All You Need Is Love.

Comments Off | Posted: June 12th, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Some reasons why I love The KLF, courtesy of Wikipedia:

• The book and film Watch The K Foundation Burn A Million Quid.
• The album 1987: What The Fuck Is Going On?, which I have on a cassette dub that is probably way, way beyond repair. In particular, I absolutely adore this bit about “1987: The JAMS 45 Edits:”
  

  Following the enforced deletion of the 1987 album, the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu promptly released an edited version as a 12″ single, unauthorised samples substituted by periods of silence. The edited single was offered as a “reward” to anyone who returned a copy of the LP to The JAMs’ PO Box. The sleevenotes to “1987: The JAMs 45 Edits” explain to the purchaser in a rather tongue-in-cheek fashion how to recreate the original album for themselves:

  This record is a version of our now deleted and illegal LP ’1987, What The Fuck Is Going On?’ with all of the copyright infringing ‘samples’ edited out. As this leaves less than 25 minutes of music we are able to sell it as a 12-inch 45.

  If you follow the instructions below you will, after some practice, be able to simulate the sound of our original record. To do this you will need 3 wired-up record decks, a pile of selected discs, one t.v. set and a video machine loaded with a cassette of edited highlights of last weeks ‘Top of the Pops’. Deck one is to play this record on, the other two are to scratch in the missing parts using the selected records. For added authentic effect you could use a Roland 808 drum machine (well cheap and what we used in the original recordings) to play along behind your scratching.

• “The KLF have now left the music business.”
• The “acid house protest song” “Fuck The Millennium,” wherein KLF founders Drummond and Cauty pillage their own back catalogue and shout over it.

  Part of the promotion effort was this advertisement.

  The whole thing was genius.

• The One World Orchestra featuring The Massed Pipes and Drums of the Childrens Free Revolutionary Volunteer Guards present “The Magnificent,” a drum ‘n’ bass version of the theme to The Magnificent Seven on The Help Album.
• They recorded a brilliant song with Tammy Wynette.
• Space, one of my three or four favorite ambient records ever.
• One of the remaining two or three? Chill Out.
• They manage to make me forget that Gary Glitter likes children a little too much when I hear “Doctorin’ The Tardis.”

Bonus Link courtesy of Gawker:
Did the KLF create Pete Doherty?

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