Can - where do i start?

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Soon Over Babaluma never gets any love. I still say that "Chain Reaction/Quantum Physics" is the apex of Can. Tago Mago through that record are all classic.

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 12 May 2003 13:00 (twenty years ago) link

ege bamyasi would be a better starting point, but tago mago is longer and you'll get more for your money.
future days is a record of many subtleties, and i wouldn't necessarily recommend that as a place to start.

― j fail (cenotaph), Monday, 12 May 2003 14:44 (twenty years ago) link

j fail - I'm gonna nick "ege bamyasi would be a better starting point, but tago mago is longer and you'll get more for your money" and start a thread with it.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 12 May 2003 14:47 (twenty years ago) link

I think the first half of Tago Mago would be an accessible starting point. You don't have to listen to the second half until you feel ready.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 12 May 2003 15:06 (twenty years ago) link

Monster Movie = overrated. Yoo Doo Right is lame

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Monday, 12 May 2003 15:15 (twenty years ago) link

cough...choke...do WITHOUT Bel Air!?!??!

oh can i mention 'connection' & 'fall of another year'
from un/limited edition? i can? ta.

― joni, Monday, 12 May 2003 19:28 (twenty years ago) link

Unlimited Edition belongs with their classics, I think. That album is the great underrated Can release.

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 12 May 2003 19:36 (twenty years ago) link

ta for the help i think i'm going to go with ege bamyasi AND tago mago. yeah. i think compilations are evil. evil i tellsya.

― gallantseagull, Monday, 12 May 2003 21:44 (twenty years ago) link

or you can just skip can and get czukay's 'movies' and 'on the way to the peak of normal'. those are the two records that have held up the most for me.

― jleideck, Monday, 12 May 2003 22:33 (twenty years ago) link

I third or eighth or whatever Ege Bamyasi because most of my favorite prime-era Can songs are on it. "I'm So Green" is fucking dope. But (and this is me being me now) you gotta get their '79 self-titled album at the same time, both as a contrast and as a way to get your mind completely blown by the post-punkish Liquid Liquid-trumping "Aspectacle".

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Monday, 12 May 2003 22:58 (twenty years ago) link

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