What are the best Nurse With Wound albums?

want drone? go for Soliloquies for Lilith or the Robert Ashley tribute A Missing Sense.

anarchic cut-up and Dadaist bricolage? most will send you after Sylvie & Babs High-Thigh Companion, but i find this one strained. go for Homotopy to Marie, probably the strongest and most successful NWW album-as-album statement.

the more normal (relatively) albums, Rock n' Roll Station and Who Can I Turn to Stereo are safe entry points, as they restore musical fundamentals - rhythm, melody, tenable song structures - absent from much NWW material. but neither of these albums is great - just intriguing enough to make you eager to hear more. same with most of the latter-day

i wouldn't suggest Chance Meeting as a starting point. it's key insofar as NWW's manifesto is concerned, being an enthusiastic if amateurish synthesis of Stapleton's influences and budding production skills, but it doesn't make for the easiest listen.

Summerslastsound's summary is OTM. I would add that the NWW/Stereolab collab. is very good and you will like if you like Stereolab. Also, "I have a special plan for this world" which is officially a c93 release, and the newest one, Salt Marie Celeste are excellent creepy music.

if you're eager to delve, pick up one of the compilations. Large Ladies with Cake in the Oven, Sugar Fish Drink or the collaborative Swinging Reflective for a survey of NWW's many modes and moods. once you've established like/like less/dislike touchstones, it'll be a lot easier to navigate the catalog proper.

the first NWW/Stereolab 12" is compiled in full on both NWW's Crumb Duck CD and Stereolab's Refried Ectoplasm. the 2nd hasn't been made available in this way yet, though i expect plans are afoot to do so eventually.

friend of mine played me some of the new LP on beta-lactam ("she and i fall together"?), very good stuff.

I think Crumb Duck is really some of the most brilliant tape music made post-1970s, but the second collaboration is truly horrible. Whenever the doom and gloom goth voice appears on the record, it makes me cringe.

honorary NWW sound-alike mention: cerberus shoal & guapo "the ducks and drakes of..." the cerberus shoal track, particularly, with rattling and heavily treated instrument noise and some oddly distorted vocals.

The Murray Fontana Orchestra Plays The Hafler Trio is prolly the best NWW collaboration out there, especially the second half.

I've realized I haven't heard ANY NWW albums in their entirety (maybe I heard A Sucked Orange at some point, it looks familiar enough) and reading the AMG descriptions, these sound like they're right up my alley.

here: NWW a swinging reflective... the nicest NWW primer so far, also containing Braining by Falling Masonry (the invredible Brainticket ripoff!), some old stuff like the first records (registered nurse) and some more recent stuff. very eclectic, selection from abut 20 years of "NWW and friends", and also as 2cd at the price of one.

or here: aa.vv. The Wire 20 1982-2002 Audio Issue (3cd mute records)
with an amazing tracklist (and a nice price):
CD1
01) Steve Lacy The Wire
02) Ennio Morricone (with Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza) Seguita
03) Coil Wrong Eye
04) Hands To Egress (excerpt)
05) David Toop & Max Eastley Buried Dreams
06) Vivian Jackson & King Tubby Tubby's Vengeance
07) Fennesz Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
08) Derek Bailey M 5
09) Traditional Musicians, Bali Cockfight Trance In Paksabali And Kesiman - Gamelan Beleganjur
10) Einstürzende Neubauten Pygmäen
11) AMM After Rapidly Circling The Plaza (excerpt)
12) Mars 11,000 Volts
13) Cabaret Voltaire Breathe Deep
14) Tony Conrad with Faust The Death Of The Composer Was In 1962
15) Designer Vandal
16) Torture Soaking Bodies In Dub
17) Fela Kuti Shenshema

CD2
01) The Art Ensemble Of Chicago Illistrum
02) Sonic Youth Expressway To Yr Skull
03) Spring Heel Jack/The Blue Series Continuum Salt
04) This Heat Paper Hats
+++++++++>05) Stereolab & Nurse With Wound Simple Headphone Mind
06) Jac Berrocal Rock 'N' Roll Station
07) Sun Ra & His Solar-Myth Arkestra Ancient Ethiopia
08) Christian Marclay Jukebox Capriccio
09) John Cage Williams Mix
10) Yoshihide Otomo Cathode #4: Soundcheck Version
11) Björk Headphones
12) Pauline Oliveros I (excerpt)

CD3
01) Keith Hudson Satan Side
02) Terry Riley Music For The Gift Part 1
03) William S Burroughs (with Ian Sommerville) Silver Smoke Of Dreams
04) Suicide Rocket USA
05) Supersilent 4.2
06) Pan Sonic Vaihe (Fön)
07) Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft Kebabträume
08) Larry Young Khalid Of Space Part 2 - Welcome
09) David Behrman (with Gordon Mumma) Players With Circuits
10) Fushitsusha The Caution Appears Part 5
11) John Coltrane (with Alice Coltrane) Living Space
12) John Fahey Some Summer Day
13) Diamanda Galás 25 Minutes To Go

First time I saw this mentioned (the recent Record Collector article), I thought it was Spiral Insania. do do do do do indeed.

Various Artists The Wire 20 1982-2002: Audio Issue 3xCD ('The Wire' Offer) Box Set CDSTUMM220 Mute £13.61

...not when you add VAT & postage! :o(

For a really frantic, manic NWW freakout I have always preferred "The Ladies Home Tickler" to "Chance Meeting"; it's more musique-concrete and less free jazz.

Let's try that again, shall we?

What's this?

Is it different to the original Chance Meeting?

Additional: http://www.play.com/ are showing (the "original") Chance Meeting as available but out of stock.

Better than MP3s innit?

**** It's a little bit like...., September 23, 2002
Reviewer: drella23 from UK
....being stuck in a tube carriage on a very hot day and everyone else has Walkmans playing very loud, leaking, all playing the same tune, maybe Ornette Coleman, or Atomic Kitten, something like that, but not quite synchronised, and you haven't got a Walkman, but you're trying to read Nietzsche, in German, and you've only got a Berlitz phrasebook to help you, and that's got half the pages missing, and suddenly you realise that you've reached your stop, and you fight your way out, and there's a moment of blessed relief, until you hear a busker on the platform, and he's playing exactly the same tune, and he's got Nietzsche's face.

Try it, you might like it

Okay LJ just to keep this out of the Swans/SotL thread.

As an extra suggestion, Who Can I Turn To Stereo is tremendous fun and generally regarded as an accessible NWW disc.

the forthcoming NWW album, BITCHIN' 'N' BITIN' 'N' PIMPIN' (GOATHEARD) (United Jnana Summer 2006)

waah I want

still no sign of this

also the England's Hidden Reverse book has yet to be repressed. Waah.

my votes for fave NWW

Sylvie & Babs
Spiral Insana
Gyllenskold
Man W/The Woman Face
An Awkward Pause

Enrico Iglesias 'Escape'