Compiled by Marco Piovanelli (piovanel@dsi.unimi.it).
Version 0.1 of September 25, 1993.
-- "I locked myself out of my apartment."
This discography lists only vinyl and CD releases, not cassettes (there are too many of them). A typical entry has the following format:
Name of the release (Format) (Year) (Label) {Catalog Number} (Comments) (Track Listing) Personnel: (Listing of the Personnel for the Recording)
A (?) marks the entries containing partial and possibly incorrect
information.
The entries are sorted in chronological order (more or less).
Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an
Umbrella
LP 1979 United Dairies {UD01}
'Two Mock Projections' - 'The Six Buttons of Sex Appeal' - 'Blank
Capsules of Embroidered Cellophane'
To the Quiet Men from a Tiny Girl
LP 1980 United Dairies {UD03}
"Umbrella Link" / "She Alone Hole and Open" [*] / "Ostranenie"
[*] Dedicated to Rudolf Schwarzkogler, who killed himself in the
name of art by successive acts of self-mutilation.
"Merzbild Schwet" LP 1980 United Dairies {UD04} "Futurismo" / "Dada X"
"Ostranenie 1913" [?] LP United Dairies
"Insect and Individual Silenced" [?] LP United Dairies {UD08}
"Homotopy to Marie" LP 1982 Unitied Dairies {UD013} "I Cannot Feel You as the Dogs are Laughing and I am Blind" / "Homotopy to Marie" / "The Schmuerz (Unsullied by Suckling)" / "The Tumultuous Upsurge (of Lasting Hatred)"
"Gyllenskold, Giejerstam and I at Rydbergs" EP L.A.Y.L.A.H {lay 3}
"Brained by Falling Masonry" EP L.A.Y.L.A.H {lay 7} "Brained by Falling Masonry" / "A Short Dip in the Glory Hole"
"The Sylvie and Babs Hi-Fi Companion" LP 1985 L.A.Y.L.A.H {lay 15} "You Walrus Hurt the One You Love" / "Great Balls of Fur" [*] [*] Featuring the last ever performance of Murray Fontana, a harbinger by nature, who killed himself in the name of music by successive acts of self-indulgence.
"Spiral Insana" LP 1986 Torso {33016} "Sea Armchair" / "Migration to the Head" / "Earthwork" / "Red Period" / "This Lady for Burning" / "Chasing the Carrot" / "Sugarland" / "There's Always Another Illusion" / "Stewing the Red Herring" / "Pulse Interplay" / "A View from Lammas Tower" / "Swallowhead" / "Fitching a Wrong Sucker" / "All That's Over" / "Forever Chasing the Carrot" / "The Terminal Song" / "Ship of the Dead" / "Obituary Obligation" Personnel: SS / Robert Haigh / Chris Wallis / Peter McGee
"Automating vol. 1" [?] United Dairies
"A Missing Sense / Rasa" LP 1987 United Dairies {UD020} "A Missing Sense" / "Rasa" [by Organum] Personnel on "A Missing Sense": SS / DR / DT / Tathata Wallis / Andrew M. McKenzie
"Cranke / Wisecrack" [?] 7" EP {WW01}
"Faith's Favourites" EP 1988 Yangki Records {YANGKI 2} "Ballad of the Pale Girl" [by Current 93] / "Swamp Rat"
"Soliloquy for Lilith" 3LP 1988 Idle Hole Records {mirror one} Personnel: SS / Calhoun Phelan
"Alas the Madonna Does Not Function" miniLP 1988 United Dairies {UD027} "Nil by Mouth" / "Swansong" Personnel: SS / DR / DT / Dik / Tathata Wallis / Babs Santini
"The Sylvie And Babs Hi-Fi Companion" CD 1988 L.A.Y.L.A.H {lay 15 CD} This is the re-release of the original LP, with some slight changes. "You Walrus Hurt the One You Love" / "Great Ball of Fur"
"Automating vol. 2" LP 1989 United Dairies {UD030} "The Strange Play of the Mouth" / "Elderly Man River / Dance of Fools" / "Lonely Poisonous Mushroom" / "Human Human Human" / "Lea Tantaaria"
"The Sisters of Pataphysics" LP 1989 Idle Hole Records {mirror two} The tracks on this album are excerpts from the same titled tracks originally appeared on the first three NWW albums. "Blank Capsules of Embroidered Cellophane" / "Ostranenie" / "Dada X" / "The Six Buttons of Sex Appeal" / "She Alone Hole and Open" / "Futurismo"
"Cooloorta Moon" EP 1989 Idle Hole Records {mirror three} "Cooloorta Moon" / "A Piece of the Sky is Missing" Personnel: SS / DT / Tony Wakeford / Dik / Douglas P. / Chris Wallis / David Jackman / Bradford Steer
"Gyllenskold / Brained" CD 1989 L.A.Y.L.A.H {lay 30 CD} This CD contains remixed versions of the original EPs Track listing (the track listing on the CD is wrong): "Glory Hole (for David Lynch)" / "Brained" / "Odd" / "Aquarium" / "Dirty Fingernails" Personnel: SS / DR / DT / Roman Jugg / Clint Ruin
"A Sucked Orange" CD 1989 United Dairies {UD032CD} Sound collage of 29 snippets, many taken from other NWW works. "Pleasant Banjo Intro with Irritating Squeak" / "It's All Gone Weird" / "Spiral Theme" / "Man Is the Animal" / "A Precise History of Industrial Music" / "Raymonde Fluffs It" / "Musical Bovine Spongiform (the Mad Cow Two-Step)" / "I'm A Frayed Knot" / "Sinan Sings for Her Chums" / "It Just Ain't So" / "Nasal Hair" / "Rockette Morton Part One" / "Rockette Morton Part Two" / "Dogs Breath Rising" / "This Piano Can't Think" / "Crack Up" / "Scissor Rock Bicycle Revelation" / "Dream of a Butterfly Inside the Skull of a Horse" / "Raymonde Cries a River" / "Fade / Crack Down" / "Ritva Sings for the World" / "Peccadillo" / "Great - God - Father - Nieces" / "It Just Ain't So (Slight Return)" / "A Little Missing Part of Homotopy to Marie" / "S.B.B. Dragged through a Hedge Backwards" / "Scrapie" / "Flea Bite" / "Scrambled Egg Rebellion in the Smegma Department"
"Psilotripitaka" 4LP/4CD United Dairies {UD0134} This box set includes the first three NWW albums plus a previously unreleased bonus album, "The Ladies Home Tickler" {UD00}. These four items are also available separately.
