Monster Movie [ORIGINAL RECORDING REISSUED]

Can

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 19, 1998)
• Original Release Date: 1969
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Mute U.S.
• ASIN: B0000067X4
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #303,833 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Father Cannot Yell

2. Mary, Mary So Contrary

3. Outside My Door

4. Yoo Doo Right

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Monster...very literally!, January 25, 2000

By	DAC Crowell (Rankin, IL United States) - See all my reviews

There are scant few records recorded in the late 1960s that sound like they could've been done last week. The Velvet Underground's "White Light/White Heat" is one. And this is another. "Monster Movie" belongs in the same pantheon of influential greats as that record, to be sure. Starting off with the berserker sonic vortex of "Father Cannot Yell", the band carves out a wild patch of territory somewhere between noise-rock, jazz improv, New Music, and beat-poet-ranting that hits home like a .44 magnum bullet to the brain even to this day. The whole second half of the release is taken up by the amazing 'Yoo Doo Right', which is one of the truly great jam classics of all time, featuring astounding work by all the band, topped by the ranting, yowling declamations of Malcolm Mooney. As opposed to the 'peace and love' and candy-rock pretentions of its contemporaries, "Monster Movie" is like salt on a raw nerve...and it hurts so GOOOOOD!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Here's where it all starts "mary, oh mary so quite contrary", December 10, 2002

By	gone daddy gone - See all my reviews

Can's debut is just stunning, right out the gate with "father cannot yell" what a record! This was back with original vocalist Malcom Mooney, who just lets it all go on this record in the tradition of the truly possessed, he becomes at times hysterical in the energy he channels on this record, you fear that this much passion and terror and love and intensity coming from one person would kill them. And it nearly did. But the band can do no wrong here, this is when Karoli was still in his Syd Barrett meets Sterling Morrisson guitar phase, and it became a legitimate style in and of itself, but one he more or less discards after "mother sky" a little ways down the road. But back to monster movie, with that strange alteration of Jack Kirby's idea of god as a devourer, Galactus, on the cover. And this record will devour, oh listen to "Mary". One of the greatest rock songs of all time, one of the greatest guitar lines of all time (both the rhythm and the lead) and listen to Malcom get hysterical as he calls her name ("Marymarymarymarymarymary- marymarymarymarymary -MARYMARYMARYMARYMARY MARYMARYMARYMARYMARY") whoa. Incredible stuff. and there's more. Everything is great, the classic "Yoo doo right" it's all here, you need this record if you are interested in Rock music, experimental music, or experimental rock music, of which Can were indeed the kings.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece of a masterband, May 5, 1999

By	Marcos Henrique (Piraju, SP Brazil) - See all my reviews

The word "evolution" makes no sense in Can's music: they made several excellent albums, but their masterpiece is the first one, "Monster Movie". Guided by the crazy vocals of Malcolm Mooney, a black american artist, the band never was so inspirate as here. This record is psychedelic, progressive, funky, punk rocker, rock'n'roll, everything blended with intelligence, criativity and madness.