Moonshake (song)

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"Moonshake"
Song by Can
from the album Future Days
B-side "Future Days"
ReleasedLate 1973
Studio Inner Space Studio  [ de ] (Weilerswist, West Germany)
Genre
Length3:04
Label
Producer(s) Can
Official audio
"Moonshake" on YouTube

"Moonshake" is a song by the German krautrock band Can, released as a single from their 1973 album Future Days . [3]

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Composition

Rob Young, Can's biographer, placed "Moonshake" alongside "She Brings the Rain" from Soundtracks and "Sing Swan Song" from Ege Bamyasi in the band's "catalogue of perfectly formed pop songs", incorporating "elements of rock convention and erasing any sense of cliché around them". [4] "Moonshake" is the only track on Future Days that features the motorik rhythm propagated by the band on their previous albums. [5] [6]

Reception and legacy

John Peel, reviewing the single for Sounds , described it as "great", but felt its chances to become a hit were "roughly comparable to his chances of being asked to join Ivy Benson's All-Girl Orchestra on harp". [7] In 2017, Vice 's Drew Millard described "Moonshake" as "pre-punk-post-punk sugar rush", relieving "all the meandering that comes before it [on Future Days]" and slipping away just as it begins. [5]

Can incorporated the melody of "Moonshake" into "Don't Say No", the first song from their 1977 album Saw Delight . [8]

The British experimental rock/post-rock band Moonshake takes its name from this song. [9] [10]

Personnel

(From album credits)

References

  1. ↑ "50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone . 17 June 2015. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  2. 1 2 Keylock, Miles (2005). "Can - Future Days". In Dimery, Robert (ed.). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die . London: Cassell Illustrated. p. 293.
  3. ↑ "Can – Moonshake / Future Days". All Night Flight Records.
  4. 1 2 Young, Rob; Schmidt, Irmin (2018). All Gates Open: The Story of Can (e-book ed.). London: Faber and Faber. p. 199. ISBN   978-0-571-31151-4.
  5. 1 2 Drew Millard (September 8, 2017). "An Appreciation of Can's 'Future Days'". Vice . Archived from the original on January 14, 2025.
  6. ↑ John Higgins (August 13, 2015). "Classic Album: Can – Future Days". The Thin Air.
  7. ↑ John Peel (6 October 1973). "Singles review of Moonshake". Sounds .
  8. ↑ Mason, Stewart. "Can: Saw Delight > Review" at AllMusic . Retrieved 2 November 2011.
  9. ↑ Martin Gray (24 October 2022). "Moonshake: Eva Luna 1992-2022 – 30 years on". Louder Than War .
  10. ↑ "Moonshake FAQ on old 4AD Records page". Evo.org.
  11. ↑ Doyle, Tom (July 2012). "Finding The Lost Can Tapes: Jono Padmore, Irmin Schmidt & Daniel Miller". Sound on Sound . Retrieved 2024-02-19.
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