I know ILX doesn't desperately *need* another Can thread right now but people have been posting about this new box set in like four different threads and I'm sure we've got 200+ posts to go when the thing's actually out, so here
CAN – THE LOST TAPES – RELEASE DATE: 18 JUNE 2012 3CD BOX SET OF UNRELEASED MATERIAL AN OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR UNRELEASED MATERIAL BRAND NEW TRACKS AS IF YOU WERE THERE – HALCYON DAYS, NOT OUTTAKES Spoon Records and Mute are delighted to announce the release of Can – The Lost Tapes, the long awaited box set of unreleased studio, soundtrack and live material. The Lost Tapes, out on 18 June 2012, was curated by Irmin Schmidt and Daniel Miller, compiled by Irmin Schmidt and Jono Podmore, and edited by Jono Podmore. When the legendary Can studio in Weilerswist was sold to the German Rock N Pop Museum, they bought everything, including the army mattresses that covered the walls for sound protection, and relocated it to Gronau. Whilst dismantling the studio, master tapes were found and stored in the Spoon archive. With barely legible labeling, no one was sure what was on these until Irmin Schmidt and long time collaborator Jono Podmore started to go through over 30 hours of music. What they found was years of archived material, not outtakes, but rather tracks which had been shelved for a variety of reasons – soundtracks to films that were never released and tracks that didn’t make it onto the final versions of albums due to space. Irmin Schmidt explains “Obviously the tapes weren’t really lost, but were left in the cupboards of the studio archives for so long everybody just forgot about them. Everybody except Hildegard, who watches over Can and its work like the dragon over the gold of the Nibelungen and doesn’t allow forgetting.” The final cut of tracks, dating from 1968-1977, features studio material recorded at Schloss Nörvenich and Can Studio, Weilerswist with the Can line up of Holger Czukay on bass, Michael Karoli on guitars, Jaki Liebezeit on drums and Irmin Schmidt on keyboards, and on most tracks, vocals from Malcolm Mooney or Damo Suzuki. Can was formed by ex-student of Stockhausen Irmin Schmidt, who, fired by the sounds of Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa abandoned his career in classic music to form a group which could utilise and transcend all boundaries of ethnic, electronic experimental and modern classical music. Can’s influence is well known and far-reaching and the impact they made on music is felt today as keenly as it ever has been. They themselves have always been impossible to classify and reflecting this, the scope of artists who in recent years have cited Can as a major influence is varied from John Lydon to Radiohead, The Fall to Portishead. With a phenomenal cannon of work that includes Tago Mago, which celebrated its 40th Anniversary in 2011 (the anniversary release was awarded 5* from MOJO, Uncut, Artrocker and Record Collector), The Lost Tapes is an opportunity to hear unreleased material from this iconic band – whoever thought that would be possible?
AN OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR UNRELEASED MATERIAL BRAND NEW TRACKS AS IF YOU WERE THERE – HALCYON DAYS, NOT OUTTAKES
Spoon Records and Mute are delighted to announce the release of Can – The Lost Tapes, the long awaited box set of unreleased studio, soundtrack and live material. The Lost Tapes, out on 18 June 2012, was curated by Irmin Schmidt and Daniel Miller, compiled by Irmin Schmidt and Jono Podmore, and edited by Jono Podmore. When the legendary Can studio in Weilerswist was sold to the German Rock N Pop Museum, they bought everything, including the army mattresses that covered the walls for sound protection, and relocated it to Gronau. Whilst dismantling the studio, master tapes were found and stored in the Spoon archive. With barely legible labeling, no one was sure what was on these until Irmin Schmidt and long time collaborator Jono Podmore started to go through over 30 hours of music. What they found was years of archived material, not outtakes, but rather tracks which had been shelved for a variety of reasons – soundtracks to films that were never released and tracks that didn’t make it onto the final versions of albums due to space.
Irmin Schmidt explains “Obviously the tapes weren’t really lost, but were left in the cupboards of the studio archives for so long everybody just forgot about them. Everybody except Hildegard, who watches over Can and its work like the dragon over the gold of the Nibelungen and doesn’t allow forgetting.” The final cut of tracks, dating from 1968-1977, features studio material recorded at Schloss Nörvenich and Can Studio, Weilerswist with the Can line up of Holger Czukay on bass, Michael Karoli on guitars, Jaki Liebezeit on drums and Irmin Schmidt on keyboards, and on most tracks, vocals from Malcolm Mooney or Damo Suzuki. Can was formed by ex-student of Stockhausen Irmin Schmidt, who, fired by the sounds of Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa abandoned his career in classic music to form a group which could utilise and transcend all boundaries of ethnic, electronic experimental and modern classical music.
