Reviews (page 7 of 8)
"Tago Mago" - Ein Schatten über Czukays Glanz Als großer Bewunderer von Holger Czukay fällt es mir schwer die Enttäuschung über "Tago Mago" zu verbergen. Während ich mich dafür einsetze, Czukays innovativen Bassmelodien und seinen kreativen Beitrag zur experimentellen Musik zu würdigen, kann ich nicht darüber hinwegtäuschen, dass dieses Werk an keiner Stelle seinen üblichen Glanz widerspiegelt. Czukays gewohnte Präzision und rhythmische Brillanz gehen bereits im Klanggewirr der ersten Tracks unter. Und es wird nicht besser. Die Hörerzahlen bei Spotify geben schnell zu erkennen, dass das Album nicht nur mich mit jeder weiteren Minute mehr verliert. Track für Track werden Czukays beispiellosen Fähigkeiten am Bass immer mehr Opfer der übermäßigen Experimentierfreude seiner Bandfreunde. Insgesamt vermisse ich auf "Tago Mago" die subtile Genialität und die klare Ausdruckskraft, die ich mit Holger Czukays musikalischer Handschrift verbinde. Dieses Album mag für Liebhaber extrem experimenteller Musik ansprechend sein, doch für jene, die sich nach der meisterhaften Bassarbeit sehnen, die Czukay so einzigartig macht, könnte dieses Werk enttäuschend sein. Erst in den Mid-70s und dem Wechsel zu "Harvest Records" lernen wir den "echten" Holger kennen. Hoffentlich kommt mehr von Cans späteren Werken *hust*. "Tago Mago" hat es kurzzeitig in die deutschen Album-Charts geschafft. Ich frage mich warum.. Wer sich ca. 18 Minuten durch "Halleluhwah" oder "Aumgn" gequält hat, sollte eine Entschädigung erhalten. "Die Hälfte aller Probleme in unserem Leben sind darauf zurückzuführen, dass man zu schnell Ja und nicht früh genug Nein gesagt hat." - Josh Billing Hätte ich mal schneller Nein gesagt, nun ist mein Dienstag vormittag und meine Laune futsch. LG
- Can war bislang nur ein seeehr sehr loser Begriff, den ich mit Krautrock assoziiert habe - ohne jemals was gehört zu haben. - Als ich das Album gehört habe, wäre ich nicht auf die Idee gekommen, dass es sich dabei um eine deutsche Band handelt - für mich ist 60s/70s Psychadelic-Rock immer etwas sehr amerikanisches - Anfangs sehr psychedelisch und hinten raus extrem experimentell - Mit Paperhouse fängt das Album eigentlich ziemlich stark an, baut danach aber doch recht schnell ab, wobei immer wieder großartige Momente anklingen - Man hat das Gefühl, dass da einfach zu viel gewollt wurde. Das typische Phänomen: Alles hochtalentierte und studierte Musiker, die sich selbst im Weg stehen. Hätten sie die gerade angesprochenen Momente genommen und stringent weiterverfolgt und eigene Songs daraus gemacht, anstatt dann wieder in den nächsten Tempo- oder Tonartwechsel zu gehen und den 4. Song innerhalb des Songs aufzumachen, wär vielleicht auch mehr hängen geblieben. Aber wahrscheinlich wollten sie das genau so. - Let's be honest: Wirklich NIEMAND braucht 18 minütige Songs! Sogar in der Oper kommst du damit nicht durch. - "Aumgn" und "Peking" sind kaum auzuhalten, sag ich wie's ist... die haben das gesamte Album hinten raus richtig krass runtergezogen!! - Die Drums haben immer wieder positiv für mich rausgestochen - kleinen BONUS gibts für das unerwartete Wiedertreffen mit unserer Legende Holger (der hier um einiges geiler abliefert als auf seiner Soloplatte - wobei ich fürchten muss, dass er bei Track 5, 6 und 7 starken Einfluss hatte...) RATING: 1,5-2/5
- Als jemand, der eigentlich durchaus was mit Drone und Ambient anfangen kann, muss ich sagen, dass ich das Album insgesamt gar nicht sooo schlecht fand. - Die avantgardistischen Sachen waren für mich leider wieder etwas undurchschaubar - Dennoch waren hier und da ein paar coole Melodien, dynamische Parts und witzige Ideen. Anstatt diese weiterzudenken, widmete man sich aber häufig wieder der unwillkürlichen Willkür - Ich konnte das Album eigentlich gut weg hören und war zu keinen Zeitpunkt richtig genervt, auch wenn ich jetzt keinen Track habe, der mich großartig in Erinnerung geblieben ist. - 2,5/5
- Paperhouse war ein entspannter und starker Einstieg in das Album - Im Anschluss ging es dann bergab: Mushroom, wie als hätte ich einen schlechten Trip von dem Zeug, hat mich dann direkt ziemlich gedownt - Oh Yeah war nochmal ein kleiner Lichtblick - mit Halleluhwah und AUUmgn begann dann der endgültige Abstieg. Viel zu lange Songs, die es auch nicht geschafft haben einen abzuholen - liegt es an mir, oder sind lange Tracks selten gut? Aumgn ging mir wirklich auf die Nerven und auch Peking O hätte man sich wirklich sparen können Rating: 0,5 -1 / 5
Fuck this album. I was feeling it until Aumgn and Peking O came on and ruined everything. 29 minutes of pure fucking garbage. Why did they have to destroy a beautiful thing.
Was not expecting to enjoy this. Def gets a bit too experimental at times but never too unpleasant (maybe a bit on peking o) and overall its pretty cool. Would listen again
Yes, Aumgn and Peking O are about as weird as you expect. Everything else is pretty okay background music, depending on what kind of social gathering you're at.
Worth a revisit
Not a fan.
Pretty interesting experimental record. Sometimes it lost me a little bit but i enjoyed the listen overall
Too spooky
I hadn't listened to this album in years.
