...uh huh uh huh.... =D



(dont forget to click on the picture)

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Still have that CD.

KLF! aha aha aha aha

I recall hearing at some point in the past that KLF was going to rock me. Of course later on I heard that James Brown was dead, which as it turns out was an exceedingly premature proclamation.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

funny story about "the KLF" going to rock you. in one of their big/gest songs, "what time is love" i believe, the KLF sampled some washed up old diva named "Wanda dee" for their "gonna make you sweat" sample. if you ever read the story of "1987: what the fuck is going on?" (the justified ancients of Mu-Mu's first album) they ended up sampling the shit out of a lot of stuff and not really attributing credit for anything, so that album got recalled, 100k copies of it destroyed, and it ended up basically being the impetus to create some of the first sample/sampling laws.

still tho, after all that when they became the KLF and they did "what time is love" they never really gave wanda dee credit/$$$ for the "gonna make you sweat" sample.... so as time went on and her career went more and more shit (i mean, have >YOU< ever heard of wanda dee before? exactly!) she ended up suing them in the 90s/00s or something, you know well after they were retired. welp one court case led to another thing and in the end she ended up getting the rights to the name "the KLF" (note that the press release is from K2 plant hire, and they're planning a comeback as the JAMs.... i would tender a guess as to this being the reason why)

AHEM. so yeah fat ol washed up wanda dee got the rights to the KLF name and ended up playing shows as "the KLF" which leads me to believe that she likely bamboozled promoters/venues into thinking they were getting, you know, the actual KLF and not some washed up old fat diva..... but instead they got the latter, WTF?!s were had, and now notice how their official comeback mentions nothing of the KLF because they're coming back as the JAMs; they'd have to either get permission from wanda dee and/or totally cut her in to anything they do as the KLF if their comeback was officially as "the KLF" --- that's the power of litigation for you!

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uhhh dude, you know that picture i put in the OP is from the UK newspaper where they took out a half/page ad to declare that they're coming back, right?

plus remember how the KLF retired from the music industry? what about the "fuck the millennium EP" and the k sera sera 12"/single and all that? technically listed under "the K foundation" or something, but again, for the reasons i listed in my last post before this one.

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ok i'm feeling awfully quixotic, so in the spirit of helping spread the word about the KLF (a band who back in my teenage years i used to say "i'd love them way more if their music was actually good" -- you know, back when i was a sophomore/junior in high school making a JAMs "it's grim up north" shirt for myself in industrial tech class) i'm going to go and link a bunch of "the good stuff" worth listening to, which of course is like 90%ish not-KLF (aka it's the JAMs or some other name/one-off-side-project)

let's start with the first incarnation of the KLF, the justified ancients of mu-mu aka the JAMs (and anyone who says JAMMs are idiots cuz just look at the JAMs logo on "it's grim up north" and you can see how they spell it)

the JAMs - all you need is love

when i talked about the sample laws being established by "1987: what the fuck is going on?" --- the samantha fox sampling in here ("i wanna touch your body") is pretty damn straightforward and flagrant, but hey at least they subverted it and made a point with the song (can you tell they're a big influence to me? i always said "i dont make music; i vandalize it" -- i was totally apeing these guys)

the JAMs - the candystore

this one is off of their 2nd EP, who killed the jams.... but it's just a nice song. do you think they paid jimi hendrix for the flagrant sample? =P you also start getting a taste of bill drummond's spoken-word/poetry stuff.

the JAMs - whitney joins the jams

oooh yeah see why they went and invented those sample laws? whitney is, of course, whitney houston =D

(only 3 URLs per post so bear with me here)

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the JAMs - rockman rock (parts 2 and 3)

i love this song, but i reckon this is probably where i'd start deviating into my own niche of personal tastes as opposed to the rest of the board. but hey, if you like lyrics like "we came from atlantis on a [hospital shelf?] / with our 808s.... they programmed themselves! / rockman rock you showed us the way / we opened up our gyros and we threw them away / sample city is where we belong / hold on kingboy it won't be long /" then there's hope for you yet!

the JAMs - the queen and i

did i mention that when the JAMs formed they were supposed to be a rap group? well here's how they went about that part (even tho "don't take five / take what you want" is more of a pure rap song, to go with the sample laws stuff this song... well another flagrant one. also, btw, british/scottish/UK people can't rap. trust me on this one.

the KLF - kylie said to jason

bill drummond later said that this song was the KLF doing their best pet shop boys impression.... go figure it's a good song! =P

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the timelords - doctorin the tardis

what do you get when you do a "mashup" of gary glitter's rock and roll part 2 with the doctor who theme song? a #1 hit in england! but what separates the KLF from the rest is that upon getting a #1 hit they promptly went and released a book called "THE MANUAL: Or How to have a #1 the easy way" --- they even guaranteed that if you used the formula for a #1 song in their book and got it to #1 they'd take you on a trip to madagascar or something. one [australian?] group later claimed to get a #1 by following the manual, but idk if 1) it as proven. or 2) if the trip went down.

disco2000 - i gotta CD

at some point in the late/ish 80s here was a KLF side project called disco2000 where jimmy cauty and bill drummond wanted to get their women involved with their music. the resulting "side project" was called disco2000, and hey, i love this stupid song enough to want the 12" --- the guitars in there carbon dae this to circa 86-88 methinks (just like the ???LOLWTF??? guitar solo in alisha's "baby talk" =)

the KLF - go to sleep

probably my favorite KLF song, off of the unreleased ORIGINAL VERSION of the white room (soundtrack) --- man that album is hands down the best KLF album ever so of course it didnt get released. duh. the synths for this got recycled into "wichita lineman was a song i used to know" or something off of their "Ambient masterstoke" (insomuchas jimmy cauty was mental abou recording the whole LP in one take so it took awhile to get it right) "Chill Out' --- ambient music can blow me so i linked this one =P

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the KLF - church of the KLF

another song off of that unreleased original version of the white room. "quite good" IMO

the JAMs - burn the bastards

another song off of their 2nd EP "who killed the JAMs?" -- i think this was the first ever song to have the "mu-mu.... mu-mu.... mu-mu..." samples you'd later hear in KLF songs like "what time is love?"

the JAMs - justified and ancient (feat tammy wynette)

yeap, they got tammy wynette, aka miss "stand by your man" to do a cut with them. the music video is fun.... kind of a mess tho, so let's just thank the law of fives for making this all impossible, eh?

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and hey one more for the road... let's link the rest of their "Stadium House Trilogy" (1st one = what time is love? aka the one you all knw --- uh huh, uh huh)

the KLF - last train to trancentral

eagle eyed people here might remember that "trancentral" was my original location for y first 4-5yrs of posting here. thats what they called their [music recording] studio. c'est la me, no?

the KLF - 3am eternal

third and final part of the stadium house trilogy.

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