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A groove. Way more listenable than the reviews let on. Give it a shot! I normally hate long songs and long albums, but this is good for working or general vibing.
Truly life changing album for me. And I only really like the first four songs.
Again, what are we doing here
Psychedelic experimental… some amazing jams on here, but also some of the tracks sound like speaking in tongues, and they make me insane. Maybe good background music.
Cool stuff
2.5
1) Halleluhwah 2) Peking O 3) Paperhouse Least Favourite: None of 'em!!!
Favorite Track: Halleluhwah Least Favorite Track: Every single one after that
What a gorgeous album. You can have your Beatles, your Dylans and your boring-ass Fleetwood Macs - I'll gladly go sit with the weird German kids doing shrooms in the crazy corner. The first LP (tracks 1-4) is an excellent collection of krautrock and psych rock. It's amazingly ahead of its time, with some trippy arrangements and sonic experiments that kind of herald trip-hop or even Radiohead 20 years in advance. The second LP (tracks 5-7) made me feel like I had been abducted by aliens - and I loved every minute of it. Yes, even the part when they probed me. This is exactly what music should be : a bold exploration of horizons unknown, a plunge into altered mental states and the dark abyssal depth of the id. A fantastic experimental record that I will absolutely listen again. I was going for a 4* at first, but Aumgm and Peking O were so unabashedly unhinged that it fully deserves a 5*. 9/10
Découverte complète pour ma part. Les 3 premiers titres rocks sont incroyablement modernes, et je les ai beaucoup appréciés. J’ai eu plus de mal sur le reste de l’album, mais même les 2 morceaux expérimentaux ne sont pas dénués d’intérêt. Ce type de krautrock allemand est pour moi la grande découverte de cette aventure musicale.
This project is revealing to me that I have a lot more tolerance of the avant garde than the average listener, and I might actually be a bit fond of it? Obviously it’s hard to defend, and there is a lot out there that is better; but I get a little sad seeing all the comments about “anyone can make this crap,” “my 6 year old could do better,” etc. I went through 4 years of marching band with a lot of annoying amateur percussionists who thought they were hot shit on the drum set, and I PROMISE you making “garbage noise” that is actually digestible is not easy. Tracks 5 and 6 aren’t something you put on the radio, they’re really more akin to a soundscape experience. And it’s done really well!
So interesting and quite cool
Put it in my veins! These guys are fun.
This started off so strong and then just got so boring. The songs went on for forever and didn't do anything. Even for the songs I DID like, it was more that I liked a part or two. Everything was just very repetitive. Actual Rating 1.5 Liked Songs: "Paperhouse" , "Halleluhwah" , "Bring Me Coffee Or Tea"
Tyckte det kändes najs i början men blev ägd
Fanns frön till intressanta delar men mest oljud.
OLJUD
Jag gillade den förra krautrock-skivan men detta var fruktansvärt. Oljud!
Genuinely wtf were those last couple tracks
An incredible case where half of the album is a high 4 and the other half is a low 2. First half is great but Jesus is the second unlistenable
At the start we find ourselves in territory somewhere between Revolver, Bitches Brew and Umma Gumma, with the whole thing put through a lens of Germanic Cold War dread. Then, in the second half, Karlheinz Stockhausen shows up and things get very spicy indeed. Lots of droning electronics and groaning, shouting screaming voices, free jazz freakouts, all put through more distortion and reverb than seems sensible. It all takes a bit of patience, and while there are moments that make Public Image Limited sound like Andy Williams, there are also passages that are glorious in their experimental nerve.
This was exhausting.
meh
This a bit all over the place, but in a good way. Mushroom sounds very ahead of its time. Oh Yeah made me think of the Rolling Stones a little bit I can see what they were going for with Aumgn and Peking O, but they don't bring much value to the album for me There's a lot going on here so I think this will need a few listens to fully figure it out Highlights: Mushroom, Oh Yeah, Paperhouse
This is one of those albums that’s so good I actually got mad at myself for never having heard it. I’m so glad something so unapologetically weird made it on here, especially after having to sit through that god forsaken Coldplay album
Major props to Can for not exceeding my sub-ground level expectations for this flaming pile of elephant droppings
Zum Teil sogar besser als 'Future Days', zum anderen leider Kopfschmerz-erregend
Disc one is a funky and pretty fun Krautrock album. Disc 2 is an ordeal.
5/5
Dug the first side.
Loved this. First disc is absolute fire. Second disc is a little more challenging, sure, but great if you're in the mood for it.
Maybe too experimental for me.
I genuinely think they're capable of making good music, but it's so pretentious to think anyone wants to hear you just dick around for an hour
I'm no doctor, but I'm pretty sure this guy is not doing well. Come take a look at this scan. OH MY GOD *Loud retching* Why is he completely orange? I think his brain is entirely tumour and he seems to be puking up chunks of said tumours? How is that possible? Yeah let's break the news. You've got about an hour to live. Would you like to listen to something to pass the time? You want to listen to Can?? Ugh. How about we leave the lazy garage rock and listen to the only interesting song, Aumgn? No? You're the pumpkin tumour man. Tago Mago day-glow uhhh winnebago 2 HIGHLIGHTS: I don't know, CAN you?
That's really good. And apparently the root of a lot of music I already listen to. Tago Mago is a 1971 double album from Cologne, and it sounds like it came from somewhere else entirely — not a place, a state. Damo Suzuki's voice is an instrument like everything else, not a singer fronting a band but another texture in the mix. Jaki Liebefeld's drums hold the groove without ever feeling mechanical. Halleluwah runs eighteen minutes and you don't notice. Very psychedelic. A real trip. The kind of album where you look up and the room is slightly different from when you started. I can hear where Causa Sui, Rotor, Minami Deutsch — a lot of what's already on my shelves — learned to walk. The lineage is right there. 4/5 — foundational, and it earns that word.
I really dig the Krautrock vibes in the first half of this double album. "Paperhouse" and "Oh Yeah" are cool and "Halleluwah" is that kind of epic jam that is already very long but you wish it would go on forever (must have been killer live). The second half was much less for me - I'm not fond of sound collage experimental stuff. Will definitely return to this album, but only to the funky proggy rock jams. 3/5 - good
Incredible front half. The second half made my dog bark a few times. That's not a euphemism.
Can Some cool drum beats. I know people love them and it’s influential but not really a great album to listen to. Plenty of cool moments but the whole thing felt like they were just messing around in the studio (which can be cool sometimes but it was too soon after Piper at the gates of Dawn for me to get into). Guitars felt really random and were probably the hardest thing about listening to them.
