Comments for Can, Delay 1968

This is early stuff & not polished, true - but I think that "Butterfly" and "Uphill" are so astoundingly good that this album is definitely worth getting. Fans of repetitive vocal rock (The Fall, for instance) should check this out. Few people were doing anything this heavy in 1968/69 (or at any other time frame you care to mention!).

Well, this album is interesting just because this stuff is unpolished (as any true experiment should be). Though, frankly speaking it took me some time to come to like say, "Little Star" or "Uphill" (both are present on Cannibalism II but probably due to edit or the order of appearence they are not as impressive as in original album, although I may be wrong and this is just - again - a matter of mood). As to purchase advice: this probably shouldn't be your FIRST Can album, but later you should bye it.

When I first heard this album I did not know what to make of it since I was familiar with their more polished material off of "Tago Mago", "Monster Movie" and "Saw Delight" but later grew to love it. "Uphill" and "Little Star Of Bethlehem" are the standout tracks on this album, "Theif" gets a bit repetitive and "Man Named Joe" is gratingly bad. But apart from those two it is an overall good album.

Very early tapes recorded at their own studio in an old castle outside Cologne, Schloss Nörvenich,and not released until 1982. Features frantic black American Malcolm Mooney on vocals.If you`re only going to buy one Can album, this is not it. Try "Future Days" or "Tago Mago".