Can - I Want More (1976)

[tinaturntable]

LEGENDS!

[longlivefilm]

THIS IS CAN TAKING THE PISS OUT OF THE RECORD COMPANY ORDERING THEM TO MAKE A SINGLE I WANT MORE AND MORE AND MORE AND MORE GEDDITT AND KRAFTWERK CANT YOU HEAR IT?

[trashiscool1]

@longlivefilm The B-Side is much better " More More More"

[quintincollins]

What ... funk and disco are off limits for an experimental band? Fat chance.

[MonsieurMosca]

I can picture David Byrne taking notes while watching this.

[NormanArches]

Irmin Schmidt just looks like the coolest pervert I´ve ever seen.

[NormanArches]

Fucking cool, innit? What a cool hook.

I remember Thin White Rope used to do Yoo Doo Right. I´m off to find that now,

And what the fuck is Hary Potter Fame Girl Emma Watson doing in the audience? That paedophile who stuck her head on babies´bodies will be pissed off if he knows she is over 50.

[tvangstrom]

cont. So if for u this is Disco or a contemporary of Salsoul Records (and it's not totally unfounded) for me is what started happening in New York by the likes of Ze records or in Manchester by Factory records a year or two later, Post-Punk - Punk-Funk. So it's probably as landmarking as Tago Mago and yes Tago Mago is also my favourite album from them.

[tvangstrom]

I love how the prog or post-rock fans of Krautrock and Can hate this track as they label as an inferior discoish work.I as a melomaniac IMAO can see a bit beyond that.For me Krautrock (and kosmische musik for that matter) helped set the pace for a number of genres from New Age to Post Rock passing through Ambient,Prog, Shoegaze, Indie, Noise, Punk Funk/ Post Punk/Mutant Disco, Synth-Pop, Electronica and EDM. So if u see it as disco bulshit I see as a predecessor of Post-Punk at the peak of Punk

[CusterFlux]

Holger Czukay does Disco - how Dada is that!?

[dailowe]

Ah, that makes sense. Thanx

[dailowe]

Wow, I never knew they'd been on TotP! I saw them in Manchester a few times around 73/74, once with and then without Suzuki, great gigs all. I recognise Czukay and Schmidt . Karoli doesn't look in this clip as I remember him (I had the vague idea he played a rh guitar left handed but that may be someone else) but it should be him at that time.

[periurban]

@dailowe Don't know who that is, but it ain't Karoli. I seem to remember a tale about Karoli not being able to make it at short notice.

[AK2927]

It was on Top Of The Pops 1976 tonight (BBC 4's repeats of complete TOTPs from 1976 on the dates they went out). Is that Karoli on guitar? He looks totally different, though I love the showy way he turns his amp right up before continuing to mime.

[kieranification]

@jb4life77 That's cool it's just a difference of opinion. I don't care much for the circumstances around the music, I see it as a distraction. I happen to like disco as much as I like ground breaking invention, it's all the same to me. The fact that it's Can makes no difference, if anything it seems amusing. I think it's pretentious to attach value to things that are meaningless, but I wasn't actually referring to you anyway. Despite my sarcasm, I respect your point of view. All the best

[kieranification]

@jb4life77 According to you, oh great judgemental one, I am deaf. So I went to the doctor for a hearing test- guess what? He told me, "Don't listen to pretentious morons who are stuck up their own backsides". So I listened to the tracks you mentioned, and then I listened to Sun Ra and James Brown and The Stooges and finally Chopin. Then I decided that "this is as good". Thank you, and goodnight!

[mikew4001]

Great track, Can is always very groovy!

[kuieenathan]

this is just can minus innovation add disco bullshit, i love can but this is pretty terrible...

[polistyrenejassband]

its sad hearing such weak drums on a can track

[TheMrMysteriouso]

@jb4life77 troll harder noob face

[MalcNedd62]

Yon stand-up bass player looks like Harry Shearer in his Spinal Tap guise.

[diskochimp]

What's going on, Karoli looks like Lou Reed?!?

