Can discography

This is a discography of the krautrock band Can.

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^[1]
• Kamasutra: Vollendung Der Liebe (Crippled Dick Hot Wax!, 2009) – movie soundtrack recorded in 1968, released as Irmin Schmidt & Inner Space Production^[2]
• 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)

Soundtracks

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• (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