Drunk With the Old Man of the Mountains
Nurse WIth Wound

UD025 - Photographic Sleeve UD025 - Cartoon Sleeve

Tracks Side A
  1. Mourning Smile (1985) [ UD073 , MP3 ]
  2. Swamp Rat (1987) [ YANGKI2 , UD036 ]
  3. Sheela-Na-Gig (1984) [ MP3 ] [ UD038CD ]
Side B
  1. Astral Dustbin Dirge (1983) [ UD013 ]
  2. Shattering Man Falling (1984) (recorded live at Bar Maldoror, spontaneous sellotape solo by Mo Lester) [ MP3 ] [ UD034 ]
Label United Dairies
Country UK
Catalogue UD025
Format LP
Date January 1987
Edition UD025. Edition of 100 black vinyl unnumbered and signed copies in handmade photographic sleeve. Contains:
Original photographic painting on the cover.
Original photographic painting insert - signed by Steven Stapleton .
Orange Insert one sided (about 8.5" x 11") with an artistic signature like design covering most of the page except for the lower left which has the release information, reproduced above.
UD025. Edition of 30 black vinyl numbered and signed copies in handmade cartoon sleeve. Contains the Orange Insert .
UD025. Edition of black vinyl copies in handmade collage sleeve (made from previous album covers).
Sleeve Notes Mixed by S. Stapleton
Engineered by Greg Orion Chance and S. Stapleton
Cut direct to metal by Hugh Saunders
Dedicated to Calhoun, Window and Pushkin
This is a limited edition of 100 signed copies each with an original photographic painting.
Other Images Orange Insert
Another cover.
Another cover.

 

Drunk With the Old Man of the Mountains
Nurse With Wound

UD110

Tracks Side A
  1. Mourning Smile (1985) [ UD073 , MP3 ]
  2. Swamp Rat (1987) [ YANGKI2 , UD036 ]
  3. Sheela-Na-Gig (1984) [ MP3 ] [ UD038CD ]
Side B
  1. Astral Dustbin Dirge (1983) [ UD013 ]
  2. Shattering Man Falling (1984) (recorded live at Bar Maldoror, spontaneous sellotape solo by Mo Lester) [ MP3 ] [ UD034 ]
Label United Dairies
Country UK
Catalogue UD110
Format LP
Date December 2003
Edition UD110. Edition of 555 black vinyl facsimile copies.
Sleeve Notes Mixed by S. Stapleton
Engineered by Greg Orion Chance and S. Stapleton
Cover by S. Stapleton

Originally released January 1987 as an edition of 100 signed copies each with two original paintings.
Notes Cover is embossed front and back to give appearance of attached photographic paintings. Insert contains 2 more photographic paintings and the release notes reproduced above.

 

Drunk With the Old Man of the Mountains
Nurse With Wound

1978

Tracks
  1. Mourning Smile (1985) (5:12) [ UD073 , MP3 ]
  2. Swamp Rat (1987) (12:38) [ YANGKI2 , UD036 ]
  3. Sheela-Na-Gig (1984) (5:25) [ MP3 ] [ UD038CD ]
  4. Astral Dustbin Dirge (1983) (12:20) [ UD013 ]
  5. Shattering Man Falling (1984) (recorded live at Bar Maldoror, spontaneous sellotape solo by Mo Lester) (9:24) [ MP3 ] [ UD034 ]
Label Jnana
Country CA
Catalogue 1978CD
Format CD
Date January 2005
Edition 1978CD. Edition in digipak sleeve.
Sleeve Notes Mixed by Steven Stapleton
Engineered by Greg Orion Chance and S. Stapleton
Cover by S. Stapleton

Originally released January 1987 as an edition of 100 signed copies each with two original paintings. A facsimile edition of 555 copies was released in December 2003.
A special thank you to Mark Logan, Colin Potter , David Tibet and Paul Jackson
Reviews In the post-World Serpent world, it's refreshing to see a tasteful looking, properly packaged, elegant layout on a Nurse With Wound release which isn't completely driven by capitalism or auctionable (or even questionable) "special" editions. Cover artwork is collected from a few of Steve's own personal favorite paintings for the original cover (all were different on the original 1987 issue) and the overall design echoes what has worked for Nurse in the past. Although all the music has been released before (both on LP and various CDs), everything is currently out of print. This is the first time all the songs have been reunited on a CD, and it sounds wonderful. Tracks were originally gathered from cassette-only releases, compilations, a live bit, and other odds and ends. All have been remastered and sound more vibrant than ever, from the nasty organ through piano banging on the opening "Mourning Smile" (which probably shouldn't have gone on the CD release of Spiral Insana to begin with), to the shrieking banshee noises on "Sheela-Na-Gig," and the dying manatee sounds on "Astral Dustbin Dirge," which most definitely shouldn't have gone on the CD issue of Homotopy to Marie. "Swamp Rat," although it's rarely a popular song with existing fans, undeniably has the elements that fans fell in love with NWW for: a constant pulse (even if it is a cheesy drum machine in this case), an occasionally repeated sample, a drone of some sort, and some unconventional instrument playing over it. Even the least intoxicating songs never got boring. While a lot of musicians and distributors and fans think the collapse of World Serpent was a bleak moment, I look forward to more classy reissues like this with the delicate time and energy invested into restoring a original running order and remastering recordings with the finesse that somebody like Colin Potter possesses. - Jon Whitney