CAN you pick only one?: The CAN albums poll

also had original future days/tago mago pressings. polls results otm. my housemate is playing drums with damo in a fortnight. i ought to go...

all the annoying handwringing upthread about "bamyasi"'s meaning crucially misses that it is not an "i" but a dotless "i" in Turkish: bamyası

...but can't fault the anglophones for not picking up on that subtle nuance though.

Top 3 vote-getters are in my contention for desert island discs with order fluctuating between Ege/Tago at the top, Future Days is a step lower but still god-tier.

Life just got more complicated:
Can’s Live Shows Will Be Heard at Last, Thanks to a Bootlegger in Big Pants
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/arts/music/can-live-albums.html?campaign_id=53&emc=edit_ms_20210514&instance_id=30896&nl=louder®i_id=81891736&segment_id=58137&te=1&user_id=f8fdcfc45acdadaba09de99d8bc20460

POLLS just got more complicated

Pants just got bigger

Absolutely love that they're on Bandcamp now because I never did get around to getting the remastered CDs from a decade back -- so I bought them through the site and now I have them both that way and properly streaming. (And per their Bandcamp page a few of those CDs were down to the last copies of whatever Mute US had around so hey.)

hopefully the quality is alright. I have the Live Box and it kicks ass but the recording is so grainy that I barely listen to it. hearing that the guy was walking around in some sort of Nathan Fielder-esque bootleg suit doesn't inspire confidence but they work a lotta magic with mastering these days...should be better than any of the boots out there I hope

it sounds great — genuinely surprised it's an amateur recording. maybe not exactly high definition, but it really puts you in the hall. Liebezeit is amazing on this, no surprise. unstoppable.

there's a clip, it sounds good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da6bXpkbwzs

And speaking of their Bandcamp: the remaining albums are now all up as of today, including Unlimited Edition and the 40th anniversary Tago Mago:

https://canofficial.bandcamp.com/music