Good list, I love 'Monster Movie' with vocalist Malcolm Mooney (who according to the sleevenotes was a sculptor avoiding the Vietnam draft, who left can after having a nervous breakdown onstage, repeating the same mantra incessantly).
But the remastered 'Tago Mago' is probably my most cherished possession. Given a choice between losing that album and my penis I would probably save the album. It's really good.
Klaus Dinger was great and everything but Jaki Liebezeit was the guy who propelled Can into the stratosphere with his grooves. A very good example of that is seen here:
I think Can are in a league of their own in the sense that they're not a traditional band, but an organic musical symbiont of the four original members - the singers might as well be figments of their collective imagination
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