ILM Artist Poll No. 77 · CAN · Results Thread

there's a youtube comment that compares this song to a dinosaur sinking into a tarpit

otm

There's always a tension/push/pull about the best CAN songs imo. That's another thing I like about this band -- they exploit the serious sonic appeal of that dynamic.

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42. The Empress & the Ukraine King 3 votes, 88 points, 1 Nº1 Vote.
From: Limited Edition (1974)

I actually didn't remember this one and it's amazing. First and last Nº1 vote of the day.

And to wrap it up... drumroll please:

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41. Gomorrah 5 votes, 90 points.
From: Limited Edition (1974)

Shout out to the person who had that number one!

gomorrah is so fuckin good

I've never heard Tape Kebab. It's gorgeous.

Poking around Can obscurities on Youtube, I just stumbled on I'm Hiding My Nightingale. Really cool Inner Space track from 1968. https://youtu.be/aeo7_aiogbc

yay, glad gomorrah placed

^ they perform 'I'm Hiding My Nightingale' in a film (Kamasutra - Vollendung Der Liebe), if you didn't find that clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=KR4tra9Nyq8

Only track not on spotify is Tape Kebab. Haven't heard anything else from peel sessions is it worth it?

yep. pretty much every track rules

Just catching up while on family vacation...

I didn't vote for Ege Bamyasi – it's not that I don't like it—several songs are classics and ended up on my ballot—but it was the first thing I heard by them and never quite lived up to what I had expected based on the review of the Spoon (or Restless Retro?) reissues in Musician Magazine (I think) in the early 90s. In retrospect it still seems smaller and less unhinged than Tago Mago and not edited or electronic enough in comparison to Future Days. Good tunes tho.

Unlimited Edition, OTOH, hit me in all the right places right off the bat. Where "Pinch" had a great, great drum part, I wasn't sure where it really took me. "Gomorrah" as an opener was pretty much everything I had hoped Can would be: electronic, organic, epic, and a little mysterious.

I didn't vote for Ege Bamyasi either, it feels like definitely the weakest from their classic period to me. There's still great moments but unusually for them the highlights are the shorter songs which don't really have the scope of their most exciting tracks.

Yep. Great point.

As for songs, "Flow Motion" was on my ballot. I love how fucking HUGE it sounds. Almost voted for "The Empress and the Ukraine King."

As Milton Parker pointed out on another thread, Holger re-edited "Hunters and Collectors" as "Oh Lord Give Us More Money."

You could make a bunch of equally awesome songs by just expanding on various parts of MSF&L

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, July 26, 2016 5:26 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i assumed MSF&L was made up of early variations on "Spoon"

Yes Spoon is filled with parts from MSF&L. It's very obvious but I hadn't realised there's a thematic connection in their songtitles even.

How did I not vote for Uphill?

Spoon seems like the base template to me. The looooong live version on Lost Tapes is so much better than the album version imo. I love the "...yeah" during the intro at the beginning.

What I originally meant was that regardless of whether they expanded the base template or assembled pieces that eventually made the base template, even the pieces are interesting enough to expand into their own songs without sounding like the same song. Maybe all this says is that the collected sounds of Spoon really speak to me. I love the super slowed down part of MSF&L.

Sorry for not posting been busy, will try to update in an hour or so.

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40. Peking O 6 votes, 108 points.
From: Tago Mago (1971)
https://youtu.be/mnAH3JdlKKE

It's back! Gomorrah is 20 positions too low!

Peking O was always my least favorite on TM until this poll – it always sounded like Song of the Bailing Man-era Ubu. Now, having listened back to research I love it. Easily could've put it on my ballot.

Peking O my first pick to place. Always love the way it collapses in a heap then gradually puts itself together again.

I remember listening to that for the first time in just straight up disbelief at what I was hearing

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39. Peking O 7 votes, 118 points.
From: The Lost Tapes (2012)
https://youtu.be/J7tD1FDIOlY

GRAUBLAU

Can I just tell you guys, the first Can record I bought was this compilation and it was the sort of singles-type tracks from the Virgin albums, "Gomorrah," plus a couple Mooney tracks from Unlimited Edition and I was just basically like, yeah, I don't understand this band at all!

https://www.discogs.com/Can-InCANdescence/release/263939

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38. Mary, Mary So Contrary 5 votes, 121 points.
From: Monster Movie (1969)
https://youtu.be/YefiMvJdjhY

GRAUBLAU

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson),

Damn sorry it says Peking O it's GREYBLUE

i'm guessing every song from tago mago and monster movie will appear

Well I mean Monster Movie is only 4 songs long and the 2 least impressive songs already made it so...

:D

though i'd hardly argue "outside my door" is one of the least impressive songs on monster movie

Yeah, that song is awesome... yet still didn't make it on to my ballot, says it all.

i'm guessing every song from tago mago and monster movie will appear

probably Ege Bamyasi and Future Days as well?

The following song brought to you by the sponsor of our poll: Campbell's. M'm M'm Sodium!

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38. Soup 7 votes, 123 points.
From: Ege Bamyasi (1972)
https://youtu.be/oKX9LDo9eQo

Mary, Mary so Contrary is too low. Was my number 3.

Dammit number should read 37

"soup" is great and is also maybe my least fav can epic from the first few records

http://i.imgur.com/nvsRxiK.jpg
36. Half Past One 7 votes, 127 points.
From: Landed (1975)
https://youtu.be/g8b62a4sR6g

http://i.imgur.com/UbsEXa6.jpg
35. Full Moon On the Highway 7 votes, 132 points.
From: Landed (1975)

i wasn't actually expecting either of these to place over "hunters & collectors" wow!

I need to pick up Lost Tapes finally. All these tracks are great.

Well I mean Monster Movie is only 4 songs long and the 2 least impressive songs already made it so...

As someone who ranked "Mary, Mary So Contrary" #2 on his ballot: HMMPH. >=(

Yeah I voted for Mary higher than any other monster movie track

Oh I think I like "Graublau" enough but parts of it sound too much like a dry run for "Mother Sky" for me to vote for it.