Future Days

These long experimental albums can be really hit or miss but this nailed it. Great as both active listening and as background music while working Favorite Songs: Spray, Bel Air

I can’t believe I’ve lived in this planet 51 years it this is older than I am. Basically a Radiohead album before they existed.

It sounded like they just hit record while they were having a jam

This was a cool album to hear. The last one I listened to had moments of experimental chaos, but this one leans more into ambient rock. It’s not exactly slow, just laid-back and chill. The music takes you on a dreamy, hypnotic journey. The beats are steady and consistent, with a tribal like feel that really enhances the album’s trance like vibe.

What are we doing here. Come on. Please. Like sure. I can't do this one I'm sorry. Not for me. I don't like this kinda music unfortunately. Haha spray can. I like this more now than I thought I would. Favourite: Bel Air Least favourite: Future Days

2.5 I feel the way I do about the other Can album on this list. There’s interesting stuff in every track, but there’s no track I like all the way through. Also brb, going to every person who rated this a five’s profile and seeing how many rap albums they gave one star to lol Interesting correlation I discovered last night!!!

Some ok stuff

I would suggest that a 20 minute song takes the piss.

it was calm, lil bit ear achy here and there but overall pretty enjoyable :)

Krautrock, being one of my favourite genres, is always going to get a high rating from me, and the influence this album (and their two previous releases) has on modern music can never be understated. I am taking a star off for Bel Air's MULTIPLE false endings getting to me...

Sooo artsy rock isn’t my thing

This one's more accessible than Tago Mago, and kinda ends up reminding me of Monster Movie? I slightly prefer Mooney to Suzuki, honestly, this version of Can feels a bit smoother as opposed to the rough edges of the early work, with more time for jamming that doesn't do much for me, whereas Mooney would keep up the singing pretty much constantly, which is more to my taste. All this to say, if you like Future Days, you should go back and check out Monster Movie!

this album only 4 songs but was 40 minutes? crazy. had a good time with this one

this is a little too weird for me

It always seems I get albums by an artist in a clump. I got Tago Mago as a record two weeks and this week I get Future Days. Tago Mago was just okay for me and I preferred the shorter songs to the longer songs. This album only has four songs and three of them exceed the 8 minute mark. There is really long song on Future Days (which takes up all of Side 2 and is 20 minutes long) and so that's always a bit of a test for me. I unfortunately did not enjoy Future Days more than I enjoyed Tago Mago. I am sure the band is technically correct and for the second straight day I don't understand music. What I do understand is that I do not dislike Krautrock but Can just doesn't hit with me. The songs did work for me better on the second listen. Perhaps if I repeatedly listened then I would start to enjoy the music. Perhaps it's just a case of musical Stockholm Syndrome. My favorite song: Future Days Moonshake

A classic!! More later than at the time. Hugely influential.

Didn’t need it, don’t want it.

really cool instrumental sounds

There really isn't much here, is there? Bless the hearts of anyone who understands the contribution of this album to some browser genre or trend, but I ain't that guy

It's like someone said "What if the Beach Boys were interesting?" and then created this album. And while the last song does tend to drag a bit as a single piece of music, in general this was a fun thing to listen to. 4.5 stars rounded down.

Finally an album that sounds unexpected.

hype

Very intending but I dint like wouldnt listen

For an experimental album it was surprisingly tolerable

hypnotic

There's some interesting things going on here. But ultimately, the music isn't strong enough to carry the album when the lyrics are so deep in the mix that I'd have trouble hearing them if I could speak the language.

Listen again some time

Not sure how this makes it into the top albums. Feels like a lack of words, meaning, and anything substantial

peak

Gear: Dunu SA6 Artwork: 🔱♒🔷 Production (2005 Remaster): 👂🩺🧈 Music: 🧬🧫🔭 Rating: 📡📡📡/5

Interesting in places, some good tracks alongside some overlong stuff.

It’s trippy. Very trippy

Sound of the future indeed. Still very fresh today, lots of interesting sounds. It's not just an amazing experimental music, it's actually very enjoyable as well.

