OPENER

Can's compilation 'Opener' holds some of their most popular songs from right around the Suzuki era. This is an amazing collection of tracks, and I love that Can did not shorten one of them. The album starts off with 'Dizzy Dizzy', originally on 'Soon Over Babaluma'. This is my favorite song on that album. Then is 'Moonshake', the Krautpop classic also found on their unanimous master album, 'Future Days'. This song is so freaking amazing I can barely hold it in. The random sound effect interlude, the chorus, those classic groovy Can drums, everything. The third track is 'Sing Swan Song', from 'Ege Bamyasi', undoubtedly their most commercial album from the Suzuki period. This is my second favorite song on 'Ege Bamyasi', only behind 'Pinch'. Acting as the closing track for side one is 'Come Sta, La Luna', which was the first SOB track I heard. The title caught my eye immediately. It translates to 'Eat the Moon' in Spanish. This is one of my favorite non-Suzuki Can songs. On the second side is 'Spoon', another Krautpop classic from Can. Great keyboard solo and more classic Can drumming. 'I'm So Green' is a fun little groovy track off of 'Ege Bamyasi'. Then there is 'Vitamin C', which has a special place in my heart because once I deeply disturbed a friend by playing it for them. This track is amazing and is one of my favorite Can songs of all time. Closing this compilation album is the whole holy approximate nine minutes of 'Future Days', from the album of the same name. This is actually my least favorite song on 'Future Days', but only because all three tracks are even better somehow. This is a truly great track to end one of my favorite compilations of all time. I deeply respect the unaltered song lengths, the tracks chosen to enter this album (although I would've liked something from 'Tago Mago' to be on here), and the overall fun mood of this album apart from the closer of both sides. If I were to go back to 1974, I would definitely have picked this album up at a record store and jam to it for some good fun. Can, you will always have a special place in my heart, you beautiful, beautiful, hella weird beast.

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