Hallelujah is a jam
Brilliant first 4 tracks, rest a bit too weird. 4.5
Super
This would have been a 5 star single album.
Went from cool to full on avant garde garbage
Spaced out hippies making noises? No ta.
I’m not sure what the right environment and state of mind would be for this album but sober and running errands was not it. Still interesting tho
Krautrock/prog rock. Good, but songs should be longer
I didn’t know at all what to expect of this, but I liked it. My rating bounced around through the album, but unfortunately, it started to lose me at the end…it was longer than it needed to be overall. Best track: Oh Yeah
Mysterieus. Super experimenteel. Gruwelijk.
I have never heard of this band, album, or genre before. Let's go. It's almost like Prog-Funk or Prog-Blues. Nice to listen to. Sound mixing is cool, almost as if it's more modern than 1971. Aumg is a weird one. Peking O as well.
It had something to it but wasn't incredible
Holy shit! I made this same record in 1994 when I was 13 on my Yamaha MT4X 4-track recorder! I think I still have the cassette in my moms basement! Yes I realize that technology has changed and all but this is a waste of everyone's time. Sometimes influential isn't good. This is one of those times.
Halleluhwah es una obra maestra
It is fucking terrible
Strangely enjoyable prog/psych rock from Germany
I really don't understand why this is on this list. Mostly unlistenable.
Was digging for a bit, but at a point it devolved into alotta FX (Black Sabbath IV [1972]) for the sake of FX. Tend to not usually be a fan of said phenomenon
Interesting funk tone to it. I'm still not sure if they were singing in English or not. It was interesting background music, but hard to get into.
It gives me immense pleasure to imagine someone in their 40s/50s starting this challenge hoping to find some hidden gems and rediscover classics by Fleetwood Mac and The Beatles etc. Then being sat at a desk job with headphones on being subjected to the middle of Peking O. Hilarious stuff.
Never heard of Can. Not a fan.
Definitely something new. Not the greatest
couldn't even finish this.
This album had me on board until a bit over the half hour mark when I hit Aumgn and Peking O. Aumgn was pretty much just a collection of sounds and lacked any structure long enough to hold my interest. Peking O was way too experimental and avant-garde, pretty much unlistenable. These two songs alone take up more than 29 minutes of the album! My song ratings on this one range from 1 to 5 stars so the average should be a 3 but the two songs noted above seriously drag this album down so I can't give it more than a 2. Normally I wouldn't ever listen to a 2-star album again but I wouldn't mind revisiting the first half of the album.
An absolutely psychedelic experience. its really hard to explain how this album makes me feel. it makes me feel warm and gooey and sticky while also managing to be a bit silly at times. insane vibes. maybe skip the second half "bonus tracks" on the first listen. the musical equivalent of cottonmouth
C Paperhouse 3 Mushroom 4 Oh Yeah 3 Halleluhwah 3 Aumgn 1 Peking O 1 Bring Me Coffee or Tea 3 After taking a peak in r/vinyl this week, I learned that anyone who doesn't have Can in their collection is either a moron or uncultured. Coincidentally, I got Tago Mago on the generator a few days later and was able to put them to the test. Final conclusion: vinyl snobs are some of the internet's worst personalities. That has nothing to do with Can though.
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.
i thought this was a 90s album by the cover. imagine my surprise when i heard a bunch of hippies hipping around. love it! there are some pretty groovy tunes here, like a less polished version of those parts in the long ass floyd songs where gilmour explodes out on guitar screams. anyway, what a great fucking album, and i had never heard of it.
Really great example of krautrock, which is a genre I really dig. I can hear their influence all over the place. Love the guitar here especially, it's so angular and funky.
Volvemos a los bodrios.
Hef heyrt margt flott með CAN, og næsta plata á eftir þessari er mjög góð en þetta er nú helst til tilraunakennt fyrir mig (ég er að horfa á ykkur Aumgn og Peking O), og Suzuki söngvari hefur átt betri daga. Mushroom er helst vænlegt, hitt er meh...
This was too much for me at times.
Love this abstract jam album.
La primera canción que escuché de este grupo fue "Vitamin C", que es bastante conocida y me pareció muy buena, sobre todo la batería. La primera mitad de este album te rasca el cerebro igual que esa canción. Canciones largas y repetitivas que podría escuchar durante horas. La segunda mitad ya me parece demasiado rara y experimental, pero solo por las 4 primeras canciones el álbum merece la pena.
Nicht fertig gehört
I just couldn't even get myself to focus on this music. Sometimes I noticed an interesting sound, most of the time my brain just tuned out.
this is a looooooooooong one. lets see if its a vibe. what is this wacky ass album. the noises are genuinely out of control. wtf tbh. peking o got even weirder... FINALLY MADE IT THROUGH SHEEEEEEESH
First 4 tracks had me thinking, hmm, Krautrock is not that bad after all. But then the last 3 kicked in... As we say in German: mit dem Arsch eingerissen, was mit den Händen aufgebaut wurde.
Epic is the word.
Jeeea! Krauttia! CAN on ihan sairaan hyvä bändi ja tämä kyllä levyjen suhteen parhaasta päästä. Melkeen tekis mieli antaa vitonen. 4/5
Jea tää vaan paranee vuosi vuodelta. Funkkaava eka puolisko on ihan huikea ja oon vihdoin lämmennyt jälkipuoliskollekin. Harvoin niin kokeellisesta tykkään, mutta tässä tuntuu kaikki klikkaavan.
Levoton, kesyttämätön ja kiinnostava. Ei ehkä ihan täysin avautunut mutta kyllä tässä jotain on, menee jatkokuunteluun. 4/5
Meh
Another sampling day. Liked the instrumental elements. Will listen to again on a good sound system
I just Can't get into this band. The yelly singing drives me nuts.
