I know the popular opinion on this site is Tago Mago is their greatest achievement but for my prog ears Future Days is the pinnacle. For ppl looking
for music to satisfy their spacey and Floyd itch; this is it....Any fans???
I know the popular opinion on this site is Tago Mago is their greatest achievement but for my prog ears Future Days is the pinnacle. For ppl looking
for music to satisfy their spacey and Floyd itch; this is it....Any fans???
Last edited by progman1975; 06-16-2014 at 03:24 PM.
It's my favorite CAN album and my favorite German Psyche album.
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My fave Can album. Never understood why Czukay hated it.
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Not my favorite but it is indeed very good.
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It is? I thought the popular opnion was that Tago Mago was the one that was great *except* for the two meandering noise-fest tracks. I thought Future Days was the most highly regarded on this site.Originally Posted by progman1975
Tago Mago is great but has never been one of my favorites. Those would be Ege Bamyasi, Soon Over Babaluma, and indeed Future Days.
Took me a while, but I enjoy this disc.
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There are a lot of unique and great moments on several Can albums...glad I don't have to claim one bests all others. With Future Days tho' it does seem like everything fits together as one big highly deluxe narcotic experience.
It's actually my least favorite of that classic 'trilogy'. But I would still rate it 4/5.
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My favorites on the album.
Please don't ask questions, just use google.
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Dude - LOVE this. I have to be in the mood - usually after the vaporizer warms up after 45 seconds - but yeah this is killer. "Bel Air" is the Close to the Edge for the rest of us
I bought this album when I was 14, thought the cover looked cool and although I did not have any Can albums, I did already had Amon Duul II Dance of the Lemmings, so I figured what the heck. It was awesome, still my Favorite Can release and one of MY top 10 krautrock releases of all time...!
Bel Air and (Pink Floyd's) Echos go great together on a comp CD...
I always concidered "Future Days" as CAN's best album.
Of their 'second period', from Tago Mago through to Soon over Babaluma, I would certainly rate this gorgeous album the best. I'm afraid I have little time for sides 3 and 4 of TM which slightly mar its classic status in my eyes.
But my go to discs for Can are almost always the raucous early discs.
I adore this one. I get why Damo left after this; there wasn't much for him to do other than mumble in the background in the band's new "ambient" direction. I love it though. Wonderful music to mellow out to. "Bel Air" is pure sonic bliss.
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"Bel Air" is the Close to the Edge for the rest of us
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This is a beautiful album, and the one a reach for most often when I want some CAN. I like the noisefests on the other albums, but have to be in a particular mood for it. This one seems to meet me in most moods. It is both accessible and uncompromising, a rare treat.
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My single fave Can release; love it from start to finish, and "Bel Air" is arguably one of the truly underrated epics of the 70s.
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I love Tago Mago, but Ege Bamyasi leaves me scratching my head. Still need to get this one.
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These exact three are the "sacred" ones AFAIC, although I like Monster Movie and Babaluma as well. There are some really good parts on both Dealy 1968 and Unlimited Edition too.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Monster Movie is pretty good, too. I'll have to dust off Ege Bamyasi, but my memory of it wasn't very positive.
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^^^
You may be in for a treat ...Spoon, I'm So Green and Vitamin C have grooves that could probably make a corpse start moving. Can't believe some inferior beings haven't made big cash from sampling them yet.
Really? Try Ege again bro....it doesn't sucketh.
Kanye West sampled "Sing Swan Song" which was....odd. I do find it amusing that Kanye not only sampled a Can song, but a rather obscure one at that.
As for Future Days - totally classic - I put it along with La Dusseldorf's s/t and Cluster's Soweisoso as albums that are very relaxing and unique, that still sound modern today
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Future Days is my fave.
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