I did like A Deeper Love a lot.

Edited July 5, 201510 yr by AntoineTTe

Had no idea Martha Wash sang on Gonna Make You Sweat.

The KLF ft. The Children Of The Revolution - 3A.M. Eternal (Live At The S.S.L.)

 

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Date 26th January 1991

4 Weeks

Official Chart Run 5-2-1-1-2-3-7-11-27-40-72 (11 weeks)

*Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible.

 

1991 starts with a bang with something completely different. Here is the first appearance for a group that need little or no introduction, the legendary collaboration between Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty aka The KLF, also known as the JAMs (The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu), and many, many more... I won't hide the fact that I am a massive fan and even have a couple of their (relatively rare) singles from 1990-1992 including the absolutely brilliant “It’s Grim Up North”. There is far too much history to go through in this commentary, but given the huge success the group achieved in the early 1990s (a 100% consecutive run of six Top 10 singles in under 2 years) there will be several other appearances in this list to enable more detail to be covered.

 

In 1990, the KLF launched a series of singles later dubbed the ‘Stadium House Quintet’, which essentially took their original pure trance recordings for The White Room and simply added clever elements that they had diagnosed were the ingredients needed to make hit singles. They knew exactly what to do, after all they wrote a book ‘The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way)’ after smashing to #1 in 1988 as the Timelords (“Doctorin’ The Tardis”).

 

This enhancement included a beefed up pop production, samples of crowd noise to give a stadium live recording feel, a contemporary rap (in this instance a slightly absurd one from British rapper Ricardo Da Force), a vocal hook (provided on “3 A.M.” by Wanda Dee) and sing-a-long chant of ‘Ancients of Mu Mu’. The track starts with a sample taken from Radio Freedom - the radio propaganda arm of the African National Congress during the anti-Apartheid struggle - the gunshots of which were removed at the time due to the start of the Gulf War. The title “3 A.M.” seems to answer the question posed by their first single, 1990’s “What Time Is Love?” and refers to the early morning post-clubbing disorientation, this symbolised in the tracks artwork of the blurred car circling Parliament Square in the dead of night. Whilst “3 A.M.” is not the best of the groups work, it represented a massive shift change in the chart toppers of 1991 (previously Enigma and Queen) and sounded very futuristic - heralding what was to by the end of the year turn into a commercial takeover by rave and other underground dance music on the UK singles chart.

 

A lot more to say on the KLF later, including how this song ENDED their career. :o

 

Fun fact: When Anthea Turner introduced this single on 31st January as the #1 she called the group ‘ The KLM’.

 

You have It's Grim Up North! :o

 

 

I need that and I know it's available online but I refuse to purchase online because the buzz is not the same as finding it in a shop.

I can never decide when my favourite time is for dance. I did enjoy 1988 a lot but 1991/1992 is so amazing too. Then there's the trance explosion of 1999.

 

 

 

You have It's Grim Up North! :o

I need that and I know it's available online but I refuse to purchase online because the buzz is not the same as finding it in a shop.

 

Yes, but on CD single not on vinyl sadly. It has the 10-minute version that mentions the M62 on it !!

 

 

I can never decide when my favourite time is for dance. I did enjoy 1988 a lot but 1991/1992 is so amazing too. Then there's the trance explosion of 1999.

 

1991/1992 must've been amazing, yeah. I also really enjoyed 1995 for dance music.

Must have been?

 

I was a teenager in 1991/1992 and followed the charts religiously :D

91/92 was a great time for the charts I think, there was just so much variety around.

 

The Enigma/Queen/KLF run of #1s you mention is a good example... especially when followed by The Simpsons and The Clash whilst being preceded by Iron Maiden, Cliff Richard and Vanilla Ice!

91/92 was a great time for the charts I think, there was just so much variety around.

 

The Enigma/Queen/KLF run of #1s you mention is a good example...

 

 

That's one of my favourite triplets of number 1s.

I think I've got the full house of KLF singles - the top 10 hits anyway. Are they rare now?

 

This rundown is beginning to look a lot like my record collection from back then.

 

Really informative run-downs too, well done.

 

(I think I might ditch my indie run down due to a lack of response - could just post up the full list :))

I think you'll get more responses by the time you get to 1994

Dr B's info is more extensive than mine.

I think you'll get more responses by the time you get to 1994

 

Not sure I'll get there! Besides, the ones that interest me are all from before then.

Feel free to just post the full list if you're not in the mood for a long slog through the decade Richie but don't get too downhearted yet - there's only been 3 songs announced so far, not that much for people to comment on yet!

 

- or maybe try the alt forum for it instead?

Edited July 6, 201510 yr by dandystar

It's a long slog on your own and to get little feed back takes the fun out of it.

Love 3AM Eternal and Gonna Make You Sweat, despite how overplayed it is in America.

I always feel I should like 3AM Eternal more that I actually do. It's not even one of those songs that when you listen to it it's better than you remember. I'd just enjoy What Time is Love? and Last Train a lot more.

Feel free to just post the full list if you're not in the mood for a long slog through the decade Richie but don't get too downhearted yet - there's only been 3 songs announced so far, not that much for people to comment on yet!

 

- or maybe try the alt forum for it instead?

 

I think I will post up the full list - it was an interesting exercise. If anyone then wanted to take the list and do a full countdown I'd happily delete mine and be a serial commenter on the new thread!

I always feel I should like 3AM Eternal more that I actually do. It's not even one of those songs that when you listen to it it's better than you remember. I'd just enjoy What Time is Love? and Last Train a lot more.

 

The first version of What Time Is Love is definitely better than the America mix! Last Train is great too.

 

Hope we see a few Shamen singles in this rundown too. :D

Hope we see a few Shamen singles in this rundown too. :D

 

Guaranteed to see one about a certain Mr Goode!