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

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.

None of them are invented.

re: Magma - my impression was mostly prog? I mean bits of jazzy-funky play sprinkled w/neo-classical allusions, crossed w/some electronic music of the Stockhausen brand?

Sounds great and all but iirc there was no youtube at the time and there were a million other things I wanted to listen to. I'll look on some threads later. xp

there is an element of narcissism about the cult of good taste, avantgarde division, to which initiates are invited to subscribe

even so, there must have been all sorts of personal epiphanies among people who would never otherwise have heard things like 'musique presque rien' were it not for this list

crut - how do you know? Have you heard them all?

I've heard 81 btw

All of the artists have material listed on discogs afaik

64

I will be disappointed if at least a few of these weren't made up. Like, have a sense of humour guys and make some of this shit up already!

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

No need to feel inadequate, LJ, I've heard half of them and, for the most part, you're not missing much... tho you do like your prog.

"Fuck this list of things that I love that probably has awesome recommendations for me, because, er, someone cool said something like that recently, I don't know, I just skimread it and missed the point completely".

62 -- maybe 10-15 of which I could not call to mind what they sound like although I know I have listened to them.

think i'm just projecting my own self-hatred here. sorry

a) there are TOO MANY recommendations here, though - my brain str8up shuts down

b) what about stuff it's missed

idk the point isn't exhaustiveness but it FEELS like it's trying to be exhaustive, which is where my feelings of panic and dismay set in

Also it's just a list. Describe them, talk about them, suggest a song. It's the 1979 equivalent of a Youtube dump, except you have to go and buy the albums so it's even worse

a) there are TOO MANY recommendations here, though - my brain str8up shuts down

I sort of agree about this (prefer lists that have only one item on them...but paradoxically really long lists just become a blur and kind of disappear again, it loses its implicit enclosed completism feeling

b) what about stuff it's missed

what about it? thats actually a good thing no, opening doors rather than closing them. if it didnt miss things then it would be MORE museumified, heres 'everything you need' - leaving things off is better, the door doesnt shut, you can go out and look at the trees and forget all about the gallery

leaving things is essential but this list is so big, it feels aesthetically like it is trying to cover everything. this is how my brain instinctively interprets it. in favour of hearing arguments for the list tho

idk the point isn't exhaustiveness but it FEELS like it's trying to be exhaustive, which is where my feelings of panic and dismay set in

― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Thursday, 2 October 2014 15:33 (15 minutes ago)

exhaustiveness does seem to have been the point, 'this is everything', it is indiscriminate in the best sense

the impossibility of any one person knowing and liking every one of these artists militates against the tickbox checklist tendency

this is why its better to just list all 291 things you like that you can think of than it is to topiarize 50 of your very most favourite and very most personally meaningful and most numinously and eternally profound things

well yeah I have renounced my 50 albums list, it was a stupid notion. you have a point. I'm just too daunted

try just this one then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BndZT2-zHwQ

when I'm home, will do :)

the 'irony' is that i dont remember ever having downloaded anything by nurse with wound
im sure ive heard them somewhen
not really my scene bruv

arg pro-list: it is a giant joke on that world and culture, especially if some of it is made-up.

if any of this shit was made up that would not be funny

I really don't think any of it is fake, sorry J

I'd find it hilarious. Anyway, Stapleton himself hasn't heard all of this..

xp = bah.

iirc some of these entries are only there b/c one particular song or album was inspiring to SS, not the whole catalog

Anyway, Stapleton himself hasn't heard all of this..

How do you know that? Anyway it wasn't just him that made up the list.

makes more sense to think of it as an album cover rather than an abstract list. it's not an attempt to capture something exhaustively, it's armouring the record with these mysterious pointers to a wider context

Of course I don't know that for a fact - but yes it was NWW that made the list up, so making an assumption no one person would've heard it all by the time it was compiled. xp

"categories strain, crack and sometimes break, under their burden - step out of the space provided"

xxp sorry if I'm misreading but this wasn't the album cover anyway just included iirc