''Delay 1968'', or just ''Delay'' (as the SACD version is titled), is an archival compilation album by German

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band Can during its work with singer

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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

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compilation album ''Electric Rock'' in 1970; it was later covered live by Radiohead.

Holger Czukay Holger Schüring (24 March 1938 – 5 September 2017), known professionally as Holger Czukay (), was a German musician best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can. Described as "successfully bridg ngthe gap between pop and the avant-ga ...

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

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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 ''

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''. Parts of ''Delay 1968'' circulated in

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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.

Track listing

Personnel

– bass *

Michael Karoli Michael Karoli (29 April 1948 – 17 November 2001) was a German guitarist, violinist and composer. He was a founding member of the influential krautrock band Can. Career Karoli was born and grew up in Straubing, Bavaria, moving to St. Gall ...

– guitar *

Jaki Liebezeit Jaki Liebezeit (born Hans Liebezeit; 26 May 1938 – 22 January 2017) was a German drummer, best known as a founding member of experimental rock band Can. He was called "one of the few drummers to convincingly meld the funky and the cerebral". ...

– drums, percussion, saxophone *

Irmin Schmidt Irmin Schmidt (born 29 May 1937) is a German keyboardist and composer, best known as a founding member of the band Can. Biography Schmidt was born in Berlin, Germany, began his studies in music at the conservatorium in Dortmund, at the Folkwang ...

– keyboards *

– vocals

References

{{Authority control Can (band) albums 1981 compilation albums