87. KLF

 

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Bill Drummond and Jimi Cauty guerrilla pop/acid house dance outfit came, saw, conquered with their so far ahead of its time sampling/mash ups before retiring from the music industry deleting all their albums in 1992.

 

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Key Studio Albums: The White Room (1991)

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Key Compilation: They never released one. :(

 

Career Defining Song:

Justified And Ancient (ft Tammy Wynette) (1991 UK#2, 1992 USA#11)

Some Other Key Songs:

 

The Timelords - Doctorin' The Tardis (1988 UK#1)

 

What Time Is Love (1990 UK#5, 1991 USA#59)

 

3 A.M. Eternal (1991 UK#1, USA#5)

 

Last Train To Trancentral (1991 UK#2)

 

Were any of you fans of the anarchic Kopyright Liberation Front or do you think they are overrated by the music critics today?

I adored that Moo Moo song :D :lol:

 

Didn't the female vocalist in that die of drug overdose :o

Normally I would hate this kind of dance music, where they sample other records and stick it all together , but surprisingly I really liked the KLF. Whether it was there "Stick it to the man" attitude against the music industry or what, but they struck a chord with me. Liked all the ones you highlight, especially Justified and Ancient (remember the DJ introducing it on the radio the first time I heard it, saying with Tammy Wynette and thinking wtf, but I loved it :D ) and Doctorin the Tardis, which samples Gary Glitter and the Sweet heavily.

 

Weren't they famous also for burning £1m in cash, and accusing the EMF of pinching the "F" from there name :lol: .

Normally I would hate this kind of dance music, where they sample other records and stick it all together , but surprisingly I really liked the KLF. Whether it was there "Stick it to the man" attitude against the music industry or what, but they struck a chord with me. Liked all the ones you highlight, especially Justified and Ancient (remember the DJ introducing it on the radio the first time I heard it, saying with Tammy Wynette and thinking wtf, but I loved it :D ) and Doctorin the Tardis, which samples Gary Glitter and the Sweet heavily.

 

Weren't they famous also for burning £1m in cash, and accusing the EMF of pinching the "F" from there name :lol: .

 

Yes they did all that.

 

Two other tracks from the beginning and beyond the end of their career should be remembered:

 

KLF - Kylie said to Jason (1989)

 

^ A song mocking and parodying Stock Aitken and Waterman PWL records whilst "wearing their Pet Shop Boys infatuations brazenly on their sleeves".

 

&

 

2K - ***K The Millennium (1997 UK#27)

 

A song that failed to capture the music audience, or even shock it.

There have been plenty of eccentrics in the music business but Bill Drummond is positively barking :lol:

 

But that didn't stop him making some very good records.

I think the best record they ever made was 1987 What the f***'s Going On. That was the one with all the uncleared ABBA samples.

Benny and Bjorn made them destroy any unsold copies.

 

It is a truly ground breaking album and completely blew my mind when I first heard it.

a very overlooked act, from brilliant parody (dr in the tardis, its grim up north, jason said) to groundbreaking rock/dance fusion and are credited with pioneering new dance sounds - progressive house, trance, which fuelled the sounds of the dance crazed 90's.

 

imho one of the most creative acts this side of punk, and one of all time.

Liked everything I've heard from them, even now I think they sound fresh nearly 20 year later.

Key compilation? What about Shag Times - their compilation of all JAMMs and KLF related stuff just prior to their success with the Stadium House trilogy?

 

But as I've said in at least three other recent threads, remember to credit The Beatmasters for remixing their big hits.

 

As for The KLF in general, I absolutely love them - their work as The JAMMs helped push forward sample-based sounds into dance music wrestling the art-form away from hip hop and effectively creating the rave scene. They produced a fantastic album in 'The White Room' not just for its killer stadium house A -sides but for the genuinely excellent chilled out B-side....speaking of which...why has nobody mentioned the 'Chill Out' LP yet? A massive influence on dance music again from Massive Attack to the Aphex Twin.

 

True visionaries...and who cares if most of the stuff they do now is a little dodgy (Cauty's controversial Blacksmoke, Drummond's self-indulgent 17)...

 

 

Key compilation? What about Shag Times - their compilation of all JAMMs and KLF related stuff just prior to their success with the Stadium House trilogy?

 

But as I've said in at least three other recent threads, remember to credit The Beatmasters for remixing their big hits.

 

As for The KLF in general, I absolutely love them - their work as The JAMMs helped push forward sample-based sounds into dance music wrestling the art-form away from hip hop and effectively creating the rave scene. They produced a fantastic album in 'The White Room' not just for its killer stadium house A -sides but for the genuinely excellent chilled out B-side....speaking of which...why has nobody mentioned the 'Chill Out' LP yet? A massive influence on dance music again from Massive Attack to the Aphex Twin.

 

True visionaries...and who cares if most of the stuff they do now is a little dodgy (Cauty's controversial Blacksmoke, Drummond's self-indulgent 17)...

 

....... so we can blame the klf for all these cheesy samples dance acts now use? :lol: THE bast*rdS! :lol:

 

I loved the klf and at the time i remember saving my pocket money for ages to buy the white room album which was so worth buying, i later bough tthe same album on cd when i started working and its an album i very much enjoy to this day

I've A History of the Jams, aka The Timelords, on cassette.....mainly for 'Doctorin the Tardis'....me being a fan of Doctor Who....

....... so we can blame the klf for all these cheesy samples dance acts now use? :lol: THE bast*rdS! :lol:

 

I guess so! Either them or Pop Will Eat Itself. Mind you, I don't think either would go so far as to rape Elton John's Tiny Dancer in the way that record earlier this year did...even they had standards!