That's what I was thinking, yeah. It's "woo-woo" up till then, then for the last chorus it's "MU MU!".
― everything, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 00:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Has anyone got/heard "Edits", the 'legal' version of the LP? So short, it retailed at the price of a 12" single + came with instructions on how to recreate the original record. I could never decide if this was classic or dud.― Jeff W, Sunday, February 24, 2002
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-lDwwW7Ql0
― naus, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 09:18 (fourteen years ago) link
+ the instructions themselves:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/woolner/3339270412/sizes/o/
― naus, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 09:21 (fourteen years ago) link
consider me 100% rocked.
― ABSOLUTELY NO SCRUBS WHATSOEVER, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 11:23 (fourteen years ago) link
you could use a Roland 808 drum machine (well cheap
lol1987 - you know what's gone (up in price dramatically)
― an executive by day and a wild man by night (snoball), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 11:34 (fourteen years ago) link
What about the DR550 Boss Dr Rhythm?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 11:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Mark 1 or Mark 2?
― an executive by day and a wild man by night (snoball), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 12:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Mark 1.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 12:53 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erm6WijDfYc^^^ this is the interview (from the Antoine-why-does-he-have-his-hands-behind-his-back-all-the-time-de-Caunes programme Rapido {"Rapeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedo"}) that had me going to a bookstore J R Hartley style to get a copy. Luckily this was in 1998 a month before it was republished - it wasn't until I read Drummond's foreword to the new edition that I found out how difficult to get hold of it was.
― an executive by day and a wild man by night (snoball), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 13:21 (fourteen years ago) link
(btw the interview is from 1991, I only saw it in 1998 because I was watching through the bits of old programmes recorded on an old videotape)
― an executive by day and a wild man by night (snoball), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link
to get a copy
I meant "to get a copy of The Manual"
― an executive by day and a wild man by night (snoball), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 13:38 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost - I was talking 'bout the international top 10 single "3 a.m. Eternal (Live at the S.S.L.)" version, which hit in January 1991 and it still gonna rock you -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaQW7e8DfKY
― Fahrvergnügent (herb albert), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 14:15 (fourteen years ago) link
isn't this available to read online now via tom robinsons website ? i'm sure he used to have the whole book as a notepad txt file somewhere ..
― mark e, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 14:52 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, he was bootlegging it the whole time the legit reprint was out. glad to be an INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THIEF WITH A WIFE AND KIDS, morelike
― Audrey Wetherspoons (sic), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I have a PDF of The Manual. I'm sure it's out there.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link
yes
yes they did indeed
― Karen Tregaskin, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.kirps.com/web/main/resources/music/themanual/
― guammls (QE II), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
ouch was that not cool to post that link? i was under the impression it's been out-of-print for ages or whatever
― guammls (QE II), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link
it was out of print from about 1989 to 1998, then in print for about ten years, now out again - the reprint is currently going for 90 quid 2nd hand on Amazon
― Audrey Wetherspoons (sic), Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:36 (fourteen years ago) link
The original was an A4 size, the reprint (with an additional chapter) was A3.
(I have an orig)
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 January 2010 08:15 (fourteen years ago) link
you mean a5 no? as in smaller than the original? i've seen copies of it but only ever read the .txt file myself...
― jabba hands, Thursday, 7 January 2010 08:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry, yes. I meant to type that. Must consentrate.
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 January 2010 08:57 (fourteen years ago) link
the reprint was smaller than standard paperback, WAY smaller than A5
― Audrey Wetherspoons (sic), Thursday, 7 January 2010 11:23 (fourteen years ago) link
105mm x 148mm = A6
― an executive by day and a wild man by night (snoball), Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I think 3AM Eternal came first though - the first version came out in 89, The Power was a hit in 1990.
Yeah, but the original 1989 version of "3AM Eternal" is totally different from the 1990 "Live at the S.S.L." remix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr7fgFrzTck
It's the "Live at the S.S.L." remix that sounds like "The Power". Don't know which one came out first though, as they're both 1990 releases.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 7 January 2010 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
lols at those worrying about the online intellectual property rights of the Kopyright Liberation Front.
― Fahrvergnügent (herb albert), Thursday, 7 January 2010 14:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't much care about intellectual property rights, but I love "The Power" (and Snap! in general), so it'd be funny if those Revered Artists of The KLF were actually biting the Cheesy Eurodisco producers of Snap!
