The Male Nurse- 2nd 7"

More Fall inspired goodness, featuring members of the Country Teasers and the Yummy Fur, from a band with regrettably few recordings.

1) Magic Circle In The Sky
2) What Does Woman Want?

http://www.mediafire.com/?dcv3yy5d54p202r

The Yummy Fur- "Night Club"

I came to The Yummy Fur through the Male Nurse, by way of the Country Teasers and I do not hold it against them that some later (? I sure hope so ?) members went on to form the insufferable Franz Ferdinand (YUCK).
The Yummy Fur is far more punchy and accessible than CT and the MN, drawing strong influences from the Fall, the Fire Engines, and the Minutemen (more noticeable on "Kinky Cinema") and of all of their records I've heard this one stands as my favorite. Short punchy Fall inspired off-kilter punky skronky poppy good time mayhem=good in my book, especially when I've been O.D.ing on denser music, as I tend to. This is weird and poppy...crossover!
Seriously though, give this record a shot...something accessible to today (even though this is from '96...modern enough, right?) on this blog? Take advantage!
(too lazy to type out the song titles)

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The Male Nurse- "G-D-R/I'm a Man"

I came to know the Male Nurse through the Country Teasers (front-man Ben Wallers, Alan Crichton, once in CT and subject of the song, "Deaths," and one time CT and Yummy Fur drummer, Lawrence Worthington were all in the Male Nurse). In a perfect world they would've been a supergroup, and not a band hardly known for a novelty-ish single, "My Own Private Patrick Swayze," not that that single is anything to sneeze at...
Not surprising for a band with members of the Country Teasers and the Yummy Fur, the easiest band to compare them to is the Fall, but more than the others, the Male Nurse stick to the law of repetition, and unlike the Fall, in the vocals as well as the music. The vocals are slurred and unintelligible but that's how I like it. The voice is just another instrument in the band. If you like the riff once, I hope you like it the next however many times.
The recording quality of the Male Nurse took me by surprise...it's so clean, but not in a bad way.
A great single through and through, but I still find myself more drawn to the B side.
If any of you have their 2 Peel Session PLEASE share them...I've only heard three tracks and want...errrrrr>need the rest.

1) G-D-R
2) I'm a Man

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