Monster Movie because it was my first and because "You Doo Right" is one of the greatest things ever of anything. PS: Coincidentally, I picked up Delay 1968 at Decatur CD in Decatur, GA, just a few hours ago while browsing the CD racks.
Gotta go with Future Days, imo: FD > MM > TM > EB > SOB > Soundtracks Haven't listened to their later albums yet.
Ege Bamyasi for me. Great outtakes from that album on the 'Lost Tapes' compilation too - Especially 'Dead Pigeon Suite', which sounds like part of a double-album version of Ege that never was...
Curious result. Because, judging by the prices over the last ten years or so, I'd have thought Ege Bamyasi was the most popular.
You've pretty much taken the words out of my mouth. Love The Lost Tapes, should be included in the voting options imo.
I'm enjoying the singles CD. But I have to admit to editing it down to the sequence Soul Desert->Future Days. Can't deal with the Landed and beyond work. Aside from that I made my own Singles Edit CD using mainly 2004 masters as source.
The fun thing about playlists is taking an album like Ege with quality outtakes & dropping them into the tracklist to make an album longer. It works particularly well with Can because the outtakes share themes with the album tracks (eg an extended Ege with Vitamin C early on AND Dead Pigeon Suite towards the end kinda makes it like a song-cycle) Purists may hate.. but if I need a longer Ege, it's there if I need it.
The only problem I have with The Lost Tapes is that, great as those 'suite' tracks are, they're someone else's invention, not the band's.
Though, we would never have heard them otherwise because I'm pretty sure Holger Czukay wouldn't have agreed to edit the material to make it more manageable.
I find the material on the 3CD Tapes superfluous. I have a single Cd edit of it, but still can't find much in it to keep me going back. I prefer the few vocal outtake songs on the first half of (Un)Ltd Edition to anything on Tapes. Blue Bag, Mother Upduff, Doko E, I'm Too Leise, Empress – those are killer tracks. Yes. I was impressed by the editing in Can, which I always assume Czukay did. When I worked through the edits in Hallelujah single edit I noticed how good his editing-ear was.
Fair point - and the band-members considered these gems to be "unworthy of release" when they edited the original album. Still, Im guessing the band-members would have to had signed-off on those outtake edits to be released now. While we're talking editing and Can, I wonder what the chances are that any existing unedited session tapes may be released - either in hefty physical sets or subscription download services?
I voted for Soundtracks, knowing that it's mostly a compromise. It's more a series of songs than an album, but that'll do. I think I happen to prefer Malcolm's period now (you just can feel his mental breakdown), although Damo's time in the band is excellent as well... Soundtracks lets me listen to both, and there's Mother Sky. But my favourite "artificial" Can album is made of parts of Delay, Monster Movie, Soundtracks, Unlimited Edition... And it's mostly Malcolm.
Only two of them left now. The Lost Tapes seems to have been an Irmin Schmidt project, Czukay and Liebezeit seemed to have had a more, shall we say, Kraftwerkian approach to their older work.
Had to go with Ege Bamyasi, just for that opening drum groove. Liebezeit was the man. Vitamin C is also a great alternative pop song. I echo other's sentiments about Lost Tapes too, I reckon it's a great listen.
I think part of that is due to Irmin having (probably) the closest working relationship to Jono Podmore, who did the 5.1 remixes, remastered the stereo mixes for the Can back catalogue, AND edited the lost tapes.. amongst other archival work. No doubt when Czukay & Schmidt are no longer with us, the temptation will be in front of their estates to open the vaults even more.
Me too; but if i was honest i only own this and Landed!! I really need to add a few more to catalogue
my favourite Can song - Oh Yeah - is on Tago Mago, but my favorite album is Future Days followed by Soon Over Babaluma Tago Mago Soundtracks Ege Bamyasi Monster Movie Landed Delay 68
Tago Mago (Sides A & B) > Future Days > Monster Movie > Ege Bamyasi > Soon Over Babaluma > Soundtracks > Unlimited Edition > Landed > Delay 1968 > Tago Mago (Sides C & D) > Can > Flowmotion > Rite Time I still need to find a copy of Saw Delight. Voted for Future Days.
For me it's always been Future Days. I have a (U.S.) SACD copy that sounds nice but strangely plays the tracks out of sequence (title track is last).
