Nurse With Wound - Paranoia In Hi-Fi: Earworms 1978-2008 (2009 compilation)

As a 30th anniversary celebration, NWW issued this 78-minute single-track (some pressings did have apparently meaningless track divisions) career-spanning mix.  In tribute to the Faust Tapes, it was to be a special low-priced one-off, and it was indeed 99p that I paid for the CD (the green tray edition) in early 2009.

The track begins with a radio introduction from which Stapleton extracted the slogan "Think jazz, think punk attitude", before going into Coolorta Moon, I Don't Want To Have Easy Listening Nightmares, bits of Sylvie & Babs... in other words, some of Stapleton's most zany, colourful creations to draw the listener in.  Some more recent NWW material (plus bits of 1982's Astral Dustbin Dirge) follows, then bits of Spiral Insana, bits of Rock & Roll Station, and much much more, before ending on a more ambient stretch including Salt Marie Celeste and some Lilith drones.  If you want to spend an hour plus reveling in the brain-frying majesty of NWW's first thirty years, this is way to do it.

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