This is terrible 1/5
Aumgn is like a bad trip and so is Peking O, but at least that one has a part that is listenable. The rest of the album is alright.
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"
This album started out funky and fresh, but ended in the gnashing of teeth. I will seek out more CAN.
Heard of them but never really listened. It was complicated in a good way like nothing I have ever heard before
Got some Ummagumma vibes going on.
Amazing for the time and what it is. Personally just don’t enjoy the listen much.
17 minute songs are cool and all but not when they suck
I tried. I can't.
OMG I just realised that the Fall song "I am Damo Suzuki" (which I knew was about the Can singer) musically quotes this album's "Oh Yeah". For those not liking Aumgn; you have to push through it and surrender. Once you come out the other side, it's great. This album passes my "listened to it twice in a row" test, five stars from me.
groovy
This feels like an entirely new frontier for rock music, kicked loose of blues root and classical pretension alike. In composition it probably falls somewhere on the jazz spectrum, but sounds nothing like it. One of the most mysterious, questing albums I've had the pleasure to experience. It sounds baffling and fantastic. Bear this bad boy in mind next time we're subject to four-chord crotch-rawk churn.
Am I wrong to have thought that there's an electronic band also named Can? Or is that this same band and they just hadn't got to that point yet when this record came out? Either way, I was expecting keyboards and banging on kitchen appliances and instead I got what struck my ears as a psychedelic jam band. (Redundant?) I'd have to listen to this one again to give it a fair shake, but I didn't hate it on the surface.
Pretty unremarkable. I wouldn't be mad about it being on or anything but I wouldn't really notice either. 2.5
Piru kova! Loppua kohde vähä ehkä heikkeni, mut pirun kova
Hyvä meno
Lopun sekoilut vähän turhia mutta kovaa kamaa silti!
Interesting, I'd listen to more of their stuff, maybe not twice though
Confusing -- why is this album on this list?
This was an experience... so side one (as the kids say) was very very good, a tad pretentious but I dug it. The side 2 started and after 15 mins of the 17 min track I honestly thought the umbongo theme was about to start playing, then an 11 min track happens where a man wails down the mic for the majority of it and because of how terrible side 2 was it loses 2 stars
Interesting album, was great as background noise but didn't love it beyond that
At first, I thought, oh, god dimery. Then I read about it a bit and thought, oh, ok. Then I listened. Kraftwerk? Yes. Einsterzende neubaten? Yes? This? Not a must listen. It’s ok, but has not survived its critical darling status.
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.
I only know of Can by reputation. I had never heard this album before. I enjoyed it. Even the backwards track (Oh Yeah). And it’s true what they say about the drummer - Jaki Liebezeit - his drumming is mesmerising. I only listened to it once, but I imagine I’d learn to love it with a few more listens. It’s very much of its time. And the standard of the musicianship is very high.
I do love me some krautrock. I love a hypnotic motorik beat (and Jaki Leibezeit is the king of the motorik beat) I like the weirdness, the stretching out, the minimal approach, the almost funkiness to it. Halleluwah and Mushroom are probably two of the greatest Can tracks ever, and this is my favourite Can album. I know this isn't to everyone's taste, but I really dig it. Halleluwah is even better in the 18 minute version than the 3 and 5 minute edits that float around on various singles and compilations. It really needs the time to stretch out. That said, I _never_ play the side with Aumgn; it crosses the line into self-indulgent and unstructured noise. So, one star off for Augmn. Otherwise, a massively influential album and a personal favourite. Four stars. Side note: this is my 500th review, and it is a pleasure to get a great album like this.
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...?
So, krautrock, that's a new term for me. Not sure that's an appropriate term anymore, although the first half of it was a term used very much in my hometown (large German heritage, but North Americanized) and applied to the line my great uncle played on in the NHL. Anyway, like the k-word which had its time and isn't really cool anymore, this album is the same for me. It sounds dated and flat; maybe it's the psychedelic undertones. Side two, which was just the song Halleluhwah, was kind of funky and interesting. But then it got real weird on side three and four. I'm definitely not craving more of this band or this genre. I'd probably give the first two sides a 3 and the last two sides a 2, but I'll round up because of the pioneering nature of the album.
If I was only rating the first album, I'd go with a 3...maybe even a 4. It's dated, but has some good grooves. I liked Paperhouse and Halleluhwah a lot. Mushroom sounded like they were on shrooms, but wasn't terrible. Oh Yeah sounded like the shrooms were kicking in, but had a decent groove. But then the second album...absolute pure complete crap. Here are my notes: Aumgn: More shrooms...definitely out there and too long. Somewhat disturbing. Peking O - Pure crap...about halfway in is horrendous. And so on. What a shame. I'd like to give it a 3 as an average, but the second album is so bad I can't go that high. 2 it is.
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
Not only am I in my brother's weird friend's basement, he is pretending to be a ghost for 17 minutes!
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/.
Première moitié "classique" : oui ok sans plus. Deuxième moitié expérimentale : j'ai complètement lâché l'affaire, et même failli ne pas finir. Je comprends pas trop le délire.
Weird
I've definitely heard some Can songs over the years that I really liked, so I was kinda excited for this one. And they first half of the album or so is decent, but the half hour of random noise in the middle REALLY brings down my enjoyment of the project. I may revisit some of the better tracks, but I don't think I'll ever need to hear the full LP again. 2.5/5
First songs were sort of a vibe but the last half was sounding more and more like an occult ritual or something.
Enjoyed a lot of it but tracks 5 and 6 were a bit too experimental for me
It was an interesting album. Not sure if I would listen to it often.
4.5/5.0 Stars. Could see it becoming 5/5 upon further listening. Was not expecting this to be so good.
Not about to listen to krautrock
1971 Some songs are smooth listening, others are just clanging and banging of drums or weird sound sequences sustained for long periods of time. Not enjoyable.
I really enjoyed the start of this album, but the last few songs were just too weird for me, painfully long that I won’t be rushing back to this, can see it’s influenced a lot of people hence deserves to be on the list.
