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The Great Albums

CAN - Future Days (w/ guest Colin Ryan)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3749 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2017

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Drummer Colin Ryan (Lowlight, Roadside Graves) joins Brian and Bill to discuss avant-garde German rockers CAN and their landmark album Future Days (1973, United Artists). Colin talks about how his former bandmates convinced him that listening to CAN was a good idea, forever influencing his own playing. Bill, Brian, and Colin discuss how Jaki Liebezeit's drums and Irman Schmidt's keys hold the sound of the band together, Damo Sazuki's unique vocal style, Bill makes up a story about an android while listening to these songs, the band's strange method of songwriting and the philosophy behind it, and much more as we make our way through the album track by track!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bell. And I'm Brian. And what are we talking about today, Brian?

0:04.8

We're talking about German avant-garde rock band Cannes.

0:29.8

What we do here every week on the podcast is take a different album of music and talk about what makes it great.

0:34.4

We try to have the conversation around the album the way that fans do.

0:39.2

We're going to talk about how we got into the music, what we think is cool about it,

0:44.3

and then we're going to do a track-by-track review of the album. And this one's going to be interesting because it's only four tracks. So we're going to see how this all goes. What is this album that we're

0:48.4

talking about today, Brian? 1973's Future Days. It's Cannes' fourth record.

0:54.6

And we're not going to do it alone. Joining us shortly will be drummer Colin Ryan.

0:59.7

From the band Low Light, who Bill and I really, really like, and also from Roadside Graves and Four A Stables.

1:08.0

Previously, we've had Renee from Low Light on the podcast, and now we just, so we've got two

1:13.9

out of five.

1:15.1

Yeah, I've been, I've been, I've been, I've been scouting Daryl there, producer slash

1:20.0

guitarists, so we're, we're going to get a, we're going to, we're going to hook him in,

1:23.8

and we're going to hopefully get his wife, keyboard player dana on there too so this is

1:29.0

going to be an interesting one to talk about because uh you know i came in a little bit a little bit reticent

1:34.8

to this one not sure if we wanted to do it we actually had someone uh a guest like requests to do it

1:39.4

like a year and a half ago like early days and the Yeah. Turns out I had to wait for future days.

1:45.9

I didn't do that on purpose.

1:47.2

Oh, man.

1:48.6

Oh, where's my, where's my, uh, but yeah, I needed to be introduced to it first,

1:57.5

then kind of like live with it a little bit. And kind of, and you'll hear me

2:01.2

in this conversation that we've already recorded, you'll hear me talk about how like, I didn't

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