Nurse with Wound list

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The Nurse with Wound list is a list of musicians and bands that accompanied Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella (1979), the first album by Nurse With Wound. The list was expanded with Nurse With Wound's second album, To the Quiet Men from a Tiny Girl.

The list was compiled by the original Nurse With Wound trio of Steven Stapleton, John Fothergill, and Heman Pathak. It was intended as a homage to the obscure artists which influenced the Nurse With Wound project. It has since become a type of 'shopping list' for collectors of outsider music. The list only included group names, and collectors have speculated on the specific albums which would have influenced Nurse With Wound. In a 1997 interview in UK magazine The Wire, Stapleton boasted that some of the names on the list were invented, a statement absolutely refuted by John Fothergill in David Keenan's book England's Hidden Reverse, published in 2003. Keenan, having researched the matter, declares Fothergill to be correct.

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  • There are 294 artists on the list. If LIMBUS 3/LIMBUS 4 and XHOL/XHOL CARAVAN are counted as the same there are 292 artists.
  • The subtitle of Fille Qui Mousse's album "Trixie Stapelton 291" is sort of an in joke about the NWW List (although Stapleton's name is misspelled).
  • The 2001 reissue of Nurse With Wound's Chance Meeting album contains a bonus track, "Strain, Crack, Break". which consists of David Tibet reading the list. The track concludes with the words "All of these bands are completely shit." A shorter version of this track is included on the Rat Tapes One album.
  • "Words strain, crack and sometimes break,..." is a quote by T. S. Eliot, from "Burnt Norton", the first of his Four Quartets.

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