CAN – I WANT MORE (VIRGIN RECORDS)
“I Want More” feels something of an odd pop departure for everyone’s favourite Krautrock band. Gone was the repetition, the tribal rhythms and suddenly in place was a more coherent, traditional composition running somewhere between P-Funk and The Blockheads.
Released in 1976 and taken from their eighth album “Flow Motion”, Damo Suzuki was now long gone but in spite of this the song was somehow a hit to the degree that they ended up performing it on Top Of The Pops. That was quite a detached destination considering their seemingly nihilistic origins.
Can were always an adventurous proposition. Even within the confines of one album often they could skim across a number of genres displaying a grand wealth of sounds and techniques. And despite this record coinciding with punk, you can’t help but sense it was picked up by the disco fraternity. Certainly it is a track you could healthily dance to.
On the reverse is just “More” which continues Can’s new disco trend but now with trademark repetition and an industrial sense more fitting their personality. With choppy, wah infused guitar gradually becoming louder and constantly threatening to interject it is a comforting resolve. Then like a passing train it is gone.
Bands like Can aren’t supposed to have hit singles. When it comes to music they are pioneers. There product is wide and designed to be niche, unappealing to the masses. Occasionally though freaky things like this will happen and by accident legends will become one hit wonders. Music is a fickle field.
Thesaurus moment: abnormal.
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