Why
Jesus fucking Christ
Come the Hell on! 2 days ago I had a blowhard Hawkwind album. Today I get this? 73 minutes? 7 songs? I was looking forward to what my 666th album was going to be. Think of how fun that could have been. But no, I go and get THIS! I bet I'll get some shit like Creed or Jars of Clay, or even worse - Houses of the Holy for my 777th album though, won't I? I like noise rock and some of the stuff here is quite interesting and I could be on board, but the turn around and ruin it every damn time.
Started out very very cool, ended really weirdly
Enjoyed scattered parts, really liked the end of Oh Yeah. I can see why this might hit, but just wasnt it for me. 2/5
At times a struggle, but I’m very happy albums like this are on the list.
Sprawling psychedelic krautrock that doesn’t make me feel like I’m wasting my time (most of the time; “Peking O” was interesting, I guess, but I wouldn’t call it listenable). Interesting mix of straight-forward arrangements and weird shit (“Halleluwah” into “Aumgn”). Rock music for the mind but not necessarily the body. I had a mostly good time with my listen and walked away impressed by their ambition, but I think I’d get antsy revisiting this in full.
Forventa meir motorik beat
Don't know what to say other than I dig the weirdness. It's a solid 9/10 for me.
8/10
Chiant
pedrada absoluta? puta que pariu como que isso tem uma nota tão baixa nesse site? é do caralho filho pqp
caralho, que ROCKZAÇO, ta maluco!! po, era pra ser 5 estrelas. mas aumgn foi bem difícil de ouvir, apesar de ser bacana até. experimental até o cu fazer biquinho, bem maluco mesmo. ainda assim, compensa demais ouvir esse aqui e eh bom pra variar da mediocridade da lista!!
Great psych album
I think if you were high listening to this you would have a panic attack. I wasn’t high and I almost did
Amazing, so far ahead of its time for 1971. Felt like something from the 21st century. The right mix of groove and experimentation. I found it music for working, and for cooking dinner after work. Really liked the singing and drums.
Vibey, cool.
Too experimental for me to give a 5 but man the good parts were 👌👌👌
Been waiting 250 days for this one, my love for this band is greater with each listen
too long. It wasnt great.
Started out with good beats but got into weird chanty warbly sounds, then screams - did not like
Can is so cool. I wish there was like a melody or perhaps a structure. I was a little waiting for it to end by the end. But very cool and some great moments.
This was really quite something. Whether that’s a good something or not, I am not entirely sure, but it feels like it absolutely deserves to be on this list. I got suckered in by the first half, a bit funky, a bit bluesy, definitely a great listen, and gently getting weirder but lulling me along. By the time I got halfway through Aumgn, I was wondering what I was listening to and how I had got here? I was maybe even starting to wonder where “here” was any more. Overall, this was a genuinely fascinating and brilliant album but I will stop short of a full score as I don’t think it would be an album I would race to listen to again, but I reckon I definitely will return some day.
Best Track - "Mushroom"
This is tough, classic album that suffers from length. Revolutionary, inspirational, but hard to recommend. If we reduced this album in half it would be almost their best, and even though i'm a fan of krautrock and CAN in general, the lengthier songs remind me of Pink Floyd experimental era, and those are just as low in the rakings of their discography.
This is a major oversight. For years I for some reason thought CAN was a minimalist proto-techno band. Like early Ministry. Like Pailhead. I don’t know why I thought this. But this album feels like meeting the parents of all the bands I love the most. The spare, percussive guitar. Fugazi’s dad. The loosey-goosey on-the-verge-of-collapse drums. Pavement’s mom. The punchy syncopated bass. LCD Soundsystem’s uncle. The whole thing rumbling and clanking like a rusty ramshackle train about to come off the tracks at any moment. Count me as a CAN fan from here on out.
“Mushroom” was really cool, and that was kind of it honestly
This is a very nice album, I will definitely listen to this again. Although it's an old album, from the early 70s, it could easily be an album from the 90s or even from now, 2026. I love these type of bands and music.
Loooong soooongs
This started off great and got weird real quickly. I’m not mad about it.
I wasn't expecting to like this but the whole album had me somewhere between captivated and vibing! Weirdly wonderful.
Ambitious but what a fucking slog, especially those 16 minute songs made up of ambient noise and little else.
The songs are all like 8 minutes which is my first red flag. Giving it the benefit of the doubt for now… mushroom was a shorter song and was a bit more palatable but then there was a 16 minute monstrosity
Can are the finest creations of the German krautrock school, contrasting it with English prog and American jazz, and this record shows it. The music here was made according to the principle of "writing absolutely everything in the studio, then chopping it up and looping it endlessly," and these long songs with a repetitive rhythm, more powerful than any psychedelic, allow you to soar without any substances. German electronic musicians would later repeat this approach in the form of techno, and here you can also hear grunge, noise, and industrial... In short, genres whose emergence was still a couple of decades away. But there's also an "Experiments" section. The experience of side three is comparable to sitting in a dark, damp basement haunted by ghosts for seventeen minutes, and the next song has no structure at all. So either you like this album, or by the end you'll turn into its cover — your brain will boil and you'll puke.
it was cool but not really for me
de shit isch jo insaaaaane weird und guet gmacht für 1971 i love it sehr fest. halleluwah slappt extrem mit dere hihat (?) wo inechunt. aha de track isch 18 minute lang hahahaha ok s isch scho seeeehr weird aber für 1971 au craaaazy?? ich ha eig wölle wegem huere geile afang es vieri geh aber s isch mer doch chli z wenig struktur und melodie debii. sorry kraurock.
megaa coole switch ohh jz bi mushroom ghörtmer guet de hall vom schloss! megaa geil hahah mier sind definitiv bide experimentelle platte ahcho BLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLBL joaaa v.a. zum experimentelle teil han ich nöd so vill z sege. ich respektiers aber würkli nomal lose wettis au nöd. de ersti teil hani aber seehr cool gfunde, drum girs es knapps 4i
1.5
The first LP of this I actually liked pretty well. It actually feels like some of the stuff that influenced the late 90s early 00s jam bands. The second most experimental side kind of reminds me of the 270 Pink Floyd albums (*Uma* & *AHM*) that just kind of went too far over the edge If it was just the first record it would be a solid 4★ record the second one probably ★½. On the strength of the first album alone I'm going to keep it above the 3★ threshold, but not by much (6.33) ★★★
Apart from one awful song, this is cool. 3.5 stars
I think the first half of this is really good -- each of the four tracks on disc one is strong. However, it kind of gets a little to weird for its own good on disc two. "Halleluwah" is super cool and ahead of it's time. 3.5 stars.
