I don't understand. Are you suggesting I write KLF fan fiction?
― I'd rather be the swallow than a dick (Branwell Bell), Sunday, 26 January 2014 21:39 (ten years ago) link
Would it work?
― Mark G, Sunday, 26 January 2014 21:45 (ten years ago) link
I used to have the same thoughts (well, similar) about the automaton machines that made up the lineup of the Art of Noise. Then they went out of their way to be some blokes and a really great pianist.
― Mark G, Sunday, 26 January 2014 21:47 (ten years ago) link
No. That would be a very bad idea.
OK, I used them as background characters in the back story of one character in one fiction once, but... NO. NO THIS WOULD BE A BAD IDEA.
― I'd rather be the swallow than a dick (Branwell Bell), Sunday, 26 January 2014 21:52 (ten years ago) link
Dreamt I saw the KLF live at Wembley. They opened with America: What Time Is Love? Then I woke up. :(
― Deafening silence (DL), Monday, 27 January 2014 11:28 (ten years ago) link
Wow, I wish I could have the KLF back in my dreamspace. They took up residence there for some time in the early 90s (there are pages in the Book of Bernard about them, blossoming out of annoyance that their name was so similar to the name I was going by then, and turning into something warped and strange) but they would be welcome guests now.
In the world of other coincidences, I was pestering my Mum to see if she remembered the Drummond family from when she was small, but her memory's are a 10-year old's. They are just still one of those bands that accumulate coincidences around them, so the coincidence is not that shocking. But the link is still strange to me, because it is so obscure.
― these birches is awful (Branwell Bell), Monday, 27 January 2014 13:00 (ten years ago) link
about to start reading this book, excited
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 19:17 (ten years ago) link
Yay! I dreamed about the KLF last night! Continuing my "dream up fake songs" tradition, last night I even managed to dream up a complete fake KLF single, including video, with Jimmy Cauty maniacally butchering sheep carcasses. Then Bill Drummond rented me a holiday cottage near Belfast. It was on this long spit of land that stuck out into the sea in what Bill said had to be a secret masonic symbol from the way it looked on the A to Z.
― Branwell Bell, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 10:11 (ten years ago) link
that dream should be a short film or music video imo, or actually i guess i just want to dream it myself
― 1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:35 (ten years ago) link
KLF are p much the one band I would most like to see a fictionlised film of the "not really true" story of their adventures, a la "24 Hour Party People" but also they are the one band most likely to never do such a thing. Perhaps I should start writing a film to be made after the 23 years are up, haha.
― "righteous indignation shit" (Branwell Bell), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 09:50 (ten years ago) link
Isn't the 23 years up, like, already?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 5 February 2014 21:17 (ten years ago) link
since the car bonnet contract? November 2018.
― (D1CK$) (sic), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 22:43 (ten years ago) link
Not long, then..
― Mark G, Thursday, 6 February 2014 00:06 (ten years ago) link
Bill did bend the contract slightly in this
― (D1CK$) (sic), Thursday, 6 February 2014 00:36 (ten years ago) link
well, i guess it is time to add this and the 'waiting for the rights of mu' albums to the digital archive.
― mark e, Thursday, 6 February 2014 22:05 (ten years ago) link
the 'waiting for the rights of mu' albums
not actually an album
― (D1CK$) (sic), Thursday, 6 February 2014 22:51 (ten years ago) link
yeah i know ..
but hey lets not spoil the party ..
― mark e, Friday, 7 February 2014 00:41 (ten years ago) link
put the films in yr digital archive instead!
― (D1CK$) (sic), Friday, 7 February 2014 02:10 (ten years ago) link
I feel like I found some sort of hidden treasure in the used bins today when I saw Shag Times. Picked it up without hesitation. Love it when I find early KLF in the wild
― octobeard, Sunday, 13 April 2014 03:26 (ten years ago) link
Double LP version fwiw.
― octobeard, Sunday, 13 April 2014 03:27 (ten years ago) link
good find.
some of the extra remixes/tracks are a bit superfluous but its a good collection of their various singles.
― mark e, Sunday, 13 April 2014 09:21 (ten years ago) link
Richard King, via Twitter...
"Interviews with Bill Drummond & Jimmy Cauty that I couldn't fit into 'How Soon Is Now?' The K Foundation Tapes: http://www.how-soon.com/index.php/blog/entry/the_k_foundation_tapes"
― Barnaby, Hardly, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 10:05 (ten years ago) link
was doing some reading on this album and saw that 3 AM Eternal hit #5 on the Billboard chart in 1991. What kind of radio stations played it?
― skip, Friday, 25 April 2014 15:35 (ten years ago) link
it was #1 in the uk!
― nathey, Friday, 25 April 2014 15:49 (ten years ago) link
I remember it being on the radio all the time, because I used to listen to it while driving, and there was no tape deck. But I can't remember what kind of stations were playing it.
― Branwell Bell, Friday, 25 April 2014 15:52 (ten years ago) link
In addition to 3AM Eternal, Unbelievable by EMF, Right Here Right Now by Jesus Jones, Silent Morning by Noel, True Faith by New Order and other Freestyle/dance tracks made a dent in the charts in the late 80s/early 90s.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 25 April 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
The videos for "3AM Eternal" and "Justified and Ancient" got some MTV rotation.
― naus, Friday, 25 April 2014 18:46 (ten years ago) link
I just found this album for $1.50 and am listening to it for the first time. It's really good. Very much enjoying.
3am was on the top 40 station a LOT here.
― austinato (Austin), Saturday, 10 May 2014 22:37 (ten years ago) link