On all these records, Can used an unorthodox process of sampling their improvisational jams in the studio and then editing them down into the finished product. The result is a series of exciting, genre hopping, sometimes maddening tracks that are bursting at the seams with musical ideas. Each of Can’s most memorable tracks (most of which top the 6-minute mark) comes with a new crop of phrases or riffs that firmly lodge themselves at the center of your brain upon repeated listens. That being said, each song is completely and utterly inaccessible for the purposes of classic rock radio. The closest thing Can ever had to a “hit” was 1972’s “Vitamin C” (From Ege Bamyasi). The song is relatively short, has simple and easy-to-remember lyrics and features a great bass line. Yet, there’s a dark sort of magic running throughout. There’s some sort of crackling energy in Suzuki’s interplay with the band that made Thom Yorke, Mark E. Smith and Stephen Malkmus take notice.
Check out this track, and then go ahead and listen to their “big three” albums three times each. If you’re not singing their praises as I have, you get your money back for this free website.
Wow. Love this song… Thanks for the intro.