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ticularly obvious on the opening track “Father Cannot Yell”. The use of improvisation, experimentation, editing and layering of sounds set a standard for Can’s subsequent albums in the early 1970s, which were seminal to the freewheeling avant-garde style dubbed “krautrock” by the British music press. The 20-minute jam “Yoo Doo Right” was pared down from 6 hours’ taping,[9] while the lyrics of “Mary, Mary So Contrary” riff off of Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, a popular English nursery rhyme.
