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Anyone heard of them? Dig em?

I think they're amazing.

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Some of my favorite music ever. I must have over 30 albums of theirs.

Some faves in no particular order:
Alice The Goon
Drunk With The Old Man Of The Mountains
Cooloorta Moon
Spiral Insana
Sylvie and Babs
An Awkward Pause
The Sadness Of Things by Stapleton/Tibet
Masstishaddhu (another offshoot)
To The Quiet Men From A Tiny Girl

They have been an obsession of mine for nearly 20 years, and continue to be vital and interesting to this day. Stapleton is a great visual artist as well!

Yeah. This girl burned me one of their cd's and it's so good but I have no idea what it's called and they have over 30 cd's but it's great. I like it a lot. Almost as much as I like yr icon. But yeah they're brilliant. Do they play live or are they purely a studio band.

thanks

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They have played live on a very rare handful of occasions (almost never really), but for the most part NWW is a studio effort. Obviously the studio is an instrument in their case; I have no idea what they would do for a live show.

I would like to concur with both parties thus far on this thread - NWW are a great band.

SavageC, do you have the original version of Salt? That is, a 2-CD thing with a C93 track Alpha ( I think), rather than the alternate version (Salt Marie Celeste with all the bird sounds and creaking). I picked it up ages ago, and I think I may have got quite a rarity, as no one seems to believe it exists.

I can't add to Savage Clone's list as I probably don't have as many albums.

I would recommend listening to Current 93 if you like NWW, as the two bands have played on each others records, on and off, for 25 years or so now.

I don't have that, but I can get it for you easily.
Current 93 are a HUGE favorite for me; I love their early scary soundscapes and their great apocalyptic folk LPs like Thunder Perfect Mind (NWW did their own Thunder Perfect Mind to complement it, which is also great), Earth Covers Earth and Swastikas For Noddy.
Early scary LPs by C93 that I recommend are Dogs Blood Rising and Nature Unveiled. You will not sleep well for weeks!

check out the NWW & Stereolab collaborations, crumb duck and Simple Headphone Mind. It's really great stuff, Simple headphone mind is some really trippy stuff!

Simple Headphone Mind is seriously groovy.
Naturally, it sounds exactly like Neu, but very cool nonetheless.
A big favorite here, and I love the Mylar sleeve!

Also Faust from 2000 is pretty scary.

My favourites from NWW:
A Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table Of A Sewing Machine And An Umbrella
Merzbild Schwet
Homotopy To Marie
Soliloquy For Lilith
A Sucked Orange
Revenge Of The Selfish Shellfish
Funeral Music For Perez Prado

stapleton collaborates with people, and he will pop up doing some DJ set too

he is playing with some folks in portland in a few months, and he will be at the wooden octopus skull festival in seattle this september

As is "I Have A Special Plan For This World." Damn, that one creeped me out hard.

Apparently, Stapleton has been making an album with female hip-hop vocalists. I'm positively melting with anticipation of that. Just imagine what he'd do to Missy...

I am scared of that, but I'll give it a listen.

Wounded Nurse sounds neat, I'll check em out. Thanks.

Forgot another great one!
"Who Can I Turn To Stereo?"

Savage Clone, you ever been to Exotica in London? They've got loads and loads of that kind of stuff, they've had an original copy of 'chance meeting...' and Whitehouse's 'birthdeath experience' and oodles of other original pressings of that post TG type stuff.

NWW are a funny one, all the people I know that like him/ them are more into literature than they are heavily into alternative music (if that phrase means anything any more). Most record collecting types, with a few exceptions, don't know them at all.

Yeah i read this on The Wire a while ago.I'd love to listen to that.I have pratically grown up listening to NWW and Current 93.Does anyone like Death in June?

Gah. DIJ are awful. Give me Coil any day.

Yes Coil are better,but Death in June had some good tunes too:
''Fall apart'' for example is a beautiful song. Has anyone ever read ''England's Hidden Reverse'' the book that the great David Keenan wrote about all these bands?

