Anthology: 25 Years

Can | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 19, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Mute U.S.
• ASIN: B0000067XA
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #172,249 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

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

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Uphill

2. Mother Upduff

3. Doko E.

4. Musette

5. Blue Bag

6. TV Spot

7. Half Past One

8. Moonshake

9. Future Days

10. Cascade Waltz

See all 17 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, May 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Anthology: 25 Years (Audio CD)

Like the Velvet Underground, Can were well ahead of their time. In some ways the world caught up with Velvet Underground, but it still hasn't caught up with Can. Can's music is still unequalled and unsurpassed - much of what counts today as 'modern' music still sounds outdated next to the work Can did well before the 1990s. The likes of Eno, Sonic Youth, Bruce Gilbert of Wire, UNKLE and the Orb all list Can as a big influence (see Can's Sacrilege CD for mixes by those artists) and that tells you something of what Can sounds like. Some Can members were also classically trained by the composer Stockhaussen. I highly recommend you try Can and this CD is the best place to start for the novice. Listen to this compilation a few times and I am sure you'll be buying the rest of their CDs soon.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Can ain't ALL that., August 25, 2004

By 

J. Rehlinger "Arachnidiscs" (Toronto) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Anthology: 25 Years (Audio CD)

Hardcore Can fans tend to cannonize (sic) their catalogue and tend to bash Can compilations as "incomplete" or "choppy". Well, most of Can's outings, to be honest, were a lot choppier and inconsistant than this collection--when listening to the original albums, I'm always hitting the skip button past half the trcks. But this collection focuses on the "good Can" material which is the cold and mechanical kraut-rock which influenced all those alt-rock bands like Sonic Youth as opposed to the "bad Can" material which was wanky psychedelic prog a little too close to Zappa for comfort. This collection really boils their output down to the gold material and is, for the average human, all the Can you'll ever need. (It's basically Cannibalism I and II packaged together).

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars OK , but their early stuff is the best..., May 9, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Anthology: 25 Years (Audio CD)

I picked this up thinking it would be a nice overview of Can's lenghty discography, and it is, but I'm a little disappointed. The first disc, which I believe is the same as Canabalisms 1, is the superior disc. The songs from Tago Mago, Monster Movie and Soundtracks are great stuff, with the fuzz guitar and psychedelic bent. Disc 2 is more spotty. Future Days is certainly a classic, and there are a few decent tunes as well, but the later Can material doesn't do much for me. It's nowhere as dynamic and spacey sounding as their earlier, more vital work. The lack of liner notes or album references is unfortunate as well. What this compilation did for me was make me want to go back and buy Can's first couple of records since I now know how great they are.