It's an interesting one. Definitely enjoyed listening to it, but probably not something I'd listen to often. Great suggestion though.
Some bangers, but also a lot of psychedelic noise jamming.
The first two tracks, "Paperhouse" and "Mushroom", are essential prog rock listening, but the rest of the album is really enjoyable too.
This is a game of two halves - half is essential motorik, especially the monumental Hallelujah that a certain Happy Mondays may just have ripped off wholesale without even bothering to change the title for Hallelujah. However there are lengthy drum solos and periods of what appears to be studio chatter and just messing about on the second side. So three stars.
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.
At times it felt like the songs would never end, and not in a pleasant way. Some good ideas are buried in the mire though.
Weird combo of psych rock and a jam band. 2.5
demencial en el peor sentido de la palabra
I enjoyed the first few tracks but it eventually descended into a cacophony which I wasn’t enjoying. I wouldn’t seek it out again so I’m going to be harsh, 2*
I must admit that I was quite busy so didn't get a huge amount of time to listen. It was OK -- a bit repetitive but inoffensive background noise.
This one is a little tricky. It may not have made for the best road trip music, but it was certainly interesting. Firstly, I saw the year 2011 on the album description and thought it was from then. When I realized it was from 1971, that changed a lot of how I regarded it. I had completely believed this was much more contemporary, rather than something so innovative from half a century ago. In listening to the first half, the review in my head stated that my favorite thing about this were the rhythms and percussion. Absolutely awesome all through that point. Then we got to "Aumgn," and no more of that. My co-listener asked if it was the soundtrack to a very artistic haunted house, and we began to build the mental images as we went through, including a casino room. In any case, because it blew my mind so many times, I had to revisit this one, and I just found it to be fantastic.
The first three tracks were not really my jam, but they were tolerable. Then came the rest of the album…Nope and nope.
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.
Another unknown!
uma viagem o som, meio progressivo misteriosao, legal até
2/5. I definitely understand how unquiet this album is with it's extended experimental music, and trust me I love progressive rock, but this isn't it. It's not terrible but is hard to listen to sometimes. I would need to be in a specific mood and don't think I got that in me for a bit. It's a 2 because I don't hate it, just not going to sit and listen to it all the way through.
Some groove, some jams way too zonked out for anyone to enjoy straight
Good grooves
What the hell was that?
Some cool jams in the start of this record followed by some truly trippy and longform tracks. Another album that tries tries to emulate some kind of psychedelic experience. Reminded me of Dr. John's Gris Gris that we listened to a couple of months back.
There's some fun stuff here but also some weird ass stuff. Aumgn could be a horror movie score.
Some ok stuff and a whole lot of the worst kind of psychedelica. I'm here to listen to music, not what amounts to 30 minutes of house creaking
Kind of a weird experience. This was not very good and ultimately pointless but there were a couple of songs that I didn't mind having on when I wasn't paying too much attention. Seemed like a few relatively talented musicians formed a jam band and then just wanted to see how strange they could get.
only recently got into CAN. i like this a lot and it has some interesting twists and turns.
I was into this album at first. Thought I'd give it a higher rating but it just kind of fell apart for me.
The first half of the album was pretty decent even with an 18 and a half minute song, but for that to then be followed by 17 and a half minutes of moaning was rough. Just a strange listen, every time Krautrock starts to pull me in it somehow immediately flips on itself and loses me again.
we need more of this weird shit on here!!! mostly good, some got a little out there for me but overall a great listen.
Halleluhwah should not be listened to when anxious.
Enjoyed
Chilling and wibing hyvää musiikkia miellyttävää kuunnella taas
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
Banger. This is the best shit. It’s a ten Fave track: Oh Yeah
Messy, but interesting.
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.
Krautrock. Rallante. Un 2.
Wowzer. I didn't like it. And then I really didn't like it. 1.5 rounding up for the boldness of the attempt. Fair enough having it on this list.
To be fair, the first 4 tracks were interesting. I must not be smart enough to understand this music.
A great album definitely worth a listen
I Can appreciate bits of what's hear, you Can certainly hear it's influence. But I'd be happy if I Can live the rest of my life without this album darkening my door again.
5.0 + 7 songs, 7 scenarios: - Paperhouse: Hippie dance party, Summer of '69, San Francisco. Oil projectors casting swirly colors on the wall. LSD. "Far out, maaaan." - Mushroom: Late night after-party bike ride across the Manhattan bridge. - Oh Yeah: The night my dog Benson devoured half a 7-layer chocolate cake and we were bombing down the highway to get him to the animal hospital. - Halleluhwah: Lost in a house of mirrors at the state fair, tripping balls. - Aumgn: Torture chamber. - Peking O: 3 am at the library studying for an econ exam I will likely fail. - Bring Me Coffee Or Tea: Laying in bed with a raging hangover, trying to figure out how I'm going to navigate a packed day of to-do's.
The first few songs were pretty good, but it all got a bit abstract towards the end.
The first Can album I discovered and it BLEW ME AWAY. Made my day seeing this pop up this morning. Banger factory.
Криф сказал, что готов выебать этот альбом. Поддерживаю, но не от всей души. 9/10.
some good, but then some weird jam band noise vibes
Was pretty average, some songs went on for too long
Noch ein weiteres Album von CAN? Das ist jetzt 3 (inklusiv des Albums vom Sänger) ohne echten Grund. Wer ist dieser Typ denn eigentlich? Warum kennt ihn keine außer Robert Dimery? Man könnte wohl seine ziemlich reguläre Anwesenheit als eh... unerklärlich beschreiben. Aber wenns um die Auswahl von Dimery geht, sollte man wahrscheinlich nichts anderes erwarten... Ok, es hat relativ akzeptabel angefangen, klang wie... Musik, eigentlich. Ja klar, alles ganz normal. Vllt nicht so meins aber deutlich als Rockmusik aus den 70en erkennbar. Aber... langsam wirkte es stranger und stranger, bis es total unangenehm war. Am Ende hatte ich einfach die Nase komplett voll davon. 2/5.
