Viewed from today it's hard to imagine how Can wound up on Top Of The Pops. Catchy as 'I Want More' is, it makes your brain bleed the more you think of a contemporary parallel. I'm a little envious of a time where progressive, German improvisers could find themselves introduced by Dave Lee Travis.
I would, for example, pay decent money to have seen Scouse sonic explorers Super Numeri perform 'The First League of Angels' on a revitalised Top Of The Pops in 2005. Especially if they were introduced by Reggie Yates and Fearne Cotton doing their 'piece to camera' while supping from a giant mug of mushroom tea, tears rolling down their faces.
It somehow seems about as likely as the idea of Krautrock titans Can being on Top Of The Pops in any era.
'...And More' is the extrapolated coda that formed the b-side to Can's 1976 smash hit. It's about three minutes long and surely deserves to be mashed into a twelve minute sweatbox-rocking masterpiece by Erol Alkan.
Download Can '...And More' (mp3 download) (Mediafire)
No comments:
Post a Comment