The Virgin Years – Souvenir Box
Box set by
Henry Cow
Released1991 (1991)
Recorded1973–1975, 1990
GenreAvant-rock
Length142:19
LabelRecommended (UK)
East Side Digital (US)
ProducerHenry Cow and others
Henry Cow chronology
Western Culture
(1979)		 The Virgin Years – Souvenir Box
(1991)		 Henry Cow Box
(2006)

The Virgin Years – Souvenir Box is a three-CD limited-edition[1] box set by English avant-rock group Henry Cow. It was released in 1991 by Recommended Records and East Side Digital Records, and contains three albums Henry Cow made for Virgin Records between 1973 and 1975: Legend, Unrest and In Praise of Learning. Included in the box set is a 24-page souvenir booklet and a Henry Cow fold-out family tree.

Track listings

The CDs in this box set are as released by East Side Digital Records in 1991, which include bonus tracks and remixed versions of Legend and In Praise of Learning.

Disc 1: Legend

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Nirvana for Mice"Fred Frith4:53
2."Amygdala"Tim Hodgkinson6:47
3."Teenbeat Introduction"Henry Cow4:32
4."Teenbeat"Frith, John Greaves6:57
5."Nirvana for Mice (Reprise)"Frith1:11
6."Extract from 'With the Yellow Half-Moon and Blue Star'"Frith5:07
7."Teenbeat Reprise"Frith2:26
8."The Tenth Chaffinch"Henry Cow6:06
9."Nine Funerals of the Citizen King"Hodgkinson5:34
10."Bellycan"Henry Cow3:19

Disc 2: Unrest

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Bittern Storm over Ulm"Fred Frith2:44
2."Half Asleep; Half Awake"John Greaves7:39
3."Ruins"Frith12:00
4."Solemn Music"Frith1:09
5."Linguaphonie"Henry Cow5:58
6."Upon Entering the Hotel Adlon"Henry Cow2:56
7."Arcades"Henry Cow1:50
8."Deluge"Henry Cow5:52
9."The Glove"Henry Cow6:35
10."Torch Fire"Henry Cow4:48

Disc 3: In Praise of Learning

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."War"Anthony Moore, Peter Blegvad2:25
2."Living in the Heart of the Beast"Tim Hodgkinson15:30
3."Beginning: The Long March"Henry Cow, Slapp Happy6:26
4."Beautiful as the Moon – Terrible as an Army with Banners"Fred Frith, Chris Cutler7:02
5."Morning Star"Henry Cow, Slapp Happy6:05
6."Lovers of Gold"Henry Cow, Slapp Happy, Cutler6:28

Personnel

Remixes

Disc 1 is a remixed version of Legend by Tim Hodgkinson and Fred Frith at Cold Storage and Red Shop Studios in May/August 1990. The bonus track "Bellycan" is an outtake from Henry Cow's Greasy Truckers Live at Dingwalls Dance Hall recording session in November 1973.[2]

Disc 2 was not remixed. The bonus tracks "Torchfire" and "The Glove" were derived from raw material recorded during the Unrest sessions, and were mixed by Hodgkinson at Cold Storage Studios in 1984.[3] A remixed version of "Bittern Storm over Ulm" appears on limited-edition EP The Last Nightingale.

Disc 3 is a remixed version of In Praise of Learning by Frith, Hodgkinson and Martin Bisi at BC studios, New York in April 1985, and at Cold Storage studios by Hodgkinson. The bonus track "Lovers of Gold" is an alternate version of "Beginning: The Long March" created by Chris Cutler. It includes texts by Cutler and sung by Krause near the beginning.[4]

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1250 copies, box set liner notes.
  2. ↑ "Henry Cow – Legend". Discogs. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
  3. ↑ "Henry Cow – Unrest". Discogs. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
  4. ↑ East Side Digital Records (1991). In Praise of Learning (CD liner notes). Henry Cow.
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