Tago Mago can bago but Frank Sinatra is smarter! (3.5 stars mainly for Halleluhwah)
It started off so well and then got weird for weirdness’ sake.
I was surprisingly on board with this album, then Aumgn came on. Then Peking O. Ended up being quite a slog to get through.
Ok
What a weird sensation my head bobbing but I'm not actively causing this. Like breathing it's just happening. This is transcendent. In a castle, new Japanese vocalist. Album art on point. Not pointless long form improv, feels very tight and focused. I wonder if Miles every listened to this, or if they listened to Miles. The last two tracks ventured off somewhere above the stratosphere and the ionosphere, brother, into parts unknown. A little turned off since the first 75% of the album had deep groves and great direction. Improv needs to stretch, maybe I was on the wrong drugs at the time. 4 for me.
Better than Coldplay
I'm a fan of progressive rock, including this period of insanity which Pink Floyd participated in before 1973. I'll add this to my collection, but without a couple songs like Pekig O that in some sections seem like a mockery of music. 4/5
Geiler vibe
Schon schön psychodelisch und könnte teilweise auch Inspiration für radiohead sein, aber ist bisschen zu wenig catchy und verliert mich dadurch dann
pure weird goodness. at times intense, in all the right ways. some songs felt like a real trip. to some, but certainly not many ears, Tago Mago might be beyond enjoyable, and that arguably makes it even better. a solid experimental album to me.
Sometimes the freak out bullshit was even too extensive for my bullshit-tolerating ass (I’m looking at you “Aumgn”) but overwhelmingly they really know how capture a style, a feel, a vibe that is so authentically daring and free.
Just so-so
Pretty bad
Another shoutout to No Dogs In Space for opening my eyes to Can - I recommend. Incredible drumming by Jaki Liebezeit throughout, and Damo Suzuki definitely my preferred Can singer, even if things do get a little out of hand vocally at times. Overall, a welcome listen.
2/5
Very cool but annoyed by song length
Great
Interesting to say the least, doubtful I’ll explore more from Can. Wiki info was semi interesting to me
Essential.
Well this was an interesting experiment. Didn’t hate it
Some of the instrumental parts are really good. Soft and rhythmic with great guitar riffs. A lot of the time the singing is a bit to whiney or the band recorded on a but to much mushrooms for my preference. Kind of a middle of the road album as a whole.
Absolutely essential. You don't need to like this, but you do need a listen to it.
rather repetitive
9+ / 10
The music was surprisingly good. But whatever you call the second half of this was awful.
I was really looking forward to this, because I like every Can song I've heard in the past. But this sounded like one album-length song. It's a good song, but still...
Argh.. too bad
woof the end of this album gets so rough. I’ll give it a bit of leeway for the first two tracks, but it kinda goes downhill from there.
The first little bit of this album was solid, but then everything goes off the rails. Won’t be returning to this one.
What the hell happened to this album? It started out decent. The music was good but I wasn't crazy about the vocals. As we got deeper into the album it just devolved in to 20 minutes of nonsense. Not just 20 minutes of nonsense lyrics. It was just noise. What a weird spiral into a 1 star rating
Not my style.
Genius artistic voices way ahead of their time....but I kinda....don't care
Got too weird to finish
fine
I was in, until I really, really wasn't. Is this a Krautrock thing, where one half of an album is good and the other half is unlistenable noise? I swear, this keeps happening to me with Krautrock.
Yes it's experimental, ahead of its time, and very well performed and produced. But did I enjoy it after two listens? No. It starts off groovy alright, but it devolves into pure dadaism, which I respect, but more as a concept than a listening experience. Faves: Paperhouse
Can't
They are one of the most interesting bands ever. Each individual band member has a cool background, recording it in a castle in Germany, how they would play for hours and then hand splice the best parts into songs, Damo Suzuki. The biography about the band All Gates Open I highly recommend. The first disc is just perfect. The music seems to jump out of the recording at you. Perfect mix of experimental yet fun to listen to. The back experimental half of course has taken more listens to appreciate. But it almost creates a well where every time I listen I can find a new element to enjoy. It’s so influential to so many of my favorite bands and it’s still never been replicated. It doesn’t sound of its time or any time. 36th perfect album, 1086 albums in. Rating: 5.0
5/10 - Its impressive how the album devolves into madness over its hour runtime. Seriously, every song gets further and further from sanity until it brings you back with "Bing Me Coffee Or Tea". That being said, it is a little too mad for my taste. A+ for effort and I actually really enjoyed the first half of the album. However, always tapped out during Aumgn Although I didn't like it, I have mad respect for it Fav Tracks: Halleluhwah Heard before? ---–- ❌ Saved a Song? ----- ❌ Saved Album? --–-- ❌ Will Listen Again? -- ❌ Album Cover -------Pretty solid
The question with Can isn't "what the hell is this?" but "when the hell is this?" This music could have been made anytime between 1965 and next week. A great example of what Velvet Underground could have been if they stayed off the heroin and actually put some effort into being better musicians.
Weak and kinda strange vocal performance. Instrumentals were okay but felt empty half the time.
So long and so annoying. Closest thing to an Asian album is a Japanese singer in a German band.
Super raro. 2/10
I get that this is krautrock, with a very psychedelic sound, experimentation and some hypnotic grooves, but I don't find it that interesting. It truly is experimental, no doubt about it, and it's something I can appreciate. However, the ideas themselves don't really convince me. The first four songs and the final one are the more "normal" set of tracks. I say "normal" because, in comparison to the other two, they aren't that boldly left-field and come across as just psychedelic rock songs with a bit of experimentation and decent groves. Nothing that truly captured my attention though. Then there are "Aumgn" and "Peking O", which are incredibly weird. The first one is a seventeen minutes piece that is, honestly, quite boring. It has a tense start filled with screeching sounds, but then it becomes only chanting Aum (the sound people chant when doing yoga or relaxing exercises) with some sounds in the background and a lot of reverb. It is a long song that doesn't go anywhere, making it feel more daunting. The other track, "Peking O", is thankfully way more fun. It might be very messy, with a lot of goofy sounds, incoherent singing that almost feels like scat and a lack of sense and order, but at least is entertaining. Another point I want to add is that the production can be a bit rough at times. The first song is the worst victim, as it clips a lot. In the end, I don't mind it. I can't say anything blows my mind or interest me, but at least it is decent enough for me to like. Besides, if "Aumgn" wasn't here, I would like this way more.
It's a little much for me but I will give Can credit for really going out there. This is a true case of avant garde, and there are some tracks I did enjoy on their own. I (most people) would probably have a different, more positive, reaction to this after a few too many tokes of the lettuce.
