From: owner-klf-digest@lists.xmission.com (klf-digest) To: klf-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: klf-digest V2 #119 Reply-To: klf-digest Sender: owner-klf-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-klf-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes klf-digest Thursday, July 23 1998 Volume 02 : Number 119 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 20:33:58 +0200 From: Michael Subject: (klf) Lord of the rings... Hi peoplez, today I was very surprised when I had a look at a merchandise-catalogue from the german mailorder company EMP... They sell the "Lord of the Rings Poster" which Jimmy painted years ago for just 11,99 DM ;-)) If you are interested mail me privately and I can give you the adress where you can order the poster.... cheers, Michael ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> ***K THE MILLENNIUM - WE WANT IT NOW << http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/1353/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info klf" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email klf@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # KLF discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?klf ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 00:23:22 +0000 From: "Stuart Young" Subject: (klf) Q reviews I don't think this has been mentioned before on here ... Q, the long running UK music monthly, has put their entire collection of album reviews online in a searchable database ... http://www.qonline.co.uk/_reviews/database.htm ... it says 10 years worth, but I thought Q started 85 or 86, and there are a couple of 1986 releases by our heroes below (though they could be re-releases reviewed later). Anyway whatever the start date, this is a damn fine resource and all the K-related reviews appear below. No date is given for the reviews print appearance, but it won't be too difficult to guess ... Brilliant Kiss The Lips Of Life Brilliant's founder, a man named Youth, has made good his vow to escape the scowling gloom of his last group Killing Joke. His new trio Brilliant make splashy, upbeat dance music that's light years away from all that. Trouble is, Brilliant are slaves to another rhythm: the pitiless machine-beat of the modern disco floor. If they threw in the odd funeral march it would come as light relief. Singer June Montana adds little in the way of emotional range; nor is songwriting among their more obvious assets. The best track is the least typical; a relaxed reggae skank through James Brown's singalongasexist anthem It's A Man's Man's Man's World. Q Rating: ** Reviewed By: Paul Du Noyer Bill Drummond The Man Having steered the early careers of Echo & The Bunnymen and The Teardrop Explodes, rock manager Bill Drummond has lately felt the need to make his own vinyl statement to the world. This he does via Man, a curious and hugely enjoyable set that trips from Tennessee twang to fake Scottish folk music to brash little pop tunes. Its lyrics escapsulate his bizarrely sage ruminations on life, marriage, rock'n'roll and the sundry pop stars whose destinies have entwined with his own. This record has saxophones, pedal steel guitars, a poem read out by Bill Drummond's ecclesiastical Dad (Such A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation) and many lines as quotable as I believe in dirty gurrls! - to be recited, loudly, in an industrial-strength Galloway accent. We could stand a lot more of this sort of thing. Q Rating: **** Reviewed By: Paul Du Noyer The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu 1987 (What The Fuck's Going On?) When their single All You Need Is Love first burst upon a stagnant scene a few months back it seemed an inspired moment of pure wildness. Here were Red Clydeside beatbox rappers pointing a finger at society, putting their record together from samples pirated directly from other people's recordings, while at the same time crossing almost all contemporary music tribal boundaries by including everyone from Samantha Fox to The MC 5 among their victims. Not even the subsequent discovery that The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu (a name appropriately stolen from a bunch of time-travelling anarchists in Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminati trilogy) were merely Bill Drummond (ex Teardrop Explodes and Echo & The Bunnymen manager) and Jim from Brilliant could diminish the power of this extraordinary record. Quite an act to follow, then, and perhaps predictably this follow-up LP is a disappointment. Here there are simply too few ideas being spread too thin. This is partly because the concept of sampling seems have run away with the duo and some of the inclusions (tube train noises, football results being read) seem pointless and leave the impression of a random hotchpotch. It's also because some of their own songs are allowed to drag on for far too long, and because their rapping (while happily free of sexist bragging) still sounds too apologetically British-despite being mostly in a fearsomely broad West of Scotland accent-and lacks the necessary bravado to be entirely