Death in June strikes me as something of a watered-down version of NWW.

I must confess, I'm not as fond of NWW/Stereolab as I am of NWW flying solo.

I mourn my lost copy of 23 Eazy Pieces.

??? NWW are so different from Death in June as a band i don't see much point in even comparing them

I love DIJ's later apocalyptic folk stuff, but had I only heard their early output my opinions of their music would be vastly different.
They have made some of the best albums I own though; "Wall Of Sacrifice" and "But What Ends When The Symbols Shatter" are both extremely important to me.
I see almost no similarities between DIJ and NWW though; between them and Current 93 for sure (especially before they had their big falling-out), but NWW has always walked a much different path.

I totally agree with that.When i say i like Death in June i pretty much refer to their later stuff myself, and ''But What Ends Whn The Symbols Shatter'' IS a gorgeous record.

Death in June have a dodgy fashion sense though.When i went to see them play last year at the Slimelight in London one of them,i swear,was wearing a plaster on his face just like Nelly.I wish i could remember the name of the support band cause they were even better.

I am never starstruck but when i saw David Tibet on my way to work on the tube i was really exited!He sat opposite me and i couldnt really say a word.

I know a chap who met Tibet on the tube, and he was apparently a complete and total cock.

And I think it's DIJ's terrible pseudo-Nazi imagary that annoys me the most, I know lots of people have done it, but they seem to do it in a more provocative than interesting way.

He looked at me in a menacing kind of way but i didnt care at all.His girlfriend was really pretty looking but both of them looked like crusties

I know more than a few people who know Tibet (who doesn't use the name Tibet anymore in any case), and by all accounts he is a very kind person who is funny as hell and very nice to deal with. I have never heard stories of him being jerky from any of them.


As for DIJ..
I also love the way DIJ appropriate Nazi imagery; I think it's highly effective, and they fact that they never confirm or deny anything works well for their mystique (not to mention the conundrum of "gay Nazis"). Let's face it, Totenkopfs are cool looking.

As for DIJ..
I also love the way DIJ appropriate Nazi imagery; I think it's highly effective, and they fact that they never confirm or deny anything works well for their mystique (not to mention the conundrum of "gay Nazis"). Let's face it, Totenkopfs are cool looking.[/quote]

Hmm.....ok.The pennyless bus driver look that they adopted last year didnt go down too well in my book though.I noticed also a few similarities in their stage set to that of the now defunct Coil.

Hahaha!
Penniless bus driver!
Yeah, I'll give you that, but the masks-and-camo thing they did for so long was pretty great. They definitely have similar stage sets to a few groups (NON as well), but those sets make for good photos.
I think they managed to carve out a fairly original sound considering where they started from, still.

True,I'll give them that.The guy who was obviously impersonating Nelly on stage was priceless.I pissed myself laughing all the way,and gosh,the gig got better and better.It was almost ravey by the end of the night.As ravey as a bunch of mascara mad Goths can go obviously.

Everyone is a cock on the tube these days.I prefer buses.

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Really, there's nothing there in that torrent of 99 Nurse with Wound albums that anyone's missing?

I can't get into NWW. I've listened to quite some albums, but I haven't liked any of it. Or well, it's not bad, but I haven't heard anything interesting enough to catch my attention. Meh.

Huge fan of NWW - right back to 'Chance meeting...' Went to see them perform 'Salt Marie Celeste' at The Queen Elizabeth Hall a few years back. Amazing.

That's how I was, or maybe am -- tend to find NWW quite overrated, but there is some interesting stuff on each album, I highly reccomend A SUCKED ORANGE, that's the one that really got me, otherwise I'd just check out Current 93.

Yes, I love Current 93, so much better than NWW. I'll check out A Sucked Orange though, I don't think I've heard it yet. I can agree that parts of what I've heard have been interesting, but not necessarily good or you know, worth to spend time on. Let's hope that A Sucked Orange change that.

I bought their CD at the Faust show last year in Montreal.

Disconnected.

Can't say I like him as much as Faust but still willing to check 'em out.

RN