Can’s influence is well known and far-reaching and the impact they made on music is felt today as keenly as it ever has been. They themselves have always been impossible to classify and reflecting this, the scope of artists who in recent years have cited Can as a major influence is varied from John Lydon to Radiohead, The Fall to Portishead. With a phenomenal cannon of work that includes Tago Mago, which celebrated its 40th Anniversary in 2011 (the anniversary release was awarded 5* from MOJO, Uncut, Artrocker and Record Collector), The Lost Tapes is an opportunity to hear unreleased material from this iconic band – whoever thought that would be possible?
Whoever, indeed?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
Me, for a kickoff!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
anyone know anything about a vinyl release?
― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Checked the NovaMute site (the mail order), nope.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Let's not get greedy here
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
apparently there are no plans for a vinyl release of the Lost Tapes....
....which is a shame as I'd buy it in a second...
― Talcum Mucker, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, the only thing that's putting me off buying this is if they *do* release it on vinyl in the future, I will be hella pissed off that I bought it on *yuck* CD.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm guessing there'll be a download option
― frogbs, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well, the price of a vinyl edition would make the CD version a fifth of the price?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm looking forward to it. even if the songs released so far aren't great and i hope there's more damo than malcolm.
― nonightsweats, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 22:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
The vinyl version would probably be digitally mastered anyway, thus pointless.
Glad our distributor finally started pricing this reasonably - early import price was like $80+. So looking forward to this!
― booth traums (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 03:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
somebody's gonna put it out on vinyl inside the next decade. you have to go into this with that understanding.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 05:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
I know ILX doesn't desperately *need* another Can thread right now I know ILX doesn't desperately *need* another Can thread right now I know ILX doesn't desperately *need* another Can thread right now I know ILX doesn't desperately *need* another Can thread right now I know ILX doesn't desperately *need* another Can thread right now I know ILX doesn't desperately *need* another Can thread right now I know ILX doesn't desperately *need* another Can thread right now I know ILX doesn't desperately *need* another Can thread right now I know ILX doesn't desperately *need* another Can thread right now I know ILX doesn't desperately *need* another Can thread right now I know ILX doesn't desperately *need* another Can thread right now I know ILX doesn't desperately *need* another Can thread right now I know ILX doesn't desperately *need* another Can thread right now I know ILX doesn't desperately *need* another Can thread right now I know ILX doesn't desperately *need* another Can thread right now I know ILX doesn't desperately *need* another Can thread right now I know ILX doesn't desperately *need* another Can thread right now I know ILX doesn't desperately *need* another Can thread right now I know ILX doesn't desperately *need* another Can thread right now I know ILX doesn't desperately *need* another Can thread right now I know ILX doesn't desperately *need* another Can thread right now I know ILX doesn't desperately *need* another Can thread right now I know ILX doesn't desperately *need* another Can thread right now I know ILX doesn't desperately *need* another Can thread right now I know ILX doesn't desperately *need* another Can thread right now
― Vermicious Knid A (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 06:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
*brief drum break*....
― Mark G, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 06:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
"even if the songs released so far aren't great"
u mad
― Crackle Box, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 09:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
this really isn't true. records sound different. & you listen to them different.
― blossom smulch (schlump), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 09:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
i know ilx doesn't *need* another cds vs lps thread
have previews of all the songs surfaced? I really need to verify whether the Alice track is the elusive theme to 'Alice in the Cities'
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 09:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
what happened to the 14 lp box set? so has anyone here got this yet? just read the review in the wire and goddamn i want to hear this NOW
― Crackle Box, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 10:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Booth: Do you mean mastered FOR digital formats, or mastered IN the digital domain?
The former can be a problem for recodings mastered with a lot of brickwall limting, but Can I imagine wouldn't go down that route.
