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It's a great album if you're into 70s rock. That makes it a bit dated, but still very good to chill to.
Not only is this an amazing album because it’s early krautrock, but also because of its groundbreaking experimental aspects. These guys really knew how to create a sound that’s both trance-like and capable of drawing you in, taking you on a ride. Many of the tracks have a repetitive nature with a very atmospheric and ambient soundscape. This album is also groundbreaking for early electronic music, with its use of electronic elements, conventional instruments, and even non-conventional ones. This album has a lot of layers, and you can tell the band was meticulous about how every single layer and element came together as a whole. Yet, they also found a way to make each layer shine on its own, giving the album a lot of color and texture.
Well… I was never bored.
79/100. Really experimental and bold, with some incredible instrumentation. You can tell they're pushing boundaries and just vibing in their own universe.
I really prefer the warmth of this over Pink Floyd. It’s good to hear musical exploration that is both experimental, weird and funny. Rhythmically very engaging in the first half.
4.3 Wow. It's rare an album makes me say "holy shit" when it's new to me. I cannot believe this was 1971, I'd have thought 15-20 years later at least. It's *so* ahead of its time. The first 3 tracks are completely groundbreaking. Setting the course for alternative rock, industrial metal, and everything Radiohead did after OK Computer in quick succession. It's absolutely incredible. Fourth track is fine, though I think not enough ideas in it to warrant an entire side. The second LP though, I can see why they wanted to cut it initially. Commendable, but on a listening basis you have to pretty much ignore it each time you put it on. Very last track might get a pass, but by then you've long switched off. I've excluded it from this rating completely, first LP is enough to go off. I think if Hallelujah was a bit better we'd be looking at 5* territory. Great find.
Interessant.. Er fra før av lite bevandret i Krautrock, men dette var ikke verst. Tidvis fikk jeg litt Motorpsyko-vibber. Må utforske dette litt mer.
This is an OK album. It's wildly inconsistent in terms of quality and could benefit immensely from the removal of Peking O, which is annoying bullshit noise. At best, it's groove-laden experimental rock with excellent playing and a trippy vibe. At worst, it's just random noises with no real rhyme or reason. It's an excellent album, however it loses a star for Peking O.
Giving this a second listen was a huge payoff. This isn't meant to be listened to as a set of songs, it's way more a vibe to get lost in. The lyrics being across a few languages and a wordsalad is the same thing we're getting out of the instruments at times. Eminently funky. The second half gets weirder, especially on Peking O but Halleluhwah is a hell of a jam. Mushroom is also solid. Aumgn is so easy to get lost in.
Pushing the boundaries so far, that it sounds like it’s from the future.
Paperhouse Mushroom Oh Yeah Halleluwah
After initially giving this a 3, I had to come back months later and change it to a 4 because I find myself constantly coming back to this album. I tend to skip Aumgn and Peking O - two songs which take up about 30 minutes, keeping this from 5 stars. Everything else is in constant rotation.
I honestly enjoyed this one. It is quite a lot to handle, true. But I came away from this asking questions like "Did Can invent hip hop?" ("Mushroom") and "Did Can invent grindcore?" ("Peking O"). I mean - this album is all over place, in a great way. I can live without "Aumgn," but even that song has its moments. This whole record is prime sampling territory. I can absolutely see why this album is here - it influenced a massive amount of music that came after it. FOUR STARS
It was pretty cool
Yup, this Is good. Sounds quite ahead of its time to me. Not surprised that a lot of artists quote it as an influence.
Man, such a good weird ass band with some good ass jams. Really inventive and psychedelic playing. Some of the songs are a little out there but for kraut rock bands this is really quite the debut with their new (now I think more famous) japanese front man.
First few seconds: feels a bit clunky, instrumentals feel disconnected After a couple minutes: Actually, I quite like this. Everything is coalescing and sucking you in a sonic hypnosis. The first few tracks: I am feeling more and more connected to this album. "Oh Yeah" has a sadness and depth I can't put my finger on, and the rhythm sections of the tracks just get better and better. From the description, I know that this is German in origin, but the nature of the music and vocals make it difficult to pinpoint the roots - the vocalist (the wonderful Domo Suzuki) sings in Japanese, and I'm intrigued. I pause to read up on this, and see that Can worked hard to incorporate world music elements. One of my favorites, "Halleluhwah", comes on and I am beginning to grasp the out of world experience that the album is striving for, really emulating the "kosmische Musik", or cosmic music - the alternative name of krautrock. I am floating in space. I am nothing but a speck in this vast universe. And yes, sometimes, you need almost 20 minutes to mentally get there. Here I am, thinking I'm in this fun adventure in deep space. Oh, how I was fooled. "Aumgn" comes on and this cosmic rock is actually cosmic horror. This is the most terrifying track I have ever pressed play on. I cannot finish it for the fear of demon posession. This is not the fun kind of satan worship. This is that Event Horizon BS. Especially if you watched Event Horizon as a kid who legit believed in demons. "Peking O" provides some relief and maybe is supposed to be a transformation track after whatever type of trauma "Aumgn" tries to instill. And then, I love "Bring Me Coffee or Tea" as kind of a cute existential rebirth track. I'm not familiar with Can, but I can see the genius in this. Sometimes there is a disconnect between respecting artistry and actually liking it. But I enjoyed this, with the exception of "Aumgn" which I will avoid for the rest of my life (and why this is 4/5 and not 5/5).
This was cool. Listened to another album right after this one was done.
This mostly rocked. Good grooves on some of the more straight forward stuff. Vocals on Peking O were basically unlistenable, but other than that I enjoyed the more experimental parts as well. Tough one to really sum up, and definitely going to require multiple listens to really get. I like an album that makes me think.
Ізі 4. Топ гурт, перша половина мегатоп, ідеальний краутрок. Але оці джемові всраті композиції я люблю менше, тому не 5. Future days поставив би впевнену пʼятірку.
The rhythm section on Halleluhwah…I could get lost inside of that on a lengthy loop. This album is the rock equivalent of jazz…long form, experimental song structures, and a fearlessness with their songwriting. The drumming on parts of this album feels inspired by Art Blakey, a jazz musician that I’ve fallen deeply in love with this past year. The energy is kinetic. It stirs something forgotten, ancient and passionate in my soul. Elsewhere, Can reminds me of their peers, Neu!, as on the 17 1/2 minute trippy ambient track, Aumgm. This could be described as prog but it’s more sinister psych rock and parts jam band than that. It is long, but it is justified. This album feels like a strange gift you didn’t know you needed until you received it.
interesting
This album has high highs and low lows. I loved the jamming on "Halleluhwah" but my God was the droning and drums on the other tracks hard to get through. This should score a film.
