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

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

I thought it was a record sized insert or inner sleeve from the design, if it'd been in a booklet or something it wouldn't have the same feel

yes, it was an insert

Apparently I'm at 223, but I listen to a lot of bad '70s jazz-prog. Most sane people could easily go their entire life without needing to hear Modry Efekt or Thrice Mice.

^^ two that I have not heard

related thread:

please help me parse this fuckin NWW list

i mean, this is some of the most important music of the 1970's. mostly 1970's. if you start at the top and work your way down you will be a brighter and better person by the end of your trip.

― scott seward, Friday, February 18, 2011 8:17 AM

thinking about starting my own trangressive tribute act, nonce with wind

sound would be kind of like gary glitter on ex-lax

plz don't go telling me that william bennett has got there first

I think that back in the days before downloading/album blogs/Spotify I had probably only heard a handful of these acts. I didn't know what a NWW list was back then either. It would have been cruel to know such a thing.

lol

exackly, its fkn sadistic

I've never even seen this list

I feel like I must've seen this list before. If not, then I'm still in the dark as to how I stumbled upon that Anal Magic album.

I don't think it's inherently cruel or sadistic -- I think that says more about your approach(es)

oh no, I think the list is great. But if I had come across it in 1999 I would have spent a fortune tracking down oop albums that would be widely available by 2005 or so.

Napster started in 1999!

I remember spending hours waiting to download Moving Gelatine Plates or whatever from dudes in Europe on dialup.

I spent years in the mid-90s looking for a bunch of obscure-at-the-time records I'd made a list of from the 2nd edition of the Trouser Press Guide with no illusions or need to be a completist

Heard: 56
Seen live: 6
Stayed at their house: 1
Actually a really big fan of: approx 15

Napster started in 1999!

oh yeah, possibly that's why there are 5 cop cars across from my house right now

oh no, I think the list is great. But if I had come across it in 1999

Probably came across it in 2000 or so and I love a lot of the music but I wasn't that into tracking everything down. Also as I said I really think there is a sense of black humour to the thing. What would people in 1980 have felt? At least we had a search engine etc. and some mailing lists to ask about. I used to be a member of an old S3 list and the guys there were knowledgeable as hell.

Not that this list is that diff when looking through a record guide or reading a book on music and coming up with a list of tens of records to investigate. sarah otm.

dude i spent like three years on napster trying to find the (then) long-out-of-print "faust so far" and all i ever found was a crappy xing-encoded mp3 of "it's a rainy day sunshine girl" with diginoise everywhere. finding sphinx tush on napster? forget it!