Nurse With Wound ‎– The Sylvie And Babs Hi-Fi Companion

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Tracklist

A You Walrus Hurt The One You Love
B Great Balls Of Fur

Notes

There were two pressings of this, one was Direct Metal Mastered, the other was not. The Metal Master version is slightly different, and is indicated by the DMM logo on the top left corner of the rear sleeve.

Etchings are as follows:
Side 1:
Non-DMM Version: 08 24661 20 1A1 LAY 15
DMM version: LAY 15 - A1 - C
Side 2:
Non-DMM Version: 08 24661 20 1B1 LAY 15
DMM version: LAY15 - BA - C

Other Versions (Showing 5 of 5) View All

Title, Format Label Cat# Country Year
The Sylvie And Babs Hi-Fi Companion (LP, TP) L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords LAY 15 Belgium 1985
The Sylvie And Babs Hi-Fi Companion (Cass) RRRecords, United Dairies (2) UDT12 US 1987
The Sylvie And Babs Hi-Fi Companion (CD, Album) L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords, L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords LAYCD15, LAY 15 Belgium 1988
The Sylvie And Babs Hi-Fi Companion (Cass, Album, C48) United Dairies UDT12 UK 1987
The Sylvie And Babs Hi-Fi Companion (CD, Album, RE) United Dairies UD 072CD UK 1995
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Review by intransitive Sep 17, 2011
NWW generally gets pegged as "difficult" or "dark", but this one (my favorite) is hilarious. Like seriously laugh-out-loud, with actual jokes in it. A dense collage that seems to reference schmaltzy lounge and easy-listening records. Quick language fragments punctuate the juxtaposed swing melodies and LP skips, grounding it all in a recognizable absurd humor that makes this one of the most accessible platters in the NWW catalog. Someone (Foetus?) croons a few bars of a mangled classic, someone else suggests an absurd phrase to be used as a title, and someone somewhere howls and laughs... the tense and strange atmosphere is so carefully constructed that each new listen reveals more action bubbling beneath. In that sense, it's on par with "Trout Mask Replica", "The Lighthouse", or "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers" on sheer amount-of-information-per-minute.

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