The KLF is not hip-hop. The KLF is the KLF. They're justified. They're ancient. And they like to roam the land. The year was 1991. The KLF was everywhere! I wore the cassette out listening to it 3 to 4 times a day for months. On the way to school. On the way back from school. Before bed. Such a great album.
Yes indeed! Still own a copy of the CD today, which I still play from time to time!....along with Tammy Wynette featured on the "Justified and Ancient" track!
Kopyright Liberation Front. These guys had the world in the palm if their hands and decided to walk away. They all lived in a squat that was the base for their operation. No manager, no agents no A and R no contract no label but still took over the world. Everything that was done was done by them writing , producing, printing vinyls, sales and distribution the whole kit and caboodle . Ancients of Mu are a lost civilisation. According to the Illuminatis trilogy by James Churchward. Billy and Jimmy put a lot of inspiration not only into the lyrics but in life too. It nearly drove them insane. These are my band! I love Queen but these guys do something that I can feel and relate to on a visceral level. High art indeed. You have to understand the mythos behind the project to really get it. Have you ever heard of the band Edelweiss? They literally read through KLF book on how to get a number one song and hey presto they had a number one with Bring me Edelweiss. It had been released previously but had gone nowhere they then put it through the Billy and Jimmy filter and it worked.
The story of the rise and fall of the KLF is probably the wildest and most interesting in the history of modern music. :) Surely one of the most important and influential music projects of the 90's.
The utter epitome of stadium house. The KLF were mostly performance artists - in the non-musical sense. They did a lot of crazy stuff as performative art - not least of which was burning £1,000,000 of their own money and dumping a dead sheep at the door of the Brit music awards. America - What Time Is Love is possibly the most bonkers thing ever made - but Last Train to Transcentral is my single favourite workout/exercise track. Especially the anti-acapella mix. Fantastic stuff.
They bought a racehorse which they expected to be useless and turned out to be a real champ. Made £££ on the track then went on to be a top stallion. Name Khaleef
KLF were proper disruptors, they even wrote the blueprint on how to get to number one in the charts, and their chill out album kickstarted a whole genre! Their Wiki is worth a read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_KLF And this channel has loads of great KLF related videos: youtube.com/@KiLN_
"Ancients of Mu Mu" is the lyric you couldn't figure out. The KLF (Kopyright Liberation Front) are also known as The JAMS, also know as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu.
You need to watch their last ever performance. They played with Extreme Noise Terror, shot blank rounds at the crowd and then deleted their back catalogue! Eventually they went on to burn £1m on a remote Scottish island. Absolute odd balls!
KLF is its own genre, its the most 90s of all 80s bands. No boundaries, not limits, no boxes, just KLF. This is one of the most interesting story of artists that just would not conform. What Time is Love, Last Train to Trancentral and of course the iconic Justified and Ancient, KLF is pure culture.
I was in middle school when this came out early 90s. They are a UK band. This isn't really rap music, despite the guy rapping. We called this house music or techno. Also known as Euro dance. It's high energy dance music 🎶. Popular music in the 80s and 90s.
Saw them support Echo and the Bunnymen with another two bands supporting back in the 90's, they did there song "what time is love" and the Bunnymen played alongside them!!!! It was epic 😍
Greetings from Germany, KLF was a big thing in Europe in the early 90s. I Love their Songs, my favorits are America: What Time is Love and Justified & Ancient.
Me too it was a white single cassette tape with a microphone 🎤 on it with a building a think. But I just know I had this and she’s got the look single from Roxette
That cassette didn't leave my walkman for like a year in the early 90's. One of the best electronic albums of all time, hands down. So many classic jams.
The K.L.F were HUGE back in the day... nothing but club dance floor fillers that were absolute bangers..... 3 am the time you leave a nightclub and go looking for another party... ancient's of Mu Mu
This & "Justified And Ancient" are amazing tunes! Those were their two big hits. The latter was with Tammy Wynette on lead vocal. Weird combo, but it worked!
You've no clue how huge KLF were back in the day. A few facts? The title (3 am eternal) refers to chucking out time at the Spectrum Acid House club in London. They were huge places at the time. I went to one or two myself lol. This was the first song to reach the Top 40 of the Hot 100 that started with "3." Other songs since that have done so include Alana Davis' 1998 hit, "32 Flavors" and Eminem's 2009 ''Sing'' Others are right. Ancients of Mu Mu. There's some good song's they've done, but there is controversy regarding the band you should look into.
the KLF are the inventors of Stadium House - dance music that's Epic, with samples, rock, hip hop, vocals, everything turned up to 11 and everyone having a great time. the rest is history...
