Desperate Straights
Download links and information about Desperate Straights by Henry Cow, Slapp Happy. This album was released in 1975 and it belongs to Rock genres. It contains 13 tracks with total duration of 36:42 minutes.
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| Artist: | Henry Cow, Slapp Happy |
| Release date: | 1975 |
| Genre: | Rock |
| Tracks: | 13 |
| Duration: | 36:42 |
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Tracks
[Edit]| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | Some Questions About Hats | 1:53 |
| 2. | The Owl | 2:17 |
| 3. | A Worm Is At Work | 1:52 |
| 4. | Bad Alchemy | 3:06 |
| 5. | Europa | 2:48 |
| 6. | Desperate Straights | 4:14 |
| 7. | Riding Tigers | 2:02 |
| 8. | Apes In Capes | 2:16 |
| 9. | Strayed | 1:54 |
| 10. | Giants | 1:57 |
| 11. | Excerpt from the Messiah | 1:49 |
| 12. | In the Sickbay | 2:09 |
| 13. | Caucasian Lullaby | 8:25 |
Details
[Edit]A surprising team up at the time of its release (1975), Desperate Straights is a surprisingly melodic album, light on the art school angst and heavy on the playfulness, which one would hardly expect from such determined socialists as these. But here it is: "Some Questions About Hats" sounds like a Kurt Weill outtake, "A Worm Is at Work" gallops along with a sweet tune. Dagmar Krause remains restrained and not given to flights of horrible fancy. "Strayed" is reminiscient of Kevin Ayers's brand of art rock, and most of the songs clock in under two minutes. But never fear: the album ends on the eight minute "Caucasian Lullaby," a minimal woodwind piece that suddenly bursts into one last jab of Krausian despair.