Big fan of Tago Mago. Halleluwah is a trip in and of itself and should be on the list of 1001 songs everyone should hear before they die. There were a few different renditions of Can but this first iteration with Damo Suzuki at the helm is easily the best. The drums are absolutely enthralling; he's like a damn machine back there. Krautrock is so great and so interesting to me. Gonna need to find a good book on it sometime soon
Mesmerizing. I need to listen to more krautrock. I've listened to a good chunk of CAN and some Faust but I do encounter the issue when I strike out deeper into the genre that I just want to listen to Can again. And can you blame me? Tago Mago is great. The first half of the album lulls you deeper into the listen before the back half just super charges you with repetitive freakout stuff designed to expand your mind or set you running for the hi-fi's OFF button. You can always pick up new noises no matter how many times you listen.
Blind album and artist. This album was great until Aumgn, and i dont even know what i am listening to. Otherwise it was good and some tracks i was jamming to.
5/10
A real “mixed bag” as the kids say because on one hand I genuinely liked the first half. Very “ahead of its time” kinda-art pop. Catchy, cheeky, silly, fun. The second half, which is VERY long, falls into drone/ambient/noise. And while that’s still probably influential, it’s very much not my thing and goes on forever. Theres a 17 minute track that kinda sounds like Frankenstein getting sloppy toppy.
1/5
The first half was really great. Instrumentally dominant but enough vocals for my taste. Back half fell off a bit.
This album has a psychedelic vibe that I confess I didn't quite understand. It's not bad, but I can't feel it's right... I'll give it 3 stars.
This was always going to be an interesting listen. I absolutely love the album cover of Tago Mago, but going in I had no real idea what to expect from Can. There is a huge amount going on throughout this album. It pulls from rock, jazz, improvisation, and early-70s electronic music, with even hints of industrial noise throughout. The frustrating thing for me is that buried within all the experimentation are some genuinely brilliant moments. When the band lock into a groove, the music is hypnotic, inventive and really engaging. But for my taste, there is simply too much industrial-style noise and abstract experimentation, and a lot of it feels unnecessary. At times it sounds less like music and more like being stuck in the middle of a builder’s yard. Tracks like “Aumgn” really tested my patience, and the album’s length doesn’t help either. At over 70 minutes, it becomes exhausting and starts to drag badly. Favourite tracks: “Oh Yeah” and “Mushroom” were both great fun and showed the album at its best Least favourite tracks: “Aumgn” was a real struggle Album artwork: Brilliant album cover — I love the colours and the imagery
It's very cool, respect the craft, but it's just all a bit the same, or blends into the background for me personally.
Absolutely not.
The first half of this record is nearly a masterpiece. Really interesting soundscapes that I feel were massively influential on some of my favorite artists, with echoes of bands like Radiohead and Godspeed. I didn't hate the second half by any means, but certainly not songs I'll put on regularly.
The first four tracks are 5/5. The last three tracks are not.
Awfull
2nd Can album from the generator. Groovy, vibing to it 3/5
Good until it suddenly wasn’t
Strangely foreboding. Forebodingly strange.
Not an album I enjoy listening to, but respect for the sheer breadth of different styles in a single album. Psychedelic freaky jams that kind of sound like early dance music, some robotic funk, some droning stuff. Amazing to think this came out in 1971.
Some of these songs are stupidly too long. Lost my interest long before the end of the album
This album is like if a panic attack was boring
album #68 something i enjoy about this project is that it demonstrates that just because something is popular doesn't make it good and vice versa. with an average rating of approximately 2.5, i cannot articulate how much i loathe everyone that is rating this lower than chelsea girls. please, together we can make it the lowest rated album on this list. use your power xoxoxo anyways, this album is really cool and i enjoy how well the sound holds up. i find that it's mixing is a bit off putting, but otherwise it's a cool album that has a clear influence. ꩜ average track rating: 2.9/5 ꩜ favourite track(s): paperhouse, halleluhwah ꩜ least favourite track(s): oh yeah ꩜ album rating: ★★★☆☆ ꩜ number of albums left to review: 1,021 ꩜ number of albums from the list that i agree with being on the list: 34 (+1 Tago Mago) ꩜ albums from the list that I would consider on my list: 13 or 14 (i think i would consider this but i'm not sure LOL) ꩜ albums from the list I won't include on my list: 54 (or 55 depending)
I loved this. Yes they get jammy but it is so listenable and they really get into a grove. Listened a few times and they clearly influenced my favorite band OhSees/OCS/Thee Oh Sees. So far a head of its time it is hard to imagine what hearing this back in 1971 must have been like.
Krautrock is a funny name for a Genre. But I'll be damned if my ancestors stormed the beaches of Normandy just for me to listen to a knockoff version of psychedelic rock... 'Murica!
That was wierd. Not as bad as I was expecting... Parts, anyway. There were some very cool parts, and some very strange noisy parts.
It's experimental! Haha. Decent, though I prefer Ege Bamyasi.
Aumcgn est longue
Je sais pas j’ai écouté d’une oreille et je m'ennuyais donc on verra si ils ont droit à une réécoute un jour. Playlist pick : Bring me coffee or tea (le titre est cool)
Got completely lost in it. Good running music. Love the experimentation and fuck what everyone thinks. Record label: What language is this in? Can: Yes
Absolutely not my kind of thing, but I did enjoy it in parts. Favourite track: Mushroom
It was going to be two stars but any artist that records a track like ‘Aumgn’ and thinks “yeah this is a great piece to put out there” deserves a one star. ‘Aumgn’ and ‘Peking O’ are especially excruciating.
Really interesting. I'm not generally a fan of the experimental and jam-style experimentation, but something about this clicked with me. The rhythms and guitar mix was well done. 4
I love this band. We listened to Ege Bamyasi earlier and it was great. That album was 7 songs and 40 minutes long. This one is 7 songs 73 minutes. I wish this was more in the 40 minute range.
A trip for sure and a good one, very intresting listen. Hope for more like this. It felt like a true story that not a lot of albums can portrait for me.
This may be the strangest record on this list, which is saying a lot. The first four songs would be the strangest songs on any other record, but on Tago Mago, they are the regular ones. These songs are really interesting and fun to listen to. They are the kind of songs you have to pay attention to the whole way through though. They take you on a journey, and you need to follow the journey every step of the way, otherwise you'll get lost. But what a magical journey it is. That is until all semblance of sanity dissolves during the last two minutes of Halleluwah, which up to that point was a rather normal track. The following half hour I tried to follow, but sadly I got lost in the insanity ridden poisonous swamp of Tago Mago. Maybe it's good that it doesn't make sense, because if it did, it would probably mean I myself have descended into insanity. Then, the last song is just normal again? Like waking up from a strange trip, the titular song is what I then would say: Bring me Coffee or Tea. Overall a strange, but wonderful experience. Will I ever listen to it again? Perhaps if I ever have a free day to smoke copious amounds of weed and see if this time I make it through the swamp. Until then, I'll leave this experience where it belongs, my memory. 8/10.
