Can (album)

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Can
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Studio album by
Can
ReleasedJuly 1979
RecordedFebruary 1978
Genre Krautrock
Length39:41
Label Harvest, Lightning
Producer Can
Can chronology
Out of Reach
(1978)
Can
(1979)
Delay 1968
(1981)
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Spin Alternative Record Guide 6/10 [4]

Can, also known as Inner Space (also, with additional tracks, as Legendary Can), is the tenth studio album by experimental rock band Can, released in 1979. Former bassist Holger Czukay's involvement with this album was limited to tape editing. [1] [5] It was Can's last album before the reunion album Rite Time , ten years later, and was released after the band's break-up. [6]

Contents

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."All Gates Open"Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Gee, Baah8:23
2."Safe"Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Gee, Baah8:37
3."Sunday Jam"Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Gee4:35
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
4."Sodom"Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt5:45
5."A Spectacle"Czukay, Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Gee5:53
6."E.F.S. Nr. 99 (Can Can)" (Originally from Jacques Offenbach's opera Orpheus in the Underworld ; popularly known as the melody for the Can-can dance.) Offenbach, arr. by Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt3:12
7."Ping-Pong"Trad. arr. by Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt0:23
8."Can Be"Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt2:54

    Personnel

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