http://i.imgur.com/lMDYHjf.jpg20. Spray. 260 points, 12 votes.From: Future Days (1973)https://youtu.be/JC-887aMt5Y
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 21:50 (seven years ago) link
This track doesn't do much for me tbh.
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 21:51 (seven years ago) link
I love it. I danced to an amazing set by Jeff Mills last weekend and when I drove back home played Future Days. "Spray" felt like a Jeff Mills set condensed to 8,5 minutes.
― willem, Tuesday, 2 August 2016 22:04 (seven years ago) link
"The Thief" can make me cry, too. The apex of Karoli's melancholy guitar tone.
― willem, Tuesday, 2 August 2016 22:07 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/kN6LoSO.jpg19. Father Cannot Yell. 307 points, 16 votes.From: Monster Movie (1969)
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 22:09 (seven years ago) link
First 'too low' for me, that
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 2 August 2016 22:13 (seven years ago) link
Very so.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 August 2016 22:19 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/zN4uKFf.jpg18. Dizzy Dizzy. 358 points, 19 votes.From: Soon Over Babaluma (1974)https://youtu.be/gOfWKzMgeac
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 22:23 (seven years ago) link
The first Can track I heard on the first Can album I bought. Not my #1, but in a very real way, the beginning of a long adventure.
― Dominique, Tuesday, 2 August 2016 22:25 (seven years ago) link
Video is kind of a jam version here's the real one:
https://youtu.be/quJI-3y4TBE
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 22:26 (seven years ago) link
The first Can track I heard on the first Can album I bought.
It was the first Can album I bought too, though it wasn't the first time I'd heard them, but, yes, this track threw me a bit! WTF is going on, a sort of upside down reggae beat with wibbly wobbly bass and gypsy violin.
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 22:32 (seven years ago) link
Is "Dizzy Dizzy" the only Can that swings?
― Pleeesiosaur (Leee), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 22:33 (seven years ago) link
'Father cannot yell" *is* swing!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 August 2016 22:36 (seven years ago) link
I really love Thief and had it pretty high. Spray is probably the weakest on Future Days but still fantastic. I love the end of Tango Whiskeyman but it just missed my ballot.
― ufo, Tuesday, 2 August 2016 22:48 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Qnes5yy.jpg17. Quantum Physics. 361 points, 14 votes, 1 N.1 vote.From: Soon Over Babaluma (1974)
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 22:52 (seven years ago) link
also not my #1, but if I really think about it, maybe the track that impacted me most of any Can (along with Chain Reaction, which I'm assuming is still ahead). This hit me right in the head/heart, in the same way that Debussy and Messiaen did -- total, magic impressionism, except instead of oceans or clouds, its the dusty toe-prints of angels on the moon. Not sure I've heard a rock band as delicate or mystical as on Quantum Physics.
― Dominique, Tuesday, 2 August 2016 22:58 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/qtaFIBt.jpg16. Sing Swan Song. 375 points, 19 votes.From: Ege Bamyasi (1972)
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 23:32 (seven years ago) link
I think those are all for today and tomorrow I'll do the top 15 or do you want one more?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 23:39 (seven years ago) link
^this, pretty much. If Chain Reaction/Quantum Phys. had been counted as one track, that would have been my No. 1.
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 23:40 (seven years ago) link
This hit me right in the head/heart, in the same way that Debussy and Messiaen did -- total, magic impressionism, except instead of oceans or clouds, its the dusty toe-prints of angels on the moon
hell yeah this is exactly it
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 23:54 (seven years ago) link
As I said on the other thread, I had Spray pretty high. Jaki swings the shit out of the opening section and Irmin is doing some cool cluster (tiny c) stuff on the organ. Then Michael or Irmin plays some great spring reverb sounds on the second part while the beat changes and that descending guitar line enters. I usually think of this as an instrumental even tho Damo is great on this.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 02:03 (seven years ago) link
sing swan song is my favorite of their slower / melancholy numbers.
― bagging area (map), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 02:08 (seven years ago) link
Sing Swan Song wouldve been my #3 :(
― mark e smith and brexit (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 04:02 (seven years ago) link
Actually a lot of stuff from today wouldve placed high on my ballot tbh
― mark e smith and brexit (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 04:05 (seven years ago) link
Starting to worry that there are too many good tracks left to fit in the remaining 15 places.
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 09:59 (seven years ago) link
Then would you say you want more?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 13:26 (seven years ago) link
and more!and more!and more!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 13:28 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/I4y2KLd.jpg15. I Want More. 379 points, 17 votes, 1 #1 vote.From: Flow Motion (1976)
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 13:28 (seven years ago) link
disco!
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 13:34 (seven years ago) link
!! "i want more" is my feel-good song of choice, it's so stupid and fun
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 13:35 (seven years ago) link
Genius.
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 13:36 (seven years ago) link
:-)
― esempiu (crüt), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 13:40 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/a1hZIoC.jpg14. Pinch. 406 points, 15 votes, 3 #1 votesFrom: Ege Bamyasi (1972)
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 13:55 (seven years ago) link
lol that image
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 14:01 (seven years ago) link
I didn't manage to submit a ballot, but Pinch would have been somewhere in the top 5. Can at their hottest.
― jmm, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 14:28 (seven years ago) link
Hehehe sorry it was the first image that came to mind with the word.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 14:28 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/mk7N7h7.jpg13. One More Night. 409 points, 17 votes, 1 #1 vote.From: Ege Bamyasi (1972)
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 14:30 (seven years ago) link
Phew, I was getting worried that wouldn't turn up.
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 14:33 (seven years ago) link
still stunned that "father cannot yell" and "sing swan song" are so low
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 14:34 (seven years ago) link
10 of mine are still to place, drop one of them, which was never going to make it the Top 50, and I think I know what tracks are left.
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 14:37 (seven years ago) link
One More Night would have been another of my top picks. Such a nice groove, which never quite settles into a comfortable mellow. I didn't pay much attention to it for the longest time, but now it's one of the Can tracks I come back to the most.
― jmm, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 14:38 (seven years ago) link
ha ive only just found out can were on totp
― nxd, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 14:53 (seven years ago) link
Not my number one but it's worthy of a No.1 vote. (One More Night).
― Noel Emits, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 14:54 (seven years ago) link
xpost yeah, and Michael Karoli couldn't make it he was on holiday, so they got a random bloke to stand in.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 15:15 (seven years ago) link
I frigging love "I Want More." Even if it's the only real toe they ever dipped into disco, it somehow manages to lose none of what makes Can great -- the weirdly half whispered treated lead vocal, the hilarious toy keyboard counter-melody, the Rother-esque melody in the guitar and keys refrain. The remaster (on Spotify) sounds great, too. The fact that "...And More" exists, too, which sounds like some lost KC and the Sunshine Band 12", makes it even better. Wow.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 15:16 (seven years ago) link
thought I Want More was top 5 easy!
― Dominique, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 15:21 (seven years ago) link
"I Want More" is the song I'm prepared to play at the drop of a hat, should the opportunity ever present itself. I think it'd be a crowd-pleaser and fun to play (and learn) and could segue into extendo-jam w "And More" It's so goofy and fun while maintaining essential CAN-ness as described upthread, a marvel!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 16:07 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/zM2LRdE.jpg12. Chain Reaction. 475 points, 20 votes.From: Soon over Babaluma (1974)
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
YEAH
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 17:24 (seven years ago) link
Brutal track, bass drum stomping into yr brain like a jackhammer/boot.
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link