There are actually several interesting tracks on here, despite the band no longer firing on all cylinders - "Safe", "Aspectacle", "Serpentine", "November" and "Seven Days Awake" are all worth a listen if you like late-70s post-Damo Suzuki Can, and the "Can Can / Can Be" sequence is amusingly dumb. That said, newcomers should definitely not bother with these albums until everything from 68 - 77 has been experienced and inwardly digested. . .
Others have said it here... It is not the best Can... but still, this is good stuff: check out "Safe", for instance...
The only album the band disown, and usually missed out from their own discography. This album is sadly truly awful. If you like Can, Faust, Amon Duul II and the like save your downloads for the A.R. and Machines album 'The Green Journey' that was recently added to eMusic, it's a classic slice of Krautrock from 1971!
My own first exposure was with Tago Mago (in the early 70s) when live sets were very largely improvised and 'songs' shaped by that aesthetic. I may be biased but I think it's generally accepted that if you wanted to start listening to Can, the stuff available here would be the last place to start. In fact only a completist would even finish here. Uninspiring.
