Delay 1968


Delay 1968, or just Delay, is a compilation album of mostly previously unissued early recordings by German experimental rock band Can during its work with singer Malcolm Mooney, including some of the band's earliest material. The song "Thief" had previously been released officially on the United Artists compilation album Electric Rock in 1970; it was later covered live by Radiohead.
Holger Czukay has said that Delay 1968 was originally intended to be the band's first album and would have been titled Prepared to Meet Thy PNOOM. 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. 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.

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