Unlimited Edition (album)

Unlimited Edition is a compilation album by the band Can. Released in 1976 as a double album, it was an expanded version of the 1974 LP Limited Edition on United Artists Records which, as the name suggests, was a limited release of 15,000 copies (tracks 14–19 were added). The album collects unreleased music from throughout the band's history from 1968 until 1976, and both the band's major singers (Damo Suzuki and Malcolm Mooney) are featured. The cover photos were taken among the Elgin Marbles in the Duveen Gallery of the British Museum.

Unlimited Edition
Compilation album by
Can
ReleasedMay 1976
RecordedSeptember 1968 – July 1975
GenreKrautrock
Length77:22
LabelHarvest, Caroline
ProducerCan
Can chronology
Landed
(1975)		 Unlimited Edition
(1976)		 Flow Motion
(1976)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
Pitchfork7.9/10[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[4]
Limited Edition
Compilation album by
Can
Released1974
RecordedSeptember 1968 – May 1974
GenreKrautrock
Length38:14
LabelUnited Artists Records
ProducerCan
Can chronology
Future Days
(1973)		 Limited Edition
(1974)		 Soon Over Babaluma
(1974)

Track notes

The abbreviation "E.F.S.", appearing in several of the track titles, refers to Ethnological Forgery Series, a series of songs in which Can self-consciously imitated various "world music" genres. "Mother Upduff" is a retelling of an urban legend involving a family whose grandmother dies while they are on holiday together, and whose corpse – left wrapped up on the roof of the family car – is later stolen along with the car.[5] Recording of tracks "I'm Too Leise" and "LH 702 (Nairobi/München)" is seen in the film Can Free Concert 1972 by Peter Przygodda.

Track listing

Note: Tracks 14–19 were only on Unlimited Edition.
All tracks composed by Can

Side one
No.TitleRecordedLength
1."Gomorrha"December 19735:41
2."Doko E"August 19732:26
3."LH 702 (Nairobi/München)"March 19722:11
4."I'm Too Leise"March 19725:10
5."Musette"January 19702:08
6."Blue Bag (Inside Paper)"October 19701:16
Side two
No.TitleRecordedLength
7."E.F.S. No. 27"December 19701:47
8."TV Spot"April 19713:02
9."E.F.S. No. 7"September 19681:05
10."The Empress and the Ukraine King"January 19694:40
11."E.F.S. No. 10"January 19692:01
12."Mother Upduff"May 19694:28
13."E.F.S. No. 36"May 19741:55
Side three
No.TitleRecordedLength
14."Cutaway"March 196918:49
15."Connection"March 19692:56
Side four
No.TitleRecordedLength
16."Fall of Another Year"August 19693:20
17."E.F.S. No. 8"November 19681:37
18."Transcendental Express"July 19754:37
19."Ibis"September 19749:19

Personnel

Production credits

References
  1. Raggett, Ned. "Unlimited Edition". Allmusic Guide. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
  2. Larkin, Colin (2011). "Can". Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0857125958.
  3. Leone, Dominique. "Can: Future Days / Soon Over Babaluma / Unlimited Edition / Landed – Album Reviews". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
  4. Nathan Brackett; Christian David Hoard (2004). The new Rolling Stone album guide. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-7432-0169-8.
  5. Snopes.com article
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