convincing; likewise their use of the beatbox is altogether weedy. This is not to say that the LP is a wash-out. There are some wickedly amusing ideas and moments of pure poetry in the lyrics while some of the musical juxtapositions (such as the scratched rhythm under Abba's Dancing Queen or the introductory chords of Stevie Wonder's Superstition being followed by Julie Andrews singing The Lonely Goatherd) are both killingly funny and strong enough to stand repeated listenings. In the final analysis, though, it has to be said that all the magic moments on this record (whether it's The Monkees' Last Train To Clarksville, Dave Brubeck's Take Five or Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love) have come from other people's work. The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu's own ideas are valid enough but to make them work properly they need to restrain their enthusiasm and weed out the weak ideas from the strong. It's one thing to shoplift but altogether another to set up in business for yourself. Q Rating: *** Reviewed By: Ian Cranna The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu Shag Times The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu are King Boy D. (Bill Drummond, doyen of the Liverpool scene that spawned the Bunnymen, Teardrop etc) and Rockman Rock (formerly of Brilliant), and Shag Times would be their greatest hits if the full force of the law hadn't already decided they probably belonged to the original artists. Indeed, the track Don't Take Five (Take What You Want) last saw action on the album 1987 (What The Fuck's Goin On?), so swiftly suppressed by the Mechanical Copyright Protection Society that rare copies now change hands at silly prices. Indeed, the queue of artists whose most memorable moments have been glued onto a beatbox backing-track stretches all the way back to the 19th century. Apart from the usual sources-AC/DC, James Brown-this album of already released numbers (plus a remix companion disc) creates some unlikely bedfellows. Wagner and Pet Clarke? Jimi Hendrix and Dave Brubeck? Whitney Houston and so on, ad absurdum. Though hardly new as a technique-Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five's Adventures On The Wheels Of Steel kicked off the '80s with a bricolage of Queen, Blondie and Chic-JAMMs' buccaneering attitude to the laws of creative ownership helped re-open the whole debate and, what often seems neglected in the furore, made a sequence of very amusing juxtapositions, of which The Timelords 'Doctorin' The Tardis (included here) is the tamest. A great party album. Q Rating: **** Reviewed By: Mat Snow The Klf The What Time Is Love Story The continuing story of Mad Bill Drummond: Part 4. Having abandoned sampling as too lawsuit-inducing and ranting in a broad Scottish accent as being of slightly too limited appeal, our hero and his faithful sidekick Jim Cauty have turned their attention to the club scene. Earlier this year they put out a whirling house stomper called What Time Is Love-not so much of a tune but a good beat and very popular in the clubs. Since then, according to the press release, said acid-influenced stomper has spawned no fewer than 18 cover versions all across Europe. (Pause for suspension of disbelief.) This LP collects the original, a live version, plus various house, Italian and Belgian-style tributes, of which one wonders why all the vocalists sound so alike (and British, even when praising Allah), and wouldn't it be a good scam if you released 18 differing versions scattered across Europe? On the other hand, seeing as the whole thing sells for under a fiver, you could just enter into the spirit of it all and just have fun with some rather good dance music. What will Mad Bill Drummond get up to next? Stay tuned ... Q Rating: *** Reviewed By: Ian Cranna The Klf Chill Out Need something to unwind to on the way home from your all night rave? Bill Drummond has just the job. In complete contrast to the pounding dance beats of What Time Is Love?, here's sampling of an entirely different kind as Chill Out brings you an impressionist soundtrack to an overnight drive through the Deep South of America. With atmospheric sound effects like chirping crickets or hooting diesel trains, the spartan but melodic electronic strains ease gently through wide open spaces, ebbing and flowing like a cross between the extended choral electronics of early OMD and the inspired visions of David Byrne in his Catherine Wheel or Bush Of Ghosts periods but minus the rhythm section. A radio intervenes periodically to introduce further local colour in the form of brief snatches of DJs, the inevitable mad evangelist and a soul brother soul brother selling the gambling delights of Atlantic City as if his life depended on it, along with the sounds of steel guitars, Elvis Presley's In The Ghetto, Fleetwood Mac's Albatross and Oh Well Part 2. Both imaginative in itself and successful in inducing a blissed out mood of peace and relaxation (at least at night), this is ambient music for city people who don't like ambient music, and it's fine. But why does it only come on