Oh another of those records where we need to throw in the word ambient at, as if that then explains everything. Two things can be right at the same time. You call it experimental savant and I call it a tedious slog. I am just not neurological wired to find enjoyment in avant garde/prog music, doesn’t matter how much exposure I have I have a tendency of finding it pointless and alienating. Yes I can squint and see it as deep expertise but in such a narrow field, maybe? So while I skimmed through this records somewhat gentle meanderings I ultimately just wanted it to get on and done, to reach its conclusion, so could move on with my life. I didn’t get “out there” with it, didn’t feel calmed, not challenged, didn’t feel any ambience, so it ended up a dry experience - well heard it now 1.5 Star

It’s alright.

I don't understand why artists have mumbling repeated lyrics for 20 minutes. The instrumental track was enjoyable, but it's ruined by the 'singing'.

A little experimental? Nice. A classic format. A few regular lengthed songs with a 20 minute song at the end

This was cool as hell actually. Long jams that are largely vibes based. This album would fit in well with a fishmans playlist. Very good psych rock.

Experimental sure. But I had more interesting projects on this, that were also experimental.

Long form Kraur rock

First song is annoying as hell, but my mom didn't raise a quitter so I stayed, and I am happy because the album only gets better and Bel Air is definitively my cup of tea.

Not what I was expecting but it was pleasant background music.

interesting. vocals were not noticeable at all for me

I went on a krautrock binge thanks to this. Can is officially on the list of artists I'm going to keep an eye out for at the record store.

Don’t get me wrong, this sucked. But there were at least hints of melody and real songwriting, and I want to leave room for downward movement when more Can suckitude comes down the line.

A German band with a Japanese vocalist. Now here is a random act! A band of the future no doubt, even now 53 years later it sounds like this album could be from our future still, the drumming is sensational and makes the entire album. I’ve given it a couple of listens and will no doubt listen again in the future! Worst track- ‘spray’ suitably for the fact it became ‘spray can’ 🙄 Best track- ‘moon shake’ for me, the energy it gave off and the fact I don’t have to give 20 minutes of my life to it like I would my second favourite ‘bel air’ 8.5/10

Can - Future Days A band I have read countless pages about.....but never actually listened. More fool me then! This does genuinely sound like no one else. A bunch a blokes jammy and weaving their craft. Rhythms stop and start, keys and guitars swoop in amd out of the mix, and bass moves from rock solid to elegantly funky. All within the same track, half the time. With only one 'real' song, Moonshake, it is the quality of those jams and edits that succeed or fail. And whilst the first two tracks set out a 'way of working' they just didn't hold my attention beyond a couple of listens. But it is on Bel Air that it feels like it all comes together. A first section like a slow tribal build, which reminded me of early Happy Mondays weirdly enough, melds into a more free form middle section with soaring guitars and bass going somewhere off the chart. Then it gets driven home to a cacophony of disassembly and fade. But just when it's done they come back for what is an absolute spine tingling final minute. The best minute of the album. Best Track - Bel Air Worst Track - Spray Hard to score because Bel Air is a ten....but the rest just isn't anywhere near that So I'm gonna say 8/10 but I do hope there is more on the list.

Eh.

An absolutely captivating album that builds to a thrilling climax. I just got some new over the ear headphones, and I'm tempted to give it a relisten with those, as I'm sure there's a ton of detail in there to enjoy.

The album yesterday and now todays album are not a lot of tracks, but long tracks. I have to say I miss some of the older formats and approaches like this. It makes me wonder if every era feels like it gets homogenized? This is really good. I really like “Moonshake”

Future grooves

Never heard of this band, and the album is only 21 minutes so even if it sucks it won't be painful Huh, that's weird, ytm says the album is 21 minutes but the last song alone goes for 19 minutes. This album is like a well trained high school band experimenting with different sounds. It's interesting in a way. Honestly this album is pretty good. Short n sweet. Moonshake is my pick 4/5

To be honest, not great, not crap.

rym 4.10 Krautrock/Psychedelic Rock 德国酸菜摇滚排名第一的含金量，今天就让我品一品。不知道是制作上出了问题，还是软件的问题，前几首的音量都非常低。整体还是很不错的，清澈的流动感，哀而不伤，悲而不痛，空旷却又迷迷蒙蒙。 pick: Bel Air, Moonshake

A sunny ambient album featuring four tracks and a total runtime of 40 minutes. The music of the opening track, with its simmering Latin rhythms, is certainly danceable. "Spray" is the most experimental and abstract piece on the record; its rhythm is intricate and syncopated, driven by Holger Czukay’s minimalist yet propulsive bassline. "Moonshake" is the most accessible and shortest track, translating experimental avant-garde elements into a catchy pop format. The 20-minute track "Bel Air" concludes the album, encapsulating its summery, meditative atmosphere; towards the finale, the dynamics intensify into a hypnotic storm of percussion. I have to admit it all sounds interesting, and Can is a pioneering band for several genres, but the music isn't really my cup of tea in the long run. Forty minutes of listening on a Sunday morning is enough for me.

