Tago Mago

Tago Mago Artist: Can
Label: Mute U.S.
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording reissued
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 724596905425
EAN: 0724596905425
ASIN: B0000067X1


Release Date: 1998-05-19

Tago Mago


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Tracks:

  1. Paperhouse
  2. Mushroom
  3. Oh Yeah
  4. Halleluwah
  5. Aumgn
  6. Peking O
  7. Bring Me Coffee Or Tea

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  1. Future Days
  2. Ege Bamyasi
  3. Future Days
  4. Soon Over Babaluma
  5. Neu! 75

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars fantastic 70s classic.......2005-12-11

This is one of my favourite albums, and my favourite Can album (Soon Over Babaluma and Future Days coming second and third). The first couple of tracks break you in reletively gently and have nice hooks that catch your attention, after that things get a bit more abstract (espesially "Aumgn") and it takes a few listens to fully appreciate the album as a whole. An extremely rewarding listen though, dont miss out.

5 out of 5 stars Psychedelic Krautrock Milestone.......2004-12-26

This is one of the most psychedelic albums I've ever heard. These Germans knew how to mess with your head, they recorded this masterpiece in their own makeshift studio(an old abandoned movie theater)and with almost complete creative control and came up with one of the weirdest and most delightful progressive/psychedelic recordings ever. The songs vary from primal funky beat oriented cuts to long and creepy synth and guitar workouts that seem to frighten as much as amaze. Damo Suzuki's vocals are terrific, they range from soft cooing to raw chantings and evil ravings. The drumming is also nothing short of phenomenal, for once a psychedelic record totally utilizes the use of the drums, most albums of this genre opt for long soloing of the guitar and organ but Can also put their magnificent drummer Jaki Liebezeit to work and the drums flow evenly with the rest of the instruments, sometimes over taking them enitrely and becoming the centerpiece of the song. Can are seeminly more influenced by classical composers than they are the Chuck Berry rock and roll pop song format. All manner of studio effects are heard, from guitar reverb to eerie synth lines that skitter and echo all around. "Aumgn" could easily be the score to a horror film. Anyways, if you want a great krautrock/psychedelic rock album than this is definitley it.

5 out of 5 stars Some just don't get it..........2004-12-01

In answer to the echobats review and to anyone else who thinks this album is self-indulgence, I respond that it is pure creativity and you just don't get it. My boyfriend put this CD on his Christmas wish list online along with several others. By only listening to the samples I could tell that the CD would be great and different and yes, not like Radiohead. But...let's be honest, Radiohead is good but there are many other bands out there that are so much better...maybe people looking for Radiohead should open up their minds and try something different instead of being spoon fed all the bad music on the radio. I look foward to getting this CD, and if it wasn't for my live-in boyfriend I would buy two so I could have one also.

5 out of 5 stars The best.......2004-07-19

Can's legendary Tago Mago is beyond comparison. The songs are otherwordly, dense, and impossibly groovy, and the musicians are uniformly spectacular. The rhythms pound away with tribal intensity, the keyboards shimmer and bubble and warble, the raw guitars belt out ingenious solos, and the vocals are just about indescribable. Don't try to decipher the lyrics, just enjoy Damo Suzuki's voice mumbling and groaning and yelling insanely, and enjoy the totally unique and addictive sound of Can. Tago Mago is guaranteed to be one of the most played albums in any collection.

This is an album that should be bought by any enthusiast of experimental music. If you already have it, buy it anyways and give it to a friend. It isn't just important as a forerunner of such modern genres as trance, ambient, industrial, rap, and techno, it's one of the pinnacles of 20th century music, as essential as any other modern composition. Rock music has been an important part of our culture for fifty years and the fact that 'Tago Mago' is its pinnacle entitles it to be regarded as significant.

1 out of 5 stars

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