crackly old vinyl? Q Rating: *** Reviewed By: Ian Cranna The Klf The White Room The KLF (alias The Timelords, The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu and The JAMS) are a law unto themselves. Former Brilliant guitarist Jimmy Cauty and pop supremo (Teardrop, Bunnymen manager, solo artist) Bill Drummond have consistently challenged the status quo and defied categorisation over the years. Thus it comes as some surprise that by their own standards, White Room appears to be little more than a collection of remixed tracks from their recent past. Indeed, this would indicate that its release was little more than a cash-in on their new-found success (masquerading as the soundtrack to a film which is still pounds sterling1 million away from completion), were it not for the strikingly imaginative way in which the duo approached their task. From the awesome vitality of What Time Is Love and 3AM Eternal, the album goes through a seamless transition of pace to the moody guitar twang incorporated on Build A Fire, ending on the gentle ragga-tinged No More Tears. Such is its strength that there is no room for the supremely wry, flop single Kylie Said To Jason. A more subtle form of subterfuge than before, this LP will appeal to recent converts and hard core fans alike. Their time has come. Q Rating: **** Reviewed By: Iestyn George The Klf Chill Out Ahead of their time: hardly an under-used description of Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond, but, in the case of Chill Out, their hands-on 1990 foray into ambient, an unavoidably apt one. All agit-disco hardware is stowed in favour of tinkling chimes, Aboriginal chants, undulating synth and joyfully undisguised BBC-style sound effects (trains, traffic, sheep, crickets). No, they didn't invent the techniques, nor subvert them really, but the fact that Chill Out was seen largely as a urinary extraction exercise at the time when such sound-painting now shapes young careers lends poignancy to its more balmy yet knowing moments (the recurring liquidised country motif on Madrugada Eterna and Elvis On The Radio, Steel Guitar In My Soul; the cheeky lifts of Albatross and Stranger On The Shore elsewhere). Pity The KLF don't make 'em like this (or anything) any more. Q Rating: **** Reviewed By: Andrew Collins .. . . . . Stuart Andrew Young will emigrate to New Zealand on September the twelth 1998 home page and CV http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~stuey/ .. . . . . stuey@easynet.co.uk # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info klf" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email klf@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # KLF discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?klf ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 13:45:48 +0200 (MEST) From: Oliver Paukstadt Subject: (klf) KLF in TV-Movie HY HY TV-Movie, a german paper for TV-schedule printed a top10 about things, you should know about money. On point 5 there was mentioned, that 1 million pound are buring around 63 Minutes. This was found out by Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty from KLF on 23. August 1994. This TOP10 is available online, too: http://www.tvmovie.de/aktuelles_heft/1598/10dinge/geld.html (in German) BYtE Oli +++the jungle near manaos - the amazonas full of piranhas - the birds of++ +++paradies - disapear into the green desert - for years an years we're+++ +++hungry and desperate - for the only thing worth living - the E> Subject: Re: (klf) Discography Hello everybody, >The discography asks: > > 7": 1991 GE (Blow Up/Intercord; INT 110.912) [red vinyl?] > >I answer: > > No! ;) > >-- >Torsten Pattberg Well if we`re talking about 3 a.m. , the answer should be "YES" as I`ve got the 3 a.m. red 7" from Blow up. - david ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info klf" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email klf@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # KLF discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?klf ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 07:59:29 PDT From: "David Lindgren" Subject: (klf) Swedes only ( esp. JHedb.) Tja, jag har funderat ett tag på det här med tröjorna, och jag har kommit på nåt jävligt bra... Svart kortärmad skjorta Vit inringad `pyramid blaster` ( på vänstra delen av bröstet) (och nu det bästa av allt... jag ryser när jag tänker på det....) vit text: .....THEY DIDN`T ROCK......THEY RAVED.....