Okay, I want to smash this album. The songs are too fucking long, it's just weird elevator/grocery store music, and I've already been forced so sit through about three painfully similar albums. But this was written and produced in 1973. Holy crap is it ahead of its time. I want to somehow lower the scores I gave those other albums. The list needs one album in this category (one mf'er - just one), and for my money, this is the one.

An acceptable jazz rock/world music album. I did not dislike it, but there was nothing that I felt compelled to add to my library. I was happy to receive this album rather than yet another hard to listen to singer/songwriter album from the early 70s. Frankly, FUTURE DAYS, in my opinion, would be the only album from Can on the list.

Unremarkable

4 songs that don’t apply to much, except for the buildup at the end of the 4th track. Luckily none of the songs are as horrible as the worst ones on their other album, but none of the songs offer much of interest either. Not impressed.

Seems like something I'm bound to forget by this afternoon, but nothing overtly painful in the four long semi-musical doodles that make up this album. Not sure we need TWO albums by these guys on a list of 1001 albums that has ZERO from Warren Zevon, though. Maybe there was a krautrock quota they were trying to meet?

"Moonshake" shakes ;) But for the rest of the album I maybe wasn't in the right mood?! 2,5

6/10… experimental rock / *1973

Whilst nothing is as immediate as some of their other work, and the longer songs are a little more inaccessible, it's still a very good piece of work, the influence of which can clearly be seen in rgeat bands such as Stereolab

It's fine. I have a hard time focusing on it — it's right now the background as I read articles in the news — but it does draw me out of that from time to time. I think I like "Bel Air" the best. The most amusing thing is the display on my phone when the second track plays: "Spray CAN"

Damo Suzuki needed to be turned up in the mix. Instrumentally, I like bands influenced by this record a bit more than the actual thing (i.e. Goblin's Dawn of the Dead soundtrack, Air's Moon Safari). Decent krautrock/prog album

This is really interesting and boundary pushing to me. Completely uncategorizable.

This was wild. Like watching a movie before seeing a trailer, poster, knowing the genre, title, or anything about the cast. Forgot to listen then pressed play on my drive to the pharmacy and started giggling. Then listened all the way through while waiting for my v delayed prescription. Was vibing the fuck out. Kind of loved it? May very well never listen again but maybe I will. Who can (CAN) say. Update: Have very much relistened. Drums are insane. Aided by the fact i just rewatched Drumline(which holds the fuck up btw) Bumping up

Bastante bueno. Siendo CAN, sabremos que tiene mucha onda. Tal vez llega a cansarme un poco la longitud de las canciones o sus beats, pero me parece buen álbum.

Very cool ambient prog rock that feels very ahead of its time. Not something your going to put on for a jam, but musically fascinating in a way that feels fresh over 50 years later. The kind of album you can nerd out about over the compositional depth and complexities present in just 4 songs

Better than Coldplay

I think what really works about this album is that while it is experimental, ambient, and noisy, it never strays too far from being a pop record. The vocals are simple and unobtrusive, while delivering a welcome grapple to the otherwise slippery textures. It's fun to listen to and features a nice mix of styles. Parts of it feel like the Talking Heads—other parts like Pink Floyd—and still others like proto-shoegaze. It's an album I plan to come back to.

Odd but not bad. Too jazzy for me though

Pretty mad! Loved some of the tracks, but couldn't tell you which one or which parts.

Whereas Kollapse by Einstürzende Neubauten was a terrible piece of art, this one was an auditory delight. The long ambient passages are focused and listenable from start to finish. Survivors: Moonshake | Bel Air

This album was really impressive, specially in the instrumentation and composition. It’s a technical showcase of talent, that I really liked. But I didn’t LOVE it. It was a solid album, the cover art is eye catching and cool, the music is intricate and delicate. I just wasn’t blown away or had that moment where I really connected with it, I just thought it was impressive and kinda chill. I was never so invested that I started to naturally do research on the band and learn more or look into other work of theirs. So they never crossed over that hill to really get me engaged but I did really enjoy the album even if I didn’t really connect with it.