A crazy one
Well that took a turn. The first three tracks were accessible and easy to listen to and then things got experimental. It's weird but good. I can't give it 5 stars but can give it fours stars with some bleeps and whistles
Pretty rad stuff overall. There's a few tracks that got kinda annoying, but super chill & jammy album.
I have a sneaking suspicion that there is stark contrast in the wear and tear of the first and second album in the collections of the 5-star Tago Mago people.
This was the first album I've pulled that I knew pretty much nothing about. If you had asked me, I would have guessed that Can was a jam band rather than Krautrock. And that's the spirit in which I enjoyed most of the album. I can see why it's influential and can imagine listening to several of the tracks again. But man, "Ajman" and "Peking O" put me off -- I like me some crazy noises and I couldn't keep track of what was going on. If I listen more will I figure it out, or is this pretty much how everyone feels about the record? I had thought this might be three stars but re-listened to the rest of the tracks later and really liked them, which pulled it up for a 4.
3.8 2x worth a few more listens
First 4 songs are great. 5 and 6 are cheeks and 7 is okay.
Never heard of them but happy to have gotten this one. What a wild ride! Great jam-bandish style classic rock with an edge and a flare for the dramatic.
I guess you have to be in the right mood or have the right substances to appreciate this Album, the way it deserves. First couple of tracks are way ahead of their time and are foreshadowing later alternative and experimental music. After that it gets totally weird and hard to listen to. But the closer is great again. Fav: Bring me coffee or tea
this album feels strikingly like a mix between RHCP and the Beatles SPLHC - lots of groovy funky rhythms and grooves mixed with psychedelic reverb, distortion, and delay that layers on top of each other and creates unsettling yet someone chill vibes.
Un bel album de musique bizarre, on aime ça ! On remonte assez loin dans l’histoire de la musique prog, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Genesis et les autres grands n’ont pas encore la réputation qu’ils ont aujourd’hui. Et là, c’est la scène allemande qu’on entend. C’est assez différent de la scène britannique. En tous les cas, c’est à réécouter (cet album) et explorer (la discographie de Can et la scène de krautrock).
Great band. One of the great German electronic bands of the 70's. Well worth a listen
I enjoy Can in general, but tend to prefer the motorik beat side of Krautrock, and because of this lean into the songs where they hit a groove rather than a freak-out. Also, whenever I listen to the song Mushroom, I'm reminded that the main guitar lick sounds like the Monkees' Not Your Steppin' Stone.
Experimental. Droning psychedelia. Jammy. My kind of stuff. I was really glad to have been introduced to this and surprised it’s taken this long. I dig it, tremendously. It just oozes “cool”.
3.5 - Good
106/1001 CAN - Tago Mago Heard before? ❎ Revisit? ✅ Bar the middle part of Peking O, the proggy psychedelia really worked for me. Yes it's strange and weird, but on the whole, I really enjoyed this.
Love the creativity on this very unique and doesn’t get old.
Can are just in a league of their own. They can lock into a groove and keep it going for eternity and I never get bored of it. Damo Suzuki is the band’s secret weapon though; his voice and singing style really elevate this music over any other krautrock band. Ege Bamyasi is my favourite Can album so it’s a shame to not see it on the list, but I enjoyed revisiting this one.
There's so much cool stuff going on here that it's pretty easy to ignore how long it is. I feel like because of its length that it does meander a fair bit, but it still has countless moments that are super unique and really interesting and quirky, that I can easily forgive it draggin on a bit in some other moments.
I was absolutely loving this until the experimental sections. I can appreciate the experimentation, but it doesn't mean I have to enjoy listening to it. I'm glad they figured out how to make these sounds so that future bands could figure out how to actually make them sound good.
i'm an intellectual!
Great songs, just way too long
Interesting but you can't just hear it. You got to listen to it.
I feel it*~
some extremely long songs... overall it is a vibe, some fun songs some strange, would not necessarily listen to it again though
4.0
This fucks
This was a wild ride, and one that i enjoyed so much I was wavering on give a 5-star rating. The utterly bizarre Aumgn and Peking O soundscapes lost me a little, but elsewhere there was some absolutely banging drums and cool guitar solos
Delightfully nonsensical
Can it get more interesting? No. Riff on riff. Compositional improvisational. Calling it Krautrock seems to miss the point of its elaborate strangeness. Almost as if they forcibly intend you to listen to every note to try to figure out what's going on.
Disc one: five stars. Funky, groovy, trippy fun. The drums get me every time. Disc two: two stars. I dig avant-garde music, but boy, that disc tests my patience. The last song is cool, though. This gets a 4 because I dig disc one so much.
I don’t know man. Fun psych and proto-noise? I can hang. Got a bit long in the tooth towards the end. But still a good listen.
Maybe my favourite album by Can, hallelujah is pretty much the perfect kraut rock song
Cet album m’a surpris à chaque détour. C’est jazzé mais brutal, obscur et anarchique, peu soucieux de son horizon d’écoute. J’ai vraiment aimé quand même, l’inattendu, l’exploration
This is the first Can album I had heard. I enjoy their following few releases more, but this is a great starting point. A few tracks might filter out some listeners though. *Heard before
Probably not many people's preference, but I really like it. It's the same type of work that Frank Zappa was doing with Yellow Snow in the latter part of his career, another album not to be missed.
I heard so much Radiohead in this and I’m not mad about it
Psychedelic rock album, old school rock, cool
If you're going to get freaky - get freaky. And some of these tracks were FREAKS (I loved it).
what can't can do
The music that is there is good. I wouldn't listen to the back half again.
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Wow. I had no idea what this was going to be after reading the description. I gotta say it melted my mind. I can't believe this came out when it did, it is way way waaay ahead of its time. I don't listen to much music like this, but I'm very glad I listened to this album.
