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  • WHEN I SAW MUSHROOMS HEADS , I NEARLY LOST MY HEAD FOR 17 YEARS BUT I STILL DON'T REGRET TO HAVE EXPLODED MY ABILITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS , LOOKING FOR THE MOST STRANGE THINGS IN OUR REALITIES.

    I CONTINUE TO PLAY MUSIC TILL MY BRAIN REALLY LEAVES ME AT THE ASYMUM I HAD SOME FUCKING REAL GOOD TIME DOWN HERE WITH ALL OF YOU / PLANET MARIS-TERRA IS LIKE THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE : SCARY & DANDY.

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  • fuck are these guys really playing in australia on the 17th of december?

  • @wallymeldrum Er...... are they? Damo Suzuki tours a lot but I don't know about the others.

  • excellent video

    suitably wierd

    those darned dugongs just get everwhere, don't they!

    shoo!!

  • This song reminds me of Flaming Lips's "Take me ta Mars". Looks like Wanye love these guys! =)

  • manati manati manati

  • So weird how the drums like move through the speakers.

  • yes, bit of a Can trademark I think

    guitar just kinds floats

  • I always thought this was one of the best videos on YouTube and I still think so!!!  :-)

  • busco baterista para banda de Los Angeles... tenemos lockout y nos late el kraut, post punk, y shoegaze. ahora es 8/30/11... ke onda?

  • one of their best - and 1st class drums

  • @TheFliflux

    allways love the "can"-drums

  • those drums are the best thing ever.

  • @fruitbatrepublic amen- those drums are like Gods heartbeat

  • ..you did a great job with this video..thanks!

  • DIE MUSHROOM!

  • seed pls

  • Love this song.

    Love the band.

  • This a wonderful!  The song and the video are great. Thanks for posting.

  • Of course I meant 2011.

  • Just read all this analytical tosh;having listened to the album Tago Mago on and off since going to a Can gig in 1973, I still think it's still out there as a testiment to the bands creativity,none more so than Mushroom.The drumming still sounds off the wall even in2001.

  • As much as I love Can, Pink Floyd were the better band. Can never made an album as better as Wish You Were Here.

  • @bitchasshoeism I do agree, but I actually like Tago Mago more (which is actually at least close to being as good as WYWH).

  • Ich liebe Can!

  • got to love Can!

    great sounds.

  • I listen to this atleast once a week. Nuetralizes my mood.

  • Portishead...Silence...

  • This song (and the video to it) kind of remind me of Cannibal Holocaust. 

  • this is superior.

  • 19 people didn't see mushroomhead...

  • @uktransplantedyank This isn't the place for bullshit comments where you hope everyone gives a "thumbs up."

  • @ganamoha

    This isn't the place for unwarranted nasty comments. I was making a joke - get a sense of humour.

  • @uktransplantedyank Your humor is misplaced then. But okay.

  • @ganamoha

    Misplaced? Bloody hell - calm down, mate!

  • @uktransplantedyank In regards to me not having a sense of humor you might want to check yourself out. I watched your videos...and you've definitely got some work to do. But my point originally was that this song is a very deep a meaningful to a lot of people (I mean just read the two top comment) so when I read some yuck yuck comment of someone trying to make a "funny" it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Anyways, back to the music.

  • @ganamoha

    :O Oh no - someone criticising my videos! Whatever shall I do?

    Seriously, though - I can assure you I enjoy the depth of Can every bit as much as you do. I simply have a sense of humour that you quite obviously lack. Stop taking yourself so seriously, mate.

  • ... can is my name

  • Can was hip-hop before anyone ever thought of such a thing.

  • @fasolplanetarium Quite a few hip-hop groups have sampled 'em--Cut Chemist from Jurassic 5 sampled the first bar of "I'm So Green" for the remix of Ugly Duckling's "Eye On The Gold Chain" and Prime Minister Pete Nice and DJ Richie Rich sampled "Vitamin C" on "Ashes To Ashes"...there are more...

