SecondEdition wrote:Aren't Ege Bamyasi and Future Days better starting places for Can? Going into something like Tago Mago blind could turn people off to Can - the likes of "Aumgn" and "Peking O," the latter of which I still haven't completely come around to, could really scare off first-time listeners, which would really suck. The highs on Tago Mago, though, exceed anything that the group ever did. Halleluwah man...oh damn, I'm going crosseyed just thinking about it.
I really love those two records as well. I think the first two songs on Future Days presage "indie rock" by 20 years.
As you say, the highpoints on Tago Mago are the apex. That's the only reason I suggested it. Any of the three you and I have mentioned are great.
The first Neu! record, to me, is two UNBELIEVABLE tracks surrounded by four good-to-middling pieces. Well, you know what songs I'm thinking of (Hallogallo, Negativland).
Absolutely. I'm amazed at how many people haven't heard this record, because most people I know love it, or at least like it, when they hear it. I think a lot of people recognize Hallogallo.
Faust? Damn, another band I need to listen to! Another band everyone drools over who I have never heard: the Silver Apples.
Faust put out a lot of stuff. The Faust Tapes is something like 4 or 5 discs (too lazy to walk across the room to check). I like Faust IV the most. It's also the record that coined the term "Krautrock" - that's the first song's title.
The Silver Apples are spotty. I think they sound thin and too "arty" a lot of times. Same with Suicide.
Next hole in my education:
Durutti Column. I've heard some later period stuff and something tells me that this is not representative.
-A