CAN....S and D?

add to search: the peel sessions - "Up the Bakerloo Line w/Annie" sounds like an acid trip. in a good way

I found it on a mp3 blog a few nights ago, Haven't listend to it yet.... not actually sure I want to. nothing worse than a bad album by a favourite band.

Oh, I know it's not meant to be good. I want it purely for completeness reasons.

Is it 'bad'?

Or just 'bad by their standards'?

It is truly and definitely BAD: the eponymous album has more than a couple of good moments, but Out Of Reach is pretty indefensible.
That said, I'm the proud owner of a copy exactly for the same reasons of Krakow. :)
The BBC album, instead, is marvellous and a fascinating glimpse into the band's compositional methods.

The best things on it are the Rosko Gee songs

Anyone else think "Inner Space" is under-rated? I'm not sure it's up there with the canonical records, but it's close IMO.

first time I've heard the recorded version of this track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxFYCE6VIt4&feature=related

delay is ok... "the thief" is a banger

Is Cannibalism worth bothering with? The remix of Yoo Doo Right sounds like warmed-over trip hop to me...

you mean Sacriliege? the Cannabalism albums are just compilations

Cannibalism 2 has a few of my fave Can moments (the crazy/fun Mother Upduff is supposedly a true story; Turtles Have Short Legs one of damo's best vocals; Shikiku Maru Ten also excellent wierdness)
the first Cannibalism is less essential if you already have the early Can records but there's a few different mixes iirc.
and yeah, Sacrilege had a couple pieces i liked but i only recall the Sonic youth one right now....

cannibalism ii's just such a great listen - it's edited together so well, the first clutch of songs p much sync up & match jaki's drums up iirc.

I never tried Cannibalism 1 since I have all the albums, plus I hate how "Yoo Doo Right" is the only full length piece there. Cannibalism 2 seems good but if you have Radio Waves and Unlimited Edition then it's kinda superfluous. Cannibalism 3 is a collection of solo material and it's actually pretty entertaining (though disappointing if you're expecting a lot of great instrumental stuff). As for the remix collection, I really thought it was a big wasted opportunity, you'll probably wind up liking 1-2 of the remixes and find the others a waste of time

Ah yes, sorry, I do mean Sacrilege. It's the 3p mix of Yoo Doo Right that didn't sound too great to me, some of the other remixers might do a better job though.

tbh that Yoo Doo Right mix was really the only thing on there I liked, so yeah. the other remixers don't do a great job either

I liked Bruce Gilbert's mix for being barking mad, the rest, as someone said, is "not my tea"

I need to check out Cannibalism 2

the eponymous album has more than a couple of good moments

lol rev introduced me in the outloud room to the awesomeness that is "Aspectacle"

I like the edits on Cannibalism 1 when I'm in the mood for a peak-period Can mixtape. Sometimes I only need 8 minutes of Halleluwah!

yeah I'm not on board with all those who say it got "ruined" with an edit. it's not like it's "Close to the Edge" or "Supper's Ready" or anything! still, no idea why "Yoo Doo Right" survives intact

I got so used to the shorter "Mother Sky", the proper one seemed un-naturally elongated in places (i.e. bits obviously repeated)

yeh i knew Cannibalism first, the longer versions seemed weird when i finally heard them. and the longer versions are already edits of much longer jams!

that said, "halleluwah" definitely kicks it in its 18 minute version
"augmn" could be shorter though

has there been any discussion about the supposed box set anywhere?

this sounds pretty rad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u4CtYbTT2-Y

from Can: The Lost Tapes

ha, it sounds like the music for "Italian Spiderman" - guessing that's a super-early cut?

super excited about this release. let's hope the next step is a decent sounding live recording!!

yeah it def has an earlier feel.
don't have to wait for a decent sounding live recording -- check this one: http://ow.ly/9XyYa

i'll have to grab that when i get home. i love the idea of live Can but that Live Box and the new Tago Mago bonus tracks just have so much tape hiss; could probably compress them to 64 kbps and not hear a difference

thanks tyler will grab that, there were some great boots on mutant sounds a year or two ago too

yeahhh, i think i got some of those - Future Days Past Nights? The 1973 show might not blow your mind in terms of sound quality (it's pretty good), but the performance is otherworldly.

thaaaaaaaaank yoooooooooooou

the one boot called Free Concert has Doko Daie Concert (excerpt) on it which is pretty great

yeah Free Concert is amazing.
here's another good one, not live, but a long tago mago outtake http://ow.ly/9XDnE

DAMN that is sweet!

Lol the first comment says "This reminds me of Radiohead"

I'm 100% fan-style flipping over this news. With the bands approach to recording and editing-for-release, I've always assumed there were reels and reels of material languishing--and had no expectation we'd ever hear any of it. So a 3CD boxed set--oh man, I may soon be literally counting down the days.