Absolutely essential krautrock masterpiece.
3.5
Couldn’t really get into it. I didn’t feel any sort of narrative was being told, no distinguishable parts. It was intriguing at times but it was no more than background music for me
None for me, thanks.
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.
What in the actual fuck was this? There. Is. Never. Any. Need. For. A. 17. Minute. Song. EVER. That was horrific. This album very quickly became an annoyance.
I was there, in 1968. I was there at the very first Can show. But the kids, are coming up from behind. This group was their own brand of songwriting that got weird long before the days of bedroom rock and lofi. It doesn’t really matter what I rate this album, because that’s missing the point. Can doesn’t give a shit about what I think or what you think. But 5 stars because Can fuckin rules.
I CAN and WILL give this deranged krautrock classic an EASY 5.
WTF am I listening to.
Well that was an interesting album! Really innovative and polished sound.
Some filler but some of CANs best as well
Peak hoe-scaring music.
Good but drags on a bit in places for me.
Yeah, not my cuppa tea.
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.
I like it.
This is a surprisingly modern sounding record considering when it was released. The first half was a lot easier to listen to than the second but I will continue to try this out as it is intriguing.
A pretty oddball album by Can. Which is an equally dumb numb for a band. I just couldn’t find the good parts of this album. It was hard to listen to and harder to understand. Wasn’t the worst thing on this list but it won’t be revisited anytime soon. 3.4/10
Terrible production, no high point, no songwriting, this was a tough listen.
Very experimental at the end, the few songs with proper singing were decent
Weird
Daar had ik geen zin!
Beetje moeilijk te doorgronden na slechts 1 luisterbeurt en helaas niet boeiend genoeg om er meer tijd aan te besteden.
Op zich niet vervelend, maar ik kon er ook niet echt Kaas van maken
De eerste paar nummers vond ik wel interessant eigenijk. Maar de tweede helft van deze plaat was echt volkome ruk. Hoezo zou ik 18 minuten naar wat rare geluiden willen luisteren? Volledig doorgedraaid in het experiment.
Het begon leuk, maar allemachtig: wat een ellende weer.
I think the band had a stroke halfway through this album
The Ile de Tagomago is an island snuggled into Ibiza’s east coast. The name Tagomago translates as “Mago’s rock”, possibly referring to Mago Barca, the brother of Hannibal. Mago Barca also was the ultimate source for "mayonnaise". Anyway, the Ile de Tagomago supposedly once served as a retreat for Aleister Crowley, the Great Beast of English occultism. Yet the figure most touched by magick associated with the island is Jaki Liebezeit, the funkiest German of all. In 1963, Jaki Liebezeit was depressed. Liebezeit had been an accomplished free jazz drummer, but gigging around Spain had caused him to conclude that, despite the nominer, free jazz was limited, a musical dead end. Also, he had been touring with an opiate-boggled Chet Baker, and Baker’s drug dependency blackened Liebezeit’s psyche further. Liebezeit rented a pad on the Ile de Tagomago, but found himself suicidal, every morn contemplating a dive onto the island’s rocks. Thankfully, he didn’t, and later at a gig he received the epiphany that shook his from his malaise. After he had finished playing, a random stranger, probably high, approached him through the crowd and bellowed, “You should play more monotonously!” The figure disappeared back into the ether, but lightning had struck Liebezeit. That revelation led Liebezeit to develop a new philosophy of drumming, one where he would not only repeat himself, but repeat himself so much that his drumming would become hypnotic and questing. Hooking up with two students of Stockhausen, Irwin Schmidt (keyboards, oscillators, sine-wave generators) and Holger Czukay (bass), and a protégé of Czukay’s, Michael Karoli (guitar), Jaki Liebezeit provided the engine of Can, the core drive to perhaps the greatest band to fuse the avant-garde with rock. Tago Mago is Can’s second studio album, a compilation of their soundtrack work appearing between their first album Monster Movie and Tago Mago. Tago Mago is also Can’s greatest album. Tago Mago is also one of the greatest albums ever made. I have used the word “greatest” thrice in the last few sentences. I make no apology for that, because each use is fully justified. I know that taste is subjective, and Tago Mago refuses to compromise for the more demure listener, but if I were to hide behind a statement like, “oh, I’m my opinion it’s great, but it’s not for everyone,” that would be evasive and cowardly. In the world as I see it, Tago Mago is easily one of the ten greatest albums of all. Wittgenstein once wrote that what the solipsist says is true, though such a truth cannot be stated, but rather makes itself manifest. Following that logic, and since I'm pretty sure I exist, if you don’t like Tago Mago, then that’s evidence on the transcendental plane that you don’t exist. I haven’t mentioned yet the fifth ingredient to Tago Mago, the Japanese freakout shaman Damo Suzuki, who by all accounts is genuinely a very nice person. In one interview he described himself as a “nomad in the 21st century, traveller, hippy but not really hippie, metaphysical transporter, human being.” Only the last entry in that list raises scepticism: if it turned out Damo Suzuki had flown down to Earth in a flying saucer with Santana and Bez, nobody would be that surprised. After Malcolm Mooney, the original vocalist to Can, returned to the USA due to mental health issues, Czukay and Liebezeit spotted Suzuki busking in the street with a performance art piece. The two wandered over and asked Suzuki if he would join their happening on stage that night. You may assume that such a deadline would have proven onerous to young Suzuki, but Can existed in a state of constant improvisation. They were notorious for jamming for up to 16 hours, finding the songs by Czukay’s extensive splicing of their recordings afterwards. This style fitted Suzuki like a spacesuit, since his vocalism was a highly improvised blend of Japanese, German, English and whatever noise he damn well wanted, with him pronouncing the resultant mixture as “the language of the Stone Age.” And who are we mere mortals to doubt him? For such a trippy record, and it is bloody trippy, the first disc of Tago Mago is rather accessible. The first three tracks, Paperhouse, Mushroom and Oh Yeah, are as groovy as Bootsy Collins’ corduroys. Paperhouse and Mushroom are very fine pieces of early 70s head