Tracks -
1. Future Days2. Mother Sky3. Halleluwah4. Yoo Doo Right5. Pinch6. Vitamin C7. Spray8. Oh Yeah9. Chain Reaction10. Spoon11. Paperhouse12. Quantum Physics13. Father Cannot Yell14. Sing Swan Song15. Butterfly16. Mushroom17. Moonshake18. Come Sta, La Luna19. Half Past One20. Peking O
Albums -
1. Tago Mago2. Monster Movie3. Soon Over Babluma4. Ege Bamyasi5. Future Days
Big thanks to Moka for running the poll. Those graphics really do seem to fit the Can vibe perfectly.
Pleased that Oh Yeah ended up in the top 10. I always had the feeling that it was one of the more overlooked tracks on Tago Mago - but clearly not!
― Option 1 : Do Nothing (Mr Andy M), Thursday, 4 August 2016 17:39 (seven years ago) link
I cannot believe I'm the only person that voted for Private Nocturnal! Of the songs that only got one vote mine was highest on the ballot, number five.
It's one of my favourite tracks on The Lost Tapes, the bass playing in the first three minutes or so is utterly sublime.
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 August 2016 17:44 (seven years ago) link
OK I need to re-listen to that, thanks
― ro✧✧✧@il✧✧✧.c✧✧ (sleeve), Thursday, 4 August 2016 17:48 (seven years ago) link
It is so slow, smooth and haunting. Really takes me to another world.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 4 August 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
"You must play *monotonous*!"
http://youtu.be/A93XtkMLXME
― Noel Emits, Thursday, 4 August 2016 18:21 (seven years ago) link
I'm So Green is the track I was impressed not making it into the top 20. It's one their simpler, pop songs (at least going thru the youtubes it seems to be the most popular Can song to cover) it's like sunshine krautrock and for once Jaki isn't the highlight of the track but the guitars are.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 4 August 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link
thanks again moka, amazing pics and a brilliant results rollout
― nxd, Thursday, 4 August 2016 19:14 (seven years ago) link
Is there one track missing from the Spotify playlist?
― Mark G, Friday, 5 August 2016 09:13 (seven years ago) link
Great poll, thanks a lot! Wish I could've joined in this thread but I've been busy.
My ballot:
TRACKS1.One More Night2.Future Days3.Vitamin C4.Paperhouse5.Moonshake6.Spoon7.Sing Swan Song8.Mushroom9.Bel Air10.Oh Yeah11.Dizzy Dizzy12.Thief13.Quantum Physics14.Bring Me Coffee or Tea15.Spray16.Outside My Door17.Fly by Night18.Millionenspiel19.Tango Whiskeyman20.Turtles Have Short Legs
ALBUMS1.Future Days2.Ege Bamyasi3.Tago Mago4.Soon Over Babaluma5.Soundtracks
― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 5 August 2016 10:06 (seven years ago) link
xpost oh right, Tape Kebab. Cheers..
― Mark G, Friday, 5 August 2016 10:45 (seven years ago) link
I can do that, Moka, if you make the playlist collaborative.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 6 August 2016 04:39 (seven years ago) link
I have a lot of disagreements with ILX about Can but I would like to say that Brad's love of the 1979 album is totally on point. Thats a really cool album
― mark e smith and brexit (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 6 August 2016 16:45 (seven years ago) link
I like to add those from my library even if I only have it myself as it leaves a placeholder. I'm a nerd like that.I can do that, Moka, if you make the playlist collaborative.
― Naive Teen Idol
I have it too but I think if I add it from my local library and its not on spotify it only appears for me in the playlist and noone else sees it?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 6 August 2016 19:10 (seven years ago) link
I remember someone else doing that unwittingly adding his own. We could see the entries but not play them.
― Mark G, Saturday, 6 August 2016 19:47 (seven years ago) link
So... you want me to add it for completion purposes even tho you wont hear it?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 6 August 2016 19:57 (seven years ago) link
That was the idea. I feel like sometimes when the song becomes available on Spotify it will sync up and play appropriately. .
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 6 August 2016 21:14 (seven years ago) link
Plus, if you have if locally I think it also plays from your laptop.
Awww yes.http://i.imgur.com/R1AmhS1.jpg
― MatthewK, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 02:45 (seven years ago) link
That is a really cool shirt! Only can shirt I like, the other official ones I've seen are just the other album covers which don't really adapt to a t-shirt that well.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
http://www.spoonrecords.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=75&zenid=6bb5c79853a0b2e36f92890f0137fb39
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 19:04 (seven years ago) link
iirc that's the shirt don anderson was wearing the first time i saw agallocheveryone loves CAN!!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 19:07 (seven years ago) link
Note, being Australian I couldn't buy it from Spoon - "PLEASE NOTE: We are only taking orders from the US, CA and Europe at the moment. You will be able to order from other countries soon."
― MatthewK, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 20:04 (seven years ago) link
Black? That's not right. They had those Ts BITD, Holger is wearing one in some pics.
― Noel Emits, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link
Just spend a blissful Sunday afternoon with “Don’t Turn the Light On, Leave Me Alone” cranked. Why oh why does it fade out?
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 24 April 2022 07:43 (two years ago) link
also would have voted "Shikaku Maru Ten" in my top 20 if I'd known it.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 6 April 2023 03:45 (one year ago) link
So for the longest time 'I'm So Green' was my favorite CAN song and easily of the 70's. Every now and then I reevaluate my opinion and it lands on "Vitamin C". Today is "Moonshake"... that would be probably my first pick to get outsiders into CAN, the whole Future Days album is amazing, but that's the sampler choice for me. A morsel of the genius behind this band.
"Future Days", "Hallelluwah", "Mother Sky" are of course massive and as shown in this poll the consensus picks for what the band has to offer, but I think of them more as album highlights. For me, when isolating songs for a "best of the decade" I tend to favor those that in my mind work in a pop format. I might entertain the idea that CAN is not really that kind of band but it totally is: "turtles have short legs", "moonshake", "vitamin c", "i'm so green", "i want more", "spoon"... there's plenty of material that is top 10 chart material somewhere in heaven.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 21 July 2023 18:08 (nine months ago) link
oh and I was the #1 for Moonshake, I can't count the times I have felt a bit low or washed out, put that song on, and felt restored and recharged. It has ... voodoo qualities.
― MatthewK
I'm a bit sleep deprived at the moment and 100% agree. I was feeling drowsy, driving to do some chores and played this one and immediately started feeling refreshed.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 21 July 2023 18:19 (nine months ago) link
I often think "One More Night" is my favourite Can track - it's the most low-key on Ege Bamyasi but feels like it could go forever.
― jmm, Sunday, 23 July 2023 14:04 (nine months ago) link
"One More Night" is a great example of the surprising emotional depth of much of Can's work. It's basically a one chord vamp in 7/4 time, the only hooks are a muttered chant and an oblique keyboard phrase - but it conveys a strange introspection and even sense of loss mostly through texture and rhythmic patterns.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 23 July 2023 23:22 (nine months ago) link
Glad to see it get some love, I mean obviously it’s such a stacked album but man that tune in particular just really hits me. Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t there some really great track on Lost Tapes which is like an extended jam off of it?
― frogbs, Monday, 24 July 2023 01:23 (nine months ago) link
There's a live version where Holger Czukay spontaneously comes up with five or six killer basslines .
― John Donne In Concert (Tom D.), Monday, 24 July 2023 06:46 (nine months ago) link