Can - The Lost Tapes

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

I never listen to this. :(

Unwieldy, yes.
It is SO GOOD. Lost epics, would gobble up more tbh.

They've now shrunk the box down to CD size

That's better since i think there were 3 cds just in envelopes with no real place to fit them inside the box. Though there are 3 holes at the back which might fit them without the sleeves, would be easier to have the kind of click in fittings that you get in book form sets or something.
There's also an oversize booklet included in the original version. presumably whatever content could be transferred to a smaller booklet, not sure if the layout was of any importance. Looks like the larger booklet allowed relevant photos to be next to text.

I think other countries (not sure which) have had a smaller version of the packaging for some time, I got mine off ebay a few years ago.

isn't the box LP-sized or close? I forget

my CD version is just a regular sized digipack-y kinda thing.
this set is the best thing. wonder if there's any more good stuff lurking in the can archives?

xpost the original box size is 10"

Yes. I sort-of assumed that a vinyl issue might have been done on 10" albums, but no.

file next to your reel-to-reel tapes, problem solved

My reel-to-reel tapes are seven inch, max.

If I see the CD-sized one in the wild, I will def pick it up

Soon of Babulama (1975) [65:01]
06. The Loop
07. Ibis
08. Private Nocturnal
09. Midnight Men

This surprised me, but I think this album benefits most from expansion as an album, because the bonus material is of equal strength to the album and has the exact same DNA. "Midnight Men" is a stronger closer than "Quantum Physics".

That's insane imo, "Quantum Physics" is different level genius. "Midnight Men" contains elements of "Vernal Equinox" (and Holger Czukay's "Oh Lord Give Us More Money") so it surely belongs with "Landed" anyway?

pretty happening Can rarities thing over here, some familiar things, some not familiar things: http://itslostitsfound.blogspot.de/2016/02/can-rare-one.html

Three of those tracks are on my standalone CD of Cannibalism 2, weird that they've fallen through the cracks. Never heard about the early pseudonymous The Innerspace stuff!

Whole CD of Inner Space has been released.

Correction, Two whole CDs of Inner Space have been released.

huh, missed those ... is Crippled Dick Hot Wax! a legit label? haha.

Think so, they've done stuff for years. schulemadchen report soundtrack LPs, that sort of thing..

https://soundcloud.com/finderskeepersrecords/finders-keepers-radio-show-krautrock-special

Was listening to this last night, there's a fairly long telephone interview with Malcolm Mooney, he sounds in rude health and humour.

just spotted this at irmin's website:

Irmin is currently working on a CAN book commissioned by Faber & Faber

Yeah this was mentioned on rolling reissues thread, it's exciting news!

www.allgatesopen.co.uk

Would be great. I got told that the Pascal Busey book was going o get a reprint about 10 years ago and ordered a copy which never appeared. Would like to read that.
But an insider book would be better still.

Last time i saw the Lost Tapes box on the shelf in FOPP it had been reduced in size to that book size taht Miles Davis etc sets got put out as. Is that still around?

It's been a while since I've listened to Turtles Have Short Legs and I'm listening to the singles collection and trying to remember if the stereo separation was always this ridiculous. It works, but it also sounds like someone was having a whole lot of fun putting it together

you remember rocky jones?
i remember rocky jones
rocky jones was a space ranger