First off, I do actually like Can. Monster Movie and Ege Bamyasi are excellent albums.
But this one... well I don't hate it, actually it would be a fairly consistant album if it was a single LP. But for some reason, the band really thought Pekin O and Aumgn were important enough to warrant a double album.
Double albums get a lot of slack for their filler and what not, but I can think of at least 30 great double albums that come to mind and this isn't f*cking one of them.
Now, yes Urban, I'm gonna start using the word hipster.
Hipsters and critics alike hate on progressive rock for making really long songs full of "noodling", and yet this is hailed as a masterpiece? May I remind everyone that the first 30 minutes of the second half of this album is just random, aimless f*cking noise? And not the cool Glenn Branca kind, it's just racket. WTF.
Even the actual songs aren't THAT great. Songs like Mushroom are kinda ruined by Damo Sazaki's abrubt indie c*nt snarling.
I guess prog is only cool when it's full of sloppy as f*ck musicianship and a complete disregard for tonality.