CAN you pick only one?: The CAN albums poll

Kind of messed up that the Phantom Band isn't better known.
yeah, I'm liking this stuff a lot on that Book of Can mix, really lovely sounds ... out of print, eh? i'll have to dig around for the albums.

Can are an incredibly difficult band to search the archives for the latest / most current thread! This one is 10 years old, but I've no idea where a more current one is.

Anyway, a friend of mine recently went to the Rock’n’popmuseum Gronau, where a section of Inner Space studio is effectively archived, and took a load of photos to show me. Thought this might interest some of the other Can obsessives on the board!

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yiilpkegv6vaojh/AAAc0zWjYyRbhXDhxW6mTHrJa?dl=0

You'd sure be pressed to find it, and I'm not sure if it's the most recent thread, but we had a Can poll three years ago! ILM Artist Poll No. 77 · CAN · Results Thread

The photos are magnificent!

Sick photos. I'd love to go check that out.

yeah very cool, thanks for sharing! have been mainlining Future Days the last few days after finding a nice clean 70s pressing last week

I had an original Future Days LP for a while (Mexican pressing!) and it really did sound incredible despite being on very flimsy vinyl.

I struggled for a while with the most recent remaster as it sounds very different but have decided it's actually great. The percussion is much more hard hitting.

I can't believe Landed only got a vote.

Must say I don't often get the urge to listen to Landed. Saw Delight is much better IMO, although Animal Waves is let down by a rather dull bassline that doesn't really gel with the rest of the track. That said I got to dig Landed out soon. The later ones definitely do sound great remastered.

"Landed" is great.

First side is awesome.

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