Now this is a fun surprise, prog-rock from the 70s. Just psychedelic enough to get weird. Yet still built on the early rock stuff firmly rooted in blues. Is what I thought before I reached Aumgn. That song and Peking O probably should be their own album because what a trip that was, it felt like it utterly refused to be comprehensible or even make sense. Like they decided they needed to make Dadaist music, and yet I cannot hate it.
What started as an interesting but different album, turned completely apeshit by the time Aumgn was starting to establish itself, just to became even worse on Peking 0. Those 20+ minutes were just about unbearable. Didn’t hate the other 50 minutes
The first 40 minutes or so shuffle along in a jammy krautrock way (a new term for me- psychedelic, electronic influences) and then it gets weird- spacey, dissonant, noise type music. They could have left the weird off. This is a very non commercial album, with multiple songs running 15+ minutes noodling around on an ideas. Not good, not bad. It just is. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Need to think on this one more
I have to be in a very specific mood to like this album. If I enter that mood later, I will re-rate this. Aumgn is fun when I am in that mood.
situationally a 5. It is amazing objectively but I can see myself getting frustrated with this in the wrong mood. A 4 is fair here.
shit this might be the best new discovery for me so far. starts off so funky, almost danceable and slowly drags you down into dreary ambient madness, the manic drums and echolalia, then tucks you in with another nice groovy track. the double album curse has been broken (but likely to return, at least until we get to the wall or songs in the key of life). easy 5
who the fuck samples these drums? was it ciccone youth?
Love CAN, not my favorite though
This is definitely pretentious nonsense, to a degree; the B-side has two lengthy sound collage pieces designed to be disliked. And yet the front half of this record is just so magnificent; transcendent, another-plane-of-existence stuff. I greatly prefer Future Days, and even Ege Bamyası, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't think this was brilliant. Can's original vocalist, Malcolm Mooney, now lives in Calgary. I interviewed him for the student newspaper at age 19. What tangled webs we weave.
I love weird shit. Would it be a stronger album if it ended at the halfway mark? Probably. The second half is rough, but I still found things to enjoy within it. Did not care for the vocals at all and would have been fine if this were fully instrumental. Reminded me of Herbie Hancock, but not as good as Herbie Hancock. Favorite Track - Halleluhwah Least Favorite Track - Peking O ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Load of hippy Germans making a right racket. 5 st]ars.
One of the most influential German bands alongside Neu! and Kraftwerk. I attended their induction in the German Echo Hall of Fame by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
I'll concede that this band is ahead of its time. I found this unsettling a bit monotonous. I'm hard to please, today, I think.
The first half was pretty good, the second half was virtually unlistenable.
Mega weird, but I like it
Rating: 4.9/5 Short Review: Primal, hypnotic, and completely untethered. Feels less like songs and more like a band discovering consciousness in real time. Chaotic, repetitive, immersive… and weirdly transcendent. Favorite Track: “Halleluhwah.” Just an unbelievable groove. It keeps going until your brain stops resisting and fully gives in.
The front and back were both fun but I got lost in the middle.
So it’s started off as some neat prog rock but the spice just kept cranking up until we hit full spice. Never go full spice.
Album #159 Can: Tago Mago Growing up, I was always a fan of classic rock, and as I started aging, I found myself seeking out more mature music; being a kid who only listened to classic rock, nothing seemed more mature and intellectual than prog rock. After going down the rabbit hole and listening to all of the great English prog rock bands, one name kept appearing amongst the discourse, which was Can. I hadn’t listened to much music outside of the U.K or North America, so I didn’t know what to expect. I decided to listen to their album with the can of vegetables as the cover since it caught my eye. I think I lasted about five minutes. I just wasn’t ready for experimental music at that point. However, since I am now much more versed in many different styles of music, and I have continued to hear the praises of Can sung, it was only around a month ago that I decided to give the band another chance. I opted to listen to Future Days, and I was very pleasantly surprised by just how much I enjoyed the album; it was a sound which I didn’t think existed in the early 70s, and a sound which I did not expect to hear from Can, who I had perceived as being harshly experimental. So that brings me to today, when I received Tago Mago, I was feeling a lot more optimistic than I would have been had I not heard Future Days, and the first half of the album served well to enable my optimism. The first four tracks are nothing short of brilliant, and it is no surprise to me that they decided to expand further on that more psychedelic and chill sound in the future. However, the Can that I feared decided to rear its ugly head in the second half of the album. I am certainly willing to accept that I’m just a simpleton who doesn’t understand the brilliance of Aumgn and Peking O, but that doesn’t change the fact that I just found them to be plainly annoying to listen to. With experimental music, I feel like most of the time I can appreciate what they are going for, even if it isn’t traditionally enjoyable. But here, my best guess is that they thought the first half was too beautiful, so they wanted to juxtapose it with something ugly. The last track is a return to form, but ultimately, if I’m going to rate the album as a whole, I need to dock points for half an hour of nonsense, even though there are still 45 minutes of greatness. I expected more from you, Mark E. Smith. Best Songs: Paperhouse, Halleluwah, Mushroom Worst Song: Peking O Score out of 10: 7
The mumbling over loud instrumental, and extremely long songs was not very good. However, several riffs were great
Nahhh
8.5/10
This had decent/mediocre stuff in the beginning but then quickly diverted to garbage.
I know it was an innovative album for it's time. It sounds like it!
So cool
359/1001. Listening tot his album in the car with my parents reminds me, that there is music out there which they could have been listening as young adults, but that never happenwd and never will happen. For this thought alone, it deserves either a 1 or a 5. For me, a natural five.
This felt like finding the precursor to Tool, Swans and Xiu Xiu all in a day. Excellent album.
The first time I heard the term "krautrock" it was in reference to the Wilco song "Spiders." Every time I've since heard something described as such I've expected something like that song and have been severely disappointed. This album is...well, I felt like someone in a museum looking at one of those bullshit paintings with like two lines and saying "my kid could do that!" ""Halleluhwah" saves this from being a 1 star album, and just barely.