  • When my daughter died in 2001 I used to listen to thsi with headphones, the drums and the song helped me. In my mind the words had an interpretation that spoke to me, reflected my feelings at the time. I emailed damo suzuki and told him how much it meant to me. He answered back. I think our society in the US does not teach us anything about Death.

  • @dejahthoris agreed - I think alot of what is wrong in our society/culture may stem from our denial of Death

  • @dejahthoris It sure loves killing though, with all the violent movies, music, and video games! Sorry about your loss BTW.

  • @dejahthoris death is one of those things that doesn't sell to well with the kiddies. so we don't see it too often. and when we do, it's usually a joke.

  • @sharpieebitch are you serious, thats your response to someone's daughter dying? i hate america

  • @herkyjerky42

    America hates you. You know the saying" Love it or else you'll be in big trouble mister"

  • @sharpieebitch I am still here.. sorry but if you do not die first someone you love will die. Hell we will all die. Deal.

  • @dejahthoris This is the most memorable comment on youtube. Whenever I listen to Can I remember this story. I'm sorry for your loss.

  • @dejahthoris but, we are certaintly obsessed with death aren't we or at least a little less obsessed with life? "The Death Culture" -Dennis McKenna

  • @dejahthoris That's what music's all about dude

  • @sillybilly972 yep I a not a dude I guess - I am old and a mom who has been listening to music since the days of the beatles- but yes you are right! music, well art is the way we as mankind create lasting beauty!

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  • @dejahthoris That's why Buddhism appeals to me so much - always contemplating death that always happen, and can oly ever happen in the present moment, not at some future time as the mind loves to think. Just discovered Can!

  • i like the sound.

    Take a look - would be nice.

    watch?v=vlemsBCYG0Y

  • is there any chance he's saying "one-eyed soul" instead "When I saw"? Saw Julian Cope use the one-eyed soul reference in a Miles Davis review, I like that line better anyways : )

  • @mhotter It says what you need to hear. Damo suzuki speaks three languages them and combines them in his songs. You will hear want you want or need to hear.

  • I remember this lot. Wish I didnt to be honest.

  • thers no mushroom in here.

  • An alternative, live, version of this can be found here: /watch?v=K7TTjsg9YlY

    (paste it in after the default YT URL)

  • wow.

    i've never heard anything like this! Can anyone point me in the direction of some similar sounding music/bands? D:

  • @origiinofsymmetry Not really, that's kinda what makes them so amazing. Sonic Youth and Radiohead have done things that you can tell have been influenced by this. Come to think of it, a band called "Neu!" are from about the same era and have done similar work on some albums.

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  • @dejahthoris Your opinion but I massively disagree with you.

  • @origiinofsymmetry try 23 skidoo

  • @origiinofsymmetry there is lots of CAN.

  • My first Can song!

    I got it on a mixed disc in the 8th grade.

  • i was born - i was dead

    post-punk before post-punk?

    amazing, amazing, amazing album, amazing song.

  • You can tell this song, or even the entire album Tago Mago, influenced a hell of a lot of earlier Industrial music.

  • crazy wonderful music !

  • WOAH

  • 18 people didn't see mushroom head...

  • these guys were 20 years ahead

  • very cool track , heard it becauze of the mary chain, is timeless

  • From around 3:03...what track has a sample of that or at least a reworking?

    it's somewhere in my music collection and it's driving me crazy trying to find it...

  • cream of magic mushroom soup...mmmmmm.

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  • I like neu! better.

  • Can are a constant stream flowing, green leaves and beads of dew, just what I always wanted.

  • Pink Floyd's influence can be seen across the board,specially progressive rock,alternative and psychedelic rock,and some genres of metal (progressive,doom,death/doom).­This doesnt sound like alt rock at all,more like trip hop.And Floyd sounds "dated"?I LOLD coz you fail,epically!

