German avant-garde pioneers Can will issue a new compilation this summer collecting every single side they released during their pivotal career.
The Singles, to be distributed by Mute Records in partnership with the band's longtime label Spoon Records, features 23 tracks on CD or triple vinyl. It features their best-known tracks, like "Vitamin C," "I'm So Green," "Spoon," "Mushroom" and "Moonshake," as well as lesser-known songs and edits that never made it onto an album. (A prime example is novelty tune "Turtles Have Short Legs," released to digital channels ahead of this new compilation.)
This past weekend, members of the band came together at London's Barbican Theatre for a very special show. Half the program featured vocalist/keyboardist Irwin Schmidt leading The London Symphony Orchestra in a new piece, Can Dialog, featuring quotes from the group's back catalogue; the other half was a performance by new supergroup The Can Project, featuring original vocalist Malcolm Mooney, Thurston Moore and Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth, and others. Schmidt will join The Can Project at the Glastonbury Festival this summer.
The Singles is available June 16. Pre-order it below!
The Singles (Spoon Records/Mute CDSPOON60, 2017)
CD: Amazon U.S. (TBD) / Amazon U.K.
LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
- Soul Desert
- She Brings the Rain
- Spoon
- Shikako Maru Ten
- Turtles Have Short Legs
- Halleluwah (Edit)
- Vitamin C
- I'm So Green
- Mushroom
- Moonshake
- Future Days (Edit)
- Dizzy Dizzy (Edit)
- Splash (Edit)
- Hunters and Collectors (Edit)
- Vernal Equinox (Edit)
- I Want More
- ...And More
- Silent Night
- Cascade Waltz
- Don't Say No (Edit)
- Return
- Can-Can
- Hoolah Hoolah (Edit)
Tracks 1-2 from Liberty single 15 340, 1969 and Soundtracks (Liberty, 1970)
Tracks 3-4 from United Artists single 35 304, 1971. Track 3 also released on Ege Bamyasi (United Artists, 1972)
Tracks 5-6 from Liberty single 15 465, 1971. Full version of Track 6 also released on Tago Mago (Liberty, 1971)
Track 7 from United Artists single 35 472, 1972 and Ege Bamyasi
Tracks 8-9 from United Artists single 35 404, 1972 and Tago Mago (8) and Ege Bamyasi (9)
Tracks 10-11 from United Artists single 35 596, 1973 and in full on Future Days (United Artists, 1973)
Tracks 12-13 from United Artists single 35 749, 1974 and in full on Soon Over Babaluma (United Artists, 1974)
Tracks 14-15 from Harvest/EMI Electrola single 1C 006-31 392, 1975 and in full on Landed (Harvest/EMI Electrola, 1975)
Tracks 16-17 from Harvest/EMI Electrola single 1C 006-31 727, 1976 and Flow Motion (Harvest/EMI Electrola, 1976)
Tracks 18-19 from Harvest/EMI Electrola single 1C 006-31 973, 1976. Track 19 also released on Flow Motion
Tracks 20-21 from Harvest/EMI Electrola single 1C 006-32 155, 1977. Track 20 also released on Saw Delight (Harvest/EMI Electrola, 1977)
Track 22 from Harvest/EMI Electrola single 1C 006-32 898, 1978 and on Can (Harvest/EMI Electrola, 1979)
Track 23 from Casablanca single 875 750-7, 1990 and in full on Rite Time (Mercury, 1989)
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