ILM Artist Poll No. 77 · CAN · Voting Thread [Ends 07/24/16]

I might have to add more songs from Landed

"Half Past One" will be top five for me, I think. A remarkable creation.

i had never heard landed. it's great! flow motion not as much, though i dig "i want more".

Three now!

By the way I forgot to add please send your ilm usernames with your ballots!

The Can (Inner Space) album is obviously a bit inconsistent but I think I'll have to consider at least 'All Gates Open' or more likely 'Safe' for the ballot. The remaster sounds super hi-fi as well IIRC.

No way of listening so can't really vote but glad to see so much love for the s/t record.

THIEF

post-Suzuki Can is still fantastic but it's all getting blown off my ballot

http://www.czukay.de/can/comments/index1.html

Can wasn't sure yet which way musically to go till Malcolm jumped one day to the microphone and pushed us into A RHYTHM. Before we actually had started recording in Schloss Norvenich, the owner had invited the most important gallerists for a Picasso exhibition I think and we were invited to contribute as a music group without a name. We played about 3 hours and this was for the first time ever we played together. There was this big staircase in the castle and Malcolm started singing "upstairs-downstairs-upstairs-downstairs..." going on for at least one hour. In front of the microphone he really was walking upstairs/downstairs all the time. This was the way how he turned us on in getting tuned into a rhythm.

wish i could hear a recording of this

i feel bad for leaving the "peel sessions" record off my ballot entirely. it's a good album!

mighty good!

Froggy froggy
Toady toady
Tangerine seeds
ONE BY ONE

Up on the moon you really don't need to hang your coat up
Because you know it's gonna go down

Good alternate take of that on the Radio Waves bootleg odds & ends thing.

here's the full 12-min version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--0kT_v13xs

and yeah that radio waves boot is awesome. 36 minute version of "up the bakerloo" is can's finest improv with damo, i'd say.

Will seek radio waves tonight

it has a totally killer live version of "Entropy", recommended

^^yes! unfortunately the lp version just has a ten minute extract of up the bakerloo at the end of the second side, don't know that i've heard it in its entirety.

great track from the Inner Space LP : "A Spectacle"

defnintely.
i wish paperhouse/mushroom/oh yeah could somehow just take one place on a ballot. they're kind of of a piece

everything on the inner space lp is great until the last six minutes.

i wish paperhouse/mushroom/oh yeah could somehow just take one place on a ballot. they're kind of of a piece

I'd love to be able to vote for Side 2 of "Soon Over Babaluma" as one piece.

5 ballots, 35 songs and 8 albums voted for so far.

What the fuck is going on with the drums on Pinch!? It's been years since I revisited it and my mind is being blown.

There's a particular moment from 7:00 to 7:05 after the ambient keyboards which is just too much. Is this the best track to showcase Jaki's drumming? It sounds like it, he carries the whole song.

Did a helluva lot of carrying did Jaki!

"Pinch" was the first Can song I heard...instantly hooked thanks to Jaki. Still a total fave.

Not seeing enough people mention "Future Days" - both the album and the song. Transcendent.

Currently, I'm tempted to vote Future Days and all tracks from it atop all else. This January I pretty much listened to it and nothing else for two weeks straight. Never got old.

Never understood the Julian Cope hate for Future Days. Has everything I love about Can.

Never understood the Julian Cope hate for Future Days. Has everything I love about Can.

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Never understood the Julian Cope hate for Future Days. Has everything I love about Can.

Don't think he hated it, he just didn't like "Bel Air". Personally speaking, title track is in the running to be my No. 1, "Moonshake" probably top 10, the rest of the album I can live without.

Yeah Future Days' title track is the most organic piece of band music I can think of, the ideas just spill out of each other and it creates its own structure. I've listened to it so many times that it feels inevitable, but it's an incredible achievement requiring five musicians in total sync with each other.

bel air is one of their most underrated songs imo, it will be a top 5 candidate for me

never understood why people like Julian Cope's music or any of his fucking books or opinions full stop tbh. I remember walking a 15 mile round journey from Cottingley to purchase Future Days from Jumbo Records in Leeds due to lack of train fare. I haven't listened to it in years but it is a fucking great album and easily up there with Can's best.

Of the Damo albums I the Ege Bamyasi/Future Days were my absolute favourites.

The timing of this poll is so good. Everything I've listened to this week sounds so fresh, even stuff I'd kind of dismissed before.

Yeah I rate Ege Bamyasi and Future Days above Tago Mago which is the general favorite but it has too much noodling for my taste (although can noodles are the best noodles in all of prog).

Ege might be their most 'pop' and accesible and the Future Days song might be the most trascendent jam session ever recorded.

http://i.imgur.com/343N2qy.jpg

I was listening to Monster Movie, the original Spoon label cd and the sacd remaster back to back, and just noticed on the sacd three of the four songs are 5-8 secs longer. I can't actually hear why though?

On remasters: how do we feel about those anyway? I started listening to Can on 70s pressed lp's (an uncle introduced me to them). I got most 90s cd's, and in 2004 (?) I bought the Future Days' sacd, which sounded amazing to my ears. Because of that I bought the sacd of Ege Bamyasi as well: it's absolutely terrible. Drenched in a treble bath. Unlistenable (for me). All in all sticking with the 90s Spoon cd's and old vinyl.

Also putting in a word for Delay. I think it may just come down to liking a voice, but I love so much of the Mooney stuff. Thief in particular being a great one. I think of this album as being along the same lines of Velvet Underground's VU comps, in the sense that it's not just leftovers and crap, but songs that probably could have been released at the time. Actually the delay between recording and official release is about the same for both of those, I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1NR7lrmE50

tago mago is the best to listen to on psychedelics

The few CD reissues I have heard sounded too compressed to me compared to the original Spoon CDs.

However, I have the vinyl reissues of everything up to Saw Delight (except Flow Motion - already had a UK 1980s reissue of that) + Delay 1968 and I think they sound awesome. I think they used the same digital transfers as the CDs but perhaps with less compression in the mastering stage...?

Delay is amazing and Uphill'd be a contender for my #1 if I ws voting.

Why not vote?

xp OTM, "Uphill" is amazing

and yeah, vote!

Cos it'd all be from memory, and when I did that w The Smiths poll I turned out the most generic list ever. I like Can a lot more than them tho, I might give it a go.

Thief is another Malcolm one with a longer original mix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAiYRCpvC2c

Does anyone rate Out of Reach? I threw the first track on and thought it felt an awful lot more consistent with their mid-70s stuff than its reputation.

Also, this little sunkissed, Moonshake-inflected ditty with Holger jamming almost offstage on the shortwave:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZkex5jHvuI&feature=youtu.be

From the same performance, this pretty unbelievable rendition of what is ostensibly Babaluma's Dizzy Dizzy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOfWKzMgeac&feature=youtu.be