I'm running about 5 albums behind so I put this on in the car, no idea who or what they are/were, the genre or the date. A totally blind listen. The first of the double albums is psychedelic, trippy indie Madchester. 'Halleluhwah' which takes up the whole of side 2 is a straight rip off of Stone Roses with a Shaun Ryder impression to boot. But wait...this was recorded in 1971?! This is YEARS ahead of its time. Tell me neither Shaun or the Roses never heard this and I'll tell you you're a liar. The second album is totally different. More a random science experiment. Eno-esque (so still ahead of its time - just 5 years rather than 25!) A little less relatable that the first album but I liked it nonetheless. TLDR; This is 2 albums in one package. Album 1 : 5* Album 2 : 3*
Drugs much? Lol
Une fois dedans c’est très bien
Fantastic album, loved every minute from Paperhouse to Bring Me Coffee or Tea - even Aumgn, but the reason I am going out to buy this is Halleluwah! Wow.
Sounds like an album I would have made had I been left alone with a tape recorder and Casio keyboard when I was 12. I’m sure it has more artistic merit than that. But it just wasn’t fun to listen to.
The first two songs were so much better than yesterday’s album, despite the mumbling, I was thinking this might be a three; however, that rating dove sharply the further into the hour-plus album I went. Props to the percussion, but the rest is experimentally mental.
Overlong but very interesting. They have better records (more concise)
I've known of this album for eons but for some reason, this is my first time listening to it! And what a delight it was! Groovy and a little psychedelic, even the longer songs don't feel dragged out. Now it's off to Discogs to get a copy on vinyl!
Very boring. Random noise condensed into a single album.
Really not for me. Seemed very loose and held together by random screeching
*1971. German krautrock. *Experimental and avant garde, but also pretty 70s jam band and/or mainstream at times... *3 songs over 10 mins on a studio rock album is wild. *Someone in the Reviews said this is German Pink Floyd, and that seems accurate. *I didn't necessarily dislike it, but I tried listening to this several times and just kept finding myself turning it down or just tuning out. I guess that means I didn't like it, but I kept trying, so there's that. RATING - 6.5/10
early tracks are great. then drifts into what almost sounds like pre industrial noise.
Doesn't start so bad with Paperhouse etc. Halleluwah is also quite interesting although very long. But Aumgn and Peking seems to be songs made to fill the album. As a whole not really an album worth listsening to.
Not a fan of this album at all...
Fun classic rock jams, plus 30 minutes of whatever the heck "Aumgn" and "Peking O" are.
Good Lord, this was terrible
I really enjoy Can but this is not my favorite album by them.
Yes we Can.
Didn’t get this one. Didn’t find it interesting and didn’t get the concept of there was one.
Wenz: Hmm, it is a no no for me 😅 couldn’t vibe with it. Shermz: haha it’s just noise 🥲
I'm not on the wavelength with this one, maybe its age makes it obsolete easier than other rock experiments and krautrock albums around its time, it feels like eccentric rhythmic background music, still cool but I wish for something more
Ever since I rediscovered Krautrock, the band CAN has been a household name for me. I’ve heard some amazing tracks by them. Their music was extraordinary back then, and it still is today. Rarely have I heard anything so innovative that still deserves to be listened to today. Yet there’s also a lot of music on this album that makes you wonder what strange substances were consumed before or during the recording. Some of it was just too harsh for me; perhaps this is also a clue to the drugs that were used. 4/5
some nice background music, but Peking O is unlistenable, fck that
So funky and psych. Can is one of those bands that when I first learned about them, I was instantly hooked from their creative harmonies and sounds. The compositions are unique, curious and engaging. It’s a type of music that I love hearing because it displays the potentials of music production, and it sounds great! Big ups to this record.
Together with early Kraftwerk and Neu! CAN belongs absolutely to the pioneers of electronic music. I think they laid a foundation for the later (better) EDM genres like house and techno.
I'd be honored to give this a five, because it is mostly awesome, but there's that bit with all the grunting and whatnot and that sort of goes on for too long.
80% straight bullshit 20% acceptable 1.5/5
Simply one of the greatest Avant-Garde albums ever made. You can actually listen to it and not get bored
5/5. Tago Mago by the influential Krautrock band Can is probably one of the least accessible albums on this generator and its reception is likely quite divisive on here if I had to guess. But I love this album. For the sake of this review, the seven tracks here can easily be split into two halves. The first half (which encompasses the first four tracks) is very groove-based and jammy, where the drums really feel like the main character of the music. Especially on the 18 minute highlight of the album “Halleluwah” which has this locked in groove that slowly builds in intensity in its first 6 or so minutes before dropping out and then building up again. It’s the second half of the album however (the final three tracks) where I imagine this album really loses a lot of people. As the music from this point on kinda just abandons structure entirely. It begins to feel like the musical equivalent of a bad acid trip. Whether that be the noisy drone of “Aumgn” or the atonal keyboards of “Peking O.” And these are for sure not songs that I’ll put on at public events or that I listen to in isolation from the album regularly, but they are still fascinating and sonically engrossing experiments from a band that was pushing the limits of what rock at the time could sound like. One of those albums where I can completely understand how someone would despise it, but I personally find myself completely on-board with its uncompromising vision every time I listen to it.
Танго манго с сатаной
I liked it in the first half but the back half got a little avant garde for me
What on earth… I think I liked the first and last songs I don’t know. Two Virgins about to pop off in this list at some point if this is the standard.
Makeeta, onko Japania vai mitä. Kokeellista rokkia ja tällaista menevää meininkiä.
No me dieron ganas de escucharlo de lo tedioso que era pero hice el esfuerzo, no me gustó para nada
602/1001 2026.04.28
I made the mistake of listening to this in the bath, and it was not relaxing at all. Not good.
wow. the middle was scary.
Honestly starts extremely promising with some very nice instrumental passages, but as it starts getting more experimental and weird it starts losing me
mi amoré. mi adoré.
Not quite jam band, but felt like a bunch of guys just kind of experimenting with stuff, including vocals. Wasn't really in the mood for this type of music and halfway through it just felt like it was going to take forever to be over
The first few tracks were not really bad, but the rest were too experimental for me. Besides, I don't like the singer's voice.