"Soresucker" EP/CD United Dairies {UD031} "I am the Poison" / "Journey through Cheese" Personnel: SS / Tony Wakeford
"Live at Bar Maldoror" [?] CD United Dairies {UD034CD}
"Homotopy to Marie" CD 1992 United Dairies {UD013CD} This is the re-release of the long deleted, same titled 1982 LP, with slight changes and an extra track. "I Am Blind" / "Homotopy to Marie" / "Astral Dustbin Dirge" / "The Schmuerz" / "The Tumultuous Upsurge"
"Thunder Perfect Mind" CD 1992 Untied Diaries {UD040CD} Published simultaneously with the same titled "sister" album by Current 93. "Cold" / "Colder Still" Personnel: SS / DT / Colin Potter / Chris Wallis / Rose McDowall / Anita Plank / Alan Trench / John Balance / Joolie Wood / Clive Graham / Konori Suzuki
"Sugar Fish Drink" CD 1992 United Dairies {UD036CD} Anthology of miscellaneous items, all but one previously released. "Cooloorta Moon" / "Creakiness" / "I am the Poison" / "Swamp Rat" / "A Piece of the Sky is Missing" / "Nil by Mouth" / "Brained (unconscious mix)"
"Large Ladies with Cake in the Oven" ("Gyllenskold / Mawsookedorwranj / Brained") CD 1993 United Dairies {UD038CD} As the subtitle suggests, two thirds of this CD were taken unchanged from the "Gyllenskold / Brained" CD published by the defunct L.A.Y.L.A.H label. "Bearded Lady" / "Odd" / "Aquarium" / "Dirty Fingernails" / "Sheila Na Gig" / "Red Flipper" / "Head Cold" / "Scapegoat" / "Cranke" / "Wisecrack" / "Glory Hole" / "Brained"
"Soliloquy for Lilith" 2CD 1993 United Dairies {UD035CD}
COMPILATIONS ------------
Tracks by Nurse With Wound have appeared in a host of compilations, so the following list provides just a sampling.
"Hoisting the Black Flag" [?] LP United Dairies {UD02} Also featured: David Cross, Mental Aardvarks, Hamilton and Duarte, Truth Club, Whitehouse
"An Afflicted Man's Musica Box" LP 1982 United Dairies {UD012} "I was no Longer his Dominant" Also featured: AMM, Anima, Foetus, Operating Theatre
"Devastate to Liberate" [?] LP Yangki Records Also featured: Coil, Crass, Current 93, Robert Haigh, Shockheaded Peters, The Legendary Pink Dots
"The Fight Is On" LP 1986 L.A.Y.L.A.H {lay 10} "Stick that Chick and You'll Feel my Steel through Your Last Meal" Also featured: Coil, Current 93, Robert Haigh, Lustmord, Organum, The Hafler Trio.
"Necropolis, Amphibians & Reptiles" LP 1986 Music Brut {BRU 002} "Lea Tantaaria" / "Great - God - Father - Nieces" Also featured: Deficit Des Annees Anterieures / Graeme Revell
"The Elephant Table Album" 2LP/CD 1989 XTract {XxCD1} Actually this is the reissue of an older release. "Nana or a Thing of Uncertain Nonsense"
"A Bead to a Small Mouth" LP/CD 1989 Barooni {BAR 001} "A New Dress" Also featured: Mother Tongue, Graeme Revell & Anthony Mannix, Soviet France
COLLABORATIONS AND GUEST APPEARANCES ------------------------------------
Besides the NWW project, Steven Stapleton appears regularly in all releases by Current 93. He also collaborated with Whitehouse, Organum, Coil, The Hafler Trio, The Legendary Pink Dots and others.
NURSE WITH WOUND & WHITEHOUSE "150 Murderous Passions" [?] LP United Dairies {UD09}
NURSE WITH WOUND & THE HAFLER TRIO Untitled Cassette Original recordings by NWW mixed, processed and added to by The Hafler Trio. C Staaltape {ST00M}
STEVEN STAPLETON & DAVID TIBET "The Sadness of Things" [?] CD
STEVEN STAPLETON & TONY WAKEFORD "Revenge of the Selfish Shellfish" CD 1992 Tursa {TURSA 004CD} ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Enjoy,
-- "categories strain, crack, and sometimes break / Harvey D. Thornburg step out of the space provided" \ hthornbu@osiris.ac.hmc.edu