13. CanEge Bamyasi

I kind of defaulted to Ege Bamyesi out of all their records, because I listened to that one the most, but can we just talk about Can generally? Again, a band who are just about the idea of permutation, and how expansive you can make something you want to do, and ego-less, in a sense. They were rock stars, and when Damo Suzuki was fronting they had this person who was free-wheeling poetry over it, and it all hung together really well. And they had this power of taking a groove that’s pretty much the same groove over the course of those records, and just mapping so much stuff onto it – the groove and the funkiness of Can doesn’t get discussed enough. Those records are super-inspiring, and you listen to the band and they could have been a very flashy prog or glam band, but – and I feel this way about This Heat, too – I feel like I can hear all of those guys in the cement room, just working it out, and it sounds so visceral, like you can feel it on your skin.