Very experimental but I really enjoyed it. Especially the first half
Another artist I've never listened to, but also never heard of these guys. "Paperhouse" didn't fill me with much confidence for the rest of the album, as the vocals were weak against the psychedelics rock beats; Suzuki kind of mumbles against the scratchy guitar chords, before limply shouting and ultimately drowned out by the drums. "Mushroom" did a better job, but not by much, with Suzuki continuing to be the pain point for me. "Oh Yeah" improves still on Mushroom, with Suzuki shining when singing in Japanese. "Halleluhwah", with it's deeply repetitive drums, was getting tiresome by the 3rd minute, so to see that it was potentially going to drone on for another 15 minutes was an absolute killer. I was disappointed, but not wrong. Even when Suzuki begins to sing, arguably better than he did even on the previous tracks, the drums continue to roll on in the same fashion with anything added barely registering. This is even more frustrating than Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Spiritualized... where I found myself waiting for this to be over rather than still searching for something in the music that I can grasp onto with joy. "Aumgn" was better to my ears than some of the rest of it, but I blame this on listening to similar audio in video games. In fact, for that 'foreboding ancient temple level' in your action RPG, this track was pretty perfect. "Peking O" felt like it served no purpose at all; it was just a cacophony of random noise and shouting. There is *something* to like in this album, it's just small and scattered haphazardly across all of it's tracks, like a hummingbird that dived head first into a woodchipper. Big shame, I hope other works from CAN are more satisfying. ******************************************************************************* Not wanting to simply dismiss the likes of "Aumgyn" or "Peking O" as just noise for the sake of noise, I did a little digging on Reddit and found a small discussion through the Krautrock subreddit. A user on there described these tracks and most of the work on another one of their albums "Ege Bamyasi" as 'Sonic Explorations'. Whilst I am always in appreciation of this type of experimentation with much any art form, to release it as a commercial album seems an odd choice. Despite this, I can well imagine that a fan of their work would happily pay for experiments, much like I have in the past with video games by buying into the 'Amnesia Fortnight' created by Double Fine Studio.
I'm assuming this is one of those weirdo albums that people pretend to like in order to act more intelligent than other people (think: Throbbing Gristle, Kollaps, etc.). But honestly? This was weird in the best way. Aumgn can fuck right off though, I did not need 17 minutes of filler. Makes no sense why the Germans love to include shit like that. Nevermind, this album is shit. The first three songs lulled me into a false sense of security, this is just more industrial slop that was disguised as cool German rock at the start.
Wow, what an album! This is the genre-defining krautrock album, but it also has elements of prog rock that was just beginning to take root at the time like the rapid tempo changes on “Oh Yeah”. This album was way ahead of its time and while it was never replicated, one can easily hear the influence on bands who were later influenced like PIL, Sonic Youth, Radiohead and many others. Yes, it is intrinsically challenging to hear a band flip everything that traditionally defines music on its head, but that is also what makes it so damn interesting. Textures replace melody. Lyrics defined by intonation rather than words. All this is within a psychedelic wrapping that envelops the listener within different, sometimes uncomfortable, moods. This album is an artistic masterpiece. Like much modern art, it will not resonate with everyone. However, those who accept the challenge will likely be rewarded with a deeper appreciation on each subsequent listen. At least that is what happened to me.
This has a 4/5 (8/10) on RYM but it’s nowhere near the score I would give it. 4/10 I didn’t like it.
I have never heard this band before. They have some great beats. Good stuff.
This was fun, but let's not meet.
First half: oh nice, some funk and jazz and rock going on, cool experimental beats Second half: where am I. what's happening. the Void has taken me
This is so fucking weird and insane and I love it. The first half of this album is actually pretty catchy, funky, and relatively easy to listen to. In the second half, though, this album goes completely off the rails with "Peking O." being the prime example, with the singer just blabbering nonsense over these weird rhythms and noises. It got a good laugh out of me just because of the absurdity of that track. With "Bring Me Coffee or Tea" the album closes off "normal", similar sounding to the songs on the first half. I am not really sure how much I will return to this, but this was such a fun and interesting listen that it deserves a high score. It was also so cool to hear how this record influenced many of the artists that I love today; really, for 1971, this album is so ahead of its time.
I enjoyed this better than I thought I would. Pretty groovy at times and completely atonal at others. I'm going with a 3 for now but I could see this one growing on me with repeated listens.
I liked this but not sure I'd listen again.
The first half is kinda decent then it gets all wiggy woggy drug crazy 4/10
1/10 This is the first one I didn't manage to get through. Simply not for me.
I really enjoyed most of this album, the driving beats and the irreverent lyrics were unique and interesting. The songs Aumgm and Peking O towards the end of the album were long and pretty far out there that they were kind of a slog to listen to, but the rest of the album I thought was great.
Not keen on this. One of the most influential albums of all time? Some stuff was ok, but then some absolute bollocks.
Not my favorite but cool experimental
an album not meant to be listened to i can respect it, but cannot give it a higher rating
Es una delicia de album muy buen sonido
diosss es inescuchable
Weird and long, nothing really interesting. Moving on. Best song: Paperhouse
Solid kraut rock album, but for my money I will always be a Faust man.
É absolutamente impressionante para os anos 70. Só consigo imaginar o que as pessoas sentiram ouvindo a faixa Aumgn.
The first 3 tracks were tolerable, but by track 4 you’re getting aggravated, agitated or aggressive- none of which is a good thing. You start skipping to get through the second have of this drug addled noise fest. I guess a plus 1 because the first few tracks weren’t abysmal.
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Didn't like the start, picked up around tracks 3 and 4, which i thought were good. Gave up at peking. Too much wailing and had turned into an avant-garde mess
Wants to be the rambling ethereal 60s trippy rock but everything is way too long and dull. Not a one star but not something I’ll ever visit again.
I initially thought I was gonna give this a 5 the way it kicked off but it tapered into too much chaos. Still worthwhile
I liked this for a while and then i got sick of it, Consistent with how I feel about krautrock
i don't really recall feeling anything which usually means a 2. suppose i could delve deeper but i don't have the time or willpower for that
У меня язык не повернётся назвать это музыкой
The first 4 songs were nice, kind of lush in a weird way, yet great background music 4 stars! I was thinking I don't know why my friend said I would hate this album. Then you have the last 3 songs or 2nd part of the album and it is like all those nice qualities were abandoned to be "innovative" or "out of the norm". I am a purist who will listen to albums fully through (the level of listening varies to be real), but I will never listen to the last 36 minutes of this album again. They should have just made the one album and included those other songs as bonus tracks. 3/5
Umm…seemed promising, some unique jams through its own kind of mash-ups, but ultimately proved just to be mish-mash
Okay, this might turn out to be a long review - I’m not sure. First of all, a very pleasant surprise - it struck me as yet another one of those bands and albums way ahead of their time, music from the year my wife was born (yes, it’s true, how time flies!) but that sounds as if it came out today :-o Second - I realized, once again, much to my regret, that there’s nothing new under the sun (as Rádio Macau, a Portuguese band I invite you to check out, sings so well): this album has Gorillaz, Happy Mondays, Radiohead - in short, I heard so many things that made me ask, “Wait, isn’t this…?!?!? WTF?!?!?" So, once again, way ahead of its time. The rating can only be, logically, a resounding 10/10 Bring on the next one ;-)
groovy
I'm probably never going to listen to this again, and I'm as annoyed as everyone else at how it falls apart in the middle, but the good parts of this album are good enough to warrant a decent overall score.
this album tricked me with the three opening tracks before becoming another "well at least they're having fun playing their instruments, I'm happy for them, but I'm not sure why I need to be here for it" kind of album that said something about this works for me in a way a lot of the other albums we've had like it so far. like I don't love it but it's not just people making noise someone else's problem
Well, it was interesting
Not as bad as I was expecting, with a summary that says "experimental." But still unenjoyable. I think the lead singer would have been better suited to a punk band.