Halleluwah was the first song that I heard from them (a different, much shorter version) and i loved that song so much even at 16 years old. Now, 8 years later I still think Can is one of the best bands from the era. The first half of this is straight bangers. The transition from the first song to Mushroom might be one of the best song transitions I've ever heard. Thing is if it wasn't for the change into weirdness from Aumgm, it would be an easy 5. Like this, I think I'll give it a 4. Ege might be better
Has times when it gets more experimental than good, but still glad I heard this one
The Good: Yes, we can! The Bad: Wait… not that kind of can… The Ugly: Wondering what canned tago-mago tastes like… This album is what we are on this journey on. When the album cover showed up my initial thoughts were “okay, this is going to be interesting” and I was not disappointed. Today I learned that Kraut-Rock is not Opus’s Life is Life, or Nena’s 99 Luftballons… silly me. What I did learn is that there was a period in time when musicians tried to alter the norm, infuse art and philosophy into their works, and inspire future generations for making new kind of music. Listening to Can, I am amazed at the quality of sound, the “freshness” of it all, especially considering that, should you be unaware of when this album was recorded, you’d easily think this album could come from the ‘90s or later… Then there’s Suzuki’s vocal performance… puts you into a trance. The only reason that this album is not getting 5* is due to the length of most of the “songs”—7 tunes for a double album, boy oh boy… Should people listen to this before they die, absolutely! 4 1/2*
bingo bango
Some really cool pioneering effects
I really liked this album - minus a couple of song. I loved the layers of sounds, varying tempos and beats. A psychedelic jam session - in a mostly good way
Good, experimental. Can hear the influence on Kid A/Amnesiac.
Honestly, this is probably a 3. Or, rather five songs that range from low-3 to low-4 (though all overlong), plus one song that sounds like background for a video game level titled "The Necromancers Lair" and one song that almost tanks the whole album. But I did find this more interesting than a lot of similar albums on this list, so it gets a bump.
Thoroughly enjoyed this. Think i was expecting it to be much rougher sounding
Never should have smoked that shit, now I’m stuck in the never-ending ambient soundscapes of Can’s 1971 masterwork Tago Mago.
Super trippy. This album looks like a little volcano boy getting high and breathing smoke. While the majority of this album is borderline unlistenable, the balance really shines. Oh Yeah, Halleluhwah, Bring me Coffee or Tea are great, but Paperhouse is absolutely incredible. This track alone is evidence enough for me to check out some of their other shit.
I really liked this, but after an hour-plus of Can, I came to the realization that they would be much better without the singer. In other words, can the singer! Liked Songs Added: Mushroom
The latter half of this album is fucking insane and I love it. The trio of "Halleluwah", "Aumgn", and "Peking O" are all I really needed to hear to give this one a high score. The preceding tracks are all right, but very much overshadowed by what follows.
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Aumgn gir museumsmusikkvibber.
It's like the densest dessert you've ever had. It's really good, but it's almost impossible to consume in one sitting.
Trippy German psych rock in the first half, experimental psychedelic freakout and exploration on spirituality in the second half. The whole thing is a ride I'd recommend you go on, just buckle up for that second half. Don't think about whether you should. Just know that you CAN.
Yeah, that last half...
Very solid. I understand why it could be influential.
Didn't really concentrate on it today, but what I heard I enjoyed and I'd like to relisten sometime.
Not always gonna be in the mood to let this music wash over me, but very enjoyable when on it's weird fusion groove/experimental sound wavelength.
First half was an easy 5, then the second half gets into the classic "70s prog rabbit hole".
This is probably as close as I can get to fully enjoying such an out-there experimental rock album. First few songs are awesome, but I think Aumgn and Peking O cause it to lose some steam. Still worth a listen and something I will gladly come back to. 8/10
What can I say about Can? While I prefer Future Days or Ege Bamyasi as more consistent records, Tago Mago well represents the band’s jammy propensities. Who else can keep my attention without changing chords? Who else puts two challenging nearly twenty-minute tunes back to back on an album? They are a tight band trapped in a can, hermetic preservers of odd harmony, and I’ll always be a fan even though ‘Aumgn’ and ‘Peking O’ were included on the album…
This funky as hell and so interesting love the atmosphere might even be better than future days
I feel like the whole Krautrock genre is hit or miss. One song in and I'm pleased to say this one looks like something I'm going to enjoy. I don't know what it is about this album but it is unmistakably European. Or maybe just 'not American' would be the better term. I really like how experimental it is at the same time as being fairly structured. It's kind of like what a jam band should be. There are a lot of complaints in the reviews for this album about how long the songs are, I don't agree. I don't mind a 15+ minute song if it's done well. Halleluwah is a great example - 18 and a half minutes and it goes through a couple different movements. The playing is good, the groove is good. What's not to like? Moving into the second record, it definitely gets weirder and more experimental but I still kind of like it. I feel like this is what that damn Trout Mask Replica album was trying to do and failing. People think that album is genius, sorry, it's not. This isn't really genius either, but it's better. If the whole album was like the first record, this would be a 5/5 for sure. The second record is still good and I like it, weird though it is, but I can't see it as something I would listen to often. It falls off for me about halfway through Peking O but then picks back up with Bring Me Coffee or Tea. So 3.5/5 for this one, rounding up.
I enjoyed the product of this mad scientist laboratory. To read more, copy/paste link: https://tinyurl.com/3ydyp8wu
Completely new to me, very different for 1971!
Really good
Very interesting!
3.75
Very wild and compelling. Not everything is successful, but it kind of doesn’t matter. This needed to happen.
Good enough
Tago Mago is a a mildly frustrating listen. The combination combination of rock, funk, avant-garde and tape loop experimentation makes for an interesting and quite an accessible listen on the first record but the demented scale has a sharp rise on the second record. They have quite a mesmerizing, trippy sound and it's clear they weren't going for top 40 singles chart and I rated the album on this basis.
Great collection of crazy sounds and shit
Lost me a bit in the middle (what the hell was Aumgn all about?) but otherwise an absolute belter of an album. Must've blown a fair few minds over the last 50 years.
I find it really difficult to put a genre on Can, and that why I quite like them. They’re definitely rocky and a bit proggy, but they’re also funky and jazzy. There are parts of this album that wouldn’t feel out of place in an old school crime drama. In typical Can fashion, there are only a handful of songs (7 this time) but totalling 74 minutes. Again, a bit jazzy and proggy in that regard too. It didn’t blow my mind, but I certainly did enjoy listening to this today.
7,57
I enjoyed the first three quarters or so of this very much, but the weird shouting and yelling on the "Peking O" track drove the score down from a 5 to a 4. It sounded like someone having some sort of drug induced meltdown, which I guess was the desired effect, but it just made me feel a bit nauseous. I listened to the entire album twice, which is always a good sign. There's some very good bits, where the strange vocals aren't fully dialled up, and don't detract from the music. I would even suggest that they are fine in this context. where the band are German, so I wouldn't expect to understand what they're singing about. But the final third is where everything else takes a back seat, and we just have strange gargling sounds.