― Tuomas, Thursday, 7 January 2010 14:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm not sure if it'd be that funny, seeing as they also bite, ooh, I dunno, Gary Glitter?
― emil.y, Thursday, 7 January 2010 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure one of the Manual's steps to having a #1 invloves going to clubs and sampling the very latest rhythms from Black American dance music, so biting then-current "cheesy" music was certainly part of their MO.
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Thursday, 7 January 2010 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
OK, I can confirm that "The Power" came after.
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 January 2010 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link
How do you know?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 7 January 2010 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I worked in a nightclub in Turkey, and we used "The Power" oft.
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 January 2010 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Hang on, you're talking about some specific part of the "Stadium" remixes? OK, those came after.
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 January 2010 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, like I said above: the original "3AM Eternal" came out before "The Power", but that one sounds way different. It's the later remix that sounds like it's biting "The Power".
― Tuomas, Thursday, 7 January 2010 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, if you mean the "Ancients of MuMu" chant, that was on the 1987 album.
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 January 2010 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Tuomas is referring to combination of rapping, diva vocal interjections and "guitar" synth sounds common to the 3AM Eternal (Live at SSL) version, Snap! "The POwer" and C&C Music Factory "Gonna Make You Sweat" all released in 1990.
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Thursday, 7 January 2010 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Mastermind - 2012/2013
Questions are put to four more contenders. Subjects are the novels of William Golding, the Soviet Union under Stalin 1924-1939, The KLF and When the Boat Comes In.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01pf0sq/Mastermind_2012_2013_Episode_16/
― jed_, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 00:09 (eleven years ago) link
or just the klf bit for non uk people -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGLwRNmI5Mw
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 00:10 (eleven years ago) link
I got 11 out of 13 iirc
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 00:35 (eleven years ago) link
About 1/4 of the way through this and it's pretty good thus far: http://www.amazon.com/KLF-Chaos-Magic-Music-ebook/dp/B00ABFHOS0/Ties together all sorts of stuff about Discordian-ism (?) that I didn't know. It's practically a philosophy book thus far.
― john. a resident of chicago., Wednesday, 12 December 2012 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
Bruno Brookes lol!
― piscesx, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 03:00 (eleven years ago) link
'could have been either'
― Mark G, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 10:37 (eleven years ago) link
When I listen to "What Time is Love?" I get pumped, and I kind of want to scream MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!
― boy_slayer, Sunday, 16 December 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
a whole bunch of rare klf has hit the digital stores.. white room soundtrack, chill out, space, a couple of remix & offcuts things.
― dutch tl;drs (electricsound), Thursday, 17 January 2013 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
they're bootlegs
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Thursday, 17 January 2013 02:13 (eleven years ago) link
[chill out is still legal in the US, but the other things are mostly CDs compiled on the mailing list in the 90s by ƃǝʃʇooq Ɫ861 pǝsɹǝʌǝɹ-sǝpıs ǝɥʇ ǝuop pɐɥ ʇɐɥʇ ǝpnp ǝɥʇ]
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Thursday, 17 January 2013 02:16 (eleven years ago) link
interesting
worth having anyway?
― dutch tl;drs (electricsound), Thursday, 17 January 2013 09:46 (eleven years ago) link
the sound quality of some of these is very dubious - obviously recorded without much love form vinyl. the "lost sound of mu" comps seem very un-KLF concepts. time will tell if these are legit.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 17 January 2013 13:45 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, it's on Spotify.
The "actual" White Room album is non-streamable, but the "Original Motion Soundtrack" is streamable.
― Mark G, Thursday, 17 January 2013 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
Only just heard about this. Astounding! But stirmonster's caveats make me wonder...
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 January 2013 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
i have from heard from someone who has knowledge of such things that this is a genuine attempt at an xmas #1 and does involve c&d.which, despite the pretty awful track, is all fine and dandy,but how is this possible via a free download that's available on their website !?
― mark e, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 16:20 (four months ago) link
“their website”: https://klfkare.com/vibe.php
― bae (sic), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 17:19 (four months ago) link
yeah, exactly.despite assurances from folks closer to the situation than me, i am somewhat dubious.
― mark e, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 17:27 (four months ago) link
It’s no worse than Jimmy’s last attempt at a Christmas #1 tbh
― bae (sic), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:32 (four months ago) link