Solid rock music, not a lot of vocals. Good background rock.
Do not waste your time
Largely uninteresting and just drags on and on.
Too sober for this album. 2.5
First listen
Enjoyed all of this except Aumgn and Peking O (too many mad sounds and utterances). Can see they were pretty influential. Paper house and Bring me Coffee or Tea were good. Hadn’t realised the JAMC version of Mushroom was a cover. Oh Yeah a bit Radioheady. And Halleluhwah a bit Sean Ryder/ Happy Mondayish. Would be 4 if it wasn’t for the 2 weirder ones.
I was quite enjoying this until the last couple of tracks. Up to then it was experimentally good.
As a Can-Stan (my No.1 German/Japanese Axis Band) would love to go 5 here but it does drop off a bit of a cliff after Halleluhwah. However that and Oh Yeah are one of my fav 25 min stints of any album and one I often hit up. Jaki's kinetic, motorik beats on these two are incredible as are Damo's vocals. Love that Oh Yeah has verses with back maskin vocals as well as English and Japanese but due to his often incomprehensible lyrics it's really hard to tell which is which sometimes. For some reason the delivery often reminds me of Del Toros "hand me the keys you f*cking cocksucker" in Usual Suspects. And then Halleluhwah - the way he saunters back to the mic to deliver the "Oh", Fela like in it's timing, 7.50 in is brilliant. Not only did Shaun William Ryder base his whole career off this song he then had the temerity to name one of his main EPs after it, minus the esoteric spelling. But, full credit to Ryder for spending his no doubt ill gotten gains in obscure vinyl record stores in the basement and forgotten corners of the Arndale shopping center.
I like the openers of paper house, mushroom and oh yeah. Halleluwah is my all-time favourite 18 min song and offers up an eclectic mix of grooves Then, unfortunately, one has to sit through the barely listenable Aumgn and Peking O, which if I wasn’t committed to this task, I absolutely wouldn’t have done. This makes the final track when it arrives somewhat of a release, despite it being merely quite good. Better than a 2 given its high points, never a 4 with its experimental misses. I therefore have to land somewhere in the middle.
Well, that was quite something. Feels like good music to work to or get high to. Don't know if I would be putting it on for a roadtrip. The description claims no wasted notes. Hmmmm. Can appreciate, but in a certain place.
M'eh
This was one of those rare instances where I knew absolutely nothing about an album (or the artist it was made by) upon assignment and didn't bother to check the community reviews, so I had no choice but to go into CAN's Tago Mago with an open mind. Sides A & B weren't too bad – I wasn't super into Damo Suzuki's vocal style and had a hard time making any of the lyrics out (not just the Japanese ones, the English ones too), but I could appreciate the talent behind the solid psychedelic instrumentation on show. Sides C & D were a different story. "Aumgn" is effectively 18 minutes of ambient noise buildup with no payoff and the final two tracks aren't much better (though "Peking O" got a nice chuckle or two out of me, in a similar fashion to something like 100 gecs' "I Need Help Immediately"). Tago Mago's second half isn't without some pockets of worthwhile musicality, but there's nothing worth sitting through its whole 36 minutes to hear. The full album isn't the worst I've been assigned, but I would never consciously recommend it to someone I want to remain friends with. Highlights: Oh Yeah, Halleluhwah
Let’s face it. Experimental music in this case is just a fancier way of saying: jamming in the hopes that something thrown at the wall sticks. While there were some promising moments early on here, it just kept going downhill. I tried. But I just CAN’t.
This sounds like mediocre drugs. 1.75
Actually dug this at the beginning. Then dug it less. And then it kept going. 2.25/5
Hmmmmmmmmmm
en mode rattrapage donc passer directement de chants a cappella sud-africains to this ominous experimental bullshit gave me severe whiplash
First half is vibrant and deserve a solid 4, while the second half can hardly be qualified as music as it sounds like random noise and screams. It feels like they've recorded that for a movie ! On average it gets a 3
Gets a 4 for the first side. The less said about the second side, the better...
Tago Mago is borinago
Can's masterpiece. I guess it's really two albums, with the second obviously more experimental, and less accessible, than the first, but both are great. Even listening now it sounds like the future, so god knows what it was like in '71.
Tried to get into it but couldn't. Too long.
Albums like this is why I'm doing this whole thing. Great find.
2/10
I really feel like I’m missing something here. It’s pretty droning and repetitive. The 4th minute and on of Oh Yeah was pretty good, Halleluhwah was pretty good. Didn’t enjoy the rest much
Was tempted to give it a 3 star - it's not really bad but is just extremely repetitive sounding and just is way too long. I mean "Aumgn" is more than 17 minutes long - I think it would have worked much better at the 1/3 the length. Same with "Halleluhwah" . Someone should have said no to Hildegard Schmidt,
Mushroom head? Mushroom head! Yeah, this certainly was experimental and I did not enjoy being experimented on.
That was something. Tanged from pretty cool to WTF is this?
4/10
Incredible, groundbreaking, yet-to-be-matched, outstanding. I don't think any adjectives I can use will make this album justice. This is the sound of the right group of people coming together and achieving their potential. Everything here sounds pristine: the grooves, the song progressions, Damo Suzuki's ecletic performance. There's even little hooks here and there, even this is clearly not an accessible record. I can definitely understand this isn't for everyone, and I agree some of the more experimental moments like "Peking O" can be a bit much, but I'd say anyone with a taste for psychedelia will get something out of this album with songs such as "Mushroom", and through that entrypoint a whole new musical world awaits. Truly a must-listen. Key tracks: Mushroom Oh Yeah Halleluhwah
Not my vibe
This was awful
If casual listening is a thing then this is what competitive listeners listen to.
Not my fav but nothing unpleasant