Moments like “Spoon” and “Vitamin C” showed that-albeit briefly-Can also had a knack for turning bolts of improvised uncut cloth into something stunning and concise. In fact, Can’s biggest breakthrough came not on kosmische mind-melters like “Aumgn” but rather via a three-minute toe-tapper entitled “Spoon.” It became the theme for a television thriller mini-series, unit-shifting hundreds of thousands of copies and landing them on the pop charts. For a band whose legacy rests in part on the relentless, restless, sidelong sprawls of their discography-from Monster Movie’s “Yoo Doo Right” through the greater part of 1971’s Tago Mago to Soon Over Babaluma’s “Quantum Physics” and “Chain Reaction”-the 23-track comp The Singles shows a lesser-known aspect of the band.
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