  • @enigma81581 Hmmm, Floyd not dated? that's debateable, to say the least. The Syd Barrett stuff, though awesome, is very much of its time, and their later stuff like DSOTM pushes all the 80s drama buttons...

  • @Rufusdos DSOTM - 1973. Momentary Lapse of Reason? 80s. And shitty.

  • All this yelling out here!

    Here´s mine:

    The Velvets, their sound`s still uptodate and they influenced so many bands, even Can!

    Could be John Cale on viola here.

  • i love this song, havent heard it for a while and i love the creepy vid too

  • thanks god for CAN !

  • fuckin progressive. way ahead of the times..

    free radicals, love.

  • EVERYIO E IS TOTALLI STONED!!!!AMAIZING!!!!

  • I love this video! This was my favorite album through high school in the late 80's. Thanks for digging this up!

  • how old are these guys? 70's?

  • @TheConnord12 Mostly the 70s. The album this song was originally released on is from 71.

  • @dtoonzip thanks man

  • @dtoonzip,got this album as a import, not sure what year,around 1973?, loved listening to this full blast on the cans while under the influence lol.Was lucky to see Can play at Wolverhampton Civic hall around 78'ish ,they were awesome

  • top class.

  • it's just too bluesy for me. haha. arguing about who's more revolutionary..hendrix...or floyd...you chumps are whats "wrong" with the scene. trying to compare the two's significance shows quite a lack of understanding and awareness in any sense of the words. hendrix and syd would both be annoyed.

    man I love can

  • These guys were way ahead of their time. Amazing, not given the acclaim they disserve.

  • Can & mushroom, now I am thinking soup

  • this video is the shit stop hatin

  • yall are gay. good band, it has blues in it. is that the argument you mutards?

  • dont take any notice of the comment i left! that was my dad using my youtube account

  • i've been listening to this music since i was 3 yrs old and at the age of 42 i still get the goose bumps, trying to indoctrinate my 3 young sons to cans krautrock............

    ørjan,norway

  • Reminds me of Attack of the Mushroom People.

  • Jackie and Damo - you are really juicy .not jsut then but still today!!!!!!

  • When I SOLD!... mushroom hair... *jiggles head*

  • Is it 'Can' as in the container, or 'Can' as in something you 'Can' do?

  • @bumratbob 'Can' as in container, bro. Most of the band members were influenced by their time spent working in factories that canned 'Campbell's Soup'.

  • @aabove thanks, that's interesting. do'you know if anyone from Can is till making music

  • wow they havent changed their sound since Monster Movie and ffs Monster Movie RAPESS!!!!

  • fuck me, this is one edgy tune.......in a really good way!!!!

  • weird. never heard of em. they sound very modern. i don't know why i've never heard of them.

  • this song is about a baby being born, right when he gets his first view of the world a nuclear bomb goes off killing him, so he was born and he was dead. Thought he saw the sky was red.

  • @mnash1015 oh nooo ! dude, you must be right but in another way, it kills the idea I had of the song (I saw it as psychedelic lyrics about someone having shrooms and feeling like being born and dead at the same time..) now the song is just sad, and the song sounds different to me :s

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  • @mnash1015 Cool, alls my life I thought this song is just about taking magic mushrooms, because he sings so slurry, than k you!Makes the band even cooler!

  • @mnash1015

    I find a psychedilic reference more likely

  • @BleedingSunday that is quite possible, this is simply my interpretation of it. The sound of the explosion at the end I believe to be the sound of a nuclear bomb. As well as the lyrics, I was born, I was dead." well, i saw skies are red" in reference to the nuclear blast and the baby having just one quick glimpse of the world and then dying, so he can say about it "well, I saw skies were red" and of course mushroom just being a direct reference for a mushroom cloud.

  • @mnash1015 Never thought of it like that...it seems quite plausible in the light of Damo Suzuki's nationality and the Hiroshima/Nagasaki thing....

  • haha, rad, I gave the 666th evaluation of this video.

