#42

Love how the first half is their most accessible and then the second half is just fucking nuts, topped off with Damo sounding like Pingu at one point

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#43

lovely repurposing of the Oh Yeah drumbeat by Karl Burns here, with much shoddier timing than Jaki.

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#44

Neu! 2 is really patchy, not a fan of the tracks where they changed the speed at all.

Neu! 75! is much better, this is my favourite. Regularly covered by bands in Cork.

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#45

That bit of sharp, angular, shrieking guitar that comes in on Mushroom is one of the best bits of music ever recorded.

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#46

I have that one, an Egg Bambyashi one and a Future Days one - all cheap from eBay :+1:

#47

It’s great - powerful, stunning, confusing, frustrating, sometimes irritating, always interesting. To me all Can albums apart from Future Days have some bits I struggle with but Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi have the highest ratio of great bits to not so great bits.

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#48

This might help a little: How Good Are They Really David Bowie album poll

#49

Huh, hadn’t seen that poll but I was pretty much spot on in my estimation :sweat_smile:

#50

Life is far too short to be wasted on shite like the first 14 minutes of Augm. The first 4 tracks sound great though

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#51

Add the entirety of Peking O to that.

Following my Shaking the Habitual logic I can’t give the album higher than a 7 in good faith

#52

Indeed, though the poll is missing the Labyrinth soundtrack so I’m not sure how seriously that it can be taken to be honest.

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#53

Some amazing footage of them doing Oh Yeah on TV:

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#55

It’s a struggle to get through and not having played it for ages I’m finding it difficult to think of any of the tracks whereas most of Ege Bamyasi and Future Days are firmly imprinted on my brain. Given it a six.

#56

Off the back of this, pulled out a playlist my mate made a few years ago. Christ Can are so good

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#57

Great name for a band, that.

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#58

Tago Mago gets a 10 from me.
Worth it for Mushroom & Oh Yeah alone tbf.

#59

Albums don’t need to be great all the way throughout to get 10/10 from me. Can’t remember the last time I listened to an album all the way through anyway

#60

I would always say Hunky Dory.
Ziggy Stardust has a few total bangers that I would rate above anything on Hunky Dory but as an album Ziggy Stardust has a lot of tracks that I couldn’t even hum and I’ve listened to it loads.

Whereas every track on Hunky Dory excites me in some way or another. That said, it sometimes veers towards that semi-comedic territory McCartney mines in The Beatles that I know a lot of people hate.

#61

I think I could only allow an album to get a 10 if there was only one track getting down to maybe 6/10? Two tracks I am iffy on and it’s not going to get a 10, just no way.

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#62

I have to say it feels a bit weird the way ‘krautrock’ is just an acceptable name to me in English music writings.

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