** condition: EX/EX- ** "Monster Movie was released in 1969, and is Can's most rock-oriented album by a considerable margin. Its songs are raw and aggressive-- very much informed by The Velvet Underground's larval trance-rock-- and they mark Malcolm Mooney as nothing if not an inspired amateur. "Father Cannot Yell" leaps out of the gate with a hi-speed keyboard flutter and the snap of Jaki Liebezeit's snare. Although the band would later perfect a kind of ambient funk, here they were brawny (though precise), determined rockers to the hilt; five minutes into "Father Cannot Yell", the song climaxes with a blaze of bass, drums, and fuzzed-out guitar, and an entire legacy of minimalist rock (from Neu! to Comets On Fire) is predicted. Of course, the 20-minute "Yoo Doo Right" is the centerpiece, and gives the best indication of what Can would do afterward. The murky, primal atmosphere of drums that dominates the track never allows the listener to escape the band's propulsion; like much of Can's best music, "Yoo Doo Right" seduces me into hypnosis, and winds through a seemingly endless array of textures and variations. Monster Movie is an amazing debut, but would be Mooney's last. He suffered a nervous breakdown onstage and returned to America."
his release has LIBERTY / UA GMBH, MÜNCHEN on label rims unlike later pressings which have UNITED ARTISTS RECORDS GMBH MÜNCHEN The labels have writing credits on the right side to the titles unlike the otherwise identical version which have them underneath. According that label design/layout which is also present on later pressings, the labels with credits to the right are the earlier ones. Recorded Live at Burg (cover says Schloss) Nörvenich July 25th 1969 A Prom Inner Space Production The first pressing was made from the same plates as the Music Factory pressing, so has those matrix numbers alongside the Liberty matrices.