They're saying "Ancients of Mu-Mu." The KLF (Kopyright Liberation Front) were also know as The JAMMs (Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu), as well as The Timelords. The Orb was an offshoot that developed its own sound.
Back in the day we never really never thought about lyric just felt the song and learned the lyrics it was more how it got you moving most these songs was in clubs you heard these come on you hit the floor
This song was, is, and forever will be a BANGER!! All hail The KLF, Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - furthermore known as The JAMMs, previously The TimeLords (check Doctorin' The Tardis). Can't tell you how many times I've blasted this song on my various audio setups! Suggest the songs What Time Is Love?, Last Train To Trans-Central, Justified and Ancient (single with Tammy Wynette), & The White Room. These guys rock!!
Don’t try to understand it; just enjoy the sounds :) They’re basically talking nonsense. The Ancients of Mu refers to the mythical Land of Mu. It doesn’t really mean anything much, but the KLF were at one point called The Justified Ancients of Mu. It’s all a bit silly, but I love how the track sounds, and it’s very nostalgic for me and reminds me of the late 80s / early 90’s.
This brings me back to my youth!!! I think the KLF were two Scottish music producers big on the then rave scene. I think I may have a couple of their 12 inch singles somewhere gathering dust!! What Time is Love is another good track, and I think they also did a single with country singer Tammy Wynette!
Can't believe you are finally reacting to the legendary KLF, Timelords, JAMMS, Justified and Ancients of Mumu, the band that supposedly burnt a million dollars and turned their back on the music industry. The White Room is still one of my favorite albums of all time.
In the 70s I was a kid. Dug the music. In the 80s I came of age. In the 90s I was a young adult. I thank the universe I was born when I was, the perfect time, got to experience the greatest decades at the perfect age. So dig this tune.
No it comes from the babylonian God Mummu and you need to read the illuminati triology novels and then all the lyrics of KLF will make a lot more sense! ;)
@@maedden1974 Allright, but then the Mu or Lemuria is being referred to in that book, and is the reference point to ..."all bound for Mu Mu Land..." as it is written, not Mummu land. However I hasten to add that I haven't read or studied the book.
@@maedden1974 I had to come a long way down the comments list to finally find someone who'd read the illuminatus and understood everything they were talking about and referring to in their lyrics. Mummu was a god of chaos as represented in the books and not a reference to a continent as I remember it. The JAMS (Justified ancients of mummu) were kicked out as their beliefs didn't coincide with those of the illuminati - hence the KLF song. They obviously really loved the book and were probably as stoned as I was when they read it. I also can't remember if 3am was relevant in any way. Maybe it was the time when Hagbard Celine had to commit his destruction of another due to his inability to talk to his opponent and resolve his differences due to being on his submarine. Looking back at what I typed it feels like I might be tripping right now. Must give the books another read! :)
Not hip-hop at all, this is house music. and they are one of the best. justified and ancient with Tammy Wynette was one of the best early cross-genre collabs.I can tell you that i had multiple CD's from KLF back when I was just a 20-something.
In one of their early songs, they mention the Kopywrite Liberation Front. They were supposedly freeing Music from copyright laws (presumably through unauthorised sampling.)
What they mean by Kipywrite Liberation Front, is they did all their stuff on the cheap, at their own time, with their mates, and no music bigwig input. In fact, the bigwigs hated them, until the awards, where they quit. The KLF was also caught on not paying tax, so to do that on court orders, they decided to make a film, that they thought would just pay the tax they owed only. The film they made, was Crocodile Dundee, which was a global hit.
They burnt a £million, and one of them wanted to cut his hand off live at The Brit Awards. They settled for machine gunning the audience (blanks thankfully) and leaving a dead sheep on the stage. Legends.
Very much part of the British rave scene in the late. 80s early 90s where thousands of people would go to the countryside and dance all night after taking ecstasy. It was almost a religious experience.
I had to have listened to this song at least three thousand times when it came out around 1990. I had a tape radio alarm clock and would play the cassette to this album every night when I would go to sleep.
This band brings the weird in a great way. Your next stop should be the official video for "America: What Time Is Love?" Here's the link: ua-cam.com/video/O_253-HURY8/v-deo.html
When this first came out, it made no sense. But I still bought the album because it was unique and funky. Still groove out to it from time to time. Thanks for some Old School.