I have no problem with mastering and recording in digital being pressed on vinyl.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 10:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
I want AAA all the way man. I don't want to blow this thread up with the analog vs. digital stuff, but just for me, personally, I don't really see the point of pressing digital music on an analog format. But I'm sure 99% of LPs these days go through some digital processing/mastering at some point and I still wind up buying new vinyl occasionally.
― booth traums (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 11:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
OK, for me that's no problem at all, a large propotion of the music I buy has been DDD all the way until it hits wax, I just prefer the experience of vinyl.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 11:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
I hate the experience of vinyl.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 12:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well, hate is strong. But it bugs me.
Hey Noodle. Go away man. You don't get cute points in Can threads.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 13:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
Somewhere I read the vinyl will be out in late 2012...now I can't find where I read that. But I believe it was from Mute.
― dronestreet, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 13:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
An early (5 Star) review:http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2012/05/31/can-the-lost-tapes-mute
― doug watson, Friday, 1 June 2012 21:17 (11 months ago) Permalink
Roll on June 18th.
Said Schmidt of the material they found: “Obviously the tapes weren't really lost, but were left in the cupboards of the studio archives for so long everybody just forgot about them. Everybody except Hildegard, who watches over Can and its work like the dragon over the gold of the Nibelungen and doesn't allow forgetting.”
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Saturday, 2 June 2012 13:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
Another review.
http://mog.com/blog_posts/3894713/mogbar?a=mn70403
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Saturday, 2 June 2012 13:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
Streaming here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/jun/11/can-lost-tapes?fb=native
So far, I'm surprisingly underwhelmed.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 00:17 (11 months ago) Permalink
i'm pretty whelmed
― am0n, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 14:34 (11 months ago) Permalink
Spotify is pretending to have this, actually it's a 5 track sampler...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 14:48 (11 months ago) Permalink
I like "Millionenspiel" a lot; it goes a lot of places in 5+ minutes. Especially like the spy guitar/bongos part that sounds like Can-goes-B52s. I've listened to that one three times, but the others aren't doing much for me tbh.
― Soccer mom, hopeless and lost, in utter despair (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 18:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 18:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
Don't want to lose my (huge) enthusiasm for this, but I can see why they cut the sax shuffle from the early Millionenspiel clip.
― Lil' Kim Philby (Call the Cops), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 19:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
i'm scared to listen to this because it probably won't be anything like tago mago/future days/ege bamyasi
― KitevsPill, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
so someone tell me it is
― KitevsPill, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:24 (11 months ago) Permalink
This is extremely reasonably priced on Amazon. $23.00, is that possible?
― kwhitehead, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:33 (11 months ago) Permalink
I hope so. A lot of labels have been putting out multi-disc box sets for really cheap as of late. I paid less than $20 for the 3-disc Bitch Magnet reissue set and just barely over $20 for the Feedtime 4-disc thing. Its a nice trend.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 21:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
This is, I'd say, an essential Can artefact and is chock full of amazing stuff. Given that Can haven't had a notable release since I've actually been a fan - something that I'd presume holds true for most people using this board - this is like monumental stuff for me. I'm surprised there hasn't been more of a song and dance about it. Good on them for putting out one large amount of stuff in one go rather than eking it out over a few years. The early version of Spoon and the live version of Spoon are especially magnificent.
― Ima Pay Close Attention To Your Post (Doran), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 22:24 (11 months ago) Permalink
LOL jono podmore
― the late great, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 22:27 (11 months ago) Permalink
― kwhitehead, Wednesday, June 13, 2012 8:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
$18.99 on itunes.
― Weingarden By Kawhineyscope (how's life), Thursday, 14 June 2012 01:11 (11 months ago) Permalink
$18.99?! For electrons?!
― Peaceniks, Homos, and Potheads Who Wear Ties (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 14 June 2012 03:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
Man, three more days. I haven't felt this sense of excitement over a "new" release in years. Arthur Russell posthumous releases come the closest.
― Soundslike, Saturday, 16 June 2012 18:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
still £26 on amazon uk
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 16 June 2012 20:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
10" square box?
― Mark G, Saturday, 16 June 2012 23:10 (11 months ago) Permalink
Our distro at work said it was filled for our Friday shipment and when it wasn't in the box I was pretty sad.
― adderall cannonby (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 17 June 2012 05:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
Arrived with us on Wednesday.
