Flow Motion

Another really low 7. As opposed to most of the early albums, which would get a high 8. It's not so much that Can suck at this reggae/funk/disco-type music - I just personally don't like this kind of music very much. And I find it a little sad that Can would forsake their smarts for nothing more than a simple 4/4 funk beat, even if it's as dancemerizing as the ten-minute title track or catchy as "Laugh Till You Cry, Live Till You Die." This is the kind of music that Funkadelic, James Brown and other, you know, BLACK guys were born to do. Germans are stereotypically teutonic, not soulful. Give me the wild bitch suprabeats of "Smoke" any day of the week!

Yes! "Smoke"! The only film Harvey Keitel's ever made where you don't get to stare at his hairy ass for fifteen minutes, just dreaming about licking it all over!!!!