[MattPopOfficial]

I heard three seconds of this in the recent BBC documentary about Top Of The Pops and it was enough for me to start a frantic search to find it. That's what a great track can do.

[kieranification]

where is Michael Karoli?

[moreorless87]

@kieranification Under that wig

[kieranification]

@moreorless87 Ha ha- unbelievable. I think it was Kevin Keegan who introduced the curly perm to Germany.

[Daycron66]

Burnin' down the house!

[DanielBowden1975]

No band but a groove machine

[Mazurka1001]

The birth of a disco-funk hybrid. Awesome.

[rochacrimson]

Lou Reed's clone on guitar? lol

[thatmuse76]

@rochacrimson

Yeah, it's Doug Yule.

[podlette]

@mrrubish - indeed, it's not Michael, he was in hospital that day and couldn't attend the show. The guy was just some random guy nobody remembers, not sure he was even a guitarist...

[kieranification]

Wow- just the idea of CAN on top of the pops blows my mind. What a great band

[BadGirlOfAutism]

If I was into making these sorts of comments on YouTube I might say that 5 people have lost their tin opener... no but seriously, I wasn't even born when this came out but I think its a really great track. Better than a lot of the crap we hear today.

[AK2927]

I love later Can as much, if not more, than early Can. There IS, as you say, a lot of snobbery about it. I think Out Of Reach is a great, great album, closely followed by Landed, Can and Flow Motion. The reunion album in the Nineties wasn't great.

[xuby10]

They are like the parents of ratatat LOL

[robbynood]

theres so much can stuff can anyone tell me where i can find can stuff this danceable.this is magic .timeless

[mrrubbish]

That is neither Karoli or Lou Reed on guitar. I've been trying to find out who it is for bloody years!

[levertrevel]

I want more

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I mean it

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[ainsleywainsley]

fuck the chick were hot back then not covered in shit loads of fake tan and make up

[superjules]

Nice of Lou Reed to fill on on guitar

[MrSKINFLICK]

@superjules: That´s Lou Reed supporting Can? I don´t exclude the fact - but who arranged that or how did ut come to that ?

[duxberry1958]

a good tune

[john111257]

GOOD STUFF

[SuperVerica]

@john111257 good stuff? I flipped when I heard it as a teenager, especially when listening to it at night, in the dark. its fantastic stuff!!

[Drinkman7]

Good rare song!

[duxberry1958]

one of my happy tune,s have it on vinyl

[juanitoclash]

CAN

[spurtfather]

Hey! Remember that time those German Visionaries came in and played, yeah, that was alright...

[lovesGenet]

p.I.L. worked with a member and listen to their stuff it's a musical universe .I think a lotta bands have heard about this band and then opened up .words not as important as musical texture ,atmosphere and context.KingSrimson,FrankZappa a lot of this stuff got on radio in 1970's .Wher it is now ?house music I dont know.Experiment still reigns inseriousclassicalmusic.

[keith904A]

I know some people are a little snobby about later Can compared to the earlier stuff, but this is great. Truly surreal that a band like this were on TOTP. It's like the Velvet Underground turning up on Ed Sullivan. I Know it's now become a cliche, but Can's influence on alternative music post 1977 is overwhelming.

[Percinho27]

How typical of music snobs to start hating on bands as soon as they start using 'melody'... I bet Pitchfork utterly despise this one.

[composer333]

I have been a composer for decades---to understand the ultimate craft of composing good and study melody is one of the most elusive & mysterious of passions. Handel is a good example of this--and to denigrate a group for using melody is truly a stand against versailty as well as composition on the whole. Music can be abstract as well as hook-based. Can simply shows they can create both. TOTP spot for them is ground-breaking--besides, They were there and We were not.

[Rufusdos]

@keith904A: True. And check out PIL "Death Disco" on TOTP, a classic of the genre. Those wide-eyed teens were definitely not ready.

[cranie4]

@keith904A Very true. Johnny Marr cites this tune as one of the influences on his writing the guitar part for "How Soon Is Now?"

[MrSKINFLICK]

@keith904A: Being German i didn´t even know they were No 2 in Britain with this. Oh wow !