music, but Oh Yeah is the full-on, full-blooded, full-throated, full-blast, full-frontal apex of the first side, variating from portentous and doom-laden to butterfly-light and back in 7 minutes. There’s only one way they could follow that: the 18-minute masterpiece Halleluhwah, where they find the Platonic groove, the groove ringing throughout Elysium, and thus the funkiest track of 1971 was made by four classically trained Germans and a Japanese busker. Even more wonderfully, on Halleluhwah Can preempt the laidback acid whiteboy funk of the Happy Mondays, one of the greatest, most undervalued groups in rock history (and would also record their own glorious Hallelujah). And then we get to the second disc, where it gets really trippy. Can had intended Tago Mago to be a single album, but their manager, Schmidt’s wife Hildegard, insisted that Can reveal all they could do. The side-length Aumgn takes its name from a Sanskrit mystical chant, and has Can flexing their avant-garde heft. I shan’t pretend that the casual listener may find themselves intimidated by Aumgn, and the following Peking O, but I implore you to try and connect with them, or at least be patient with them. They are not meant to be easy listening, but how are you going to expand your consciousness into the ninth dimension and realise the godhead within you if you shirk this in favour of Justin Timberlake? Finally, we have Bring Me Coffee or Tea, a much gentler but still slightly unsettling cooldown from all the intensity, and so the listener lies ravished, beaming, able only to keep tapping out the endless drums. Warm, challenging, funky, intelligent, funny, organic, brave, hairy, virtuosic, playful, apocalyptic and cool, Tago Mago is, as I said before, one of the greatest albums ever made. It is the sound of five men with astonishing heads and astonishing hands synchronising with each other to produce an avant-funk-rock monument to what music can achieve. And as much as I bow before Schmidt, Czukay, Karoli and Suzuki, the central figure to Tago Mago, the metronomic colossus, is Jaki Liebezeit. The beat simply don’t stop and that’s a fact, Jak. NoRadio, signing off.
Very interesting Sounds. Long album, but good most of the time. Favorite track: Mushroom 3.5
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.
Really interesting. The instrumentals were really cool and certain parts tickled my brain in a way. Fave track(s): Halleluhwah
Not my jam.
psycodelical chaoticall
This album is proof enough not to judge an album off the reviews on this site because this album absolutely fucks
Some incredible stuff on this record, massively innovative and influential.
Wow. I liked this. Background music was great. Krautrock!? Who knew?
Experimenting with music is good, but sometimes experiments fail. From the first few tracks I already disliked the record, but then I was attacked by a 17-minute clattering session, followed by another 20 minutes or so of unbearable music. Hard pass.
Ugh the weird noises on Aumgn were not for me. The album started out ok but went off the rails
i was quite enjoying this but by the end i was forced to concede that it's bollocks
Just wasn't interested in sitting through this.
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.
Interesting record, background music in the best way. Great example of experimental krautrock and seems to have influenced many bands across many genres. A little frustrating in places because of the length of some passages
For the most part it was a nice example of the genre with it's own quirks which keep it interesting with Aumg and a few other parts it carries it into a bad acid trip in the making, it does well with its inspiration of Aleister Crowley and the occult. I saved a few tracks into a playlist others I'll relive in my nightmares and discuss with my therapist in years to come.
Paperhouse and Oh Yeah so good. Just such good fun psych freakouts
This album started out good, but just got kind of strange. Seems like more of a thought experiment than a coherent album.
Can fan here. Biased vote incoming, feel free to dock me a star or whatever you need to based on your own biases. Can I say that while this might not be my personal favorite album of theirs, I am compelled to say Tago Mago is utterly fantastic. Maybe it's their most influential? Certainly something from the Damo Suzuki era gets that nod. Can is groovy, spacey, squawky and skronky—you can't put a lid on Tago Mago. The music spills out in all the right ways. Half man, half machine Jaki Liebezeit’s drumming is absolutely hypnotic and one of the reasons they rate so highly (he's the only drummer I've ever bought a book about). The rest of the band surrounds this pulse in such a way that sonic experiments from decades ago still sounds fresh today.
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
Weird and wonderful
Man, what a weird album. It's funny how it's 70 some minutes long, but it's only got 7 songs on it. I got tired of it pretty quickly, and those very long songs really cemented this as a 2 star for me. I'm just glad it's over with. My favourite song was Mushroom.
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.
Weird, but slightly good
Experimental, I get it. But theres a 17 minute “song” that sounds like yawning for most of it. 2.5 rating only for the experimental sound
This album is certainly something. The kind of album you put on in the background and then have moments of “is it still on the same track?”. Interesting project but wouldn’t listen again.
Incredible album, truly! We had another from Can as well, which was solid but didn't leave near the impression that this does. I was prepared to just make a joke that they shortened the band name so you'd have more time to listen to the songs, but the album turned out to be fantastic. Love these long, odyssey type tracks, and holy cow, "Aumgn" blew my mind. So dissonant, so disquieting. I was having a stressful day when I listened to this, and this album amplified the experience in the right way. Damn, we've had so many killer albums lately, I feel honored. I'm gonna give this one a five star bump because I'm feeling generous. Five of seven tracks are staying with me, which is really saying something. Less than a 4.5 would be criminal here, let's bump it. Favorite tracks: Aumgn, Halleluhwah, Peking O, Paperhouse, Oh Yeah. Album art: A drawing of a rotten, frazzled brain trying its damndest to spew rotten ideas, that's my takeaway here. It's bright and creative, I really dig it. What a delightful surprise this was. 5/5
Starts out so tight, but totally goes off the rails towards the end. Gets top marks though for being so, so far ahead of its time.