Psychedelica
Good krautrock
I liked the music, but not the vocals - I found them grating and annoying. My favourite track was the 18 minute "Halleluhwah". I think the vocals on "Peking O" are by Pingu.
3.5
Enjoyable Krautrock. A new one on me, but not sure why as very good.
Easily the best "shamanic avant-funk" record on this list, and indeed ever recorded. What a record – arty and cool and dark and funky. Oh so influential, too, of course – metal, art rock, jam bands, new wave and indie – and deservedly so. Despite vocals that are, ahem, unconventional, the playing is first-rate and the drumming (especially on "Oh Yeah") just otherworldly and trance-inducing. "Hallehuwah" is as epic as groovy can be. "Aumgn" and "Peking O" lead one astray a bit ... or drop one out of the long, winding and immersive vibes of previous cuts. The closer resolves in fine fashion. Rounding up because obviously and of course.
I don’t really get can to be honest, especially with the two 15 minute tracks then an 11 minute track with a segment that sounds like the guy from storage hunters. But I can’t say it was bad and I appreciate it. Probably funner to see live with the absolute insanity of it all 4/5 and I’m being generous but I think they deserve something in that level
WTF did I just listen to? In a good way, at least for the first half of the album. I can't believe this was made in 1971! Gets pretty avant garde towards the back half of the album, but the first half is stunning.
this was a fun experimental album, the drumwork on this album goes crazy, i enjoyed it although some bits were extremely weird
Never heard these guys and I like it!
My first thought was that I've never heard of this band or seen this album cover before and I'm going to listen to over an hour of music with only 7 songs? Well, surprise, surprise, I really got into it. Although, about halfway through Augmn I thought I heard the forerunner to the muppet Martians saying, yep yep yep yep yep yep. I was expecting to hear brrrrrinnnngggg. It would've fit right in with this song. Augmn and Peking O are long and trippy, and you definitely have to be in the right frame of mind to listen to them. Bring Me Coffee or Tea was a good way to end this intriguing album.
Holy shit. What did I just listen to? I have no idea, but I know that I kind of liked it. This album is fucking insane and I love it. But how? How can I hate something like Throbbing Gristle or Einstürzende Neubauten but enjoy Tago Mago by Can? I'll tell you. See, those other albums did not feel like music to me. They just felt like random noise meant to evoke discomfort from the noises themselves. Tago Mago still feels like music to me. It may be very unconventional and (at times) deeply unsettling music, but it's still music. Well, except for the second half or so of "Peking O" which does feel like pure insanity. However, given what came in the album earlier, I guess it makes sense that this is what it results in. Speaking of which, let's talk about the earlier songs in the album. The first half or so of the album is actually relatively straightforward. It's not too unconventional. It's a bit odd, but it's absolutely in a good way. The singing is a bit odd, but it fits the vibe. The writing gets the point of each song across well. The sound is the focus of the album for. The first few songs and the last one are clearly musical, but are still a bit odd for newcomers to more avant-garde music stylings. Later songs like the aforementioned "Peking O" and its predecessor "Aumgn" just get weird. However, it's still tolerable for me. It's funny. The perfect blend of these two vibes comes in the 4th song on the album, "Halleluwah." If there's one song that represents what makes Tago Mago such a great album, it's this one. In conclusion, Tago Mago is absolutely not for everyone. I myself have to admit that some parts of the album aren't for me. However, the fact that something as fascinating and (at times) haunting as Tago Mago was made in 1971 is astonishing to me. This is an album that belongs on this list. 4/5.
Trippy but groovy. Will check out the rest of their discography for sure.
4/5
I’m compelled to give this a 4. Why? No idea, I’m just as confused as you are. Wait, who are you?
4.5
Weird and experimental. Amazing that it's so old. 2nd side felt like a trip but it was interesting
I reviewed Can’s Future Days a few months ago, and I really enjoyed it, and wound up giving it four stars. I’m excited to listen to Tago Mago today, and I have pretty high hopes for it. Tago Mago was really good, but I liked Future Days more. There wasn’t one particular musical element that I really enjoyed on this album, but I thought the overall sound was incredibly dense and interesting. At the expense of sounding like a hippie, each song really did feel like a journey, and I enjoyed not knowing what little auditory surprises were waiting for me around each corner. “Paperhouse” and “Mushroom” were my favorite songs on the album, and I really loved how seamlessly the former segued into the latter, even though both songs were really different in sound. The album started to lose me at “Aumgn,” and it really lost me on “Peking O.” I appreciate something different and a little avant-garde, but “Peking O” was really grating to listen to. I respect Can’s willingness to push boundaries and experiment, but that was a little too much for me. Other than though, this album was fantastic. After two Can albums, I’m very inclined to check out more of their work.
homer simpson voice: brilliant. [chuckles] i have absolutely no idea what's going on.
that was really cool! i really enjoyed the sprawling instrumentals in a way that I usually don't on some of these other albums that have that (like the prog rock ones). this sounds like the kind of experimental music that was probably really cool to see live too.
3.5/5 The first disc is awesome, the second one is experimental noise and makes the album too long. Still will round up to 4*.
Can is pushing the limits with the length of Tago Mago - parts of the half end of the record could easily have been cut. At the same time Can is also pushing the boundaries of what music should sound like at the time of its release. Highly influential and never boring.
My second Can album form the list, and another great one. Some songs (esp. the second half) are a bity too experimental for easy listening but the first four are great. The album is not exactly background music (good) but a careful listen is an interesting experience. I like the breakbeats and the often jazzy feel even though the instrumentation isn't jazzy. Very creative and interesting and, when in the right mood, great sounding too.
4/5
Amazingly influential on me and countless others but some songs are TOO DANG LONG
Music variety is wild, enjoyed the variety of notes
Most of the tracks were really good, but I did not care much for the very experimental Aumgn and Peking O.
A Can record I actually liked! Well, Aumgn and Peking O are a bit much, but the rest of the album is very strong. Out there enough to be interesting and most of the tracks were approachable enough to want to listen through to the end.
Not a big jam band guy, but this is decent. A little weird, though. I recommend psychedelics.