Man, the first time I saw a reaction video, I was like "This is some bullshit!" The thing is, I REALLY enjoy y'alls videos. I think it's so cool to see young people experiencing the music I grew up with for the first time. I really enjoy how you each approach it from different places. Brad listens with a furrowed brow. Concentration. He wants to understand the song; figure out what it's about. Lex listens emotionally, and I'm often fascinated at how well she so often understands the artist's intent, or comes up with a new insight. I'm still tickled by her description of Billy Gibbons' voice as being like "leather moccasins" on La Grange. I especially appreciate the way y'all respect each other's opinions and listen to each others' thoughts with open minds. I'm gonna go watch the Rapper's Delight reaction now. That song changed EVERYTHING, and I'm really curious to see what y'all think of it.
KLF are awesome 👍 I used to listen to their music back in my school days, still do now actually. You should listen to Justified and Ancient featuring Tammy Wynette.
A lot of the imagery of this band relates to a book series called The Illuminatus Trilogy, wherein the KLF were the Kallisti Liberation Front. Kallisti being the Greek work for "for the prettiest", which was inscribed on the golden apple Eris, goddess of strife and chaos, used to set the Greek goddesses against each other and start the Trojan war. I fucking love these guys
Omg I'm so excited to see you upload I was so worried you all weren't coming back on! Plus this song was ages ago and still can drop a beat and sound relevant
The music style, I would consider it Euro Dance. KLF (Kings of the Lower Frequencies/Kopyright Liberation Front) was part of it. They themselves called it Stadium House. Try to listen to Mr Vain from Culture Beat or Rythm is a dancer from Snap.
The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, aka The J.A.M.M.s which is their secret band. The KLF - the Kopyright Liberation Front is their alt-band. Their press conferences were legendary.
Welcome to the KLF party. As somelse has said, they are their own genre. I bought the White Room on casette and it was the soundtrack of a great summer back in the early 90s. Youve got to do Justified and Ancient, with country star Tammy Wynette singing. Its sublime and they drive an ice cream van! Youll get it when you listen to it.
In 1991, the KLF, an acronym for Kopyright Liberation Front, was the bestselling British act in the world. Riding the post-acid house boom in club music, they could do no wrong: every tune they touched turned to gold. Well, you DID ask what KLF stood for.
Ahhh, Brad... 😄You have got ZERO chance of making any sense of these lyrics, but don't feel bad about it: neither did 99% of the audience when the KLF first hit the radio. Those few of us who were, like the band, fans of the novels of Robert Anton Wilson were laughing like drains though. The novels (principally the Illuminatus! trilogy) are VERY hard to describe in a few words, but very broadly, they're a psychedelic sci-fi trip through the realms of conspiracy theory as it stood in the mid 1970s. Most of the names in the KLF's songs are the names of conspiratorial groups in the novels. "KLF" itself allegedly stands for 'Kopyright Liberation Front', but more likely started out as "Kallisti Liberation Front", since "Kallisti" is a Greek word related to the goddess of chaos Eris, and there's an anarchist group in the novels called the "ELF": the "Erisian Liberation Front". The lyric you're struggling to make out is "Ancients Of Mu Mu". This is short for the "Justified Ancients Of Mummu" or JAMs, who are referenced in other KLF songs. The JAMs is also an alternative name for the group itself. Mu is a mythical sunken continent (a bit like the Pacific version of Atlantis) and also a Greek letter. Mummu is a VERY ancient Mesopotamian god. It's also an alternative name for Marduk, the god of Order who sees everything and defeats Tiamat, the goddess of chaos, in Babylonian myth.
For the life of me, I heard "ancients approved"and just a while ago, found out it was "Ancients of Mu Mu'. This band of the early 90's called themselves 'The KLF (Kopyright Liberation Front) and they also recorded under the acronyms "The Timelords", "JAMS' and "Justified Ancients of Mu Mu'. This band engaged in some controversy involving music samples that were often protected by copyright, but were used by the KLF band without authorization, like they tried at once to use ABBA's music in one album and the management of ABBA ordered The KLF to destroy their album copies, because they used ABBA's music without permission. But they found success after recording their album "The White Room" in 1990, which included the songs "3AM Eternal" and another hit with late country singer Tammy Wynette called "Justified and Ancient". In 1992, the band came on stage at the Brit Awards in the UK and when performing a "Metal version of it, the founding member Bill Drummond took out a big machine gun and started shooting blanks into the audience... Following that awkward performance, the band called it quits and has been off since then...