(högt på ryggen) Nå`n på MTV sa så när han kommenterade `The rites of mu` filmen Möjligtvis med `den sönderslitna KLF communication lpn` litet på ryggen, `upp mot nacken` hållet. Är det svårt att förstå vad jag menar förklarar jag gärna, jag vill att det vi planera att tryck blir så här... vad tycks? - david ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info klf" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email klf@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # KLF discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?klf ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 18:35:41 +0200 (METDST) From: Bert Klauninger Subject: (klf) Off-topic: Record Stores in London Hi! I'm going to London on Saturday (Yippie!), and I'm looking for some record stores where you can buy rare records/klf stuff. Is there such a list on the web (cause I remember this question has occurred here a few times before)? Thanx very much, Bert K "by the way... how much ist the fish?" (Scooter) ****************************************************** * Bert Klauninger - Student of Computer Science at * * the Technical University of Vienna * ****************************************************** * Mail: e9425541@stud1.tuwien.ac.at * * HP: http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9425541/ace.html * ****************************************************** # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info klf" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email klf@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # KLF discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?klf ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 10:08:00 +0100 From: M/A/D Subject: (klf) The Millennium Network We HAD planned to launch the Millennium Network on the 21st July, 1998. Various things have been happening in that time that are causing a delay and it is only fair if we give you and idea of when it will happen. 1) Gimpo's a dad now and getting any site material from him is, at the moment, less important than is new daughter. 2) M/A/D is moving house. Yes, that's right, I'm off to the big city of London - going back 'home'. 3) The M25 spin showing is being worked upon. 4) There is no 4. 5) We're all waiting for a blonde with big tits to tell us about her knickers. Alot of these things were unavoidable so we'll be launching the site on 10/8/98. You can be sure it will be worth the wait so make sure you all come back and see us (especially Callaghan at Appearing). See you soon, M/A/D # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info klf" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email klf@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # KLF discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?klf ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 11:02:52 PDT From: "m u t e" Subject: (klf) The Millennium Network This might have been mentioned already, but the opening of www.t2k.net has been delayed by a few weeks. Gimpo's recent parentage is claimed as a factor, which is fair (although all his proposed content for the old site never turned up as far as I recall, and no such excuse was given then...probably just too busy looking for "cwack!"). Cheers, Mute. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info klf" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email klf@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # KLF discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?klf ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:34:47 +0100 From: "Stephen Kennedy" Subject: Re: (klf) Q reviews Thanks for the post, it was most interesting. Supposedly Microsoft Music Central features all the Q album reviews, but some of those are missing! (Still worth snapping up a copy though, now its sadly been discontinued). Steve # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info klf" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email klf@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # KLF discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?klf ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 22:01:39 +0100 From: M/A/D Subject: (klf) Re:Millennium Network We're also VERY busy and don't want to put half a site up this time. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info klf" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email klf@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # KLF discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?klf ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 15:14:51 +0200 From: T.Pattberg@t-online.de (Torsten Pattberg) Subject: Re: (klf) Discography David Lindgren wrote: > >The discography asks: > > > > 7": 1991 GE (Blow Up/Intercord; INT 110.912) [red vinyl?] > Well if we`re talking about 3 a.m. , the answer should be "YES" as I`ve > got the 3 a.m. red 7" from Blow up. > > - david So we have two different versions, because mine is black. One more question to the discography: The KLF: Stadium House (The Trilogy) [1 Jul 1991] video ep VHS: 1991 UK (Picture Music International; MVR 9900983) I have got this, but the cover contains the words "Freigegeben ohne Alterbeschränkung", it is no sticker! So do we also have a VHS: 1991 GE (Picture Music International; MVR 9900983) version or what? - -- Torsten Pattberg # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info klf" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email klf@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # KLF discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?klf ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 15:52:25 +0200 From: Johan Hedberg Subject: Re: (klf) Swedes only ( esp. JHedb.) Sorry all of you non-swedes. We're going to stop sending swedish mails to the list as soon as all the swedes that's interested in our proposal has answered. =46or all of you that still wants to know what the hell we're talking about: Clothes. >Tja, jag har funderat ett tag p=C2 det h=94r med tr=96jorna, >och jag har kommit p=C2 n=C2t j=94vligt bra... (Det kan v=E4l aldrig vara en svart kort=E4rmad skjorta?) =3D) >Svart kort=94rmad skjorta (Vad var det jag sa...?) >Vit inringad `pyramid blaster` ( p=C2 v=94nstra delen av br=96stet) > >(och nu det b=94sta av allt... jag ryser n=94r jag t=94nker p=C2 det....) >vit text: .....THEY DIDN`T ROCK......THEY RAVED.....