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I bought Ege Bamyasi, having heard sound clips on Amazon ... great - remarkably 'new wave' for 1972. My only problem is ... how on Earth do you pronounce 'Ege'? I mean, how do I recommend the bugger to people if I can't say it??

― Jez (Jez), Friday, 1 July 2005 12:31 (eighteen years ago) link

"you really need the third* can record."

(*fourth if you count delay 68.)

― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 1 July 2005 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Hmm...
monster movie
soundtracks
Tago Mago
Ege Bamyasi
Fourth Can record? (fifth if you count delay, sixth if you count Prehistoric Future, but that sucks, so who counts it?

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Friday, 1 July 2005 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link

pftt...no one counts soundtracks.

― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 1 July 2005 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link

(haha actually i have never heard it.)

― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 1 July 2005 12:36 (eighteen years ago) link

with its fourteen greatest guitar solo ever minutes of "mother sky"?

it counts.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 1 July 2005 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link

...and the drums on that track are possibly Can's greatest.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 1 July 2005 12:38 (eighteen years ago) link

well i know "mother sky" obv. money's a real problem right now, so it will remain unbought for the time being.

― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 1 July 2005 12:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Oi, we're getting off the point. OK, which of the following is closest:

Eggay, eeg, eej, eejay, eezh, eezhay, egg, eggah?

― Jez (Jez), Friday, 1 July 2005 12:40 (eighteen years ago) link

I've always said "egg" cause that's what it looked like to me, and okra with fried eggs sounds good. But I can see how it could be "Eej" (I use to be friends with a kid named Eef) or even "edge".

― theophilus jones (theophilus), Friday, 1 July 2005 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I've always said eej.

Now how about Tago Mago. Nasal a or opening mouth for the dentist a?

― - (smile), Friday, 1 July 2005 12:44 (eighteen years ago) link

"Ege Bamyasi" is Turkish and I heard a Turkish friend pronounce it "eej".

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 1 July 2005 12:47 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm guessing that it doesn't really matter how you say it, cos I'm not sure that any of the band knew how to pronounce either when they made the record. A German who didn't know any Turkish would say "egger" though, I suspect.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 1 July 2005 12:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Egg-yay

― THE JAMES DEAN OF THE OLD TESTAMENT (ex machina), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link

I vote for "Eggy".

But it is "Harzi" Fantaysi, at least according to my lengthy string of Turkish lovers.

― Peter Stringbender (PJ Miller), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:04 (eighteen years ago) link

i've heard "ey-guh" and "ee-gee"...and bamyasi as "bam-ya-si" and "bam-ya-shi." in any case, it is a fun name to pronounce.

― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link

eggay bam-yah-see!

Mark: did your friend tell you what it meant?

Now how about Tago Mago. Nasal a or opening mouth for the dentist a?

Opening mouth for dentist A!

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link

I've alway said "Taygo Maygo" and "egay". But that's because that's how I heard it first.

― Dr. T (dr. t), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link

To me they were always "tah-go mah-go" and "ee-gee bomb-yah-see."

But I have no idea if those were right.

(Or maybe ege = iggy?)

― xhuxk, Friday, 1 July 2005 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link

by the way, is Soon Over Babaluma as boring as it seemed when I played it twice this morning? (Unlimited Edition seemed more fun.)

― xhuxk, Friday, 1 July 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link

I never got into it so much. Haven't heard it in years, though.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Soon Over is great. IMO not any more or less boring than Brian Eno or Kompakt.

― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

somehow this thread has left me craving figgy pudding.

― matlewis, Friday, 1 July 2005 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link

and i'm not even entirely sure what that is

― matlewis, Friday, 1 July 2005 16:48 (eighteen years ago) link

there was a Scottish guy who made records under the name Ege Bam Yasi in the late 80s (sorta proto acidhouse), and he pronounced it "eggy" so thats how i've always known it (this being long before i'd even heard of Can).
"Soon.." isn't that great but i love "quantum physics", its like someones come along with a giant music eraser & rubbed most of the track out, just leaving a faint outline left.

― zappi (joni), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:48 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't consider Soon Over Babaluma boring compared to some later Can, but Landed is far less boring. If you were to remove both versions of "I Want More" from Flow Motion, Soon Over Babaluma would sound like a carnival ride in comparison.. and this kinda goes for Saw Delight, Out Of Reach, Can, and Rite Time as well.

Now, I just want reissues of Can Delay 1968 and Cannibalism 2, and I'll be happy.

And Unlimited Edition is great if only for the Mooney outtake tracks that could have been great album tracks.. or even singles.. "The Empress and the Ukraine King" and "Connection" being the best examples of the latter.

― donut e- (donut), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link

"Mother Upduff" invented King Missile, btw.

― donut e- (donut), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I've always said "eh-guh bam-ya-see" and never considered this might be wrong.

― dmun drive-in (dmun), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Buy Future Days.

― Steev (Steev), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, I've always said it like it's egé (eh-gay). But it appears that I'm wrong!

― Will M. (Will M.), Sunday, 3 July 2005 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link

by the way, is Soon Over Babaluma as boring as it seemed when I played it twice this morning?

No. There is one boring track on it, but then there's one boring track on every Can album (except "Monster Movie")

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 4 July 2005 10:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Tago Mago is named after an island in the Balearics which is pronounced tah-go mah-go

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Monday, 4 July 2005 10:42 (eighteen years ago) link

That's one of the stories they give, the other is that it's the name of a magician. I always thought it was just a rip-off of "Ummagumma" (see also "Hallogallo" by Neu!)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 4 July 2005 10:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Doesn't Tago Mago the place have some connection with Aleister Crowley? Hence the magician reference.

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Monday, 4 July 2005 10:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Ah! Could be!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 4 July 2005 10:51 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm a bit shocked at how good these remasters sound compared to the original cds. wow

― Ô¿Ô (eman), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 00:25 (eighteen years ago) link

there's one boring track on every Can album (except "Monster Movie")

And Future Days. I've listened to it about 50 times--haven't been bored for a second.

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 05:13 (eighteen years ago) link

... wish I could say the same

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 10:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I dug up my LP of "Tago Mago" yesterday. The one with the live shot and the 'envelope' opening at the back.

sigh.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 10:04 (eighteen years ago) link

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