Damn, I've got some hunting to do. I'm only at 32.
― Z S, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 17:57 (sixteen years ago) link
130
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 18:13 (sixteen years ago) link
i have records by 96 of them. i also never noticed negativland were on the list before. i didn't know they existed then!
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 18:35 (sixteen years ago) link
can we pick favorites? I will rep for DEBRIS STATIC DISPOSAL Yeah, I love that, too. But if there's one that I'm going to single out, it's gotta be Algarnas Tradgard. http://therisingstorm.net/audio/algarnastradgard.jpg THE FUTURE IS A HOVERING SHIP, ANCHORED IN THE PRESENT. (same artist as the one who did Bo Hansson's first two records, he was in the band, too)
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link
About 56-58 of those folks are currently represented by at least one LP in the collection; I've gotten rid of probably a dozen more.
Static Disposal love seconded!
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
this brings up an interesting question, how hasn't there been a compilation with a track from each of these groups so that everyone can say they've heard everything? Even the difficult to license stuff could probably have a track had from a release.
― matinee, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 18:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Fifty, though that's largely down to the collection of one particular friend.
― Soukesian, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 18:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually on my iPod and in legitimate rotation:
Mythos Can PIL Stooges Tangerine Dream Velvet Underground
I've never heard Nurse With Wound!
― Savannah Smiles, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 18:44 (sixteen years ago) link
perhaps we should do a wee little comp of our own, xpost
― bb, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 19:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I love that he listed "Henty Cow" (sic).
― Abbott, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 19:34 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― gnarly sceptre, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I came up with about 70 as well.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 20:02 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― matinee, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 20:30 (sixteen years ago) link
okay i did the full count. 61
― dmr, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
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)
― scott seward, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link
STORMY HAS NEVER HEARD TEH CABS???? OH BEHAVE!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm putting that on my list for sure, Scott.
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
FRIEND SOUND RULES.
― ian, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm surprised ian hasn't heard more of them!
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 22:14 (sixteen years ago) link
OTM!
― dmr, Tuesday, 13 May 2008 22:34 (sixteen years ago) link
65-70 I think.
― RabiesAngentleman, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link
44
― electricsound, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 00:21 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― filthy dylan, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 00:53 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 01:00 (sixteen years ago) link
ive heard them all - in fact i am them - i am them all
inside
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 01:03 (sixteen years ago) link
How many of those did Stapleton et al actually LISTEN to/learn from, as opposed to merely namecheck?
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 01:04 (sixteen years ago) link
j/k 28
― jhøshea, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 01:06 (sixteen years ago) link
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!"
― I eat cannibals, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 01:09 (sixteen years ago) link
165, apparently.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 01:19 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― Matt #2, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 08:37 (sixteen years ago) link
45 (only two of which were sufficiently obscure not to have their own Wiki links - Berrocal and Kirchin.)
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 09:26 (sixteen years ago) link
22. But I'm much less into "alternative" rock than most ILXors.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 09:28 (sixteen years ago) link
32. The obvious ones plus Xenakis minus Zappa (weirdly).
― Jamie T Smith, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:04 (sixteen years ago) link
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!
― Tom D., Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Frank Zappa Mothers Of Invention & Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band
I counted these as the same, was I cheating?
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:08 (sixteen years ago) link
37
― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:23 (sixteen years ago) link
38. I think.
― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:25 (sixteen years ago) link
No Scooter, no cred
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:28 (sixteen years ago) link
And where the feck is Derek Bailey and Iskra sans 1903 (and thus sans DB) doesn't count.
Bloody EVANISTS!
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Evangelicals
― Tom D., Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:37 (sixteen years ago) link
29
― abanana, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:39 (sixteen years ago) link
(not counting band members, which i probably should)
― abanana, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:40 (sixteen years ago) link
51-75
― Stewart Osborne, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 11:29 (sixteen years ago) link
45, mainly the same list as curt1s
― Thomas, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 12:16 (sixteen years ago) link
118. But I have downloaded a lot of these things off various NWWList blogs in the last cpl of years.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 12:40 (sixteen years ago) link
that's a different Iskra altogether. the omission of DB is odd. and Parker only with Lytton?
― Mr. Hal Jam, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 12:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I am probably at over 200 due to my mutantsounds habit.
actually own? hell if I know.
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".
― sleeve, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 19:54 (sixteen years ago) link
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'
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 14 May 2008 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link