It does go on a bit and there are some weird passages but it does motor along with purpose.
listened to again a psychedelic journey
First half was great, got a little weird for me in the last half or quarter
deicioso de se ouvir
Quite the strange, freaky trip. Very forward thinking. I see why the hipsters like it 👍
The first half is amazing. Like a much better version of Pink Floyd (they are so overrated). And then they ran out of good ideas. Favorite song: Oh yeah
Good background music but can get a bit grating. Some interesting musical ideas but goes on for very long. I feel like it's a 4 at it's highest points but I will probably never revisit it for the more experimental aspects which do not work for me. Those last few tracks are really dragging it down, even though I'm sure they were influential. 3.5/4
Experimenteel, vooruitstrevend, gaaf en met vlagen zwaar onluisterbaar. Toch best goed!
This was a very pleasant listen. I didn’t like the 2 tracks before the last one on this album. 10+ mins of aimless noise.
Wow this is some crazy shit. I can see it benefiting from another listen when on more drugs then just caffeine.
The first 4 tracks are awesome. Maybe like 4 or 5 star material for me. Experimental but still pretty easy listening and really interesting. It's the type of music I absolutely love. Track 5 & 6 are definitely songs meant for tripping so I understand why people wouldn't like it.
This was a fun album! I was really surprised by this one. Its not a record that I would have expected to come out of 1971. Admittedly, I haven't spent a lot of time with Krautrock. It gave me Radiohead vibes for sure. It also sounded like Nine Inch Nails in some songs and also Animal Collective. Kind of cool to see how it influenced avant-garde experimental music down the road. It almost feels like there was a 20 year lap from where this music was happening to where it caught up in the 90s. It gets harder to listen to as it goes on, but overall, I really enjoyed this. I'm glad this came through!
Det her var ret sjovt. Det nåede ikke at blive kedeligt. Måske fordi det var så eksperimenter med mærkelige lyde, forlæns/baglæns sang og eller musik. Det skal klart høres med høretelefoner.
3.5 - What a strange album. I feel like there is some gold here but it's in this strange sound scape. I think it requires a single listen and to really be in it
I love the first half of this album, then it descends into madness in a way that is kinda great at first, but then does become an earsore. 4/5
These instrumentals are kinda crazy good especially Aumgn.
This album is quite the journey. From the more standard rock songs to the chanting, to the hypnotic drums at the end. It is not a casual listen by any means. I enjoyed it. Not enough for it to be an every day album that I can just put on but it has its own dark, ritualistic vibe and aesthetic that I can totally get in the mood for.
I get people that say this is too experimental. I also don't think this is can's best album. Really good though
One of the albums that changed my life back as a teen. When it's good, it's genuinely some of the best music ever recorded but I find Aumgn and Peking O borderline unlistenable so I can't give it the full 5.
Starts very strong, gets strange around Aumgn though.
You've go to love a bit of Krautrock and you can't get more earlier than this. It's a great album, so far ahead of it's time and so influential. There are a lot of bands I love who state them as an inspiration. Long and sprawling songs that hit a groove such as 'Halleluhwah'. 'Mushroom' is a great song, full of brooding menace. 'Oh Yeah' again, repetitive drumming and groove, these ust tick along like a well made Mercedes Benz. Some of this album is seriously experimental, sometimes just plain mental, especially with some of Damo Suzuki's vocal performances. But maybe with the exception of 'Aumgn' - maybe a tad too fucked up, and some of 'Peking O' these two run along like a well worn multicoloured VW Campervan. A mixed bag of German engineering, but still a 4 star effort.
Good
I was really surprised by this. The rhythmic feel that runs throughout left me wanting to dance. The funk sounds great. But there's also a darker side. You can see where Radiohead lifted half their ideas from. Ditto Primal Scream.
This is fun! Loving the guitars in the first song so far...probably not something i'd come back to but really good overall, reminds me of jam bands
This was a cool album. A really experimental wacko weirdo shut album. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t work. It’s good but not the best.
Quite interesting. I thought I'd like it a lot, but it's pretty weird. Familiar with the band, not familiar with the album. I suspect it'll grow on me.
Would be a 5 if this album ended after 4 tracks
I want what they’re drinking.
wild and crazy and all over the map. 4 stars.
This band was waaaaaaaay ahead of its time. This could have been an indie rock album from the last 20 years rather than an album that is actually 53 years old. CAN came back from the future to let you hear what was possible. This magnificent album is one of the major reasons why we have such an interesting music scene in the present. Thank you CAN for pointing the way. The first half is the accessible song formats and the back half is the experimental half. Choose your voyage.
This one has some very good moments for me. A couple songs could have gone without. Will I listen to again: 75%
When I started listening to this album I was interested but didn’t really enjoy it. By the time I got to the end I didn’t want it to finish and started all ove again. A part from Aumgn and Peking O I really liked it.
I was aware of their 'hits' before but hadn't listened to this album before. It is a fascinating listen and like nothing I have heard before. You can tell that this has had major influence on many bands and genres following its release. This is an album that I will listen to many times again, memorable.
Avant garde, funky, weird, atmospheric, spooky, slightly frightening, ahead of its time. Pretty cool album. Quite influential as well. They were never going to reach huge commercial success but this is art that should be appreciated.
1st half great, 2nd half a bit of a chore
It's phenomenal. Only criticism, and this isn't on the part of the record, I don't know if this is a record to constantly revisit, and misses the staying power of something like Pet Sounds.
The most interesting and hard hitting krautrock I've ever heard so far. It's a quite a trip. Too long a trip but quite a trip nonetheless.
Never stops being interesting and experimental, first half goes hard especially. Second half gets even more off the wall and all over the place still good tho
This is a fascinating album. The first few tracks have some influence from classic rock and definitely psychedelic rock but they’re also very inventive and forward-thinking, pointing towards alt-rock. And the riffing solos tip the music into jazz-rock fusion. “Mushroom” rocks in a way that sounds like grunge to me. And the singer wails like Mick Jagger! “Halleluhwah” has some killer soloing on top of a driving rhythm section. Mesmerizing song. I’m less keen on the other 17-minute track, “Aumgn,” which is experimental and ambient and features vocals tones that sound like Gregorian chants. Maybe if I was at a live show and the edible just hit. But I felt insane listening to this on my headphones at the supermarket. 😂 Wow this album gets pretty wild and weird in the second half. “Peking O” is bonkers. I think the first four tracks on their own would be close to masterpiece territory and the last three tracks are interesting but not as worthy of repeat listens. This was quite the ride though and I’m hoping for more Can on the list in the future.
