CAN records

ive dragged my feet on buying CAN records. between 2002 and 2006, i listened to like CAN CAN CAN all the time, and bought the CDs and then bought the remastered CDs, and so, havent felt like buying another round. until now.

i know there are a million editions of the LPs, and i remember that some of them sound awful. my preference is for nice originals, but like, german? US? UK? i dont need to spend a lot of money, and i can compromise and get some nice reissues, especially if they sound really good.

anyone have some info?

in 1988/89 i would buy one can album a week at third street jazz in philly. cuz i didn't have a ton of money and they were probably 20 bucks a record even then. anyway, i still have most of those late 80's german spoon imports and they sound great. original german spoon pressings would be best. 70's u.k. united artists vinyl sounds great too. i think my tago mago is 70's u.k. press. i can't really say anything about 90's/2000's vinyl reissues though.

or original ua german pressings i should have said too.

i have recent spoon pressings (90s?) for tago mago & ege bamyasi and they sound fine. my monster movie is a us liberty & sounds 'fine.'
don't buy the lousy subterranean bootlegs.

i think i remember that one of those late reissues was supposed to be great, too...

maybe ill go later into their oeuvre than ever before, too! i really am only familiar w delay, monster movie, tago mago, ege bamyasi, future days, soon over babaluma, and, to a lesser extent, unlimited edition. what after that is crucial? i know dleone swears by some of the later stuff...

or i should have said that BEST to get would be original german ua pressings. but they are the most expensive.

i can go slow in getting em, so i dont mind paying a little more for the nicest pressing/edition.

i would troll ebay for awhile. shouldn't cost you a mint to get nice 70's copies of most of their albums. they aren't as pricey as they used to be. i just looked and a nice liberty pressing of monster movie went for, like, 35 bucks.

i've only got later ones on LP (future days, flow motion, landed). got the rest on cd. dunno what pressing now as i'm at work but they all sound great. i totally listen to later can WAY more than early can anymore.

oh and i have some reissue of Monster Movies. i'll report back again later what editions of each.

what after that is crucial?

FLOW MOTION <--- "I Want More" ---> fucking jam

one *earlier* crucial one you didn't mention is SOUNDTRACKS

I also have "Out of Reach" but I don't listen to that one as much, I don't remember it being that great

oh duh duh duh, my long-time favorite! total careless omission

(soundtracks not out of reach obv)

I remember seeing some fakey UA editions of the double LP Tago Mago, last time down Camden Market.

Were they any good?

i've got unlimited edition on virgin and it's quiet, but sounds good. there are reissues of some of the later stuff from a year or two ago, i think. last time tago mago came out it had the shitty live-scene cover and was $$$

yeah, all those Can records that were/are available are all crummy bootlegs. I guess the sound isn't horrible, but the sleeves are awfully thin & poorly printed.

also yeah, expensive. I think tago mago wholesaled for $20.

is the original soundtracks cover the purple one?

yeah

also thanks for the info about those recent vinyl reissues, most of my stuff is on older 90's CDs but I have UA/US Babaluma, a lol Italian Base version of Future Days, a 1981 Virgin UK Incandescence (good-to-great comp that has some otherwise unavailable early trax I think?), and the Radio Days boot LP which is fantastic and sounds fine to me.

radio days = w/turtles have short legs, right? i would buy that

yeah that's the one, plus a blistering version of "Entropy" and the "Shikaku Maru Ten" B-side and some other good early stuff.

Righto, this thread...

17 album box set, remastered etc.

£299 or thereabouts

http://mute.com/mute/17-piece-vinyl-box-set-including-unreleased-material-announced-out-2-december

ugh. scared of anything "remastered" especially with material that already sounded friggin' unbelievably great to begin with. but those dudes have good ears. still, just put out nice individual copies of the albums and keep them in print. how hard is that?