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

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/

86

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.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:28 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

best post

79 skimming, probably more accurately in the 100 - 150 range, because I don't remember the names of the gazillion obscure European improvisors I've heard

This would be a good specialist subject on Mastermind.

64

59 from a scan. Could've heard another 20 or so over the years or so but couldn't be arsed. I suppose I know what Magma will sound like so never bothered.

Awesome how 'conventional' and comforting it all looks now, rather than the everest of esoterica that this was. I could hit youtube and satisfy my curiosity but I'll take it for granted, another day etc. and of course will never get to it.

Although what I wouldn't give to hear the invented ones...I would hope that a band did actually form by taking an invented name off that list and made the music purely based on what the name hinted at.

About 100. I should up my game.

I suppose I know what Magma will sound like so never bothered.

I have no idea what you think Magma would sound like if you've never heard Magma.

I would hope that a band did actually form by taking an invented name off that list and made the music purely based on what the name hinted at.

Pretty sure that couldn't happen, because I'm pretty sure none of them actually were invented.

fairly sure ive heard magma so i counted them, although i dont remember them, same as about fifteen others from that list

this list can absolutely go fuck itself

17 for definite but there are a lot of the more well known ones (soft machine, magma, faust, sonny sharrock) where I can't remember if I actually heard them or not

not that it doesn't contain excellent bands & most of my favourite music of the day (no vdgg though!), but the fact of its existence is imo lamentable

A different question might, how many have you played in the last year?

(2 - robert ashley, kraftwerk)

why doth it upset you so, mi'lj?

you know this is from 1979 right

because i'll never hear a quarter of these and it makes me feel inadequate

also it's canon-forming, even if its aim is otherwise

and yes I do know that!

not that it doesn't contain excellent bands & most of my favourite music of the day (no vdgg though!), but the fact of its existence is imo lamentable

― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago),

I'm a list hater and think they lead to museumification but at same time this was a pre-internet list which I think makes context pretty different (tho also arguably more elitist)

As far as I know this is the most obscure thing on this list:

http://www.discogs.com/Frank-Köllges-Drums-Voices-Knispel-Nie/release/1926085

If anyone can find a digital rip let me know...

surely its just a public service in providing an inventory for the atomized fan of strange music with limited access to this stuff in the days when all of this was obscure and hard to find

and lj if u care u can download albums by almost all of these bands fairly easily

You certainly know how to pick your targets, LJ

Blimey, !53! An increase of 54 from years ago.

You can just youtube at least a record/composition/crappy footage by most of these

I suppose I know what Magma will sound like so never bothered.

I have no idea what you think Magma would sound like if you've never heard Magma.

I would hope that a band did actually form by taking an invented name off that list and made the music purely based on what the name hinted at.

Pretty sure that couldn't happen, because I'm pretty sure none of them actually were invented.

― emil.y, Thursday, 2 October 2014 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

People do say some of them were invented. I like the idea, even if the invention story turns out to be er, invented.