Yes, a 10'' box and booklet.
I haven't opened and listened to one myself yet, but various friends are absolutely raving!
― only NWOFHM! is real (krakow), Sunday, 17 June 2012 09:38 (11 months ago) Permalink
how much is it?
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Sunday, 17 June 2012 09:43 (11 months ago) Permalink
£31.99 in store for the moment.
― only NWOFHM! is real (krakow), Sunday, 17 June 2012 09:52 (11 months ago) Permalink
ah ok doesn't sound like a remaster so much as a repackaging
― Brakhage, Thursday, 12 July 2012 16:51 (10 months ago) Permalink
there are two books; the first one to come out was the 'Can Book': http://www.amazon.com/The-Can-Book-Pascal-Bussy/dp/0946719055
the second was the 'Can Box: Book': http://www.amazon.com/Can-Box-Book-Hildegard-Schmidt/dp/3933642019
my quote's actually from the later one. they've both got unique interviews. they were less guarded in the first book and more stuff about the solo careers; a lot of good journalism. the second book is much longer and is organized as four extensive interviews with each band member telling the history from their own perspectives, so their personalities really come through. really spells out what happened with their recording process when they moved to multitrack recording in 1974/5. I'd probably get the second one before the first one (if you can even find a reasonably priced copy of the first)
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 12 July 2012 16:59 (10 months ago) Permalink
Good info, thanks.
― fit and working again, Thursday, 12 July 2012 17:05 (10 months ago) Permalink
(xp) Yeah, the Pascal Bussy book has good stuff, esp. from Jaki, who's such a tough nut on the band's career, he doesn't seem to rate much beyond "Monster Movie"!
― SomeTwat from Tring (Tom D.), Friday, 13 July 2012 10:30 (10 months ago) Permalink
The Pascal Bussy book was announced as being rereleased a couple of years back through SAF I ordered a copy which never appeared. Have wondered since if anybody did get a copy of it.That was definitely between late 2008 and 2010.
I'm just wondering if it did actually reappear since SAF seemed to go into some kind of difficulty some time around then and several of their titles went out of print.
― Stevolende, Friday, 13 July 2012 10:58 (10 months ago) Permalink
I kinda hope they have separate boxes, vinyl and CD, or at least if they are packaged together that it doesn't become prohibitviely expensive.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 13 July 2012 13:48 (10 months ago) Permalink
Even though their website is still up, SAF Publishing has pretty much gone under... Very much doubt anything will get reprinted from them..
― Talcum Mucker, Friday, 13 July 2012 14:28 (10 months ago) Permalink
aw, I have the Can book and the CabVol one.
― Mark G, Friday, 13 July 2012 14:38 (10 months ago) Permalink
― Talcum Mucker, Friday, July 13, 2012 3:28 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Question was more did it happen at the time, I always wondered if it had seen a short run reprint before they sunk.
― Stevolende, Friday, 13 July 2012 14:54 (10 months ago) Permalink
There are some very good books on that imprint so one might hope somebody else might pick up some of them. Thought there were other labels like Esoteric or Sunbeam might be interested in redoing some of them.Probably other labels I can't think of immediately too.
― Stevolende, Friday, 13 July 2012 14:56 (10 months ago) Permalink
2) Soundslike, are you ever going to get that blog going again? It was fantastic and I still check once a week or so in the hopes that its active again.― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, July 12, 2012 1:02 AM (2 days ago)
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, July 12, 2012 1:02 AM (2 days ago)
Glad those mixes got you to give the maligned late-Can a chance. It isn't on par with the first half--but neither is 99.99% of other music, so that doesn't mean it's not great.
I've hoped to to get it going again, but returning to graduate school and working intensively in the summer has meant I've never been able. I've got about six or seven mixes for which I started culling songs, and several music-friends are working on mixes, so hopefully there will be some new content over the next year. Vast projects like '1981' are a thing of the past for me, unfortunately.
