

@LittleDrummerBoy234

her bass is actually tuned as a cello

[lexo30]

There's something so heroic about the sight of these ragged-looking musicians, three women and three men, standing and sitting in a muddy field in Switzerland in the middle of the night, doing this defiantly uncommercial music.

[jstoyanoff]

This really does restore one's faith in the power of creative musicianship, no???

[Pighood]

Love the Cow, hate their politics.

[roymack1]

NO

[brennanyoung]

Funny, it's a (dubious) piece of Marxist dogma that events are dictated by history. I agree that HC couldn't have happened before or since, but they walked the talk: HC was a true collective, with lighting/sound guys paid as much as musicians, and they deliberate rejected the music business, so that today they're a real insider-tip. And... outdated? Well, Marxism is coming back into fashion (to some extent) because neo-liberalism has revealed itself to be a total failure. (Financial crisis etc.)

[CarolSuemoo]

@lexo30 Yes, so I've heard (marxists etc), but I have trouble hearing that in their music (other than lyrics) - from today's perspective (neo-libertarian), such sentiment seems cute, trite, and outdated (very youthful and naive - but horribly embarrassing in historic reality), although I can imagine they took it (and probably still do) very seriously. Anyways, I guess I'm trying to say it puts me in the moment....

[lexo30]

@CarolSuemoo Really? Maybe you're right, but I wonder if the Cow would have liked the idea that their music sounded that cosmic, or whatever. From what I've read of them they were doggedly political.

[CarolSuemoo]

@lexo30 Yes, Great in their creative efforts but I think I also mean timeless in outside of my ideas of time - somewhat abstract sounds, possible in other ages, realms, galaxies...

[lexo30]

@CarolSuemoo If by 'timeless' you mean 'great', I agree with you; but it wouldn't be a word I would use to describe Henry Cow's music if I wanted to give people a sense of what it's like. Only in the late 60s/early 70s could a band like this have formed, got a record deal and become famous. Nowadays, such a band could form and release its own stuff, but it'd never become famous outside of a certain niche. Before the late 60s, this band would neither have got together nor got a record deal.

[CarolSuemoo]

@lexo30 "defiantly uncommercial" and timeless music.