With
noise band
Nurse With Wound's first album,
Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table, came a cryptic list. Main NWW member
Steven Stapleton had compiled it, with the help of John Fothergill (an early member of NWW), out of his obsessive crate digging.
It contained almost 300 albums, artists and songs, all listed in blunt all-caps courier. Even where one ends and another begins can be hard to suss out.
Now expanded twice (the first time as an insert in NWW's second album, the second time as part of
The Audion Guide to Nurse With Wound, the list has become a map through
psych,
free jazz,
krautrock and assorted weirdness for 25-years worth of music fans. Many of the albums are still out of print, but collectors make it a goal to complete the full run. It is even sometimes credited with a revival of interest in krautrock as a whole, and certainly helped the careers of many of the artists listed. All of the bands are ones that are purported to have influenced Nurse With Wound's sound, though nearly all of the albums are "easier" to listen to than NWW.
The full original list follows:
categories strain, crack and sometimes break, under their burden - step out of the space provided
ALL-7-70 ALTERNATIVE TV ALVARO AME SON AMM MUSIC AMON DUUL AMON DUUL II ANIMA ANNEXUS QUAM ARBETE
OCH FRITID ARCANE V ARCHAIA ARCHIMEDES BADKAR AREA GILBERT ARTMAN ART BEARS ART ZOYD III ARZACHEL
ROBERT ASHLEY ASH RA TEMPEL ASSOCIATION PC IL BALLETTO DI BRONZO BANTEN FRANCO BATTIATO HAN
BENNINK JACQUES BERROCAL BIGLIETTO PER LINFERNO BIRGE GORGE SHIROC BLUE SUN RAYMOND BONI
DON BRADSHAW LEATHER BRAINSTORM BRAINTICKET BRAST BURN BRAVE NEW WORLD ANTON BRUHIN
BRUHWARM THEATRE FRANZ DE BYL JOHN CAGE CAN CAPSICUM RED CAPTAIN BEEFHEART CHAMBERPOT
CHECKPOINT CHARLIE CHENE NOIR CHILLUM CHROME COHELMEC ENSEMBLE JEAN COHEN SOLAL
COLLEGIUM MUSICUM ROBERTO COLOMBO COMPANYIA ELECTRICA DHARMA COMUS CORNUCOPIA
CREATIVE ROCK CRO MAGNON DAVID CUNNINGHAM DADAZUZU WOLFGANG DAUNER DEBRIS
DECAYES DEDALUS DHARMA QUINTET DIES IRAE DOODOOETTES PHILIPPE DORAY
JEAN DUBUFFET DZYAN EILIFF EMTIDI EROC ETRON FOU LE LOUBLAN EXMAGMA
PATRIZIO FARISELLI FAUST LUC FERRARI FILLE QUI MOUSSE FLOH DE COLOGNE FOOD BRAIN
WALTER FRANCO FRIENDSOUND FRED FRITH GASH RON GEESIN GILA GOD IN DISGUISE
GOMORRHA GONG JOHN GREAVES AND PETER BLEGVAD FERNANDO GRILLO GROBSCHNITT GROUP 1850
JEAN GUERIN FRIEDRICH GULDA GURU GURU HAIRY CHAPTER HAMPTON GREASE BAND HENRY
COW HERATIUS HERO HUGH HOPPER HORDE CATALYTQUE POR LA FIN IBLISS LINFONIE
INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER ISKRA ISLAND JAN DUKES DE GREY KING CRIMSON BASIL
KIRCHIN KLUSTER FRANK KOLGES KOLLEKTIV ROTE RUBE KOMINTERN KRAFTWERK KROKODIL
STEVE LACY LARD FREE LE FORTE FOUR LILY LIMBUS 3 AND LIMBUS 4 BERNARD LUBAT ALVIN
LUCIER MAGMA COLETTE MAGNY MAHJUN MAHOGANY BRAIN MALFATTI AND WITTWER
MICHAEL MANTLER ALBERT MARCOEUR MASCHINE NO 9 MATE AND VALLANCIEN
COSTIN MIEREANU MIN BUL MODRY EFEKT ANTHONY MOORE MOTHERS OF
INVENTION MOVING GELATINE PLATES FRITZ MULLER THIERRY MULLER MUSICA
ELECTRONICA VIVA MUSIC IMPROVISATION COMPANY MYTHOS NAPOLI CENTRALE NEU
NICO NIGHT SUN NINE DAYS WONDER NOSFERATU NU CREATIVE METHODS OKTOBER
YOKO ONO OPERATION RHINO OPUS AVANTRA OUT OF FOCUS OVARY LODGE TONY
OXLEY PARKER AND LYTTON PATAPHONIE PAUVROS AND BIZIEN PERE UBU
PIERROT LUNAIRE PLASTIC ONO BAND PLASTIC PEOPLE OF THE UNIVERSE
POLE POP GROUP MICHEL PORTAL RED CRAYOLA RED NOISE REFORM ART UNIT
STEVE REICH ACHIM REICHEL RESIDENTS CATHERINE RIBEIRO AND ALPES
TERRY RILEY ROCKYS FILJ RON PATES DEBONAIRS ROTH RUHM AND WIENER RAY
RUSSELL TERJE RYPDAL MARTIN SAINT PIERRE SAMLA MAMMAS MANNA GUNTER SCHICKERT
SECOND HAND SECRET OYSTER SEESSELBERG SEMOOL SONNY SHARROCK SILBERBART SILOAH
SOFT MACHINE SPERM SPHINX TUSH KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN STOOGES DEMETRIO STRATOS
SUPERSISTER TAMIA TANGERINE DREAM TECHNICAL SPACE COMPOSERS CREW MAMA BEA TEKIELSKI
THIRD EAR BAND THIRSTY MOON THIS HEAT JACQUES THOLLOT THRICE MICE THROBBING GRISTLE
PAOLO TOFANI TOMORROWS GIFT TON STEINE SCHERBEN TRANS MUSEQ ULI TREPTE TWENTY SIXTY SIX
AND THEN UNIVERS ZERO CHRISTIAN VANDER VELVET UNDERGROUND VERTO PATRICK VIAN MICHEL WAISVISZ
IGOR WAKHEVITCH TREVOR WISHART WOORDEN ROBERT WYATT XHOL CARAVAN XHOL LA MONTE YOUNG FRANK
ZAPPA. ZWEISTEIN ZNR AGITATION FREE PEKKA AIRAKSINEN AIRWAY ALBRECHT D ALCRATAZ ALGARNAS TRADGARD
NWW interviews have encouraged spreading the list, but warn against using it as a talisman, since there's even more good music that didn't make the list.