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- SkyPoo0
^ I wonder which of you missed the point of being at art college though?
The pattern of almost anything we all do and stand for at that age is predictable to all the old codgers out there. In much the same way everything old codgers do, and stand for, is equally predictable to the younger generations coming up through the art school system.
- Response to Moth's post, not 23kon's.SkyPoo
- I had good lecturers who rightly would have ripped me a new asshole for attempting a high-brow piss take at 18.********
- I mean look - I can barely do it now....********
- kelpie0
To be fair, that shit turned my piss to vinegar when I was in college as much as it does now.
Please don't lets get started on art school degree shows though, we'll be here all bloody day and recriminations sill last far into the coming weeks. or at least till a b it later
- Aye, good call. Back to the topic in hand... The KLF... as per the title.SkyPoo
- monoboy0
One of my all time faves...
- SkyPoo0
Monoboy, either my computer is shite or you didn't actually include anything...
(Or is it an arty way of saying "The White Room" ?
- 23kon0
Chillout is a tremendous album.
Some claim the very first "chillout" album within that new genre, it was bill and alex paterson from the orb as the brainchilds.I know a girl who's dad owns a big 2nd hand record shop. Was at a party at hers once and she invited me to see her KLF and Shamen record collection - knowing i was a fan of both.
She had a rack of records from both bands - these werent just singles and 12"s these were rare and collectable pressings!!
I was in awe.
Apparently, she sold the KLF collection and bought a car :(- MADNESS!
Unless it was a 46 Studebaker, in which case... shrewd!!!SkyPoo
- MADNESS!
- 23kon0
re: burning the money.
in the investigations i did for my dissertation, i believe that the day after the KLF burnt a million another million (or maybe it was two million) appeared in their bank account - hinting that it was a sponsored stunt.
- 23kon0
I mentioned the shamen above, thats another great band - yes they did get shite with ebeneezer goode - they knew that though. hempton manor is a good album though that they brought out after that.
I bought En-Tact the other day. one of my favourite albums of ALL time! its soooo far ahead of its time, beautifully composed and the shamen show off their melodymaking skills to a tee.
Yes there was good albums before that - In Gorbachev we trust being one. Shamen moving from indie to dance music. Its why i dont rate the likes of Kasabian these days - this is stuff that the shamen and jesus jones were doing years ago.
Drop is a great album too. Not dancey though. very 60s psychedelic
- SkyPoo0
I never got into The Shamen at all, even befor ethe Ebeneezer Goode stuff I just couldn't see past the idea of MrC being an irritating cunt. He was like Liam Gallagher's brain in East 17's body with Bros's hairdoo, Chris Eubank's pomposity and EMF's personality... GRRRRRRAAAHHHHHH I used to explode with rage whenever he came on the TV. He was my pet hate at the time.
My loss though I suppose... he probably wasn't as bad as I had decided he was at the time.
Funny but just this morning I decided it was high time to start listening to to some old Orbital albums... and I haven't got any here.
- belfast is in my top 3 tunes of all time._me_
- Here's one song..
http://concep3.com/d…Nairn
- Mal0
- SkyPoo0
Awesome Awesome Orb.
I wish someone would make a really edgy, really dark, really adult Doctor Who movie on a really pre-apocalyptic tip, and drop all the kiddy bollocks, and make it genuinely bleak and dark and scary, and have The Orb do the soundtrack.
That would get me in the cinema.
None of this "Russell T Wonderful" nonsense.
Off topic I know, but did anyone out there ever watch that 1980's drama series they made of The Quatermass Experiment? It was just called "Quatermass" and was set in a post apocalyptic 1980's where something stranbge and sci-fi like had gone wrong causing civilisation to collapse? it was fantastic.
- 23kon0
SkyPoo
You should get En-Tact album - very little MrC singing (only in move any mountain and minimally elsewhere). Its easy on par with orbital / the orb / klf / sabres of paradise etc.
In Gorbachev we trust is a great album too ...
heres some from that album .....Jesus Loves Amerika
love the lyrics "jesus loves america - but i dont love either"
and WAR PRAYER
the whole theme of the in gorbachev we trust album is so fitting to todays political climate - with another possible cold war on the horizon and with america being war crazy and spreading their power across the world.
the song war prayers lyrics make me think of hypocritical christian americans invading iraq for some reason - wonder why?!
Oh lord our God
Help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells
Help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of the dead
Help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of the wounded
Writhing in painA prayer for war, a prayer for war
A prayer for war, a prayer for warOh lord our God
Help us to waste their humble homes in a hurricane of fire
Help us to wring the unoffending hearts of their widows with grief
Help us to turn them out with their children to wander the waste
Of their desolated landA prayer for war, a prayer for war
A prayer for war, a prayer for warWe beseech thee o worthy lord
Blast their hopes and black the lines on their bitter pilgrimage
Make heavy their steps and water their way with tears my Lord
Stain the white snow with the blood of the woundeds' feet my Lord
And we ask it in the spirit of war
- 23kon0
have never seen Quatermass but have heard of it.
ground breaking bbc number wasnt it?i think ive seen them raving about it on some documentary about uk science fiction - prob around the time when there was a lot of PR for the new series' of doctor who.
a dark soundtrack can definitely make for great cinema
have you seen the documentary/film "Dark Days" with soundtrack from DJ Shadow.
A lot of tv programs and adverts these days use shadows stuff to add some grit/darkness but that dark days film is the best the music has been used- I've just been trying to find it online. It seems they made another thing in 2005, but its the 1980's one that I love.SkyPoo
- ********0
Help us to waste their humble homes in a hurricane of fire
Help us to wring the unoffending hearts of their widows with grief
Help us to turn them out with their children to wander the wastePompous and vacuous at the same time. forsooth, is this Hawkwind?
- 23kon0
Capsize
when you see the lyrics like that they might seem pompous
but in context of the album and when you hear the style of the song (almost pisstake choir-like) you'll realise its in jest but also voicing disgust at war.- the song is above, someones made that video to go with it though its not the orig23kon
- will check out********
- 23kon0
take me to the church of the KLF
- ukit0
Hey hey we are not the Monkees
- 23kon0
"I know when i've wronged
and i've turned to the left
and i've travelled too far to see
i've lusted and lied
and taken a line
and spent money that wisnae mine
i've stared at the stars
while i laid in a ditch
with my belly a-full of wine"best lyrics EVER???