CAN – Tago Mago｜Vinyl Monday
Welcome to a new year of Vinyl Monday! This is my series where I give the who/what/when/where/why and how I feel about classic albums in my collection. My thoughts on CAN’s Tago Mago (released 1971.) Subscribe for more Vinyl Monday!
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Timestamps:
intro – 0:00
art/packaging/personnel – 2:04
krautrock – 5:26
Tago Mago – 9:38
track listing/release – 20:26
my thoughts – 25:01
thanks for watching! – 46:16
Music:
Intro Music: Yeah Yeah Yeah (Long) by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/…) Artist: http://audionautix.com/
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@AsWeGoAlongWithAngel
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 am
Dear Abigail
Thank you for covering Tago-Mago. CAN is such a special group for my brother and I. I first heard them on our local college station called WNUR in the wee hours of the morning. It sounded familiar, prehistoric yet futuristic. I was blown away that this music was 20 years old(this was in 1992) and had to find more.
Their music was our musical lessons. Punk rock gave us the power to make noise, CAN taught us to harness the chaos and play with a delicate balance of fearlessness.
Flash forward to 2003, and we got Damo to come to Chicago so we can be his backing band. We put him up at our parents house and cooked us an amazing three course dinner that he called “Asian Soul Food”.
Damo shared stories about his CAN days and his life. Basically became a member of our family.
Next day, we played 2 shows. The first was a live radio show at the same station where I first heard CAN. We did a half hour set and when the DJ wanted more, Damo said “they need to come to Fireside Bowl to hear the rest”.
https://archive.org/details/ajc01082_damo-suzuki-2003-02-22
Our show at the Fireside gig was a career height I never thought I would achieve. Damo loved our improvisational approach which was his philosophy. All about the “instant composition “ and capturing the moment.
Apologies for the lengthy comment. This video really brought back a lot of memories of that weekend.
Also appropriate that this video dropped 3 days after Damo’s birthday. RIP Herr Damo and thank you Abigail for a great job on this video
@christopherelliott1819
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 am
I bought my first vinyl copy of this in 2011 and within the first 60 seconds, this was my favorite album of all time. It remains that to this day.
@dubrifle
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 am
Diet Pepsi – the Tago Mago mix!
@midnight-show
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 am
Thanks for covering what I consider to be the best album of all time. This band gives me the heebie-jeebies, theres something about their music that explains the universe to me. It sounds crazy but its true, to me this band sounds like natural chaos, hearing life in sonic form. Well all music is like that, these guys depicted life with absolute clarity, a feeling you can't describe
@warrennelson1317
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 am
Now this is more like it!! Experimental and extremely psychedelic!!
@CherryPickPod
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 am
Day 2 of commenting on Abby’s videos/posts until she does a Traffic Low Spark episode
@BlueSky...
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 am
More of a Future Days fan than a Tago Mago fan. Great group though.
@symfernus
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 am
just came across your channel, love the content and insight. your taste kicks ass
@flaviasantos8568
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 am
I just watched your Sweetheart of the Rodeo vinyl monday episode and as a suggestion I think you should do a vinyl monday for The Flying Burrito Bros like Gilded Palace of Sin or Burrito Deluxe, Great video Thank You!
@Hellseeker1
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 am
What about NIN? Slayer? We need to expand your musical horizons, join us Abigale. Metal World is calling you. Korn, Pantera, Deftones, well work our way to Acacia strain then Cannibal Corpse. What about movie soundtracks like The Good The Bad and The Ugly?
Lot's of fun to be had.
@waterboys3001
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 am
I bought this album in the 1970s. Can were considered weird and cool. I'm 68 and was at school and college in England in the 1970s. Your history of the period seems to be based on what American critics thought at that time. Most of these clowns were musically illiterate and were out of touch 1960s hippies. Anything musically challenging or different they considered pretentious. They also didn't seem to like loud music. They preferred mellow singer-songwriters and Americana. It is good that you are exploring bands like Can. Teenage boys in England like me were listening to hard rock (Who, Zeppelin, Sabbath, Purple), Prog (Floyd, Genesis, Tull, Yes, ELP, Crimson), jazz-rock (Mahavishnu, Caravan, Soft Machine). There was also a lot of weird shit about, like Kraut rock (Can, Neu!, Amon Duul II, Tangerine Dream, Faust). It was an exciting time musically. Nobody I knew was listening to Eric Clapton and American bands. There was too much going on in Europe.
@TheLegendaryFlowerPunk
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 am
Loving this! Thanks a lot Abigail!
@crapmalls
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 am
The orange vinyl omg
@dmellis
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 am
Fantastic review. This was the first Can album I ever heard and it didn't win me over at first. I had to love Ege Bamyasi and a few others before I could come back to Tago Mago. Now, I love it as much as anything they did.
@dmellis
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 am
Tribe Called Quest sampled Can? That's almost as cool has having Ron Carter play on their song.
@jetnova3788
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 am
Thanks. Now it’s all I listen to.
@wileydriskell
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 am
Incredibly well produced video. Abigail, keep it going.
@lumpielump3576
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 am
holy smokes, what an unexpected start into a new year of vinyl modays! I am listening to this and other krautrock for 5 decades and still don´t have worked it all out – still a miracle that a young lady like you gets so much joy out of all these classics from an era long gone and far away. glad to see you are already in posession of gems from other strange bands of that part of german culture (i´m from germany) – so how about NEU and Can´s Future days for future mondays? for the next double album: 666 by Aphrodites Child? keep up the great work!
@LANCSKID
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 am
Surely you didn’t pass up the chance to purchase that Blind Faith album? A real snip at $180, uh, honey?
@bradjones1977
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 am
The person who introduced me to Can was Peter Hook on a radio documentary about early experimental electronica in 1994. So, I was kinda expecting them to sound like Kraftwerk's Trans-Europe Express! Clearly they didn't, but I liked what I heard!
@olivierlusseyran
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 am
Can's "Tago Mago" is a Fantastic and Adventurous album ! I've been a Can Fan since their first album "Monster Movie" !
@FellDestroyedMusic
February 2, 2026 at 5:45 am
Donnie Thornberry, Can, Pornography Music, it all makes sense now
Also, never really saw the head on the cover until you pointed it out, thank you! I still see a mushroom cloud which goes perfectly with the lyrical content.
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