  • truly, CAN is ulitmate. Nothing out there is comparable to the way their music makes me feel.

  • Just awesome, timeless, fucking GREAT!!!

  • woooord

  • this is the kind of music i live for

  • I love the rising manatee. great stuff

  • when i saw mushroomhead

    when i saw mushroomhead

    when i saw mushroomhead

    i was born and i was dead

    (maybe my most favourite lyrics of all time)

    can is forever, tnx for uploading

  • beauty watches from the audience. hushed...

  • I was born, and I was dead

  • yeah, after listening to tago mago and ege bam - it's really hard to associate any band as being on can's level

  • @faceinembryo

    Future Days too, three very different albums all equally brilliant.

  • @ldonald5 Every one of their albums is brilliant actually.

  • Thanks for posting this video. This video is what got me into Can!

  • i love this music, this is real fuckin music man!

  • idiot

  • @reefermadnesso MY YOU TAKE THE QUICKEST FLIGHT STRAIGHT TO HELL AND BACK AND THEN TELL US ABOUT HELL! OKAY?

  • how do you know

  • @reefermadnesso if souls didnt exist we'd all be the same. we'd all think the same. im not catholic, i just believe that when u die ur soul goes 2 where ever u believed u would go on earth

  • i too am sorry for the damage white europe did with enola grey. i pray for thier souls lost living souls.

  • "enola grey"?...is that a crayola color?

  • kind of beautiful

  • faust

  • I read about this band in the 90's after findingP.I.l. and allI can say is it sounds fresher more vital and alive than anything else.Honest whereas the punkers were not instrumentalists and reacting from pop.&0's pop had a lot of invention .FrankZappa wa knownand experimenting was derigeur.Music wqas music not lyrics .Whois doing something new now.Imsurprised Reich andphasing have not become part of the vocabulary.

  • Mushroom - atomic bombs on Japan .The song is about that . Sad but true . That is why the song is so good , and I think the vid should be better . My apologies to all Japanese for what " The menkind " did to you . PS . I watched Damo twice in Belgrade .

  • @predragpopovi05

    Interesting - where did you find that out?

  • jaki liebezeit grooves SO HARD

  • one of the best band ever. AMAZING. krautrock is too good for words.

  • space acid lisergic =CAn

  • This is still my favorite album ever to listen to. Love it.

  • listen to "Future Days" if you please...

    ...which was my first Can album 30 years ago & I would like to recommend you to it.

  • This song to me holds up. It doesn't sound "dated"... it's still musically relevant.. if released today it wouldn't sit out of place. Love the creepy vid. wow. I LOVE these guys. Tago Mago is my suggestion for a starter album..as it was my first Can Album back in 2002.. followed by ulimited edition and monster Movie.

  • there are only 10 types of people who understand binary. those who do, and those who don't. LOL get it?

  • wow, so original

  • KRAUTROCK still kicking!!!!!!!!! VONKA

  • if you think about it, Can is far more revolutionary than any band for its time. their sound can be heard much more in the 90s/00s alt rock than say Pink Floyd. Pink Floyd's experimental stuff sounds dated to me, while Can sounds very fresh even today.

  • Being revolutionary is binary...

    You either are or aren't.

    Can definitely is.

    But you can't really be more, or less revolutionary in a general sense. It's not linear, different things revolutionize different elements.

    Maybe you could refine your arguement.

  • being revolutionary is not binary. you can have a small revolution, or a big one. i guess you can judge that by the influence of the given revolution. however, how you see the revolution and the extent of its influence is subjective.

  • The definition of revolutionary is an if then statement.

    IF something is revolutionary THEN it because it revolutionized something

  • yes, and your point is?

  • Its a then if statement.

  • That your comment doesn't have the weight you think it does.

    More importantly that it does not allow for the comparisons that you are trying to extend it to.

  • maybe you should think about your comments too

  • Ok, what parts did you think are unclear? I think this is an interesting debate and I'd love to in the end have both our points clear.

