Henry Cow - Western Culture (1979)
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Topic: Henry Cow - Western Culture (1979)
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Subject: Henry Cow - Western Culture (1979)
Date Posted: January 23 2021 at 03:09
 Favorite track off of this masterpiece of ROI recordings? GO!!!  ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: January 23 2021 at 03:44
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Industry is my favorite HC track, so this is an easy choice for me. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: January 23 2021 at 04:47
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I was going to say the same thing but I wanted to see who bit on this poll! I'll admit; I was late to the party with HC, but Western Culture is like, exactly what my ears want to hear regarding RIO stuff. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: January 23 2021 at 09:52
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I only own Legend...never heard Culture...I'll have to give it a listen
------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: January 23 2021 at 10:45
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Tough choice but I think I'm also going with Industry since it was what
immediately demanded my attention and drew me into the rest of the
album. |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: January 23 2021 at 10:55
Easily my fav Cow album apart from Atom Heart Mother  Tough to choose but I’ll pick the closer, Half the Sky. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: January 23 2021 at 14:12
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THis is one of those albums that I find difficult to pick one song over the others. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: January 23 2021 at 16:05
I'm the same, pretty much listen to the whole thing. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Manuel wrote:Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: January 23 2021 at 17:12
Hard to disagree. This was always the album I had in mind if someone would ask me for one album to best represent the genre. (Obviously, no one has actually done that. lol) ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: January 23 2021 at 18:05
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Industry all the way. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 23 2021 at 18:38
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Giving "Gretel's Tale" a vote. ------------- "Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967). |
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: January 23 2021 at 19:38
Me too. Henry Cow is one of the greatest prog band, IMO. Western Culture is a very good album but I prefer Unrest and In Praising. ------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: January 23 2021 at 19:57
I also prefer those albums. Western Culture is one of those albums that I have to be in a particular mood to enjoy, and it was harder for me to get into than former albums. In Praise of Learning was my first, and then Desperate Straits with Slapp Happy and also the related The World as It Is Today with Art Bears at about the same time. People into that should check out News From Babel if they haven’t already, as well as Greaves et al’s Kew Rhone (marvellous album). I do appreciate Western Culture, but not as much as various musically related albums by Art Zoyd, Univers Zero and Present. I do think Henry Ciw is greater for the diversity over its quite short run, and it will be further rembered for the politics and its significance to the rock in opposition movement. ------------- "Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967). |
Posted By: Spacegod87
Date Posted: January 23 2021 at 20:59
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Gretel's Tale is great, but I went with 1/2 the sky. Fantastic track. ------------- Levitating downwards, atomic feedback scream. |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: January 24 2021 at 02:43
 I'm a massive tech/extreme prog nerd, with bands like Gorguts and albums like The Erosion of Sanity and Obscura being personal favorites. This stuff is like, the seeds for that. I get the same vibes from Larks' Tongues in Aspic Parts 1 & 2 with King Crimson. All around awesome, disjointed, dissonant beauty! ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: January 24 2021 at 07:28
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Industry is a personsl fav but all of these tracks are outstanding. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |