In my opinion Can by far: Spacemen 3/ Spiritualized, Radiohead, The Fall
This doesn't necessarily make Can a better band but they left much more to build on. That hypnotic long groove thing was open ended and easy to work with. Silver Apples are too entrenched in their time period to grow in the same way. I don't think you agree with that. I think you'll probably agree about Can but think I'm being too dismissive of Silver Apples. So let me clear in my respect for Silver Apples. It's just that a band could be influenced by Can much later and still sound progressive or futuristic. A band heavily influenced by Silver Apples are going to be some kind of neo-psychedelia.
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