Let's Compile the Ultimate KLF/JAMS Mix

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I come to this party with Chill Out and Waiting For the Rites of Mu already in hand. Both very enjoyable, in a collage-y kind of way.

But I'm talking about making a comp of their pop singles, with the choicest mixes and the like. Fire away, people — and don't disappoint me.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 19 November 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

It's Grim Up North!

― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 November 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Doctorin' The Tardis
Burn The Beat

― donut christ (donut), Saturday, 20 November 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

(there is that History of the JAMS aka the KLF aka the Timelords CD which does a pretty good job of the earliest stuff)

― donut christ (donut), Saturday, 20 November 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

What Time Is Love
3 A.M. Eternal
Justified And Ancient (w/Tammy Wynette)

― donut christ (donut), Saturday, 20 November 2004 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

This is a difficult thing to compile. I've tried it a bunch of times and never settled on an 80 minutes tracklist. Stylistically, they're all over the place. Like, where do I put on Bill Drummond's "True to the Trail"? What about the "Saturn" section of Space? "Kylie Said to Jason"? I mean, it's important, but is it good? Which sections of Chill Out? Should I edit them myself? Fade-in? Fade-out? Argh.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 20 November 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

It will have to be a Hit CD and a non-Hit CD combination.

― donut christ (donut), Saturday, 20 November 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

The KLF "Elvis On The Radio, Steel Guitar In My Soul"

Blizzard King "In The Ghetto"

The One World Orchestra featuring the Massed Pipes & Drums of the Children's Free Revolutionary Volunteer Guards "The Magnificent"

Sine Qua Non.

And Not "I Want To 1-2-1 With U", or whatever it was called.

― Acme (acme), Saturday, 20 November 2004 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost

Sorry, was making same Hit Non Hit point, and twittering about the latter.

Actual Hits in the UK are [not including Brilliant etc]:

Doctorin' The Tardis

What Time Is Love? (Live At Trancentral)

3AM Eternal

Last Train To Trancentral

It's Grim Up North

Justified And Ancient

America: What Time Is Love?

Fuck The Millennium

You'd want all of these in 7|" version, both 'cause they're the versions the boys unleashed and 'cause they is boss. But didn't 12"s also count for the charts then? Or even now?

America No More my first choice of b-side.

― Acme (acme), Saturday, 20 November 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes! The poppier the better!

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Saturday, 20 November 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Just make sure you have the version of "3 A.M. Eternal" that starts "It's three aeemmm Threeeeee aaaeeeeemmmmmm.... It's three aeeeemmm.. eterrnalllllllllllllAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL." and NOT the version that goes "KLF is gonna rock you!" That one SUCKS!!

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 20 November 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh! And make sure you have the "Live From the Lost Continent" mix of "Last Train to Trancentral"!

Stupid dance bands making 100000 different versions of every song.

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 20 November 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Ur, doesn't the single version have both of these? Are you just talking about a version minus the rapping part?

― donut christ (donut), Sunday, 21 November 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

ah, missed the "starts" part... sorry

― donut christ (donut), Sunday, 21 November 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

(although I like the "KLF is gonna rock you" version.. the whole rap, everything.. but diff'rent strokes, diff'rent folks, etc.)

― donut christ (donut), Sunday, 21 November 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Question: is "Witchita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard" a Chill Out-exclusive? Or does it appear on another record as something else?

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Sunday, 21 November 2004 06:06 (twenty-one years ago)

What about the Abba-pillaged "The Queen & I" off 1987 What The Fuck Is Going On??

Or, for the into, "Hey! Hey! We're Not The Monkees". Geez, I still that first JAMMs LP!

― herbalizer12 (herbalizer12), Sunday, 21 November 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The Dave Brubeck/JB's-pillaged "Don't Take 5 (Take What You Want) from "1987".
The Wild Man Fischer/The Fall/Scott Walker/Stevie Wonder/"The Sound of Music"-pillaged "Next" from "1987". Damn that album's just too good. But not exactly "poppy". Well maybe in that it samples lots of pop like Abba and Samantha Fox.

― neil tacus (tacit), Sunday, 21 November 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

BTW, another plug for "Witchita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard"! I love that synth melody!

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 03:43 (twenty-one years ago)

the 'club mix' of 'madrugra eterna' would fit on a mix - also 'kylie said to jason'!

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 03:50 (twenty-one years ago)

If you want it poppy, then you've got to have Disco 2000's "One Love Nation" and "I Gotta CD", along with "Whitney Joins The Jams", "All You Need Is Love", "Downtown" and "The Queen & I".

