Favorite Can Album ?
 

which do you guys consider to the best?

I recently got Ege Bamyasi from a friend and can happily say ive heard all of the original 4. Out of them I like Bamyasi the best. Tago Mago is really good but i dont like those long sound effects tracks at all. Bamyasi is tight and doesnt waste a second. It even has this great freakout kind of thing on "soup".

Also I feel like Monster Movie shoudl get some more of a mention, thats a really good record. It has the original singer Malcolm Mooney and has a bunch of velvet white light/heat era distorted jams on it mixed with a sense of krautrock.Its a classic album.

"Tago Mago is really good but i dont like those long sound effects tracks at all."

Which is why it takes all kinds I suppose. I LOVE those tracks, and to me, that's what Can at their best is all about. Tago Mago is THE Can album for this fan.

Future Days for me.

I love all of the above-mentioned, but I would have to say that Future Days is my favorite. I can listen to that album for hours on end and not get bored of it. A perfect, transcendant piece of music.

Soon Over Babaluma is great too. Shame it doesn't get enough mention.

Ege Bamyasi hands down.

Ege Bamyasi for me too.

Future Days

I don't know them so well, hence won't vote.

Tago Mago really pleased me. I heard it a couple of years after Happy Mondays were on top - how they took their inspiration from Halleluwah.

I had a tape of a late album, with Beyond This Limit There Is None.
I understand it's not one of their best, still, even though the tape has disappeared, it's easy to remember, and I liked the way it sounded.

I've taken close looks at the Soundtracks album, for I'm a fan of one of the films they played for, Deep End, and it has that grrrreat song, Mother Sky.

I'll be checking this thread.

I'd say Ege Bamyasi but I like them all from that period almost equally. Ege wins though, if only because it's such a total groove-out motherfucker of a record that can be played to soundtrack almost any ocassion.

Although it was released later, Delay 68 is a great collection of early stuff that also rarely gets a mention.

Agreed that Soon Over Babaluma is underrated; a great album.

Future Days.

Ege Bamyasi

there's 4 that could be my favourite, but that's the one I think I listen to most.

tago Mago- with Ege Bamyasi a close second.

Ege, cuz it's so groovy, and my clear green vinyl copy is cool. I might like Tago if I had it.

Tago Mago. I haven't heard Eggy Biryani, and Future Days and Soundtracks earn a joint second. I'm yet to adore Monster Movie.

Tago Mago for me with Ege a close second. Those two are far and away the best two Can records. They did quite a lot of guff to be fair. I could never really get into Future Days or Monster Movie either for some reason.

Tago Mago, all the way. Monster Movie or Soundtracks would be next.

Tago Mago. Following closely behind that would be Ege.

I'd say Tago Mago if it wasn't for "I'm So Green" off Ege Bamyasi. That pushes Ege Bamyasi slightly ahead of Tago Mago.

Well, they did.

I just have Tago Mago. I love it

Pitchfork's review of "Anthology":
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/articl...6698-anthology

Interesting read.

6 votes for Future Days and no vote for Monster Movie?

I just have Ege and it's on green vinyl and I've never seen any of the other ones on vinyl except Monster Movie and I'm not too interested in that but I'd get Tago if I saw it on vinyl so for now all I know is I like Ege and it's on green vinyl and sounds pretty funky.

my favourite is delay but from the 5 above i'd go for tago mago

Id have Soon Over Babaluma on there above Monster Movie in all honesty, i dont get that album for some reason.
I have to say Future Days, just for the title track as much as anything else. Tago Mago is great but could do with a bit more brevity, and I think Ege Bamyasi is poorly sequenced despite being amazing.
They do have the greatest rhythm section ive ever heard.

Also, im sure this was mentioned before - Kanye west nicks the melody from and samples Sing Swan Song (from Ege Bamyasi) for one of the songs on his new album

Short but great:
Vitamin C (1972)

has anyone seen the can dvd? pretty good stuff.

tago mago got my vote.

Tago Mago.

To answer the old question, I pick Future Days.

I wanted to vote for ege bamyasi but voted for tago mago.
like them both so its ok

It took over a year, but I bought Ege and really liked it a lot.
You have been trustworthy.
Next year, who knows, Future Days.

Tago Mago. One of my favourite albums, period.

tough call. monster movie is great but my vote is for tago mago even if its just for hallelujah..............

and yeah, the mondays did get inspiration from it and whats wrong with that.. the rave on e.p. and the bummed album are can for the stoned baggy generation.. shame they could never come close to those records again tho......

Ege Bamyasi is my favourite. Tago Mago is their best work. Soon Over Babaluma is highly underrated.

For my personal taste I would rank them like this: Ege>Tago Mago>Soon Over Babaluma>Future Days>Monster Movie>Soundtracks.