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However, while in 1969 bands like Amon Duul were making recordings of their trips, Can even being on the same line were already making music. "Father cannot yell" is initially based on a major chord, with a hippy flavour, but it falls slowly into a more paranoid environment. The song is driven mainly by guitar and bass, but the keyboard's stuff behind is already playing krautrock.

"Mary Mary So Contrary" (not quite) is a regular song. What makes it acid is the high pitched guitar (I'm not sure that it's not a keyboard). A psychedelic song based on three chords. A violin instead of the high-pitched background sound would have made it suitable for Curved Air, maybe.

"Outside My Door" starts rock-blues. Try to imagine Johhny Rotten singing instead of Mooney. The punks hasn't invented anything. Unlike some punks CAN can play, too. The screamed final is great. The heavy side of krautrock.

Now the side long track: "You Doo Right". I don't know if it's only me, but I think there's the story of the 60s in this song. The melody has some of Velvet Underground. Something makes me think to the west-coast psychedelics, but the background is totally mittel- european. At least for the first 5 minutes, then it becomes totally hypnotic and repetitive with bass and drums providing the base for the variations brought by keyboard and guitar. Then suddenly stop! Just drums and voice to make it restart. What appears clearly is that it's not just a long improvised jam session like Amon Duul were used. We have a long track with a structure and different moments. It sounds acid and improvised but it's a band's choice. At minute 12, more or less, the instrumental section is bluesy. Here is when the repititions are totally hypnotic. It's a sonic mantra that seems to go ahead forever. "Man you got to move on..." here I see the stoned live perfromances of Jim Morrison and the crazyness of early Gong at the same time. It's a pity that the spacey keyboard enters only in the last minute and just to introduce the distorted guitar. A disclaimer: don't use while driving.

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