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Features Disc of the day
Can
Delay 1968
(Spoon, 1981)
Germany’s greatest band create a monster so evil they lock it in the cellar.
This week is 1968 Week on MOJO, and every Disc Of The Day will be from that incredible year in music.
“Can's first recording ever was made in June 1968 during our first concert,” wrote Can bassist and far-sighted tape splicer Holger Czukay. “We recorded samples of the students' rebellion of 1968 in Paris and these became an important part of the concert…” Yes, Delay 1968 didn’t come out until 1981 but Can’s early music beams ‘barricade year’ out of every groove. The conservatoire educations of some of the band then called Inner Space had been subverted by the arrival of Malcolm Mooney, a black sculptor from New York who sang words of abstract terror in a hoarse soul voice (as The Monks also proved, there can be hi-jinks when Americans wind up in the Fatherland). Forging an unholy alliance with human metronome Jaki Leibezeit, Mooney drives the band to play savage garage soul; see song of pursuit Uphill or the agonising Butterfly. Relief of a sort comes in the throwaway skronk-out Pnoom and the truly desolate Thief, later played by Radiohead in a well-meaning cover version with little of the original’s power. Anyone wanting to hear samples of French students on the rampage, meanwhile, should seek out the Prehistoric Future tape.
Ian Harrison
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 07/03/2008
Further Listening
Can – Monster Movie (United Artists, 1969)
The Monks - Black Monk Time (Polydor, 1966)
Jerry Lee Lewis – Live At The Star Club Hamburg (Philips, 1964)
What’s YOUR favourite 1968 album? Enlighten us below...
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