ILM Artist Poll No. 77 · CAN · Results Thread

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.

OK I need to re-listen to that, thanks

It is so slow, smooth and haunting. Really takes me to another world.

"You must play *monotonous*!"

http://youtu.be/A93XtkMLXME

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.

thanks again moka, amazing pics and a brilliant results rollout

Is there one track missing from the Spotify playlist?

Great poll, thanks a lot! Wish I could've joined in this thread but I've been busy.

My ballot:

TRACKS
1.One More Night
2.Future Days
3.Vitamin C
4.Paperhouse
5.Moonshake
6.Spoon
7.Sing Swan Song
8.Mushroom
9.Bel Air
10.Oh Yeah
11.Dizzy Dizzy
12.Thief
13.Quantum Physics
14.Bring Me Coffee or Tea
15.Spray
16.Outside My Door
17.Fly by Night
18.Millionenspiel
19.Tango Whiskeyman
20.Turtles Have Short Legs

ALBUMS
1.Future Days
2.Ege Bamyasi
3.Tago Mago
4.Soon Over Babaluma
5.Soundtracks

xpost oh right, Tape Kebab. Cheers..

xpost oh right, Tape Kebab. Cheers..

I can do that, Moka, if you make the playlist collaborative.

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

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?

I remember someone else doing that unwittingly adding his own. We could see the entries but not play them.

So... you want me to add it for completion purposes even tho you wont hear it?

That was the idea. I feel like sometimes when the song becomes available on Spotify it will sync up and play appropriately. .

Plus, if you have if locally I think it also plays from your laptop.

Awww yes.
http://i.imgur.com/R1AmhS1.jpg

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.

http://www.spoonrecords.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=75&zenid=6bb5c79853a0b2e36f92890f0137fb39

iirc that's the shirt don anderson was wearing the first time i saw agalloch
everyone loves CAN!!

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."

Black? That's not right. They had those Ts BITD, Holger is wearing one in some pics.

Just spend a blissful Sunday afternoon with “Don’t Turn the Light On, Leave Me Alone” cranked. Why oh why does it fade out?

also would have voted "Shikaku Maru Ten" in my top 20 if I'd known it.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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?

There's a live version where Holger Czukay spontaneously comes up with five or six killer basslines .