Can - The Lost Tapes

HORRIBLE :(

One can only guess that Jono has some unresolved issues with his father-in-law.

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?

he sampled himself

xp I noticed that too! Especially in regards to the first show w/ Damo, did they just take that section from a different interview?

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

5lp box set version, £55 out in December, apparently

.. dudes

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?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVAKoCJCL6w&feature=share

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/

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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.

aw I want an email from Can! How's the track sound?

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.

I've never been able to find this, so haven't bought it yet

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...

It's like they didn't expect it to sell or something (xp)

The booklet is fun and informative. And slightly less than 5" square.

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.

I ordered from Mute and have not seen that mail.. :-(
When did you receive it LL?

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.

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.

Just got my vinyl set this week. It's a thing of beauty.

have we talked about how awesome this whole thing is? wow. one of the best outtakes collections ever.

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.

totally worth buying in the format of your choice imo
even 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

just endlessly great, what a cool band! also may have tipped me over to malcolm in the can vocalist championship sweepstakes.

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 $$$$$

"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)

yeah this thing is wall-to-wall amazing, a gift that keeps on giving.

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.

hah, this was exactly my experience as well

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.

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

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.

Can anyone tell me if the vinyl box comes with a download code?

mine didn't....

i've been listening to disc 3 on repeat while i get ready in the morning for weeks
messer, scissors, fork and light especially

so great!

it's the perfect start to every day

I am taking that idea

I highly recommend it! Before too long you will start to hear the turbocharged Spoon long after it has stopped playing.

When they launch into the "ooooooohhhhhh" part on Spoon it blows me away every time

I need to buy the rest of this, so far only have a few tracks on iTunes

i was a little disappointed by this. hardly anything outstanding and a couple of tracks i don't care for like waiting for the streetcar, desert, godzilla fragment, on the way to mother sky, barnacles and mushroom.

pvmic

Also posted on the Can S/D thread, but this one is more active.

Malkmus does Can

i revived this one a week ago Search and Destroy (Can)

(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"!

finally read this book thanks to an interlibrary loan and was disappointed as it's more lightweight than i'd hoped. occasional good quotes throughout though, including jaki's gripes mentioned above and the fact mentioned more than once that he hates playing alongside bass!

statementallity 1 year ago
what's a streetcar ?
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Jimi Hendricks 1 year ago
Another name for a trolley.
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statementallity 1 year ago
what like a cart ?
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I wish the CD box wasn't stupid

Why? Too flimsy?

it's huge! I want something that's gonna fit on my shelf