How many bands on the Nurse With Wound List have you actually heard?

Anopheles are doing a second Static Disposal LP reissue soon, I believe. Not clear vinyl this time, but I missed out before, so I'll definitely be picking one up this time.

I came up with about 70 as well.

I do remember now that Wayside Music has smartly added a NWW list subcategory to their online catalog. But ya, I'm definitely curious to try to put something together for a one-track per name comp.

okay i did the full count. 61

if we are picking faves then i gotta give my obligatory shout-out to the greatest krautrock album ever made by former members of paul revere and the raiders in california in 1969. MUSIQUE! CONCRETE!

http://www.popsike.com/pix/20060104/4817194518.jpg

(also vinyl reissues are cheap and easy to come by and you need it yesterday if you don't own a copy)

STORMY HAS NEVER HEARD TEH CABS???? OH BEHAVE!

I'm putting that on my list for sure, Scott.

FRIEND SOUND RULES.

45

# Alternative TV
# Amon Düül
# Amon Düül II
# Ash Ra Tempel
# Cabaret Voltaire
# John Cage
# Can
# Captain Beefheart
# Chrome
# Comus
# Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft
# Faust
# Fred Frith
# Gong
# Hugh Hopper
# King Crimson
# Kluster
# Kraftwerk
# Steve Lacy
# Magical Power Mako
# Anthony Moore
# Negativland
# Neu!
# Nico
# Yoko Ono
# Evan Parker
# Pere Ubu
# Plastic Ono Band
# Pop Group
# Public Image Ltd
# Red Krayola
# Steve Reich
# The Residents
# Sonny Sharrock
# Soft Machine
# Stooges
# Karlheinz Stockhausen
# Tangerine Dream
# This Heat
# Throbbing Gristle
# Univers Zero (first heard them yesterday actually!!!)
# Velvet Underground
# James White and the contortions
# Robert Wyatt
# Frank Zappa

most of these I first encountered in the last year

I'm surprised ian hasn't heard more of them!

FRIEND SOUND RULES.

OTM!

65-70 I think.

44

67. Amazing they were able to find all these artists from so many different areas, No York No Wave, English Prog, limited release Psych, tiny post punk, French avant garde, early early noise/industrial, and all without the internet.

friendsound scorpio version used to be like $8 and is worth ten times that. gonna go count up the NWW list things i've heard.

ive heard them all - in fact i am them - i am them all

inside

How many of those did Stapleton et al actually LISTEN to/learn from, as opposed to merely namecheck?

j/k 28

103, but only because a year or two ago, there was some blog (linked from ILX!) that was trying to do the whole list. It folded after getting through about 50 of them, but that's where I got my Limbus 4 download.

And man, looking at it, I'm always like, "I didn't realize Magical Power Mako had been around that long!"

165, apparently.

How many of those did Stapleton et al actually LISTEN to/learn from, as opposed to merely namecheck?

Didn`t he work in a mailorder place or something that distributed alot of this kind of stuff? Someone had to be listening to it back then, right?

45 (only two of which were sufficiently obscure not to have their own Wiki links - Berrocal and Kirchin.)

22. But I'm much less into "alternative" rock than most ILXors.

32. The obvious ones plus Xenakis minus Zappa (weirdly).

179. and not one of them wasn't worth the time/effort.

-- Mr. Hal Jam, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 17:36 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

I'd be very interested in finding out what ones you haven't heard!

Frank Zappa
Mothers Of Invention
&
Yoko Ono
Plastic Ono Band

I counted these as the same, was I cheating?

37

38. I think.

No Scooter, no cred

And where the feck is Derek Bailey and Iskra sans 1903 (and thus sans DB) doesn't count.

Bloody EVANISTS!

Evangelicals

29

(not counting band members, which i probably should)

51-75

45, mainly the same list as curt1s

118. But I have downloaded a lot of these things off various NWWList blogs in the last cpl of years.

And where the feck is Derek Bailey and Iskra sans 1903 (and thus sans DB) doesn't count.

that's a different Iskra altogether. the omission of DB is odd. and Parker only with Lytton?

I am probably at over 200 due to my mutantsounds habit.

actually own? hell if I know.

How many of those did Stapleton et al actually LISTEN to/learn from, as opposed to merely namecheck?

I am continually shocked at how many early NWW music references pop up on these discs. 15 seconds of a track by Kollectiv Rote Ruben (or something) forms the whole basis of the track "Fashioned to a Device Behind A Tree".

seriously

there's an entire thread to be had in trainspotting the extensive samples & album art, it's all collage art. NWW would be much more widely situated as a plunderphonic band due to the extent of their borrowing if their references weren't so obscure

there are scores of 2nd gen sampling artists who critics casually describe as following on from oswald & negativland who I've met who actually trace their genesis lightbulb moment to hearing 'Sylvie and Babs'

now that's an article you gotta write

(I shouldn't say scores, I should say 'two', but that's two people who heard NWW a ways before they heard Negativland -- NWW were always more European than American)

in any case in point, the new album cover:

http://www.andrewliles.com/discography/covers/lg/huffin.jpg
http://lpcoverlover.com/2008/04/22/recording-a-girl-in-a-bikini-talking-to-her-hand-puppet/

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Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I like when groups do things like this.

I've heard 40.

Too late to vote, but I've heard about 75 of 'em. For the most part, just the stuff that's most well-known in rock/pop circles.

Meh, around 25 or so.

Ok after going though the list more carefully I am at around 180.

Actually have records by about 55.

22. But I'm much less into "alternative" rock than most ILXors.

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