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** "Beautiful as the Moon--Terrible as an Army with Banners" is one to Literature/TheBible, namely Song of Songs 6:10.
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** "Beautiful as the Moon--Terrible as an Army with Banners" is one to Literature/TheBible, namely Song of Songs Literature/SongOfSongs 6:10.
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** "Viva Pa Ubu" is one to Alfred Jarry's play ''Theatre/UbuRoi'' (also the source of Music/PereUbu's name).
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** "Viva Pa Ubu" is one to Alfred Jarry's play ''Theatre/UbuRoi'' (also ''Theatre/UbuRoi'', also the source of Music/PereUbu's name).name. Coincidentally, Chris Cutler was a member of Pere Ubu for a while.
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* CapitalismIsBad: When they have lyrics, this will often be one of the themes. It's also implicit in their artistic stances such as forming the Rock in Opposition festival, which is a pretty literal example of MusicIsPolitics.
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* CapitalismIsBad: When they their songs have lyrics, lyrics at all, which is the case with slightly less than half of them, this will often be one of the themes. themes.[[note]]It was a far more explicit and consistent theme in the lyrics of the bands that immediately succeeded them, Art Bears and News From Babel.[[/note]] It's also implicit in their artistic stances stances, such as forming the Rock in Opposition festival, which is a pretty literal example of MusicIsPolitics.
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* CapitalismIsBad: When they have lyrics, this will usually be one of the themes. It's also implicit in their artistic stances such as forming the Rock in Opposition festival, which is a pretty literal example of MusicIsPolitics.
* CoverVersion: The first song from ''Unrest'', "Bittern Storm over Ulm", is a "perversion" of Music/TheYardbirds song "Got to Hurry"; in live concerts they also covered the Music/PhilOchs song "No More Songs". One of the boxed set live albums has them doing a very funny version of Music/SoftMachine's "We Did It Again".
* CoverVersion: The first song from ''Unrest'', "Bittern Storm over Ulm", is a "perversion" of Music/TheYardbirds song "Got to Hurry"; in live concerts they also covered the Music/PhilOchs song "No More Songs". One of the boxed set live albums has them doing a very funny version of Music/SoftMachine's "We Did It Again".
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* CapitalismIsBad: When they have lyrics, this will usually often be one of the themes. It's also implicit in their artistic stances such as forming the Rock in Opposition festival, which is a pretty literal example of MusicIsPolitics.
** They used to lampshade this by covering Matching Mole's "Gloria Gloom", which is a song partly about whether or not it made any sense to sing songs about capitalism being bad.
* CoverVersion: The first song from ''Unrest'', "Bittern Storm over Ulm", is a "perversion" of Music/TheYardbirds song "Got to Hurry"; in live concerts they also covered the Music/PhilOchs song "No More Songs". One of the boxed set live albums has them doing a very funny version of Music/SoftMachine's "We Did ItAgain".Again", and they also covered Matching Mole's "Gloria Gloom".
** They used to lampshade this by covering Matching Mole's "Gloria Gloom", which is a song partly about whether or not it made any sense to sing songs about capitalism being bad.
* CoverVersion: The first song from ''Unrest'', "Bittern Storm over Ulm", is a "perversion" of Music/TheYardbirds song "Got to Hurry"; in live concerts they also covered the Music/PhilOchs song "No More Songs". One of the boxed set live albums has them doing a very funny version of Music/SoftMachine's "We Did It
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* [[AscendedFanboy Ascended Fangirl]]: Annemarie Roelofs was in the audience for one of their shows when band members entered the audience while still playing. She had her trombone on her, so she got it out and started playing along. They were so impressed that they invited her to join the band for its last shows, and she plays on their final album.
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* SpecialGuest: Robert Wyatt sang with them on a number of occasions, trumpeter Mongezi Feza played on ''In Praise of Learning'' and Swiss jazz/improvisation pianist Irène Schweizer is on ''Western Culture''.
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* SixthRanger: Their roadies/sound mixers/general dogsbodies Jack Balchin and Maggie Thomas. Thomas also designed the cover of ''Concerts'', reusing some flyer artwork she'd done.
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* TheBusCameBack: Lindsay Cooper joined the band for their second album ''Unrest'' and toured with them before being asked to leave. Two albums later, they asked her to rejoin again and she stayed till the end.
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* {{Improv}}: A lot of their live work and some of their studio work consisted of this.
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* {{Improv}}: A lot of their live work and some of their studio work consisted of this. The live album ''Trondheim'' from the ''Henry Cow Box'' is '''entirely''' improvised.
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--'''War'''
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'Violence completes the partial mind'''\\mind'\\
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* UncommonTime: Again, comes with the territory of being a ProgressiveRock band. The band/fan favourite track "Ruins" has a compound time signature that consists of a cycle of measures in, successively, 6/4, 5/3, 3/2, 7/3, 7/3 and 4/8.
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* UncommonTime: Again, comes with the territory of being a ProgressiveRock band.band, but Henry Cow really ran with it. The band/fan favourite track "Ruins" has a compound time signature that consists of a cycle of measures in, successively, 6/4, 5/3, 3/2, 7/3, 7/3 and 4/8. The beginning of "Beautiful as the Moon" is in measures of, successively, 4/4, 3/8, 9/8, 4/4, 6/8, 4/4, 4/4 and 3/8. After that it gets complicated.
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* CoverVersion: The first song from ''Unrest'', "Bittern Storm over Ulm", is a "perversion" of Music/TheYardbirds song "Got to Hurry"; in live concerts they also covered the Music/PhilOchs song "No More Songs".
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* CoverVersion: The first song from ''Unrest'', "Bittern Storm over Ulm", is a "perversion" of Music/TheYardbirds song "Got to Hurry"; in live concerts they also covered the Music/PhilOchs song "No More Songs". One of the boxed set live albums has them doing a very funny version of Music/SoftMachine's "We Did It Again".
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* LonelyPianoPiece: The title track of ''Desperate Straights''. After a long day's recording, Anthony Moore came into the studio and started to play the piano. He was joined by Chris Cutler on discreet drums and they rolled the tape.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The latter albums get more-so, arguably, as they add lyrics criticizing capitalism.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The latter albums get more-so, more so, arguably, as they add lyrics criticizing capitalism. capitalism.
* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The cover of ''Concerts'', an insanely detailed pen-and-ink drawing of an apocalyptic war (on the front) which fades gradually into a sunny day in the countryside (on the back). It was done by their roadie, Maggie Thomas.
* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The cover of ''Concerts'', an insanely detailed pen-and-ink drawing of an apocalyptic war (on the front) which fades gradually into a sunny day in the countryside (on the back). It was done by their roadie, Maggie Thomas.
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* ''Henry Cow Concerts'' (1976)
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* LiveAlbum: They had one in their own lifetime, ''Concerts'', although since some of it was recorded at a [[Creator/JohnPeel Peel session]] in a BBC studio, it's arguably not live since the only audience was the producers and engineer. The boxed sets contain live discs recorded in Hamburg, Bremen, Stockholm, Goteborg and Trondheim.
