The Henry Cow discography is a list of officially released recordings by English avant-rockgroupHenry Cow.[a] During their period of activity from 1968 to 1978, they released six albums, including two with German/English avant-pop trio Slapp Happy, and one double live album.
The album Hopes and Fears (1978) was credited to the Art Bears but has been described as "the lost Henry Cow album".[3]Hopes and Fears was originally recorded as a Henry Cow album, but when some of the band members were unhappy about the predominance of song-oriented material over instrumentals, it was released under the Art Bears name.
In 2006 Recommended Records, founded by Henry Cow drummer Chris Cutler. released a 7-CD box set, the Henry Cow Box comprising CD remasters of the original six albums. In 2009, to mark the anniversary of the formation of Henry Cow, Recommended Records released a 9-CD plus one DVD box set, The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set that contained previously unreleased recordings made between 1972 and 1978. The DVD, a 75-minute video of Henry Cow performing in Vevey, Switzerland in August 1976, is the only known video recording of the band.[4]
In 2019, to mark Henry Cow's 50th anniversary, Recommended Records released The Henry Cow Box Redux: The Complete Henry Cow, an 17-CD plus one DVD box set containing all officially released recordings of the band.
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Indicates the six albums Henry Cow made during their existence.
Contains re-mixed versions of Henry Cow's three albums released on Virgin Records, including four previously unreleased bonus tracks, a 24 page booklet and a Henry Cow fold-out family tree.
Contains the six original Henry Cow albums released between 1973 and 1979; Concerts includes Henry Cow's Greasy Truckers Live at Dingwalls Dance Hall set; bonus mini CD by the Orckestra given to advance subscribers of the box set.
Contains previously unreleased and mostly live recordings made between 1972 and 1978; bonus CD given to advance subscribers of the box set.
In March 2017 Volumes 1 to 5 and 7 to 10, and the bonus CD released by Recommended as freestanding albums; Volume 6 previously released separately in September 2008.
Contains the contents of the 2006 and 2009 box sets (excluding the 2006 bonus CD-single: "Unreleased Orckestra Extract", and including the 2009 bonus CD: A Cow Cabinet of Curiosities), plus an extra bonus CD: Ex Box – Collected Fragments 1971–1978, comprising newly recovered and previously unreleased recordings given to advance subscribers of the 2019 box set.
The 2006 bonus CD-single: "Unreleased Orckestra Extract" appears as two tracks ("Untitled" and "Would You Prefer Us To Lie") on the 2019 bonus CD: Ex Box – Collected Fragments 1971–1978.
* Vol. 20 was released in December 2022 and is a supplement to The Henry Cow Box Redux; it contains additional unreleased material uncovered after the release of the box set in 2019.
Other albums
Albums with, or by, other artists containing previously unreleased Henry Cow tracks.
Two tracks by Henry Cow: "Slice" (a Western Culture outtake) and "Viva Pa Ubu" (a Hopes and Fears outtake); later released as bonus tracks on the 2001 CD reissue of Western Culture.
^Ramond, Michel; Roussel, Patrice; Vuilleumier, Stephane. "Discography of Fred Frith". New York Downtown Scene and Other Miscellaneous Discographies. Archived from the original on 19 June 2019. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