(h=96gt p=C2 ryggen) =46=F6rl=E5t min uppriktighet, men jag tror inte det blir s=E5 bra. Det= luktar lite f=F6r mycket 80-tal. >N=C2`n p=C2 MTV sa s=C2 n=94r han kommenterade `The rites of mu` filmen > >M=96jligtvis med `den s=96nderslitna KLF communication lpn` litet p=C2 rygg= en, >`upp mot nacken` h=C2llet. > > > >=9Fr det sv=C2rt att f=96rst=C2 vad jag menar f=96rklarar jag g=94rna, jag= vill att >det vi planera att tryck blir s=C2 h=94r... M=E5ste s=E4ga att det =E4r sk=F6nt att n=E5gon har ett konkret f=F6rslag= och inte bara en id=E9, =E4ven om jag inte inst=E4mmer p=E5 alla s=E4tt... Kan vi f=F6rs=F6ka att skicka de h=E4r mailen utanf=F6r listan i forts=E4ttn= ingen? Jag tror att vi har f=E5tt svar fr=E5n alla som =E4r intresserade vid det h= =E4r laget (annars =E4r det bara att ni som inte sagt n=E5got =E4n skickar ett intresse-mail till mig) Mvh Johan Hedberg AB Upsala Nya Tidning E-mail: Johan.Hedberg@unt.se Johan Hedberg Fax: 018 - 10 97 83 UNT Fredag Tel: 018 - 17 03 46 Box 36 Mobil: 070 - 473 15 75 751 03 Uppsala =09 # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info klf" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email klf@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # KLF discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?klf ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 11:35:32 -0700 From: "Whiggy" Subject: (klf) Mike Duttons CDs Arrived! This is not a hoax. Let this be a message of hope to all of you who have given up on ever seeing your CDs (like I had until today). After almost 4 months, and $138 (Canadian), my 3 CDs are finally here, in Vancouver, and if I've gotten mine one can only hope the rest should be arriving shortly. So, now I am left looking back wondering if it was all worth it. HELL NO! I've never paid so much for CDs and had to wait so long in my life. If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't! I'm never buying anything from Mike Dutton again, and I would recommend to anyone out there who's thinking about buying something from him, DON'T! It's not worth it. There are other (better) ways to obtain these tracks. This has been a public service message. Whiggy # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info klf" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email klf@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # KLF discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?klf ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 13:51:05 +0200 From: Thomas Huck <101.68417@germanynet.de> Subject: (klf) T-shirts Hi to all the people out there ! My name is Thomas and I'am new on the list. I just want to know where I can get KLF T-Shirt's in Germany. Anybody knows ? Thanks! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info klf" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email klf@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # KLF discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?klf ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 16:41:13 -0400 From: tim richards <100720.1557@compuserve.com> Subject: (klf) Discography Message text written by Torsten Pattberg >7": 1991 GE (Blow Up/Intercord; INT 110.912) [red vinyl?]< released commercially on black vinyl with special limited edition run on red quite nice too : ) in the spirit of mu liberate and communicate tim # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info klf" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email klf@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # KLF discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?klf ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 21:12:04 -0700 From: "Whiggy" Subject: Re: (klf) Mike Duttons CDs Arrived! > SO when were the CDs posted? I can't read the post mark. It's too faint and it had a sticker over it, so part of it tore away. As for the CDs themselves, they're of decent quality. You can tell the WROST came from a tape. The quality isn't superb but it's certainly better then the mp3s that are available. Which reminds me, I'll update them if the proprietors of that page would like. ;) All in all, the CDs are alright, but definitely not worth the 46$ I paid. Whiggy # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info klf" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email klf@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # KLF discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?klf ------------------------------ End of klf-digest V2 #119 *************************