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"Oh Yeah" is my favorite Can tune. I feel like when this band (and NEU! as well) really get rolling that it's impossible not to move around a little bit. In "Oh Yeah" it's like two minutes in. Some awesome guitar soloing too. Obviously "Halleluwah" and "Mother Sky" are excellent but as far as more "underrated" stuff goes, here are my picks
"Aspecticle" - as mentioned
"Sunshine Day and Night" - from Saw Delight. Has a neat late-period Talking Heads feel. Doesn't really sound like Can but it's got such a pleasant groove to it.
"Pauper's Daughter and I" - this album suffers from so much but this is a pretty good cut
"Like a New Child" - very pretty and IMO the best thing from the reunion
"Turtles Have a Short Legs" - really fun pop tune with some very confounding lyrics. Not an album track but it's not hard to find.
"Mighty Girl" - from the Peel Sessions. Pretty much a straight Irmin piano jam with some guitar. I think this eventually got recorded on Out of Reach or something but it's much better here.
"Half Past One" - I actually kinda liked Karoli as a vocalist. This one has such a great groove to it.
"Vernal Equinox" - probably the last great "true jam" the boys ever did
"Connection" - maybe one of Mooney's best vocals?
"I Want More" - hard to call it "underrated" since it was their only charting single, but what a great single it is.
― WE KILL BRONIES (Rolo Tony), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
just want to second "Bel Air". I love the repeated, sustained bass note that holds things together for much of the song, but it's pretty much ruined my own improvised playing because now i have this catastrophic idea that i can just play a single sustained note every once in a while, off-rhythm, and it might sound good. turns out it only sounds good when the rest of Can is playing with you, i guess!
― Z S, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
"Spoon" made number one in the German pop charts, but yeah.
lol oh yeah, I forgot about that. still I think the tune get unnecessary flack because it was more or less their "sell out" single
― WE KILL BRONIES (Rolo Tony), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
In any case, "Turtles" I always thought as the "single, from the "Tago Mago" sessions", and is a perfect one for kiddies parties. Specificlally, musical bumps.
― Too Many Headphones (MarkG oo la showaddywaddy), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
Turtles have short legs, not for the walking,
Turtles have short legs, not for the walking,
But we can find it out, but we can find it out,
But we can find it out, but we can find it out.
Want to have a cigarette, not for the choking,
Want to have a cigarette, just king-sized,
Well, we can find it out, well, we can find it out,
Well, we can find it out, well, we can find it out,
Well, we can find it out, well, we can find it out,
Well, we can find it out, well, we can find it out.
no dance party complete until
― milton friendly, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:20 (twelve years ago) link