On track for a 4, then that horrific 17 min long track aumgn single handedly dragged it down.
Meh
10/10 wow, so glad I’m listening to more of Can’s stuff they’re an extremely talented band
Really good and interesting - I could see this being a band that your favourite band are influenced by, without you knowing. But it's not hugely memorable on its own terms
Cool album but too long. Probably my least favorite of the "classic" Can albums. 6/10
Typical Can experience for me. For some reason I feel like I'm "supposed" to like Can, and somewhere in the first 10 minutes I'm like "wait, do I actually like Can after all?" Because there are many brilliant moments. But then, I sort of realize I've been gritting my teeth through the nth minute of a violin's staccato, almost tuneless sawing away and then I'm like, "oh right, this is why I don't particularly like Can". Maybe I'm too dumb, the kind of breathless no-reservations accolades mystify me.
Pretty surprising that it came out in the early 70s. It kinda sounds like some alt-prog from the 2010s
Geen pretenties, gewoon wat langdurig jammen en maar zien waar je uitkomt. Het resultaat is wat problematisch: ja, het is een lollige trip, maar je vraagt je wel af: wanneer zou ik zoiets eigenlijk willen luisteren? Als je net een abstract schilderij zit te maken, een hoorspel over ruimtevaart opneemt of wanneer je nostalgische herinneringen aan het spookslot van de Efteling ophaalt. Niet zo vaak dus.
Mijn ratings zijn gemiddeld wat laag. Moet ik milder zijn? is de vraag. Maar het ligt niet aan mijn beoordeling. Nu krijg ik weer zo'n geluidenverzameling.
Psychedelische funk. Het is 1 grote jamsessie, maar de basis van bas en drums staat als een huis wat mij betreft, waar de rest lekker omheen kan improviseren en experimenteren. Vanaf minuut 37 raken ze alleen het spoor bijster. De drugs kickt in en wordt het veel te experimenteel naar mijn smaak, daar mist alle ritme in. Daar past meer de term kosmisch bij. Op een gegeven moment doet die zanger minutenlang een soort walvis in de oceaan na. Lachwekkend. Het 2e gedeelte is een absolute 1, niemand kan met droge ogen beweren dat dat geniale muziek is. Maar het 1e gedeelte doet helemaal niemand kwaad. Eric heeft deel 2 al gerate, doe ik het 1e deel wel. Toch 3 sterretjes. TL:DR: zet de plaat af na 37 minuten, tenzij je aan de LSD zit.
Some cool stuff I guess but most of the back half is painful. Props for them for doing something like this in 1971 but not for me
This album was a journey. 7 songs and over an hour. It started off pretty good with good rhythm and catchy beats, but got sort of weird psychedelic by the end. The 17 min song really took me out of it.
So jazzy. Great musicianship but I couldn’t sit through this one.
was quite enjoying this until it totally lost its shit and went in to some guttural ohming for what seemed like an eternity. that must have been when the drugs really kicked in. they must have been have a great time on whatever interdimensional plain they were on.
I hated everything fuckin' single second of this embarrassing record. A total disgrace.
Wasn't listening
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"
Buen disco
forgettable but ok
Cool, but not really for me. I love prog-rock, but this album feels like it doesn't go anywhere; it doesn't tell a story or even induces an emotional connection. Im sure it does for some, or maybe I need to try it again on a different day, but I wouldn't say I like it.
I'm gonna do something I haven't done before and cast a spite vote. At the time of reviewing, this Krautrock gem is sitting at an average score of 2.86, below such piles of steaming crap as "Gentlemen" by the Afghan Whigs, Def Leppard's "Hysteria", that awful collab by Sinatra and Jobim, and sooo many others. 5 spiteful middle fingers to all you shitty music taste having plebs. 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
Interesting
Het begin viel mee. Maar het wordt al snel een onluisterbare chaos.
What the heck has Aumgn? And Peking O? I can't.
I have no idea how someone listens to this and says 5 stars. I was hanging in okay through the first 4 tracks. Didn't like it, but it was just slightly excessive in experimental/psychedelic. And then unfortunately Aumgn and Peking O. showed up. No part of that is actually enjoyable to listen to a second time. Unexpected on the first, but no reason to go back. Ugh.
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!
Got a bit lost in this one TBH, couldn't get a feel for where they were trying to takee
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
This one starts out really strong and promising, goes a bit morbidy-weird in the middle, then goes just too stupid towards the end.
I dug the fuck out of this.
I’m glad records like this exist.
Interesting prog rock. Not my thing, but enjoyed its vibe
Begint wel aardig, maar wordt op een gegeven moment een hoop random geluiden, bijvoorbeeld Aumgn
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
To be honest very hard to listen album.... The concept is nice and sonorities are mostly enjoyable (not all however...) You catch yourselfmov8ng your head from time to time and sometime surprised by weird noises that sound good.... But the length of the album and some bad moments of the album really take you out if you listen to the album as a whole.... Decent but not it. Small 2.5/5
Wth
The downfall of many a piece of experimental music is whatever the performers are trying to make it. Most of the music on Tago Mago lacks a clear telos: It can only be itself, and there's no striving to ruin the rumination. What's curious is that by all accounts, Aumgn should ruin the record. It spends too many minutes lacking not only an end but also the sense of urgency which propelled the rhythms of the other songs. Drumbeats appear but promise no impact, until the last handful of minutes somehow pull the song out of the muck and save it. Peking O is another curiosity, its drive disappearing into a frantic affect. All that means that the double LP registers as slightly underworthy as far as pure runtime goes, too much plain old ambient. But also the kind of weird that gets under your skin as well as your ears.
