Track Listing

1. Father Cannot Yell
2. Soup
3. Mother Sky
4. She Brings The Rain
5. Mushroom
6. One More Night
7. Outside My Door
8. Spoon
9. Halleluwah
10. Aumgn
11. Dizzy Dizzy
12. Yoo Doo Right

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #161064 in Music
• Released on: 1989-07-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Customer Reviews

What where they thinking?
I feel like i owe some kind of explanation or justification for rating a Can best of worthy of only 2 stars and i have one, as brilliant, innovative and inspirational as Can where this compilation is no testament to this truth whatsoever. The track selection for this Cd is just woeful and offers the poorest introduction to the band conceivable.

Opener "Father Cannot yell" is a manic introduction sung by original Can vocalist Malcomn Mooney, who some would say is over-reperesnted on this compilation considering that he only made 1 album (4 songs long) with the group. Track 2 is a real puzzler in that it is only the second and weaker half of "Soup", which when taken from its original context (the full, two-part version)the song makes no sense at all and will likely have the listener dashing despertalely for the skip track button.
Anybody familiar with Can will be aware that several of there best pieces of work easily succeed the 10 minute mark hence the logical need for some re-diting and condensing to fit this complilation. However "Mother Sky", often considered Can's finest moment, is mutilated beyond recognition by the editors and its corpse stuffed into an ill fitting, 7 minute trash can, the spurious riffing and bongo led breakdown is taken out leaving the repetitive groove seeming quite lost and "Halleluwah" and "Augmn" suffer similar treatment yet Mooneys "You Doo Right" is left pristine in its untouched 20 minute meandering form, baffling everybody except Malcomn Mooney himself.

Perhaps even more criminal than the iffy tracks actually selected are the ommisions, God only knows why fan favourite and textbook guide to brilliance "Oh Yeah" was left of and the "Future Days" LP is ignored altogether. The groovy "Im so green" and the dreamy "Tango Whiskeyman" are brief in length, rich in brilliance and are both very accesible mildly poptastic tracks. Why the above where all ommited whilst the shockinly awful and universally acknowlegded Can low point (but Mooney led) "She brings the rain" make the cut is just prepostorous.

Ignore this compilation and seek out "Ege Bamyasi" or "Tago Mago" and you will find a universe of wonderment and infinite joy in Can, this Cd will only leave you at best indifferent and at worst put off altogther.

eat me.
Well for those not familair with "Can", the band are one hell of a head trip and most certainly like nothing youve ever heard before. If you dont own anything by Can, id recomend "Tago mago" to you, if you are familiar with Can and want to investigat furthur then id probably recomend one of the albums.
"Can" as a band are ace, "Cannibalism" as a compilation isnt.

No such word as can't...
...but there certainly is such a word as Can! 4 early 'krautrockers' who put a hefty dose of experimentation into all that they did. Joined on most of these by a black American vocalist who was on the run from the US Army, and on a few later tracks by a Japanese vocalist who they employed because they were so amused at hearing his vocals whilst busking, these pieces are never anything but aural shake-ups.

4 musiscians with varied backgrounds in music - experimental, classical, jazz, filmscores - somehow they managed to make it all come together and some great pieces came out of it.

The epic 'Father Cannot Yell' starts this off, and we then go through the entire range of modern music - the guitar jazz of 'She Brings the Rain'; the manic tambourine/fuzz guitar of 'Mother Sky'; and the rocking then plodding then back to rocking 'Yoo Doo Right'.

Great stuff!