― Soundslike, Saturday, 14 July 2012 12:42 (10 months ago) Permalink
'A lot of it was bollocks'
http://thequietus.com/articles/09376-can-the-lost-tapes-interview
― prior, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 16:22 (10 months ago) Permalink
Thanks Soundslike! I totally understand "real life" gettnig in the way, I just wanted to thank you for your work on Musicophilia and to let you know it was appreciated.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 16:25 (10 months ago) Permalink
been waiting for a copy of this for the last few weeks only to find that my order's still on hold.Think I was having an intermittent trouble with signing into mute bank so ordered through a Can store I'm not sure how I connected to.Pah
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 16:39 (10 months ago) Permalink
Great quote here
The reason why Can weren't this horrible, academic, German, up its own arse collective was because they had an African American singer who lit the fuse and gave them a proper sense of grit. He wasn't just any African American either, he was a proper artist and bonkers to boot. When we played the tapes at home my daughter, who was five at the time, would be jumping up and down singing along to 'Waiting For The Street Car'.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 16:43 (10 months ago) Permalink
::facepalm::
― am0n, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 17:01 (10 months ago) Permalink
NOT HERE
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 19:21 (10 months ago) Permalink
HORRIBLE :(
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 19:27 (10 months ago) Permalink
One can only guess that Jono has some unresolved issues with his father-in-law.
― doug watson, Thursday, 19 July 2012 02:51 (10 months ago) Permalink
A lot of Holger Czukay's contributions to that Quietus interview are word for word stuff that I've read in previous interviews, is Holger really that boring?
― SomeTwat from Tring (Tom D.), Friday, 20 July 2012 11:34 (10 months ago) Permalink
he sampled himself
― Number None, Friday, 20 July 2012 11:45 (10 months ago) Permalink
xp I noticed that too! Especially in regards to the first show w/ Damo, did they just take that section from a different interview?
― frogbs, Friday, 20 July 2012 13:10 (10 months ago) Permalink
Well that was what I was thinking, but then Holger seems to consider himself something of a comedian so maybe he just repeats the same amusing anecdotes
― SomeTwat from Tring (Tom D.), Friday, 20 July 2012 13:12 (10 months ago) Permalink
5lp box set version, £55 out in December, apparently
― Mark G, Friday, 5 October 2012 12:26 (7 months ago) Permalink
.. dudes
― Mark G, Friday, 5 October 2012 15:10 (7 months ago) Permalink
Just saw a party of a '73 live set from French tv yesterday. Don't think I've seen it before and didn't remember it being on the dvd.Looked like it could be a half hour show or something, is it POP 2?
― Stevolende, Friday, 5 October 2012 18:33 (7 months ago) Permalink
Potentially of minor interest to Can fans, a remix of sorts I did of "Vitamin C" mixing it with Steve Reich's "It's Gonna Rain (Part II)" (and Alvin Lucier deep in the mix) a few years back:
http://www.mixcloud.com/musicophilia/musicophilia-various-collidecoalesce-1950-2004/
Skip to ~50:30
― Soundslike, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 06:57 (7 months ago) Permalink
Ha! Did anyone else get the email from Can with this in it?
Thanks for your support of Can this year, The Lost Tapes has been more enthusiastically received than we were expecting, we hoped a few people would be pleased that Irmin was persuaded to listen to the old Can tapes, it was beyond everyone's wildest dreams that so many people would love it and that it would get rated so highly in so many magazine end of year polls.
Anyway, we are writing to you as you bought The Lost Tapes from one of the Mute or Spoon sites, which gives us the opportunity to thank you directly, so thank you!
Along with the thank you we'd like to give you this track 'Fingers' by Cyclopean, an early Christmas present if you like.
I know, I know, I can hear you saying already "why are you giving me this track, you crass marketeers, this has nothing to do with Can", but actually, this is a brand new track from Irmin Schmidt and Jaki Liebezeit, it's a new project they have created with Burnt Friedman and Jono Podmore called Cyclopean.
Pronounced like this.
The four of them got together at Irmin's house in France in 2011 and Cyclopean was born.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Friday, 7 December 2012 15:54 (5 months ago) Permalink
aw I want an email from Can! How's the track sound?
― my other pug is a stillsuit (Jon Lewis), Friday, 7 December 2012 15:55 (5 months ago) Permalink
Oh, that's nice.
I got a 'standard edition' off ebay, didn't know it existed. Basically, it's the three discs, in a wraparound CD sleeve with a booklet.
I don't know what the big box contained, beyond those things.
