Delay 1968

Delay 1968, or just Delay (as the SACD version is titled), is an archival compilation album by German experimental rock band Can during its work with singer Malcolm Mooney comprising previously unissued early recordings of the band's rejected debut album, Prepared to Meet Thy PNOOM. The song "Thief" had previously been released officially (in a longer edit) on the United Artists compilation album Electric Rock in 1970;[4] it was later covered live by Radiohead.[5]

Delay 1968
Compilation album by
Can
Released1981
Recorded1968–1969
Genre
Length35:48
LabelSpoon Records
ProducerCan
Can chronology
Can
(1979)		 Delay 1968
(1981)		 Rite Time
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[3]

Holger Czukay has said that Delay 1968 was originally intended to be the band's first album, Prepared to Meet Thy PNOOM ("Pnoom" being the name of the album's second track—a 27-second saxophone instrumental, recorded as part of their Ethnological Forgery Series). When no record company would release the record, Can set out to make a somewhat more accessible album, which became their 1969 debut Monster Movie.[6] Parts of Delay 1968 circulated in bootleg form for several years under the title Unopened, and included other tracks recorded during the same sessions that would later surface in various forms on other albums.[7]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Czukay, Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Mooney

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Butterfly"8:20
2."Pnoom"0:26
3."Nineteen Century Man"4:26
4."Thief"5:03
Side two
No.TitleLength
5."Man Named Joe"3:54
6."Uphill"6:41
7."Little Star of Bethlehem"7:09
Total length:35:48

Personnel

References
  1. Delay 1968 at AllMusic
  2. Larkin, Colin (2011). "Can". Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0857125958.
  3. Nathan Brackett; Christian David Hoard (2004). The new Rolling Stone album guide. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-7432-0169-8.
  4. "Various - Electric Rock (Idee 2000)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  5. "Radiohead At Ease". 7 January 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-01-07. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  6. "Holger Czukay's Short History of the Can - Discography". Furious.com. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  7. Semprebon, Rolf. "Unopened Can". AllMusic. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
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