# Can - Flow Motion and Saw Delight

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-flow-motion-and-saw-delight/316896>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 13, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-flow-motion-and-saw-delight/316896 "2005-08-13T21:06:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Future\_days](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cab0a1/32.png) [@Future\_days](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Future_days)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-flow-motion-and-saw-delight/316896/1 "2005-08-13T21:06:06Z")

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Are these albums worth buying? I’ve recently got the remasters of all the albums up to but not including Flow Motion. Flow Motion hasnt been remastered yet but should I buy it anyway? I like the cover it looks cool.

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-flow-motion-and-saw-delight/316896/2 "2005-08-13T23:45:14Z")

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They’re definitely not as good as older albums, and the vocals are pretty awful, but if you like **Landed** you might like these too. **Flow Motion** is heavily into reggae beats, and also has one Hawaiian-sounding thing (“Cascade Waltz”) that I keep expecting to turn into a C&H sugar commercial. The best thing on the album is “Smoke,” part of the Ethnological Forgery Series, which is five minutes of tribal-sounding noise. **Saw Delight** is where Holger Czukay gave up the bass, and started just contributing shortwave radio sounds. Each of these albums includes a long jam track, so you get plenty of the Can technique of setting up a complex groove and just riding and riding it so you start to notice all the sonic subtleties going on.