Song Of the Day: May 4, 2005
Every few years I make a concerted attempt to enlighten myself re: Can. Their appeal continues to elude me, and they remain one of those revered-by-hipsters acts that I can't quite get my head around, right up there with Townes Van Zandt, the Free Design, the Flying Burrito Brothers, and Wesley Willis. This record by Inner Space, Can's immediate precursor...this I like very much. It appeared on Vol. 1 of Electric Loosers, a series of compilation CDs devoted to (mostly) German Beat and psych weirdness; it was based on the Prae Kraut Pandemonium series of vinyl LPs, which are easily the strangest of the Rubble/Pebbles/Diggin' For Gold-type comps I've run across. There is a very entertaining article about this record on Julian Cope's Krautrock site, as well as a scan of the rather stunning picture sleeve.
9 Comments:
I never got Can either. I feel your pain, my brother.
Can?.....can't.
um Can zu verstehen, mussen die Amis erstmal die dialektik in ihren kleinbuergelichen Herzen hineinlassen.
reveal yourself you kowardly kraut!
Anyone who doesn't like the Flying Burrito Brothers is a communist.
At least tell me you like "GP/Grievous Angel" by Gram Parsons. Lsiten to "Love Hurts" and tell me it's not great.
Suplexmasta-
I like the GP solo stuff on Reprise better than the Burrito Brothers, and I think there are some particularly lovely songs on those records, but the majority of it just seems to me like watered down versions of the stuff I DO get, like George Jones, Buck Owens, Ray Price etc.
Notice I didn't say i disliked any of the artists I mentioned in the original post. it's just that so many people whose taste I respect and trust REALLY like them, and I sit over at the kid's table, befuddled.
Bst,
Jon
Heh, Can just got Facklered.
I have the Can album with the, er, can on the cover. Has a couple of neat tracks but I've never felt the need to rush out and buy anything else by them.
That's right Jeff, Can did. Jon, you're not at the kid's table, they are. GP was just a dope smokin' hippie that tried to ruin country music. Just ask Merle.
Jon,
The FBB album you need to hear standalone is Burrito Deluxe, much of which is R&R/Pop in (barely) country clothing.
I prefer it to all the other GP stuff. Probably because it's less Gram Pasons dominated. The best song in the record (Older Guys) reminds me of Rockpile's (Lowe's) "Pet & Hold You"
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