Pas trop fan du rock choucroute
mes voisins vont me faire envoyer à l'asile je pense (que quelqu'un vienne en aide aux artistes allemands)
Good musicians + poor song writing
Des passes très avant-gardistes, mais à certains moments ça devenait trop experimental pour mon goût.
Different, weird. Still enjoyable. Appreciate that their wiki entry referred to the genre as Krautrock.
Never heard this one before. I'll definitely have to listen to it when I have time to LISTEN. So far it's very much up my alley -- I am a huge fan of psychedelia.
Lame
I was listening to the first half of this thinking wow, how have I never heard this? Then I listened to the second half and I was thinking wow, what in the fuck was that. So good and so bad. 3.5
2.5?? What did that turn into
Good God this is torture. It's taken days to power through this, and it's yet to be enjoyable. Just noise for 74 minutes.
Basically the definition of the "is we play it weird, it will be good!" mentality. It's just not good. Thankfully, there are enough good moments to salvage a 2.
I wasn't really looking forward to this, as I'm not big into experimental music. But overall I enjoyed this. Reminded me a bit of early Pink Floyd, but a bit more polished. Still not something I would listen to often, but I'm glad I did at least once. 3 stars.
such a weird album, cant even classify it, but I did enjoy it, quite a bit
Bits of this album are exceptional. Some bits are irritating. Halleluwah is great. Fifteen minutes of bonkers rhythm that just sucks you in. Peking O is annoying. Overall, I love Can. So this is getting the full five stars.
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.
70s at its top. Good but not LZ
Very good first half. The last 3 were a bit weird.
Sorta more art noise with a guitar minimal, percussion bent. I thought it had enough attitude to be Japanese, if that means anything.
Las 4 primeras canciones bien, pero a partir de ahí es demasiado para mi cuerpo. De media se queda en 2 estrellas **.
The first song was decent. Then came an insane screach and the album came crashing down. Aumgn is one of the worst songs I've ever heard. Peking O is awful terrible. It is just random noises and random keyboard shit. Makes you think who allowed this to happen. The only compliment I can give to this album is that is isn't as terrible as Throbbing Gristle's third album! I HATE YOU 0/10
Torn between 2 and 3... OK passages from time to time, but one would have to be in a very special frame of mind to really enjoy the album.
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.
Comienza bien, psicodélico y extraño. Paperhouse y Oh Yeah son las más rescatables porque lo demás es demasiado artístico para mi gusto, por no decir que son una sarta de gritos y ruidos inconexos. Para colmo, tiene 2 canciones de este tipo de 17 y 18 minutos respectivamente.
No tengo el nivel mental para oír Krautrock, lo reconozco. Necesito estructuras tradicionales, melodías, letras, etc… Es un disco difícil de digerir que puede ser un ejemplo perfecto para quienes buscan algo fuera de los esquemas que están ya muy utilizados. Ellos como instrumentistas son muy buenos, pero no es algo que llega a lucir mucho porque se diluye en la falta de forma.
Getting all the way through this album requires ... grit. The first six tracks are very weird and non-melodic but you feel like, ok, this is cool even if it's pretty hard to listen to. You probably need to be stoned out of your mind to appreciate it, and even then you'd prefer to listen to something more ... musical. But ok. The track seven comes and it's just absolutely horrendous noise - l it's a really bad trip and your drugs were laced with poison. I mean I'm sure these guys were technically good but this is just too much! I emerged a little shaken, glad I survived. I won't be listening to this one ever again if I can help it.
p235. 1971. 2 stars. 70's German prog-rock/jazz wankage with Japanese vocals. Let's not forget that previous collaborations between Germany and Japan have not ended well. Alarm bells went off as soon as I looked at the track times... 7:28, 7:23, 18:32, 17:37, 11:37, 6:27. FFS. Early fears confirmed, lots of pointless noodling and dodgy vocals. Outstays its welcome after 5 mins. Shame as the bass and drums are really tight - all sorts of future influences for 90's club and dance. Never trust a double album made by German hippies.
Interesting album, but in my opinion each song was way too long.
Really like the beginning of this album. The last couple of songs (the noise set) was really pretty terrible and brings down the overall score significantly. 2.5/5
not a fan
A dope World album
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
First impression: "Interesting". Alas, the album is marred by a latter half that's best described as a bad acid trip.
Not as weird as I'd hoped
1971 Radiohead
Rubbish - mad 1970s hippy jamming, poorly execufed.
Pretty weird but not terrible
A very weird album. I had never heard of the album before and I do not think I have heard of the band either. I have no idea why this album is on the list. It is not really rock and roll, punk, or psychedelic rock at least how I describe those genres. There was really no reason to listen to it to begin with and no reason to revisit it.
One of the most beautiful and sophisticated records ever and one of the most brilliant albums of the 70s for sure. More than a hour of great music, just incredible!
Interesting music. One of those albums that I am glad that I listened to, but I don't really think I'll be listening to it a bunch in the future. Reminds me of Silver Apples or very early Floyd.
Absolutely legendary album. This band was so damn innovative it's insane.
Really interesting album albeit with some very industrial sounding parts
There is so much music from the 70s I've never explored. This was pretty far out in 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.
Nice and relaxing and poggers
Only one song saved
meh
So, yes, the last couple of tracks are a pretty tough listen. Overall I didn't hate this as much as I thought I might and I can hear how it influenced some of the electronic artists I enjoy.
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.
I personally don’t think you can truly understand psychedelic rock unless you are in the 60s tripped out on shrooms and this is playing on the record player. Listening to this while getting ready for my 9-5 job, completely sober, doesn’t really do it justice. The rhythms were sick though. My favorites: Paperhouse, Halleluhwah
Too experimental and a lot of unpleasant noise. 1.5/5
Krautrock is lovely
good album! but it dragged on way too long for my liking.
One of my all-time favorite albums. "Halleluhwah" alone earns them a spot in heaven, an I'm extremely into the rest of it
Started fine. Ended witchy.
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.