The Influence of Can on Synthpop

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Air's "La Femme d'Argent" sounds like Future Days

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Thursday, 7 October 2004 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Some of Tago Mago sounds like The Happy Mondays.

Who are not synthpop.

― Howard Wine (nordicskilla), Thursday, 7 October 2004 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

ok, the influence of Can on pop music in general!

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Thursday, 7 October 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

They invented it! Along with the wheel!

― Howard Wine (nordicskilla), Thursday, 7 October 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I am a big fan of the second Public Image Ltd. album, and I kinda like Laika. But not Stereolab or the Unrest so much, I don't think.

― chuck, Thursday, 7 October 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

stereolab sounds like magma

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Thursday, 7 October 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

but I'm sure the similarity is mostly from their affinity for some 60s shit i don't know

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Thursday, 7 October 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The first song on the first (official) Can album is (basically) synth-pop. Or synth-rock anyway. Their influence is that they helped invent the genre. If you talk just pop in general, I'd say most bands that integrate live instruments and electronics in any way "owe" something to Can.

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 7 October 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

stereolab sounds like magma

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?!?!?!!!!???

― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 7 October 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't hear much Can influence in Stereolab. Neu!, of course.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 8 October 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Dom, are you talking about "Father Cannot Yell?" I have no idea why you're equating that with synth-pop (or "synth-rock," for that matter).

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 8 October 2004 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Pete Shelley was pretty big on Can wasn't he?

― Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman (Ferg), Friday, 8 October 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

re: Stereolab, "Metronomic Underground" has a bit of a "Yoo Doo Right" thing going on.

― Hayden (Pow, Pow, Pow) (haitch), Friday, 8 October 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

silver apples = synthpop, in a way

― joseph pot (STINKOR™), Friday, 8 October 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"I Want a Dog" by Pet Shop Boys is very "I Want Some," by Can, unless my brain is mixing things up.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 8 October 2004 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

you mean "I Want More"? "I Want More" is pretty much Can's attempt at synthpop, which in this case explains why synthpop might sound like Can...

I don't know if Can really brought about synth pop, but a lot of musicians working during the height of synthpop were probably influenced by Can.

― wetmink (wetmink), Friday, 8 October 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

The Fall (sorry to be obvious)

― wtin, Friday, 8 October 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

stevie wonder "superstition"

― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Richard Kirk from Cabaret Voltaire did a kinda acid house cover of 'I Want More' which I can't recommend highly enough.

― Jason J, Friday, 8 October 2004 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

If we consider The Eurythmics as Synthpop, then the first Eurythmics Album 'In The Garden' featured members of Can.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 8 October 2004 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

where does one find this Kirk I Want More?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 8 October 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

It's on that Earlier/Late record that came out on Mute earlier this year.

― Jason J, Friday, 8 October 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anybody have the Can DVD? Awesome moment: Damo Suzuki and Malcolm Mooney walking together in the streets of Germany. Mooney: "Oh man, I've been waiting for like 20 years to meet you!"

― Joe (Joe), Friday, 8 October 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

dan.. where can i send you I WANT MORE.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 8 October 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

you will wish you had it on vinyl.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 8 October 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Not really synthpop, but anyone else find similarities between "Fool's Gold" by the Stone Roses and "I'm So Green" off Ege Bamyasi?

― craig d., Saturday, 9 October 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Mani told Holger that he copied it,so it's not just you

― Black Arkestra (Black Arkestra), Sunday, 10 October 2004 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Pretty sure the Air song features a direct sample of "Future Days"

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Sunday, 10 October 2004 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

re can and synthpop: gary numan was listening to can a lot around the time he recorded telekon. you can't get more synthpop than that, i suppose.

i'd also be interested in an "influence of can on hiphop" thread -- i mean, "vitamin c" and other goodies offa ege bamyasi could work as proto-hiphop wr2 their beats.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 10 October 2004 03:34 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah, I forgot about Gary Numan... there was one interview where he said Tago Mago was his all time favorite album.

― wetmink (wetmink), Sunday, 10 October 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"Vitamin C" reminds me of Soul Coughing.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 10 October 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a breakdancing crew in Seattle (Massive Monkees) who work it out to "Vitamin C."

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Monday, 11 October 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

> gary numan was listening to can a lot [...] you can't get more synthpop than that

Well, it depends on how you define "synthpop". I personally wouldn't regard Numan as a synthpop artist. He had plenty of synths, but not a lot of pop, y'know?
I regard Depeche Mode's debut album, Speak and Spell, as the ne plus ultra of the genre, and I can't say I discern much of a krautrock influence at work there.

― Palomino (Palomino), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Can (esp. circa 71-75) sounds a hell of a lot like On The Corner-era Miles Davis

― charlie karoli, Monday, 11 October 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

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