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

What, I thought that was Irmin and Holger. Although it's funny that Holger would (have to) be told to tune the ring modulator to the track.

Talking of English ppl and Can, I once met Duncan Fallowell and almost immediately asked him about working w/ them, he said (in a bemused rather than annoyed way) "That's all people ever ask me about!!"

Pretty sure Mooney's not there -- I had always thought it was Irmin, but as I was listening to it this am it sounded like they were talking about tuning the guitar to the ring modulator. Either way, the conversation is hilarious -- and yes, whoever the Brit is is acting like he runs the place. I also love that Irmin/Karoli/Holger is having the whole conversation thru the ring modulator.

Trying to draft up a ballot tonight, and apart from like five stone cold classics, I'm finding it very hard to single out songs and rank them, taking them out of their album context. As in: extremely hard. I've noticed I tend to 'see' Can's music in movements, parts of albums not necessarily defined by single tracks or side A or B. I warm most to how Babaluma crosses over from Splash into Chain Reaction, parts of songs like 'Mary' or 'Aughm'. Making voting in this really, really hard. As I don't break down Can's music in separate tracks per se. A Wonderful challenge nonetheless, but this poll made me realise this like nothing before.

this is so fuckin difficult

kinda want to put all of babaluma and future days on my ballot

do it

I think my favorite bit tho is the conversation between Rene Tinner(?) and Michael Karoli about needing to tune to the ring modulator.

I don't know, isn't that Malcolm Mooney and some slightly snotty Englishman?

― 24 Hour Sex Ban Man (Tom D.), Wednesday, July 20, 2016 11:11 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe it's this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_C._Johnson

You can hear his voice on "Hymnen", speaking German though. There's definitely an American voice on "Cutaway" and I've always though it was Malcolm. Still no idea who the English guy is.

Played Mushroom Head for my drum students today <3

also bc of this poll i've discovered i really love the s/t!

Rite Time is even better!

I heard Mushroom Head first via J&MC. It's odd how seminal, UK, punkish bands were always in thrall to Can (see also John Lydon). It's hard to imagine, say, New York Dolls or Ramones doing a Can cover. I think I like the J&MC version and the original about equally, in different ways.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O5Wh74ZXfo

i don't have much use for the e.f.s.s but "smoke" is a jammmm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF7zJTYFfz4

The first sides of both "Landed" and "Flowmotion" are great, second sides not so good.

btw this is a wild opinion that i completely disagree with

this is the hardest poll yet

like i'm listening to my current #25 and still thinking "this is the greatest piece of music ever recorded"

It's odd how seminal, UK, punkish bands were always in thrall to Can (see also John Lydon).

Pete Shelley did the sleevenotes to the Cannibalism compilation in 1978.

"Chain Reaction" = acid house in 1974

I heard Mushroom Head first via J&MC

Yeah, me too: at the Hammersmith Palais, we all decided we liked their new song, and decided it was called "Keep your distance"

yeah I can't believe how difficult this was, Can albums have like 5-6 songs each

The first sides of both "Landed" and "Flowmotion" are great, second sides not so good.

btw this is a wild opinion that i completely disagree with

yeah smoke > flow motion are both fantastic.

out of reach is super fun, confused about its reputation. rite time meanwhile is so dense that idk if I was enjoying as much as enduring it. super weird tho

Probably doesn't help that nobody in Can likes "Out of Reach".

rite time just hit me with beauty the last time i played it like it never before has. always loved a few songs, but the /way/ it sounds is so freakin' lovely
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imo "november" and "seven days awake" are highlights of the can discography

Only album without no Holger involvement too. Couple of songs credited to Rosko Gee and not the band as a whole - I like both of them though.

'without no'? 'with no'!

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Also if you didn't get a received email back from me it means I didn't get your ballot, I doubt anyone had any trouble with that but just in case.

Anyone shared this performance of vernal equinox yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=390Nz5Gm8Hw

they sound like such a mindblowing band to see live, I haven't seen any video in youtube to make me think otherwise... I don't understand how they didn't take over the whole world back then.

Also this Dont Say No performance from 1977 with Mooney on bass?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3VdIDxMg74

Oh no wait hahaha that's Rosko Gee and it's actually Moonshake?

Got thrown off by the top hat.

"Don't Say No" pretty much is "Moonshake".

anybody voting for "last night sleep"

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

Rosko Gee is Jamaican for Ricky Fatar

Re "Mushroom" - it's funny how the menace and atmosphere of the JAMC cover is carried by Jim moaning "I gotta keep my distance", but they got the lyric wrong. Damo sings "I'm gonna keep my despair" in the original. Love the JAMC's arrangement too, despite Jaki's drum ouroboros being my favourite part of the CAN track.

Moka, what constitutes collab albums? Full Circle, Phew? I'd quite like to give Flux & Mutability or Canaxis a shout in the albums, I'm thinking.

and I've risked the wrath of Moka by asking to update my vote. I had thought I would dislike the self titled album, but then this knocked me out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Es5W-f_2E

"all gates open" kicks fucking ass

Is that on cannibalism 2cd? I feel like it is

Bliss. Secret Jaki disco;

https://youtu.be/bhIegjbvBlA

Can I make that embed?

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNI35VMBrzI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=8Igz8sLPs5s

Since we're talking about collabs now, this album is one of the best, Jaki & Holger going absolutely nuts in a way they often did live with Can but not so often in the studio:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FKoBOhAxxLU/VomXp8KUXyI/AAAAAAAAHvs/43NOw4FWA6w/s1600/R-2200845-1269529330.jpeg.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMqoJedwGB8

Is "Kamera Song" eligible for this poll?

and I've risked the wrath of Moka by asking to update my vote. I had thought I would dislike the self titled album, but then this knocked me out.

― MatthewK

http://i.imgur.com/rJ9OHYJ.jpg

Moka, what constitutes collab albums? Full Circle, Phew? I'd quite like to give Flux & Mutability or Canaxis a shout in the albums, I'm thinking.

― Noel Emits

It's open I guess, if ILM approves.