1971, Krautrock 5/5: Mushroom, Halleluhwah 4/5: Paperhouse, Oh Yeah, Aumgn, Peking O, Interesting. Mushroom is frigging great. 4/5
An indisputable masterpiece on multiple levels – not least in terms of influence. But often a pleasure, too. (Well, maybe not "Aumgn.") One gets that non-fans of "shamanic avant-funk" will be left a bit cold, but that's their problem, and there's no accounting for taste. The drumming on "Oh Yeah" is just fantastic – sounding like 2 or 3 are at it. And, if the legend is to be believed, what production to turn this into a such a sprawling yet integrated work.
It's a trip!
Trupoy
Seminal Krautrock, but it's not the motorik of Neu!, or Harmonia, but more like the free-form jams of fellow German outfit Amon Duul II. Good stuff if a bit too experimental for casual listening.
4.0
Very into it so far. I think it said original recorded in 1971? Missed this during my initial classic rock phase. Very cool find. Long tracks. Liked it a lot.
Enjoyable. This album is very much my jam. Now this is the weird German stuff I can groove to. Although a couple of the songs drag a little bit at times.
I’m bracing myself for this after looking at some reviews. I’m wondering where it will fall on my spectrum between “interesting experimental noise music that I love” and “shitty music that’s just a bunch of noise” spectrum. Track 1 - loved it -5 stars Track 2 - also 5 stars - is this the best album I’ve ever heard? Track 3 - maybe this isn’t the best album I’ve ever heard, but this looks like a 4 star song. I don’t like the vocal thing they are doing, which sounds like they were messing with tape speed? I did like the music, though, and liked the 2nd half when they stopped the tape thing. Wait - was the first half of this song the second half backwards? I Googled it. It is backwards, but different stuff. This is blowing my mind. FIVE STARS now. THIS IS THE BEST ALBUM I EVER HEARD. TRACK 4, let’s go - chuga chuga chug. Dootle dootle do. Chuga chuga- 5 stars. What is happening to me? Am I transforming into a whole new person? Track 5- …the hell? This isn’t what I fell in love with. Can, you’ve betrayed me. Track 6- Better than the last one! But I still miss the first half of the album. Track 7- better still. This feels like two different albums to me, and maybe it would’ve been nice if they released it as such? The first album is now one of my favorite albums of all time. And I’ll listen to it again and again. If I get the vinyl, I don’t know if the other record will ever come out of the sleeve. It sounded like the music you’d hear at an art museum with one of those long movies playing on a loop with images of weird eyeballs and smashing rocks and then you wonder why they didn’t just use this space for more cool paintings. Ultimately, my new true love of the first half is so pure, that nothing the second half did could have pulled my rating down past a 4 from the, like, 12 I would’ve given it. So, no, I’m not a whole new person. And I didn’t actually hate the second half. I just…you know… it tainted it.
I hadn't listened to this album in years.
Brilliant first 4 tracks, rest a bit too weird. 4.5
This would have been a 5 star single album.
Mysterieus. Super experimenteel. Gruwelijk.
Un espectacular proyecto de Krautrock, que experimenta con lo mejor del Jazz, la experimentación, el progresivo, la música étnica y técnicas sumamente futuristas de producción. Otra de las razones de las por qué Can se mantiene como una de las bandas más influyentes del género y de las tendencias más alternativas del rock.
Love this abstract jam album.
Nicht fertig gehört
Jeeea! Krauttia! CAN on ihan sairaan hyvä bändi ja tämä kyllä levyjen suhteen parhaasta päästä. Melkeen tekis mieli antaa vitonen. 4/5
Levoton, kesyttämätön ja kiinnostava. Ei ehkä ihan täysin avautunut mutta kyllä tässä jotain on, menee jatkokuunteluun. 4/5
Possibly the most famous of so-called Krautrock genre, though it sounds very unlike most of their contemporaries. Can were focused on abandoning the past. The older generations had brought Germany war, human rights violations, and made their country the ideological main battle ground of the Cold War. Can looked both to the West but also to the future for influences. They sought to abandon hierarchy but giving equal prominence to all members. This is their most celebrated album, super charging the German music scene and spreading its influence far beyond those borders. As brilliant as the album is, the second half is very experimental and rough to listen to. The first half works perfectly as a short album though.
The first half of this album is super solid, with some experimentation mixed in for good measure. I think the second half of the record leans into the experimental side a little too much, but at certain points regroups to be more of an interesting listen. Fascinating, more than anything, with some tight grooves. Favorite tracks: "Paperhouse", "Halleluwah"
Heard of them but never really listened. It was complicated in a good way like nothing I have ever heard before
Amazing for the time and what it is. Personally just don’t enjoy the listen much.
Lopun sekoilut vähän turhia mutta kovaa kamaa silti!
At first boring then it got interesting because I paid attention to what was going on, and read about it's psychedelic improv ... which makes it a whole different experience. A careful listening thing. Curious.
Can is definitely a band I know I should listen to more. And I liked a lot of the music that I heard. I just wish the vocals and lyrics were better. Halleluwah's lyrics kinda made me cringe, along with "Oh Yeah." They were a little babble-y. So it's definitely something I want to listen to more, but I just hope the singing is better...?
This is the type of album you listen to once or twice the whole way through, but usually only a song if you want to remind yourself of the project’s taste. The first three tracks as well as the final are understandable and digestible enough. The middle three throw the listener headlong into some of the most innovative experimental psychedelia there has ever been. These sounds are so out there, but Can finds a way to make them stick and be somewhat tolerable in a way some of their contemporaries failed. Not to say you would ever listen to “Halleluhwah”, “Augmn”, or “Peking O” by themselves, but as far as experimenting goes. Can knocked it out of the park. 4/5
Inattendu. Je ne connaissais pas du tout. On dirait un peu du proto-post-rock (du coup juste du rock ?) je rapproche ça du psychédélique à la Gong surtout sur les morceaux les plus longs. J'ai bien aimé, mais sans surprise, ce genre de musique c'est pas mal ma came de base. Beaucoup aimé la seconde partie de /Halleluhwah/.
4.5/5.0 Stars. Could see it becoming 5/5 upon further listening. Was not expecting this to be so good.
This thing is a goddamn find. It's just the album I would have owned in 1971 and played to try and impress folks and get some puss. You can totally picture any of the first 4 songs being used over a montage in one of Danny McBride's movies or shows. The album was on the way to a surprising 5 rating until shit got weird on the 5th song. Annoyingly weird and incredibly long. Seventeen freaking minutes long. It's an odd misstep on a clasic album.
I enjoyed the groove of a couple of these tracks and I'm struck by how modern the album sounds. The last 40 minutes or so might be better experienced in a dark room on some pillows than on a sunny summer walk. I don't really want to listen again but I liked it.
