Can - finally remastered

"Mother Sky" the Cannibalism edit is better.

I wish I was more surprised that people love Can, but I'm not. They're one of those bands who live up to any hype people throw on them, and seem more "relevant" all the time.

I don't mean that combatively at all; they're a great band and I credit Tago Mago with opening my ears to a lot of really amazing sounds, but there's just SO MUCH adulation for em here. I guess the 'problem' is that, as music dorks, we're going to like and dislike different things about their records--no agreement, no consensus on what specifically is the best Can album/track/moment, but an overall feeling of "fucking awesome band."

i'd wait if i were you but then i've already got all their releases. the spoon and mute issues you mention are one and the same.

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Good: Gommorha; Blue Bag (Inside Paper); The Empress and the Ukraine King; Mother Upduff; Cutaway (bits of it); Connection; Fall of Another Year; Ethnological Forgery Series No. 8; Ibis

OK: Doko E; I'm Too Leise; TV Spot; Ethnological Forgery Series No. 7

Shite: LH 702 (Nairobi/Munchen); Musette; Ethnological Forgery Series No. 27; Ethnological Forgery Series No. 10; Ethnological Forgery Series No. 36; Cutaway (most of it); Transcendental Express

I suppose you could bin it - the version of "Ibis" on the CD is an edit when they could easily have edited most of "Cutaway".

Regards to you.

As a side-note, is it just me or is "Gommorha" almost an exact rip-off of another track ca. Babaluma? "Dizzy Dizzy" maybe? I can't remember exactly — but I'm guessing it's from the same sessions.

It sounds very spontaneous, you can hear everyone settling into the sequence, noodling about.

It doesn't sound anything like "Dizzy Dizzy"! However the intro section of "Cutaway" does sound like "Dizzy Dizzy" and so was obviously not recorded in May 1969, (there's another section too with synth on it that could not have come from 1969). Then again, bits of "Ibis" sound like "Dizzy Dizzy" too - tho possibly the bits edited out of the CD version as discussed above.

That's because it wasn't "Gommorah" that sounded like "Dizzy Dizzy" — upon revisiting my CD collection last night, I realized it was the last track on Unlimited Edition I was thinking about, "Ibis". If you take the keyboard sound off of it and add Michael Karoli's vocals and violin, it's virtually the exact same track — same beat, same staccato guitar licks, everything. Though it dates from Sept. '74, which seems a little late, it sounds as if it might be them finding their way into "Dizzy Dizzy"...

The dynamics sound similar.

If anything it sounds less processed than before - it's certainly less harsh and trebley than before.

My only gripe is there seems to be some kind of noise-reduction gate (or other noise reduection technique) which occasionaly gives a senation of "pumping".

Also, the vinyl remasters of the first four will be released with this batch of CDs... i mean, that's why i heard.

(though I wonder if they'll get to the oddities like "Turtle Have Short Legs" or any of the collections like Can Delay 1968)

Tim has them on cassette. Ooh. Quite the rebel! The audacity of owning Can on cassette! Or not...etc etc etc ad infinitum.

I hear a voice saying "just own them on all possible formats, then you CAN maybe get some sleep at night"