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Can discography

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Studio albums
  
12

Video albums
  
7

Soundtrack albums
  
9

Compilation albums
  
13

Singles
  
12

This is a discography of the krautrock band Can.

Contents

Studio albums

  • Monster Movie (1969)
  • Soundtracks (1970)
  • Tago Mago (1971)
  • Ege Bamyasi (1972)
  • Future Days (1973)
  • Soon Over Babaluma (1974)
  • Landed (1975)
  • Flow Motion (1976)
  • Saw Delight (1977)
  • Out of Reach (1978)
  • Can (1979)
  • Rite Time (1989)
  • Compilations and live albums

  • Limited Edition (United Artists, 1974) – collection of 1968–1974 rarities that was expanded to become Unlimited Edition
  • Unlimited Edition (Virgin, UK/Harvest, Ger., 1976) – collection of 1968–1975 rarities
  • Opener (Sunset, 1976) – compilation from 1972–1974 album material
  • Cannibalism (United Artists, 1978) – compilation from 1969–1974 album material (two tracks dropped for CD reissue)
  • Delay 1968 (Spoon, 1981) – unreleased material from 1968–1969
  • Incandescence (Virgin, 1983) – compilation from 1969–1977 album material
  • Cannibalism 2 (Spoon, 1992) – compilation from 1974–1981 album material, also includes a two tracks from singles and one unreleased track, "Melting Away"
  • Anthology (Spoon, 1993) – compilation from 1968–1991 album and soundtrack material
  • Cannibalism 3 (Spoon, 1993) – compilation from 1979–1991 solo album material
  • The Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit, 1995) – collection of 1973–1975 recordings from BBC radio's John Peel Show
  • Sacrilege (Spoon, 1997) – remix album, contains a remix of the hit "Spoon" by Sonic Youth
  • Can Live (Spoon, 1999) – collection of live recordings 1972–1977 (originally packaged with the Can Box CD/video/book set)
  • Agilok & Blubbo (Wah Wah Records Supersonic Sounds, 2009) – movie soundtrack recorded in 1968, recorded as The Inner Space
  • Kamasutra: Vollendung Der Liebe (Crippled Dick Hot Wax!, 2009) – movie soundtrack recorded in 1968, released as Irmin Schmidt & Inner Space Production
  • The Lost Tapes (Mute, 2012) - 3-CD or 5-LP box set compilation of unreleased studio and live recordings from 1968 to 1977 (No.77 in UK, June 2012)
  • Bootlegs

  • Horrortrip in the Paperhouse: Live 1972/73 (1994).
  • Radio Waves (Sonic Platten, 1997) – collection of 1969–1972 live and rare recordings
  • Zhengzheng Rikang (Nörvenich, 2006) - early 1969 bootleg
  • Singles

  • "Agilok & Blubbo" {Can as The Inner Space} / "Kamera Song" {Rosemarie Heinikel} (Deutsche Vogue, DV 14785 – 1968)
  • "Kama Sutra" {Irmin Schmidt with The Inner Space} / "I'm Hiding my Nightingale" {Margarete Juvan} (Metronome, M 25128 – November 1968)
  • "Soul Desert" / "She Brings The Rain" (Liberty 15 340, 1970)
  • "She Brings The Rain"/"Deadlock" (Liberty, September 1970)
  • "Turtles Have Short Legs"/"Halleluhwah" (Liberty, March 1971)
  • "Spoon"/"Shikaku Maru Ten" (United Artists, December 1971)
  • "Vitamin C"/"I'm so green" (United Artists, 1972)
  • "Moonshake"/"Splash" (United Artists, October 1973)
  • "Dizzy Dizzy"/"Come Sta La Luna" (United Artists, December 1974)
  • "Hunters and Collectors"/"Vernal Equinox" (Virgin, 1975)
  • "I Want More"/"..and More" (Virgin, July 1976) (reached No 26 in UK, October 1976, written by their live sound mixer Peter Gilmour)
  • "Silent Night"/"Cascade Waltz" (Virgin, November 1976)
  • "Don't Say No"/"Return" (Virgin, April 1977)
  • "Can-Can"/"Can Be" (Lightning, June 1978)
  • "Can-Can"/"Aspectacle" (Harvest, 1979)
  • "Hoolah Hoolah" (Double-Mix)/"Hoolah Hoolah" (Sun Electric Mix) (Phonogram, 1990)
  • "I Want More"/"..and More" (Spoon, 2006 reissue)
  • Appearances on compilations

    Compilation albums or albums by other artists containing previously unreleased Can tracks.

  • Electric Rock Idee 2000 (Liberty/United Artists, 1970) – "Thief"; different edit appears later on Delay 1968
  • Until the End of the World. Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack (Warner Bros. Records, 1991) – "Last Night Sleep"
  • Pop 2000. Das Gibt's Nur Einmal (Grönland Records, 1999) – "Der Dritte Mann"
  • Irmin Schmidt: Villa Wunderbar (Spoon Records, 2013) – "Alice – Remix" and "Last Night Sleep – Remix"
  • Film and video

  • (1970) "Mein schönes kurzes Leben" (TV-Movie by Klaus Lemke)
  • (1971) Beat Club TV (performance of Paperhouse)
  • (1972) Free Concert
  • (1973) Mixed Media In Soest
  • (1998) The Can Documentary
  • (1999) The Can Box (Box set including Can Documentary, Free Concert, Two Live CDs and a book)
  • (2004) The Can DVD (2 DVDs with CAN material and 1 Audio CD with the solo material)
  • (1968) Agilok & Blubbo
  • (1968) Kamasutra: Vollendung Der Liebe
  • (1969) Mädchen....nur mit Gewalt
  • (1969) Das Kuckucksei im Gangsternest
  • (1970) Das Millionenspiel
  • (1970) Deadlock
  • (1970) Deep End
  • (1970) Ein Großer Graublauer Vogel
  • (1970) Creem
  • (1970) Mein schönes kurzes Leben
  • (1971) Das Messer
  • (1972) Tatort – Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
  • (1973) Die letzten Tage von Gomorrha
  • (1973) Alice in the Cities
  • (1975) Eurogang
  • (1979) Als Diesel geboren
  • (1991) Until the End of the World
  • Non-original soundtracks

  • (2002) Morvern Callar
  • (2010) Norwegian Wood
  • (2014) Inherent Vice
  • References

    Can discography Wikipedia