ILM Artist Poll No. 77 · CAN · Results Thread

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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

five years pass...

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

eleven months pass...

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

three months pass...

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


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