MONSTER MOVIE

Directly from the realm of German Krautrock. Can was absolutely one of the most iconic bands of this particular musical movement: the material offered by this German quintet was absolutely fantastic, their notorious influences in American British Psychedelic Rock were just the base over which they built a very unique and original selection of songs.

The opening "Father cannot yell" is a very aggressive piece, it's a weird mix between the Proto-Punk music of Iggy Pop's Stooges and the Psychedelic jamming of Pink Floyd early records; Holger Czukay's dominant fuzzy bass and Michael Karoli's unstoppable guitar riff give the energy to the song while Jaki Liebezeit's drums and Irmin Schmidt's keyboards give it the first rays of spacey jamming. Malcolm Mooney introduces himself singing in a very strong way but he doesn't need to explode in deep screaming as a Hard Rock singer like Ian Gillan or Robert Plant, he just foalts over the music very naturally.

"Mary, Mary so contrary" changes the mood of the record: the atmosphere turns to a more relaxed and sometimes even depressing with some of the most concise guitar riffs of the album. "Outside my door" sounds almost as a Van Morrison's Them song but, as you can guess, Can's jamming is absolutely unique.

The album closes with the 20-minute epic "Yoo Doo Right", a mantric piece that becomes hypnotic through its unchangeable rhythm, something very common in Krautrock releases launched after this pioneer album. This is such a great record, and definitely, one of those pillar albums that were crucial in the development of a whole new musical style. Masterpiece!!

SONG RATING: Father cannot yell, 5 Mary Mary so contrary, 5 Outside my door, 4 Yoo Doo Right, 5

AVERAGE: 4.75

PERCENTAGE: 95

ALBUM RATING: 5 stars

I ranked this album # 59 on my TOP 100 favorite Progressive Rock albums of all time.

Share this CAN review

Social review comments () BETA

---

---

Review related links

• Send comments to Uruk_hai
• Report this review (#2669619)
• Buy CAN music online with PA partners
• Show all CAN MP3/Stream
• Go to CAN page for videos, full discography with ratings, reviews and much more
• Go to Monster Movie page for more details, where to buy and ratings/reviews
• Search the Forum for CAN related discussions