Pete Wylie and (the 7,000 names of) Wah! - C or D?

(Though he still got to buy the rights back cheap, even after his dropping by Sony at a dinner saw him react by calling important label people cunts and sticking his dick in a cake. Allegedly.)

Often at his best when yoking an overwhelming sentimentality to social/ist issues (cf Come Back, Story Of The Blues, Imperfect List by Big Hard Excellent Fish) and letting the latter suppress the former. Usually splendid when making guest appearances on other peoples' records (the JAMs' It's Grim Up North and Screaming Target's Bedazzled prime examples, various Farm collaborations and
1234 with Apollo 440 elevated by his presence), would probably be doing as many of these as Sean Paul or Jay-Z if only he was actually famous.

Classic-stylee moment of art not imitating life: gets charged and sentenced to community service for abusive phone calls to new boyfriend of ex-girlfriend. Writes and releases excellent rock song venting venomous spleen at same target (Loverboy), can't even get arrested.

http://www.petewylie.com/images/peelWAH.jpg

I was devoted to "Come Back" when it wsa in the charts and then to my tape of it off the radio. Then later got "The Story Of The Blues" in LP form and was even more blown away.

Having trouble finding a digital version. Most sources have the single cut, without the speaky bit -- i.e., the Vaneigem-quoting best bit.

"People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.

(oh you mean DIGITAL not digital right ok)
(but c'mon, the guy's on the dole, let him have his ninepence)

It's actually the 12" I'm after, and I lapsed into "if I've already bought it on vinyl, I'm allowed to steal the digital version" thinking. This applies most of the time.

But you're right, of course. He's had much more than 9p from me, but he could stand a little more.

So now tell me where to find the original "Grim Up North" with yer man on it. And whether The Rites Of Mu is a "real" KLF album, while you're at it.

Waiting For The Rights Of Mu is a several-years-old bootleg of two old KLF film soundtracks, to wit Waiting and one version of The Rites Of Mu. There was a thread about it here a couple of months ago. No idea why people have suddenly started noticing it and thinking it's a legit release.

Acquisition users with Ultra Rare are woefully thin on the ground, but I don't mind waiting. And I love "Waiting".

Now, a digital version of that Kavela version of "In the ghetto", that would be nice to have.

Another 20+ years late to the party epiphany for me, the debut album is totally fantastic, at times sounding like Echo or The Sound but with Wylie initable style.

What's the deal with all these 2001 reissues being out of print? I finally tracked down a copy of Nah=Poo - The Art Of Bluff and I must say, it's one of the thinnest, harshest sounding albums I've ever heard. Was this remastered, is it supposed to sound that way?

Meanwhile I can't find a copy of the singles comp for less than $60, wtf?