Tago Mago (studio album) by Can

Tago Mago by Can
Year: 1971
Overall rank: 148th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
83/100 (from 1,040 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 10 albums of 1971 (7th)
Award Top 50 albums of the 1970s (38th)
Award Top 200 albums of all time (148th)
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 83.3/100, a mean average of 82.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.3.

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95/100
From 04/01/2024 14:22
One of the craziest and most influential records ever made. At its wildest, the music, particularly "Aumgn" and "Peking O", sounds like the soundtrack to a surreal nightmare or a David Lynch film that hasn't been made yet.

The madness enclosed within makes for a remarkably challenging listen for the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, or even an infinite number of times: For someone without critical listening experience, it's an impossible record to recommend. Even "Halleluwah", probably the most "traditional" music on the album, is so lengthy and intentionally repetitious that even the most hardened "I'll listen to anything once!" person might turn up their noses in disgust.

Simultaneously pretentious, wonderful, haunting, beautiful, awful, and any other superlative you can throw at it, Tago Mago encapsulates and engulfs all attempt at description. It simply must be heard; it is a masterful accomplishment and also everything else.
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85/100
From 04/04/2023 09:37
This is a strong record with great performances across the group but the length of some of the songs and the length of the album as a whole can make it a challenging listen. If you give the music some patience you will be rewarded with it taking 3 or 4 listens for me to really get into this album. Once it clicked it sounds like a brilliant psychedelic experience that is brimming with experimentation. This is one of the most experimental records ever made and that alone makes it an interesting and engaging listen. The experimentation can descend into chaos at times such as in the middle of Peking O but for me that only adds to the character and appeal of the sound. The performances across the board are fantastic and they showcase the musical genius of the band perfectly. Overall, this record will not be to everyone's taste but for me it is extremely enjoyable and is packed full of quality and experimentation that you can get properly stuck into.
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From 08/31/2022 03:50
Eh. Not my taste
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From 04/13/2022 09:31
Very nice grooves and rhytms but some totally unnecesary noise too.
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65/100
From 01/27/2022 13:14
Overall weird listen, some strange noises here and there, very experimental. Not my kind of music but I gotta aplreciate that Halleluhwah is pretty good.
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From 12/03/2021 21:09
Muy psicodélico. Suena bien pero se me hace un poco pesado. Demasiado experimental para mi.
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From 01/05/2021 12:14
A viagem que esse álbum proporciona é fantástica... Seus ecos reverberam em dezenas de álbuns posteriores.
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From 06/18/2020 22:20
A sonic journey. Krautrock's peak. What a dumb name for a genre.
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Best Albums of 1971
1. Untitled (Led Zeppelin IV) by Led Zeppelin
2. Who's Next by The Who
3. Hunky Dory by David Bowie
4. What's Going On by Marvin Gaye
5. Sticky Fingers by The Rolling Stones
6. Blue by Joni Mitchell
7. Tago Mago by Can
8. Meddle by Pink Floyd
9. L.A. Woman by The Doors
10. Tapestry by Carole King
11. Fragile by Yes
12. Bryter Layter by Nick Drake
13. Aqualung by Jethro Tull
14. Master Of Reality by Black Sabbath
15. Ram by Paul & Linda McCartney
16. Electric Warrior by T. Rex
17. Imagine by John Lennon
18. Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
19. There's A Riot Goin' On by Sly & The Family Stone
20. At Fillmore East by The Allman Brothers Band
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