I started off a little skeptical, then fell into the groove (I really enjoyed the LONG songs and rocky-funky jams). I’m kind of digging the early 70s jams. This gets a 4 today, but I suspect I’m just a funky cigarette away from a 5.
Good grooves
only recently got into CAN. i like this a lot and it has some interesting twists and turns.
we need more of this weird shit on here!!! mostly good, some got a little out there for me but overall a great listen.
Exemplo de como a experimentação e a coragem artística podem resultar em obras atemporais. A mistura de elementos do rock, jazz, música eletrônica e étnica resultou na sequência de faixas complexas e imprevisíveis.
Enjoyed a whole heap of this. Fav track: Oh yeah Strong 3.5
Bizarre and intensely atmospheric - really loved the transition from more traditional proggy stuff into freakish experimental soundscapes. Love a record with a journey and this certainly had one - I was hooked by the disorienting and dark turn in the record's second half. Every now and then I have a hankering for a record like this, and this might be one I come back to in those moments. Fave track: Aumgn
I have never heard of this before, but I really like the guitar work and the album art is cool too. The album definitely gets weirder and weirder as it goes on though.
A great album definitely worth a listen
Криф сказал, что готов выебать этот альбом. Поддерживаю, но не от всей души. 9/10.
I've been actively listening to Can for a couple of years, and I dig their stuff. They're a little weird, psychedelic, and experimental. Some tracks remind me of the t.v. show, Twin Peaks - there's definitely an ethereal haunting quality to this album. The more I listen to Can, the more I enjoy. Solid 4 with the possibility of 5 stars in the near future.
Well that was an interesting album! Really innovative and polished sound.
Some filler but some of CANs best as well
Not a fan of prog rock, usually, though "Paperhouse" is not bad so far. I unfortunately don't have the time to listen to it fully.
What a strange and cool album! Have heard CAN before but never this album, a very groovy listen for sure! Some crazy long songs that were super cool! Just a record I vibed out to and greatly enjoyed.
This was actually pretry damn cool. I'm a huge King Gizzard fan, and I can retroactively hear some of Can's influence on their stuff. It's wild to think that this album is over fifty years old now. As a proponent for shorter songs, I cannot in good conscious give this a perfect score, considering three tracks fall in the 11-19 minute range. But this was still a trip. I hope to hear this high someday. Edit: Won't lie, wrote that after hearing the first half. The second half was a little less listenable, treading into pure noise territory. But overall, still cool enough to keep 4 stars.
Some incredible stuff on this record, massively innovative and influential.
Wow. I liked this. Background music was great. Krautrock!? Who knew?
This is an impressive piece of music. It sucks you in from the first second to the last. The entire album feels like a trip with the centerpieces being Aumgn and Pecking O (also my favorites off the album). It’s an ambient, experimental goliath and for that I respect it.
Brilliantly funky and percussive. Also gleefully twisted, absurdist and straight up weird, in the best ways. Be prepared to be pleasantly surprised, and/or completely baffled and annoyed, depending on your tolerance level. Fave Songs: Halleluhwah, Bring Me Coffee or Tea, Oh Yeah, Paperhouse
Me gusta más el Ege Bamyasi pero es muy bueno también
In their flashiest and most experimental album, Can offers a series of jazzy, groovy pieces not out-of-place for the krautrock movement (you can hear a Neu-like beat in "Oh Yeah") but with a dark chamber presence and eery vocal performance that would serve as a precursor to post-punk. It's all really interesting but of course can be a chore with the length of some tracks.
Wow, just wow. First time round didn't really get much out of this but second time around I started hearing Radiohead and Stereolab. TIL that I heart krautrock. Fave track is totes Halleluhwah
A varied and challenging listen! There's a little too much full-on avant-garde screw-the-listener type stuff for me to give it 5 stars, but I've definitely enjoyed playing it through thrice, and will happily revisit in the future. Fave track - "Mushroom"
I really enjoyed the front half of this, but the back half kind of lost me, taking it down from a 5 to a 4
The first half of the album was my favorite. The Hallalewah groove blew my mind. Twice. Good pick!
This was super experimental just how I like it, last couple of songs fell off because they were super abstract but the rest was very well done and ambitious for the time! I loved the part where they sing in Japanese
I dug the fuck out of this.
I’m glad records like this exist.
This is trippy and I love it. I only listened to the 3 first songs and did not touch the almost 20 minutes long tracks yet. This is an awesome experience so far. Looking forward for the rest. It becomes much much much more experimental in the second part of the albums. Some parts were hardly listenable in my opinion, but other were quite fresh and audacious. Peking O was peak wtf for me. The vibe is back on the last track. I think I like the part of the album that is more in the Psychedelic vibe. Great discovery though. Solid 4.25 / 5
Really cool record. Some cool psych, funk, and jam-band moments on here. However, some songs dip a bit too far into the avant-garde, and that’s where this album suffers.
Very good first half. The last 3 were a bit weird.
By George, those drums! I’d give this album another listen just for the percussion. My musical ignorance astounds me - I’d never heard of this band or this album ever before. What a joy to find. Also, Thom Yorke - I see what you did.
I have a strong liking for psychedelic stuff, so this was perfect for me. I found it mainly really pleasant to go through, although some bits of Aumgn were possibly a little challenging to get around. The middle part of Peking O reminded me of the voices on the children's tv show Pingu, but I found that amusing. Favourites: Mushroom, Halleluhwah
1971 Radiohead
Absolutely legendary album. This band was so damn innovative it's insane.
Really interesting album albeit with some very industrial sounding parts
When I read about this, I thought, Oh-oh, what is krautrock? But it was pretty good it's just like normal rock, but it's German. With some bits in Japanese. And backwards.