^^^ otm

this made me so happy

Thanks for all these bootleg recommendations, I'm really loving Free Concert and the Past Days

check out Great Britain 1977 too if you haven't heard it yet, the sound quality is p great

"Millionspiel" is really fantastic, can't stop listening to it. Will it all be this good?
looks like the mutant sounds links are all good to go: http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/12/its-raining-can-bootlegs.html

For NY people:

The Music of Can: An Evening of Unreleased Music and Discussion with Irmin Schmidt + Jono Podmore

http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/3250

Is there an "Oh Yeah" on any available bootleg? I've only ever heard snippets in a documentary clip.

Long version of Doko E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ5QueexZBA

Errr I kinda regret posting that one ... was excited at the prospect of a long unreleased tune

that Ogam Ogat release is pretty great. it really sucks that most of the live/archive material wasn't really well recorded, since a lot of it tears. can't wait to dig into some more

holy wow at millionenspiel

CD 1
Millionenspiel
Waiting For The Streetcar
Evening All Day
Deadly Doris
Graublau
When Darkness Comes
Blind Mirror Surf
Oscura Primavera
Bubble Rap

CD2
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Whore
True Story
The Agreement
Midnight Sky
Desert
Spoon - Live
Dead Pigeon Suite
Abra Cada Braxas
A Swan Is Born
The Loop

CD3
Godzilla Fragment
On The Way To Mother Sky
Midnight Men
Networks Of Foam
Messer, Scissors, Fork and Light
Barnacles
E.F.S. 108
Private Nocturnal
Alice
Mushroom - Live
One More Saturday Night – Live

what's that?

can the lost tapes tracklisting i presume?

In order to be overrated first you have to be "rated" and this album has never been rated particularly highly.

ya I'm probably just thinking about when I first read about Can on like, webrings and such back in the day, consensus seemed to be that Flow Motion was pretty good but the subsequent albums fell off. maybe why I adore Saw Delight so much, I was expecting to really dislike that one and instead thought it was loads of fun

The general consensus used to be they fell off after "Babaluma" - that might be the Julian Cope angle, except I don't think he like them after "Ege Bamyasi".

I guess what I'll say in favor of that one is it's got such a weird vibe to it, totally unlike any Can of the past, it sounds weirdly Xanax'd out in a way that's kind of surreal, especially adding Malcolm's Wesley Willis-style vocals to the mix. as a standalone thing I kinda dig it but in the context of Can's catalogue it's really odd.

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rite time sounds like no other record ever made. some people think this is a bad thing and i understand. it is almost an alien object to me, in the sound, in the particular chemistry of the band at this point, in the way that it's basically proving nothing to the fans that had already dropped off. for me it's like drilling a tunnel through the earth into this immaculate crystal cave that could not have been built by humans because nothing appears modified by human touch, also some guy is in there wailing in slow motion

Below This Level is hilarious, top 10 Can for me

I do love the single edit of Hoolah Hoolah which samples Spoon

that's an interesting take ivy, I guess the key is not to think of it like a Can record at all. you do hear bits of Karoli's tone on there but it has none of Can's usual energy nor much of their penchant for improvisation. because the drums are so on rails and the bass lines are static they never really 'go' anywhere, but theres a lot of strange keyboard/sample stuff going on, idk maybe I need to re-evaluate this record

The fact that Karoli plays a lot (most?) of the bass on it is one reason why it doesn't sound so much like Can.

As far as energy goes, I think Rite Time is quite in line with all of their mid-to-late '70s records.

It's one of my favorite Can records. Lush and charming.

I bought a factory cassette of the album in 1990 while on a "backpacking trip" to Europe as a young person and would listen to it on my Walkman while on train trips and stuff, so that album is totally the sound of like *Europe Endless* for me.

looking for the right moment to drop "like a new child" in a dj set

This was the first Can song I heard. I literally picked up a copy of Musician magazine off the ground one day in 1990, which featured a review of the new Can reissues. I called up a local university radio station to ask if they had any Can (the DJ had never heard of them) and they evidently had a copy of Rite Time in their library, which he then segued into a Lush 12" played at the wrong speed.

the other genre exercises really don't work for me

"Cascade Waltz" is far enough from its predecessors to become interesting on its own, beyond genre-hopping.

in the "pop" context, I've always though Silver Apples use on "Program" was incredibly ahead of it's time.

Old comment, but "I Am the Walrus" the obvious precedent here for incorporating radio broadcasts on a rock record.

yeah Beatles might've done it first but on "Program" it actually sounds like they're playing along with the broadcast so it sounds more in line with what a lot of 90s electronica acts would do. could be because it's just two guys, so how much noise could they really make

I called up a local university radio station to ask if they had any Can (the DJ had never heard of them) and they evidently had a copy of Rite Time in their library, which he then segued into a Lush 12" played at the wrong speed.

this is such a beautiful snapshot of 1990 college radio, thank you

I adore Rite Time. It has a similar vibe to me as Jon Hassell’s Power Spot. Machine music, but machine music from a fever dream world where humans have died out and the machines roam the earth unbounded.

I don't have "Rite Time" but I did find the "Can" album recently.

It's an odd one. The "Can Can" side, the single that never happened...

Can was the only Can CD I would see in stores in the late 90s (USA), it was a bit of a strange intro.