Does it deserve a thread?
I love everything from 1968-1975 period.
Can - actually my favourite (well, one of my most favourite)
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- KVRian
- 644 posts since 6 Apr, 2004
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- KVRAF
- 2875 posts since 28 Jan, 2004 from Da Nang, Vietnam
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- KVRAF
- 2818 posts since 30 Aug, 2001 from where dinosaurs are still alive
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- addled muppet weed
- 111294 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
cliched but tago mago is a fave,also saw delight,ah feck it i cant think of a bad one really 
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- KVRAF
- 4960 posts since 21 Oct, 2003 from UK
One of my fave bands too - really innovative.
Check those drum riffs, man.
Can INVENTED the D n B loop as early as the 70's (and the Manchester Sound with those skipping beats.)
Pity they reformed and went crap though.
Check those drum riffs, man.
Can INVENTED the D n B loop as early as the 70's (and the Manchester Sound with those skipping beats.)
Pity they reformed and went crap though.
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- KVRist
- 74 posts since 25 Feb, 2004 from near Cologne, Germany
Hi!
CAN definitely deserve a thread!!
I'm not very objective though, living near Cologne (CAN's Homebase) for all of my life, I've seen them on stage twice (in 1976 and 1977) and they were absolutely ahead of their time.
But here in Germany they never reached the status they deserved.
Jaki Liebezeit's drum sound was (and is) very unique and he invented Techno 20 Years ahead of it's time.
Sadly Michael Karoli (guitar and on the later albums vocals also) died some time ago.
"Paperhouse" from Tago Mago is one of the best songs ever and I really can't tell which album is best. I'm happy to own all of them, but I like Ege Bamyasi and Tago Mago a little bit more than the others, maybe because they were the first CAN-Records I've bought back in the seventies!
There's a new band (from England I think), THE MOONEY SUZUKI, named after the two first CAN-vocalists, Malcolm Mooney and Kenji Damo Suzuki. Very funny!:lol:
Best wishes...
LuMar
CAN definitely deserve a thread!!
I'm not very objective though, living near Cologne (CAN's Homebase) for all of my life, I've seen them on stage twice (in 1976 and 1977) and they were absolutely ahead of their time.
But here in Germany they never reached the status they deserved.
Jaki Liebezeit's drum sound was (and is) very unique and he invented Techno 20 Years ahead of it's time.
Sadly Michael Karoli (guitar and on the later albums vocals also) died some time ago.
"Paperhouse" from Tago Mago is one of the best songs ever and I really can't tell which album is best. I'm happy to own all of them, but I like Ege Bamyasi and Tago Mago a little bit more than the others, maybe because they were the first CAN-Records I've bought back in the seventies!
There's a new band (from England I think), THE MOONEY SUZUKI, named after the two first CAN-vocalists, Malcolm Mooney and Kenji Damo Suzuki. Very funny!:lol:
Best wishes...
LuMar
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 644 posts since 6 Apr, 2004
Yes! Did you see them playing Paperhouse live on German TV? It's different from Tago Mago version and really is a 70's drum'n'bass!Glassback wrote:Can INVENTED the D n B loop as early as the 70's...
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- addled muppet weed
- 111294 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
the recently released can dvd has some cool stuff on too
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 644 posts since 6 Apr, 2004
LuMar, what does exactly "kraut" mean? Dictionary said it's "weed", but does it have the same second meaning as in English? 
(Can's style often referenced as kraut-rock)
(Can's style often referenced as kraut-rock)
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- KVRAF
- 4960 posts since 21 Oct, 2003 from UK
It means German - hence Can, Faust, Amon Duul etc etc are Kraut Rock.justified wrote:LuMar, what does exactly "kraut" mean? Dictionary said it's "weed", but does it have the same second meaning as in English?
(Can's style often referenced as kraut-rock)
It's a genre in it's own right.
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- KVRist
- 74 posts since 25 Feb, 2004 from near Cologne, Germany
justified wrote:
"Kraut" in Germany means herb or cabbage, it's also a abbreviation of "Sauerkraut", a typical German sort of vegetables. Officially it has no second meaning here.
At some time during the two world wars the Allies invented a nickname for the German soldiers, they were called "Krauts", as the Sauerkraut is known as typically German in foreign countries.
When in the late sixties / early seventies some weird German music (CAN, AMON DÜÜL, FAUST, TANGERINE DREAM, KRAFTWERK, NEU, ASH RA TEMPEL and so on) got some interest in England and USA (I remember KRAFTWERK's "Autobahn" was in both Single-Top Twentys in 1974 or 75, the first song with German lyrics appearing in the charts in England and USA) the music papers in England invented the genre-name "Krautrock", a music that could be described as typically "German".
So it's a mark that came from England, not Germany itself.
The German Music papers were wondering why this sort of music got such interest in England and so the status of these bands were raised here in Germany. They got more articles and reviews in the German press and the German papers took over the mark "Krautrock" or short "Kraut" from England.
A few years ago Julian Cope, ex singer of TEARDROP EXPLODES and a great fan of this special German music scene, wrote a book about it.
And he gave it the great title "Krautrock Sampler", which in English and German means exactly the same (at least for rock music fans).
Best wishes...
LuMar
Hi justified!LuMar, what does exactly "kraut" mean? Dictionary said it's "weed", but does it have the same second meaning as in English?
(Can's style often referenced as kraut-rock)
"Kraut" in Germany means herb or cabbage, it's also a abbreviation of "Sauerkraut", a typical German sort of vegetables. Officially it has no second meaning here.
At some time during the two world wars the Allies invented a nickname for the German soldiers, they were called "Krauts", as the Sauerkraut is known as typically German in foreign countries.
When in the late sixties / early seventies some weird German music (CAN, AMON DÜÜL, FAUST, TANGERINE DREAM, KRAFTWERK, NEU, ASH RA TEMPEL and so on) got some interest in England and USA (I remember KRAFTWERK's "Autobahn" was in both Single-Top Twentys in 1974 or 75, the first song with German lyrics appearing in the charts in England and USA) the music papers in England invented the genre-name "Krautrock", a music that could be described as typically "German".
So it's a mark that came from England, not Germany itself.
The German Music papers were wondering why this sort of music got such interest in England and so the status of these bands were raised here in Germany. They got more articles and reviews in the German press and the German papers took over the mark "Krautrock" or short "Kraut" from England.
A few years ago Julian Cope, ex singer of TEARDROP EXPLODES and a great fan of this special German music scene, wrote a book about it.
And he gave it the great title "Krautrock Sampler", which in English and German means exactly the same (at least for rock music fans).
Best wishes...
LuMar
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 644 posts since 6 Apr, 2004
LuMar, thank you for such a comprehensive explanation!
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- KVRAF
- 2875 posts since 28 Jan, 2004 from Da Nang, Vietnam
A lot of those old Krautrock records still sound amazing today. If you haven't heard any of this stuff, you owe it to yourself to check it out. A short list of essentials (imo, of course):
can
faust
amon duul ii
agitation free
ash ra tempel
neu/la dusseldorf
guru guru (especially kanguru)
can
faust
amon duul ii
agitation free
ash ra tempel
neu/la dusseldorf
guru guru (especially kanguru)