Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Father Cannot Yell
2. Soup
3. Mother Sky
4. She Brings the Rain
5. Mushroom
6. One More Night
7. Outside My Door
8. Spoon
9. Halleluwah
10. Aumgn
11. Dizzy Dizzy
12. Yoo Doo Right
DISC 2:
1. Uphill
2. Mother Upduff
3. Doko E.
4. Musette
5. Blue Bag
6. TV Spot
7. Half Past One
8. Moonshake
9. Future Days
10. Cascade Waltz
11. I Want More
12. Animal Waves
13. Don't Say No
14. Aspectacle
15. Below This Level
16. Hoolah Hoolah
17. Last Night Sleep
| Details | | Playing Time: | 155 min. | | Producer: | Can | | Distributor: | Caroline Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Can: Michael Karoli (vocals, guitar); Irmin Schmidt (vocals, keyboards); Holger Czukay (vocals, bass); Jaki Leibezeit (drums); Malcolm Mooney, Damo Suzuki (vocals).
Can: Michael Karoli (vocals, guitar, slide guitar, violin, electric violin, organ, bass guitar); Damo Suzuki, Malcolm Mooney (vocals); Jaki Liebezeit (winds, drums, percussion); Holger Czukay (French horn, bass synthesizer, bass guitar); Irmin Schmidt (keyboards, synthesizer).
Personnel: Can (vocals).
Additional personnel: Rosko Gee (vocals, bass guitar); Reebop Kwaku Baah (vocals, percussion).
Between its 1968 inception in Cologne, Germany as a rock outlet for classically trained keyboardist Irmin Schmidt and jazz bassist Holger Czukay and its eventual dissolution in the late '70s, Can was an ever-mutating, endlessly innovative entity. With brilliant guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Michael Karoli, incomparable vocalist Kenji "Damo" Suzuki, and Czukay and human drum-machine Jaki Liebezeit at its core--one of the better rhythm sections ever--the deservedly admired and much-imitated Can was nothing less than an unstoppable creative engine.
Compiling a definitive "Can-thology" is a daunting prospect. Most of the double-disc ANTHOLOGY's selections are inspired. Included are the entirety of MONSTER MOVIE's serpentine 20-minute "Yoo Doo Right" and propulsive "Father Cannot Yell"; the slinky "She Brings the Rain" (a SOUNDTRACKS favorite); FUTURE DAYS' blissful title track; and such popular singles as "Moonshake" and "Spoon." But questionable edits of the essential "Mother Sky," "Aumgn," "Soup," and "Halleluwah" only offer a taste, and the omission of EGE BAMYASI's fabulous "Vitamin C" is puzzling. Disc two samples generously from all later albums except 1978's Can-despised OUT OF REACH. Though less innovative than the band's unparalleled 1969-1975 material, such tracks as SAW DELIGHT's sun-drenched, polyrhythmic "Animal Waves" and FLOWMOTION's lovely "Cascade Waltz" are no less delightful.
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