This is my first experience with band Can, apparently a prominent example of the quirky Krautrock genre. Never giving it much thought, I identify this genre with band Kraftwerk, probably just making the connection by similar names and German-based roots? I never paid any attention to this band either, so Tago Mago was my first try, approaching it with a clean sheet. And what a journey that was! Combining Krautrock with more traditional psychedelic rock made wonders on the opening track "Paperhouse". This song's energy came straight from the core - drum work. I imagine, that you could rotate everyone else from the band with a different, random musicians, and the song would still be as attractive and incredibly atmospheric. Energy of the beat, together with climactic bridges, was amplified by a funky and at times aggressive bass line and erratic, but original keyboard. Guitar and vocals by Mr. Suzuki lifted the song into another dimension, although from a distance, guitarist, singer and the rest of the band seem to be at a completely different wavelength. And yet, it works very well! First part of the album is consistent with this song, the tempo is high, flow is amazing, but by the records midpoint, we are slowly descending into madness, which in this case means total abstract and avant-garde regions of music. The momentum of the album so far gives you enough energy and necessary context to enjoy the second half. But for a neutral fan, that wants to 'check out this groovy band from 70s' by listening to, for example, "Peking O" then he is well on the way to dissapointment. It makes me think of myself, how many times did I choose a wrong track to listen to the band for the first time? Easy to make that mistake with a band like Can. In summary, if this album would be a real psychedelic trip, then after first euphoric experience, we would get real close to overdose by the end. But the trip is well worth it.
Some of the second half gets a bit tiring but it's a really unique album and a great mix of incredibly tight grooves and absolute chaos
One of the greatest albums of all time, with Can being one of the greatest bands of all time. Their music is sensational, the way that everyone plays their heart out.
Fantastical sonic journey.
I've never listened to Can, but I love the experimental nature of this album. It's definite 70s arsed 70s, but man, the whiplash that some of the songs have - like Peking O - are awesome. I liked this way more than I thought I would.
Spookyyy
Loved the first four tracks! Then it turned kind of soundscapey which felt unnecessary. Will probz do a lil more checking out of this band.
Really great prog rock. If you would of given this to me in my 20s I would of been obsessed. 4/5 sometimes I like the weird but you can get to fucking weird sometimes too and they went there which made it a 4. Definitely checking out all their other stuff though.
Swaaaaaag
Hårt
Genre: Krautrock 4/5 It's 1971. Prog rock and art rock groups are pushing the envelope as far as it can go in terms of experimentation, and what we as listeners would consider standard song structures. When Can came on the scene, the true pioneers of Krautrock, the European-led music movement, heads were swiveled. Their unique take on rock and roll, articulately blending experimental rock with hints of psych, avant-garde, and even early tinges of proto-punk, catapulted Krautrock to mainstream ears. Tago Mago, Can's second album (but the first to feature Japanese vocalist Damo Suzuki), is a double LP that shocks and awes all throughout its runtime. A 75-minute record in the early 70s, especially for a Krautrock outfit, is something that was generally reserved for the big ticket sellers, but United Artists took their chance and won big. Recorded in a castle in Cologne, Germany, Can went to work jamming and improvising, and cutting their sessions together into more complete song ideas. Czukay, the group's bassist, also functioned as their engineer, and took full advantage of the acoustic environment that the castle grounds provided. The recordings were then grouped into two discs, one disc more rock-oriented, and the second disc more focused on sound collages and musique concrète. Paperhouse, the album's psych rock intro, is one of the band's best cuts, with touches of acid and funk rock, fully utilizing the full band's potential. The rest of the first disc is classic, and a really interesting look at the infancy of experimental rock, forging many paths for many musicians to follow. The second disc is heavy on the soft, with passages of free time music, mixed with ambient sounds and studio clips. It's very interesting to hear some of the ideas presented here, but the state it's in, the music doesn't lend itself to enjoyable repeat listens, as it's a bit more difficult to get around. Overall though, Can crushed it here. The passion for experimentation is felt in spades, and for the most part, this album is a trip worth taking.
The parts of this I liked I really liked
I AM DAMO SUZUKI Prefs: Paperhouse, Mushroom, Oh Yeah, Halleluhwah, Bring Me Coffee Or Tea Moins pref: Aumgn
This was a little bit out of left field. Definitely can see this as very divisive, but personally I really enjoyed it (but then I like avant garde jazz and psychedelic rock). I want to give it a 4.5, but that's not an option.
Can is an incredible band that sound so far ahead of their time that it's mind boggling. The rhythms and cool melodies are at times accessible and at times otherworldly. The drumming on this album is virtuoso. Two of the longer songs are noise fests and unlistenable to me. This keeps this album from being 5 star entry. So for now 4 🌟
Weird experimental music should not be this funky. This album makes later Avant/mainstream crossover stuff 30 years later look derivative (hi Radiohead) which is high praise indeed. Listing Stockhausen as an influence but sounding cool is quite a tightrope to walk. Is it a bit too difficult at times? Yep. The back end of Aumgn is just noises fed through a delay loop as far as I can tell - revolutionary in 1971, but that doesn't make it any more fun to listen to! But overall, for this level of experimental ambition to meet such a high level of listenability is VERY impressive.
Yes that's great, excellent album, but it still doesn't make up for making me listen to that execrable garbage by 'Missy Elliot' yesterday.
Weird, and it got weirder as it went on. Good stuff.
quite hard work to find the moments of genius that do pop up - dare to say you might need to have eaten a bunch of something special to full appreciate this
Surprisingly listenable and relevant 50 years later. Listening to this, I can hear both contemporaries (like Yes and Magma) and unabashed descendants (Radiohead comes immediately to mind).
Love this, enough groove to hook you in, enough weird stuff to keep it interesting. One of the best drummers ever in my opinion. Only loses a mark as the last tracks are a bit too out there for me
Hypno-psych-drone groove at its very best. Fresh as a psilocybin enhanced daisy, sprinkled with a mist of LSD for extra feels. Do it.
Yet another album that solidifies in my mind that 1971 would be the one year to pick if I had to choose only one year of music. Halleluwah! And throw a little Japanese in there for good measure. For all its intimations of spinning in circles until you're dizzy, I find myself rather inclined to recline and just mong out with this album. Listening to "Aumgn" is like being digested through the guts of the universe and shat out the butthole of space.
4,5
👍👍👍👍
I don’t know that I am all that into the Korbut rock. I can see the appeal though
Really good side A dude b a bit to experimental for my taste
Good record - still fresh and interesting
Super interesting
Really good stuff
Very influential and ahead of its time.
Fucking slappppps too groovy tbh
Wasn't paying attention until Halleluhwah. Then it became too chaotic to ignore.. still liked it.
Fascinating.
Yess
Not Can’s best album, but still fun nonetheless.
This was pretty sick
This is really scratching the prog rock itch, I really like it. Super groovy.
Yep
Great
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.
rather repetitive
fine
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.
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
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.
It's very cool, respect the craft, but it's just all a bit the same, or blends into the background for me personally.
2nd Can album from the generator. Groovy, vibing to it 3/5
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
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)
It's experimental! Haha. Decent, though I prefer Ege Bamyasi.
Aumcgn est longue
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