The instrumentals are a little reminiscent of the Blue Man Group.

This was surprisingly terrible. I just listened to "Vitamin C" so I was pretty excited to listen to this.

I don't quite know how to describe this, it's very psychedelic, but also strangely hypnotic. I've not heard much Krautrock music before and haven't heard anything by Can before, but this has definitely piqued my curiosity; the whole album is very strange, particularly the 20-minute long closer 'Bel-Air'. My favourite track would have to be 'Moonshake' though, it was just so weird - I loved it!

Unexpected enjoyment. Listen again.

Pleasant, and rapidly gone, like a water drop on a 100°+ day. ★★★

Pretty neat listen, but lacking in special sauce

Feels very jam band-ish and forgettable. Not really my cup o' tea.

Ik vond het oprecht een heel chill album om naar te luisteren.

Future Days : excellent La deuxième est très bien La troisième est très bien et courte, j’aime cette éclectisme La quatrième est longue mais très bien 8,5/10

Way ahead of ambient, psychedelia, and zero pretense - absolute masterpiece

Of course we love Can, but this album is mostly a lot of foley sound that doesn’t tickle much of an itch for me. Future Days has its moments, and Moonshake is brilliant, but overall it feels lacking something special. 3.7/5

Kind of surprised this has a higher global rating than Tago Mago, the other Can release in the list. It's more ambient and less groove-based than it's predecessor but with less weird noises from Damo. Am reviewing this while listening to a feature on the radio about preppers and recipes that can be prepared using food that comes from a can. Personally I wouldn't take this into my shelter but it's alright.

Lite väl konstigt instrumentaliskt 2/5

Great ambient effort especially for the time and place it was released. I look forward to explore more of Cans work.

Can't hear shi

Fun, funky, jam band type stuff but a bit weirder.

3/5

I quite liked this, although I don't remember much. The music seemed to just drift over me a lot, helping me get into a flow.

Listens: 3 Standout Tracks: Future Days, Spray I've now come across a few krautrock albums on the List and this one so far has been the one I've most enjoyed and found the most relatable. The intro to Future Days and the subsequent jammy-ness of the track reminds me of two things: the Grateful Dead and Nightmares On Wax, for different reason of course; the former being just the seemingly experimental nature of the music and the latter being the drums, the backing instruments and then the lofty lyrics. Obviously, with Nightmares on Wax, that music about 20 years after Can put out Future Days, but I still hear similar elements, even if its just coincidence. Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised with this. I expected experimental German noise rock and instead got experimental psychedelic rock with jazzy and maybe even electronica elements.

So this is Can, eh? I’ve been meaning to get around to listening to them for like my entire life. Thanks for the excuse 1001 albums! Well, I can say, I would’ve really been into them if I were 18-22 years old when this album came out. I would’ve thought they were super edgy and unique and there was nothing like them. Since I live in the future though, so much has come out like this or is just as weird in different ways, my mind sadly isn’t blown. As for the merit of the soundscapes they’ve presented, I will smile and give a thumbs up though. All in all, I’ll be returning to Can.

This was pretty erratic but have to say I was pleasantly surprised

This album is extremely special. Can have a lot of deep-in-the-pocket, out-there, experimental krautrock stuff, and don't get me wrong I love that stuff too, but on this album they mellow out a bit and do some nice psychy proggy jamming for an LP's length of time. And it's amazing! It reminds me of lounging by the ocean, or just generally lazing about on a summer's day, soaking in the atmosphere. I've been searching for albums that sound anything like this for years and years, to little avail. A perfect 10/10 for me!

On one hand, this was kinda just a bunch of people messing around in the studio. On the other hand, it was kinda fun and interesting!

Prog.... elevator music? I'm absolutely saving this to see how it grows on me over time. It's a breezy and pleasant listen overall, yet it's also deceivingly dense and begging for some revisits with good headphones. I'm all over it! Standouts: Moonshake • Bel Air

Enjoyable and I would definitely put this on in the background at a party, but it's not in the upper half of experimental noodly albums for me.