  • yeah, Syd Barrat had no influence.

  • Thanks for adding your insight but I never said that.

  • @LfunkeyA

    well it's not only about rock music, what about electronic music, what about prog-metal... and in the end - what about radiohead? what about earlier pink floyd albums which are full of psychedelic sound similar to alt rock of 90's. it's not simple thing. it's all about how deep are you going.

  • @skutratufahija

    i don't understand what you're trying to say. what about radiohead? since 2000, radiohead have had a sound that is very close to the sound of Can. i'm not trying to hate on radiohead, they're probably my all time favorite band along with the chili peppers, but they REALLY sound like Can sometimes.

  • @LfunkeyA

    It's

    Canibalism

    Anarchism

    Nihilism

  • @LfunkeyA Upon first listening I thought they sounded a lot like Pink Floyd "Meddle". Then I realized what I was listening to was from '69.

  • @LfunkeyA haha Thats a Pretty Incorrect Thing To Say The Only Reason theres a Relation between this an Alt Rock Of the 90s is Becouse The Singers Sound Like they Dont Give a Fuck .Plus damo Kind of immatates Morrison When he Starts yelling.Theres A Whole Album Of Modern Bands Covering Floyd Stuff.i personally Believe Bands Like Floyd and Early Genesis Did a Much Better Job of experimenting Musicaly Than Can.Ifyou WatchPink Floyd at Pompeii i dontbelieve u can confidently say anyband is More Rev.

  • @MagicDexter68

    i can confidently say that hendrix is more revolutionary than floyd. i can say that a 100 bands from the 70s/80s in the genres of krautrock/psychedelic/jazz/fun­k/post-punk/new wave have done far more boundary stretching stuff. the main reason why floyd is so praised is because of how they have made psychedelic/experimental stuff so accessible and poppy. it's all opinion in the end though, neither of us is really 'right'.

  • @Lfunkey Im Pretty sure out of the HundredBands from the70sand80s Youre Talking about alot arebound to be Floyd Inspired theyveBen Goin atit since 1966 and if You Call SaucerfulofSecrets or darkside of the moon "Poppy" You Have No idea The Termonology of the Word.forthe record i neversaid anyone was "right" i said youwhere incorrect wich is obvious becouse yourestating that a post-punk/new wave band has done more Boundrystretching stuff than FLOYD Musicallyeducated peoplelaugh at such a comment

  • @MagicDexter68

    I'm pretty sure that hendrix, funkadelic, any krautrock band, and most post-punk bands have nothing to do with pink floyd. at this point you're just being a douche for calling me 'wrong' again and for claiming that i'm not 'musically educated'. what does that even mean? that i can't play music, or that i haven't heard enough music. cause i've certainly done both. and if you think that experimental and psychedelic music began with floyd, you're the one who needs some education.

  • @LfunkeyA WhyThe fuck Do You keep using My Words?You Say the main reason why floyd is so praised is because of how they havemade psychedelic/experimental stuffso accessible and poppy then What the Fuck Did Hendrix do You Dumb ass?What do You Think Wild Thing is?Strictly a Pop Song Written By the troggs that He performed Jimi Hendrix Was Inspired By almost the Same Blues acts as Pink Floyd you can hear them Both in 1966Playing the Same Music...TheBlues.Almost Every Rev" act is rooted in theblues

  • @LfunkeyA Hendrix And floyds Music Was rooted in The Blues.Blues Has ben Around Since the World Began and That Magics gonna Keep On Goin as Long As Theres artists Like Hendrix and Floyd.Great music is Rooted in The Blues not funkadelic, any krautrock band, any post-punk.THE Blues.what i Meant By Musically Educated is someone Whos Experience Beutifull Sophisticated Pieces of Music Like Bach Or Zeppelin Not What Some 90s Poser Scribled Down on a Piece of Paper,great Composers Care For their music.