CAN you pick only one?: The CAN albums poll

I gave another listen to Rite Time last night. It's not bad--Mooney makes the album, everybody else is pretty restrained.

I haven't actually heard Out Of Reach in full or 'Can'. Must rectify that.
is it ok to post links to Can bootlegs i found on a blog?

I agree, I prefer Can to Saw Delight and Flow Motion.

Have yet to track down the Rite Time remaster, though.

I quite like Saw Delight,Animal Waves is a track ive always liked.
Im playing Out Of Reach now and quite enjoying it.

Another vote for Delay 1968 here! Gonna spin it now!

Mooney >>>>>>>>> Suzuki!

I AM MALCOLM MOONEY!

there hasnt been a malcolm vs damo poll has there?

There's no need for one. It's obvious, ain't it?

its obvious who would win

i vote damo

The Can Live 71-77 set is pretty excellent-- I haven't heard it discussed too much for whatever reason.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

lotsa votes again

it's tago mago, if you add the previous poll

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damn double post

tago nago 78
furure days 76
ege bamyasi 71

ege bamyasi voters switched to future days this time it seems

Soon Over Babaluma increased it's votes over last time along with Monster Movie and Soundtracks.

wonder if the 11 who didnt like Can changed their mind :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8RzLdf34Ow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0nfjguTclg

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/12/can-outtake-edition-complete-demo.html

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/12/bunch-of-can.html

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2007/12/its-raining-can-bootlegs.html

I would not have guessed such a big swing--wonder what accounts for the virtual switch of 'Ege Bamyasi' (still my overall fave) and 'Future Days' (still a top 100 favorites album)? I wouldn't have any clue as to what's considered the zeitgeist of today, musically, but does 'Future Days' somehow better relate to it?

Hey Soundslike, thx for those Church of Latter-Day Can mixes, had missed those the first time around. I'm definitely in the "don't know much beyond Babaluma" camp, so I'm looking forward to checking them out.

Hope you like them, Tyler. Hopefully it'll spurn a couple new purchases (my constant nefarious motive) : )

Who voted "Sacrilege" ?

"Halleluhwah" may well be one of the best tracks of all time. "Furure Days" is the better album though. totally second the result.

I keep checking to see if the pollstarter called it "Furure Days"

Whoops, spur, that is. Not spurn : )

Thank you tons for these awesome mixes Soundslike, really enjoying Book 2 at the moment. Is that John Malkovich on "Loading Zone" by Phantom Band? Really, really sounds like him!

Yes, Latter Day Can mix is great, played a few songs off it on my radio show last night (Karussell and the Eurythmics "never gonna cry" which was an accident but it sounded great on the air, thankfully).

I think I went from Ege to MM.

and for all tom d's moaning on the previous poll he still didn't vote for Unlimited Edition

Nick what made you change your vote this time? I'm surprised at the fall off in votes for Ege Bamyasi.

i feel bad for Landed and Saw Delight. I love those albums.

i actually like sacrilege a lot, though i voted for future days....

i DJed a song from future days tonight. should have voted that.

i'll never get the cult of Future Days

ugh, i meant i voted future days, but played a track from flow motion tonight. drunk

i get the love for future days, but i would've gone for ege bamyasi if i hadn't forgotten to vote.

Future days seems to me like the Can 'white album'. It's an album that gets more and more kudos from fans of the band whilst not being in any way representative of what an outsideers view of the music of can would be.

put simply, its the albums the fans listen to but you probably wouldn't recommend it to someone who wanted to know " whats this Can sound I keep hearing about (on ILM)?"

as more and more people listen to all the other albums, then keep returning to future, it climbs steadily up the poll.

Future days seems to me like the Can 'white album'. It's an album that gets more and more kudos from fans of the band whilst not being in any way representative of what an outsideers view of the music of can would be.

put simply, its the albums the fans listen to but you probably wouldn't recommend it to someone who wanted to know " whats this Can sound I keep hearing about (on ILM)?"

I couldn't agree less, "Future Days" seems like the Can album non-Can fans like, I don't think it's a particular favourite of "Can fans" and I'd say "Soon Over Babaluma" fits your "White Album" analogy far better! Anyway, it comes and goes, now Neil Young's best album is "On the Beach" and Can's is "Future Days" etc, it'll no doubt change in a while.

and you still wont vote Unlimited Edition ;)

I didn't vote at all in this poll, but at least I had the chance to vote for "Unlimited Edition" in this one, eh?

yeah I was about to say. Future Days was the 1st Can album I heard, and all the others seem way more "difficult". Please forever stop with the blanket reductive theorizing about all of the fans of a particular album.

First one I heard was "Babaluma", which is a weird one to start with!

Future Days to me is the album people like because...it has "Future Days" on it. Remove that song, and the album stock plummets, probably to about the same level as Unltd Edition (which i do think is underrated!). Maybe Ege is the "fan" record, in that to my ears, it's Can at their best, even if it's not necessarily Can at their prettiest or easiest on the ears. Tago Mago splits the difference so nicely, it's probably the one I would recommend as "here is Can doing most of what they do".

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Babaluma also the first I heard!

When it comes to Can, I usually seem to agree with Dominque, it's, uhhhh, uncanny... but "Future Days" also has "Moonshake" on it, so there we disagree... the deal breaker is "Bel Air", which a lot of people love but which I can't bear

^^ otm. "bel air" is why future days is my least fave of the big ones.

"Moonshake" is my Can mixtape jam. I feel like its a song everyone should love.

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I like Moonshake! I'm just saying, a Can record comprised of Spray, Moonshake and Bel Air would probably be well regarded by fans, but hardly the "go-to" record.

"moonshake" is a mixtape staple for sure. to harp on "bel air" a little more, i think one of the bigger reasons i dislike it is that it sounds SO composed and plotted out, which is like the exact opposite thing of i want from my can epics.