can - tago mago

The fucking drums.. jesus..

I think it's because sonically it sounds like little else; even for Can.. the way it's mixed is nut's, Mushroom for instance, the drums sound like they were recorded in a biscuit tin, but they have this mental delayed panning which flickers echoes of the drums across the spectrum. In the wrong hands, that would sound baaaaad. But it's Can so its like the future.

It’s still hands down my favourite Can album. There’s so much to enjoy. There’s better Can songs on other records, but it’s their most cohesive LP.

Take a song like Mushroom. If another band tried recording something like that, it would just sound like a drummer warming up and some drunk droning over a microphone.

Can record it and it sounds both terrifying and uplifting at the same time.

There really was something mystical about them, something other worldly. I mean that’s probably because they were classically trained musicians high as fuck on drugs who used to record 16 hour takes and then aggressively edit them down. A band like that could only have happened in Germany

agreed 100% with both of you. it's just an insane, beautiful confluence of unbound ideas and skill. i mean the first few mins of Halleluhwah practically invented Happy Mondays, didn't it??

that song, and the album, are so good and genuinely out there (nothing makes me cringe more than when dwayne describes his tedious solo career thus) it's frankly laughable.