[76Heatwave]

@MrSKINFLICK Unfortunately they weren't number 2, more like number 32. TOTP2 was the name of the tv programme which shows old tracks again. Love CAN though.

[MrSKINFLICK]

@76Heatwave: Thanks for the info !

[Bolly558]

Is this by any chance Peter Gilmour on guitar.... Also RIP the late great Michael Karoli, you were amazing in the band.

[Efrasnel]

Karoli was a guitar god.

[Bolly558]

This was one of the best things to happen to TOTPS when Can were on in 1976. Still remember that long hot summer in the UK. We were so lucky to have these guys in the charts then. Even David Hamilton played this on Radio One. Ah the good old days of better music and better times before all the stresses of todays world. Thanks for posting....

[Glamking1]

Don't worry 26-8-76 is repeated on German digital channel EinsFestival on the 20th of August containing that Can performance and this one could be from the same edition.

[Efrasnel]

Can you imagine the audience looking at the future and not realising it? Not only that, but the future is made by four guys in their mid and late 30'...

[oconbren]

where can we get this track - any idea what album its on?

[Efrasnel]

@oconbren : It's on Flow Motion

[Maladroit1234]

@oconbren it's also reissued as a single, an orange 12" vinyl ,loveyly!!!

[cactaceous]

This at times sounds exactly like Holger Czukay's Cool in the Pool. Actually his album Movies sounds a hell of a lot like a happier version of Can.

[PatOShea]

The awesome thing is, some people heard this back then, and probably went out to buy some other albums, listened to"Tago Mago"and their heads exploded.

[Arminchen]

@PatOShea

HEHEHE!!!! Wonderful imagination, cheeeese!

[M0SSl]

@PatOShea my head exploded when i heard this...after Tago Mago.

[flooberbloob]

Dunno where I'd be without my Can collection.....

[posthumanhero]

i just saw a can video from 1977 and find it hard to believe this is '76..seems far later as it is more 'modern'......ok, it sounds like euro-disco -- by far not up to their standards......but ok i guess.

[JohnOO]

Who is the guitar player here? Doesn't look like Karoli!

[VDGG94ki]

Yeah I know. Karoli didn't have a perm, nor did he play an SG guitar.

[joeyrider]

he looks like Lou Reed with the Velvets in the Loaded period...

[Efrasnel]

My thoughts exactly.

[MrGoodygumdrops]

mmm..wonder if Johnny Marr was a little influenced by this guitar sound?

[Ozzkar]

He was.

[slynglen]

In an interview here on youtube he mentions this song as one of his influences in writing How Soon is Now.

[eriurpigurerpi]

I love this song and it's great the guy's were on Top of the Pops.

[dilzappa]

If you don't dig this buy another shovel.

[IceFloeHyoga]

Heil Can!

[JudiChicagoX1000000]

If you don't dig this, you're digging in the wrong place, for the wrong reasons.

[Gjeorje]

"Democracy is a wonderful thing..."

[SpaceRitual]

So odd, I've only heard early Can, and I'm having trouble digging this. It's interesting to hear Can's take on pop/disco type stuff, but I prefer the classic Can sound.

[DaveEnsor]

Great song

[ericberner]

I'm so glad Can is starting to come into their own. Amazing, just amazing...

[JAYROX1969]

Holger rocks in this clip!

[NWRA1957]

Rumour says the guitar player here is Gilmour

[fulcrum100]

Johnny Marr name-checked this song in his interview with Alan Yentob, about the history of the guitar. I just had to check it out on youtube. Glad i did.

[misschillydisco]

my favourite. song. ever.

[DrumShag1986]

Can anyone tell me who´s this guitarplayer.This is not Michael Karoli.

[FillerGallery]

From Wiki: It was the band's only hit single in the UK, for which there was a Top of the Pops performance for which the band were introduced by Noel Edmonds, who made the pun "I wonder if Can will get into the top tin!". It reached #26 in August 1976.

Haha. Uberband.

[calisway]

I'm having an excellent acid flashback right now.

[bluesbrother37]

Nice!!