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 08:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Madruga Eterna club mix? Where was that released? I don't think I've ever heard of that before!

― M Carty (mj_c), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.discogs.com/release/106611

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for the link!
"Notes: 20 copies only pressed."
So has anyone ever heard this record?

― M Carty (mj_c), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I own all 20. I've never listened to them.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I dl-ed it last week. I got most of it off Slsk and the rest from detritus.net. They have the whole thing on their site, but their bandwidth is limited.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops, sorry - I thought you referring to 1987 - I've never heard that other record.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I have 1987, but I bought it new in like, 1992 or something. The original issue had far more samples, I assume?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

no. That's prob a bootleg copy.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, there's a groove about two minutes into "Don't Take Five (Take What You Want)" (the "This is skee-ya" section) that positively smokes. What a fucked up record.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I own 1987 too. I too bought it about 1992 for a shiny pound in Fopp I think.

― KeithW (kmw), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought mine in unshiny Eastern Bloc. Can it really be a bootleg?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno; it doesn't look like one, although I wouldn't know what the original looked like, if different. I thought the original was deleted though.

― KeithW (kmw), Thursday, 25 November 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

That's why I bought it when I saw it. I think I paid a tenner. You and your cheapo Scottish ways.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 25 November 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha... Are you suggesting I should have offered them more money?

I bought it because it was semi-legendary and because it has a great title that largely echoed my thoughts of 1987.

― KeithW (kmw), Thursday, 25 November 2004 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Eastern Bloc probably had a "Madchester" tax on records back then too.

― KeithW (kmw), Thursday, 25 November 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I fought in the Baggy Tax riots, mate. Totally iniquitous.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 25 November 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree. Window tax was fairer. Thank God Damon Albarn killed baggy.

― KeithW (kmw), Thursday, 25 November 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

1987 bootlegs have red ink on the front cover, original releases are plain black and white. I think. The bootlegs were very probably pressed by Drummond & Cauty anyway (note the copy in window of ice-cream van on J&A sleeve) so feel free to think of it as a re-release.

1987 - The Edits is a different beast with "recreate your own version" sample-insertion instruction sheet.

― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 28 November 2004 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

If one were to compile a KLF best-of, what would be on it, leaving aside the ambient LPs? Mainly I'm interested in the singles, just because there are so many versions of them.

― with hidden noise, Thursday, 21 April 2011 14:39 (fifteen years ago)

that's tough...IMO Chill Out is their best work

I always loved the Gary Glitter/Doctorin' the Tardis mix...."do you love me? yeahhh!! do you wanna touch me!?" Given what happened to him it's all the funnier now

― frogbs, Thursday, 21 April 2011 14:51 (fifteen years ago)

They're crying out for a decent 2-CD singles/rarities compilation. 3AM Eternal is all time.

― Evil Eau (dog latin), Thursday, 21 April 2011 14:52 (fifteen years ago)

Last Train To Trancentral (The 1989 Pure Trance Original)

― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 21 April 2011 16:57 (fifteen years ago)

What Time Is Love? (The 1988 Pure Trance Original)

― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 21 April 2011 16:58 (fifteen years ago)

3 A.M Eternal (Live at S.S.L.)
3 A.M Eternal (Original Pure Trance) from KLF 005T

― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 21 April 2011 17:01 (fifteen years ago)

Doctorin The Tardis (Radio) - nobody needs more than 3mins of this shit

― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 21 April 2011 17:02 (fifteen years ago)

Justified and Ancient is harder, imo. It's my least favorite single but I like the most versions of it. Baffling. Anyway, I like the mellow album version, the Demo Mk II mix is maybe my favorite but the version i have is a bit muffled (from Lost Sounds of Mu Vol. 2), you really need the version with Tammy (Stand By The Jams) and the Let Them Eat Ice Cream mix is probably the least annoying of all mixes. It's really impossible to choose only one of these mixes since they're so different. I say leave it off the disc and include it with the download code :)

― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 21 April 2011 17:09 (fifteen years ago)

The ambient remix of "Last Train to Trancentral" on this is nice - and maybe it's the source of the train sample in DJ Sprinkles's "Grand Central, Part 2 (72 hours by rail from Missouri)"? Am I imagining that? It sounds kind of familiar, though maybe it's the ubiquitousness of the pieces of Chill Out.

― with hidden noise, Thursday, 21 April 2011 23:48 (fifteen years ago)

pretty sure that's the pure trance original mix

― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 22 April 2011 00:00 (fifteen years ago)

but i'm wrong. i missed that version when i was listening earlier. great mix.

― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 22 April 2011 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

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