― Mark G, Friday, 7 December 2012 15:56 (5 months ago) Permalink
I've never been able to find this, so haven't bought it yet
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 7 December 2012 15:57 (5 months ago) Permalink
Yours doesn't have the book? The book was really fun and informative (for me at least). I haven't listened to the track yet, but gimme a sec...
― passion it person (La Lechera), Friday, 7 December 2012 15:58 (5 months ago) Permalink
It's like they didn't expect it to sell or something (xp)
― Named locally as Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 7 December 2012 15:58 (5 months ago) Permalink
The booklet is fun and informative. And slightly less than 5" square.
― Mark G, Friday, 7 December 2012 15:59 (5 months ago) Permalink
Deadly Doris and Dead Pigeon Suite are still two of my favorite songs I heard this year. Esp Deadly Doris. I LOVE it.
My booklet is full of pictures and about twice that size.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Friday, 7 December 2012 16:01 (5 months ago) Permalink
I ordered from Mute and have not seen that mail.. :-(When did you receive it LL?
― willem, Friday, 7 December 2012 16:15 (5 months ago) Permalink
Ok I listened to it. Starts out kinda Pure Moodsy/late (not great) PV, somewhat corny beats, it evolves into some quasi "ethnic drumming" and then it gets pretty groovy and then it's over. That's my expert review. Would listen again. I didn't dislike it.
I got the email this morning, like 15 min ago? It took me all of 15 seconds to post here after I got it because i wondered if anyone else had gotten it.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Friday, 7 December 2012 16:17 (5 months ago) Permalink
I'll be happy to forward the email if anyone wants to hear the track. Don't know if they're being weird about how many downloads are allowed, but prob not.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Friday, 7 December 2012 16:18 (5 months ago) Permalink
Just got my vinyl set this week. It's a thing of beauty.
― kwhitehead, Saturday, 8 December 2012 04:41 (5 months ago) Permalink
have we talked about how awesome this whole thing is? wow. one of the best outtakes collections ever.
― tylerw, Friday, 22 March 2013 16:43 (2 months ago) Permalink
yeah a while ago i listened to it all on spotify and flagged the must-have tracks. It turned out to be like 70% of the collection.
― Jeff "Skink" Baxter (Jon Lewis), Friday, 22 March 2013 16:50 (2 months ago) Permalink
totally worth buying in the format of your choice imoeven though i have listened to it a bagrillion times already, i still get genuinely happy when dead pigeon suite pops up on my ipod while i'm walking
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 22 March 2013 16:53 (2 months ago) Permalink
just endlessly great, what a cool band! also may have tipped me over to malcolm in the can vocalist championship sweepstakes.
― tylerw, Friday, 22 March 2013 16:57 (2 months ago) Permalink
too many box sets which I "need" "urgently"!
-this one-Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall deluxe reiss-BOC Complete Albums-Star Trek TOS Complete Scores-grrarghh the $$$$$
― Jeff "Skink" Baxter (Jon Lewis), Friday, 22 March 2013 16:57 (2 months ago) Permalink
"dead pigeon" is probably my favorite but yeah this is a pretty amazing collection. I don't like some of the avant-garde stuff on disc 1 but almost everything else is ace
kinda neat to have a "lost tapes" boxset that consists of actual lost tapes (not just stuff that wasn't good enough for a studio album)
― frogbs, Friday, 22 March 2013 17:50 (2 months ago) Permalink
yeah this thing is wall-to-wall amazing, a gift that keeps on giving.
― sleeve, Friday, 22 March 2013 19:37 (2 months ago) Permalink
hah, this was exactly my experience as well
― (⊙_⊙?) (Alan N), Friday, 22 March 2013 20:33 (2 months ago) Permalink
Having another listen to this in honor of this thread getting bumped. I think that the ratio of 70% good/30% wtf is about right; but there is about 2 LPs worth of raw, prime-era Can material here which is way more than I was expecting out of something like this. God I love this band.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 18:38 (1 month ago) Permalink
at the part where the 16-minute live "Spoon" kicks up, just hearing the echo of that little shuffle and the keyboards is sending shivers to my brain
― frogbs, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 18:41 (1 month ago) Permalink
yeah and the audience participation at the start of that spoon is amazing, not really like yr standard "hey everyone clap along" thing but almost as if the band is *playing* the audience.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 19:02 (1 month ago) Permalink