Can the Can [Import]

Suzi Quatro | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 2, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Import
• ASIN: B000006X47
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #254,981 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. 48 Crash

2. Glycerine Queen

3. Shine My Machine

4. Official Suburban Superman

5. I Wanna Be Your Man

6. Primitive Love

7. All Shook Up

8. Sticks and Stones

9. Skin Tight Skin

10. Get Back Mamma

11. Rockin' Moonbeam

12. Shakin' All Over

13. Can the Can

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars classic album, August 5, 2000

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Scott (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Can the Can (Audio CD)

This is Suzi's first debut album its raw, it rocks, and its a great rock n roll album. After hearing the album tracks Chinn & Chinn then wrote Suzi's first single based on what they had heard, just as the singles where chart toppers the album tracks are just classic. This is the album that started it all for Suzi her raunchy leather image and good looks, laced with her ability to belt out a hard edge tunned paid off, people got to know who she was and the rest is history so they say,,, great work Suzi,,, defenately a classic album.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SOME GOOD SEVENTIES SLEAZE...., October 24, 2008

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wally gator "the only" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Can the Can (Audio CD)

I have this album on vinyl and its good. The version I have is simply called "Suzi Quatro" but the cover art and tracks are still the same. I like alot of the seventies sleazey glam stuff. This stuff is the breed of glam that falls between punk and, like, bubble gum, but its got a raw hard fast sound, a little more like early sixties garage rock. Some of these songs are rock covers from the early sixties like I WANNA BE YOUR MAN. Suzi had no prob singing these lyrics, she belts 'em hard and fast. Most of the originals were written by the team Chapman and Chinn, who also wrote alot of lyrics for the likes of Sweet and later Pat Benetar and a few other popular glam metal acts from the seventies. They had a good ear for finding the right kind of talent to perform their songs. Suzi Quatro was one of the original bad girl rockers; she was also Leather Tuscadero on Happy Days, so, nuff said. I found this album in the basement of a building I was living in a couple years back, but decided to take it with me when I left. Give it a shot if your looking for some good rockin 70's sleaze. You may consider it bubble gum sleaze, but its still good. Just listen to the beats on the track PRIMITIVE LOVE, you'll know what I'm saying...

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An awesome rock debut, May 17, 2010

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B. S. Marlay (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Can the Can (Audio CD)

The 1973 debut album by one of rock's first women is an under-rated rock classic. With a sound that is a mixture of hard rock and boogie, it is a package that is undeniably unique.

Suzi Quatro's multitude of European, Japanese and Australian hit singles were all written by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn. Two of the biggest and hardest rocking of these appear here ('48 Crash' and `Can the Can'), along with a sexy pre-historic odyssey entitled `Primitive Love'. But the success of this album rides, not on the strength of that song-writing partnership, but on the writing of Quatro herself and soon-to-be husband, guitarist Len Tuckey. `Glycerine Queen', `Shine My Machine', `Official Suburbian Superman', `Get Back Mamma' and `Rockin' Moonbeam' are first class garage rockers. Along with the devine and dreamy `Skin Tight Skin', they clearly illustrate that Quatro/Tuckey were a team that were consistently and unfairly ignored because they did not write the singles. Quatro's attack approach on three covers - the Beatles' `I Wanna Be Your Man' and Elvis Presley's `All Shook Up' and `Shakin' All Over' round out the 13 track set and demonstrate her strength as an interpreter (one that Presley himself reputedly loved).

Quatro's vocals are strong and authoritative, while conveying just a glimpse of vulnerability. The trademark scream that made her famous is also in full flight. Chinn-Chapman's production is full and textured, driving the music with an awesome drum sound (Dave Neal), Quatro's slick bass, and Tuckey's guitar being rounded out by some beautiful keyboards from Alistair McKenzie.

Though this album has an overall sound and style that places it firmly in the rock of the pre-punk 70s, you would be hard pressed to find anything else that sounds quite like it, nor a rock debut that is as confident and energetic. (`Can the Can' is the Australian title. Elsewhere, sans this song, the album is called `Suzi Quatro'.)