This is what was great about 90's. Songs with a good beat and not just regular instruments or vocals. Seems like when 2000 hit, the energy and speed of songs slowed down. I'm looking at you 50 Cent!
You guys need to listen to one of the most important bands ever. The KLF also known as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, Furthermore known as The Jamms.
Ancients of Mumu. Kopyright Liberation Front -- one of the most fascinating projects to have ever existed, from Britain strangely enough, led by those two white boys on guitar. Got the album behind me. It was kind of all one elaborate artistic prank, where they became the biggest singles band in history, then deleted their catalogue, left the music business (announced after shooting machine gun blanks at the audience) and then burned a million pounds.
The KLF is not hip-hop. The KLF is the KLF. They're justified. They're ancient. And they like to roam the land. The year was 1991. The KLF was everywhere! I wore the cassette out listening to it 3 to 4 times a day for months. On the way to school. On the way back from school. Before bed. Such a great album.
KLF is Euro Dance, Dance, Acid House,Rap ..( electronic music)
We were truly blessed ❤
Better on acid in a cold dangerous warehouse. Facts.
At Metalsquid …. Same and I was a death metal head but this album hit.
You forgot ancients of mumu.😂
More than 30 Years later and "The White Room" is still a great Album
You damn right !
Yes indeed! Still own a copy of the CD today, which I still play from time to time!....along with Tammy Wynette featured on the "Justified and Ancient" track!
True , true ...
Absolutely and with "Last train to transcentral" (Door smash sample) I´d blown my speakers away...
And the Chill Out album is still a cracker to drift off to sleep to. Though my CD is in the car which probably isn't the best place to drift off... 🤔
Kopyright Liberation Front. These guys had the world in the palm if their hands and decided to walk away. They all lived in a squat that was the base for their operation. No manager, no agents no A and R no contract no label but still took over the world. Everything that was done was done by them writing , producing, printing vinyls, sales and distribution the whole kit and caboodle . Ancients of Mu are a lost civilisation. According to the Illuminatis trilogy by James Churchward. Billy and Jimmy put a lot of inspiration not only into the lyrics but in life too. It nearly drove them insane. These are my band! I love Queen but these guys do something that I can feel and relate to on a visceral level. High art indeed. You have to understand the mythos behind the project to really get it. Have you ever heard of the band Edelweiss? They literally read through KLF book on how to get a number one song and hey presto they had a number one with Bring me Edelweiss. It had been released previously but had gone nowhere they then put it through the Billy and Jimmy filter and it worked.
The story of the rise and fall of the KLF is probably the wildest and most interesting in the history of modern music. :) Surely one of the most important and influential music projects of the 90's.
Do you got some links or stories to recap? Really curious. Love from Germany 🤟
@@EFXVoila Search for "KLF burn a million quid"
@Rafael Herschel woah, that was a wild read lol. Thanks for the summary!
@@warrantyvoid100 will do, thanks for replying :)
@@juliusdavies2005 Thanks for that hint and recommandation, Julius! Will try to find this documentary!
The KLF, also known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, furthermore known as the JAMMS.
Also known as the Timelords - Doctorin the Tardis is a classic!
Ahh ahhhh bound for Mu Mu land. Holy shit I haven’t thought about that in a long time.
@@tomandrews2887 In an ice cream van!
Jeez Tammy Wynette sang on that record.
Make mine a 99.
The utter epitome of stadium house. The KLF were mostly performance artists - in the non-musical sense. They did a lot of crazy stuff as performative art - not least of which was burning £1,000,000 of their own money and dumping a dead sheep at the door of the Brit music awards. America - What Time Is Love is possibly the most bonkers thing ever made - but Last Train to Transcentral is my single favourite workout/exercise track. Especially the anti-acapella mix. Fantastic stuff.
They bought a racehorse which they expected to be useless and turned out to be a real champ. Made £££ on the track then went on to be a top stallion. Name Khaleef
KLF were proper disruptors, they even wrote the blueprint on how to get to number one in the charts, and their chill out album kickstarted a whole genre!
Their Wiki is worth a read:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_KLF
And this channel has loads of great KLF related videos:
youtube.com/@KiLN_
KLF are the real deal. Hit it big, blew sh!t up, set it all on fire and left. Literally.
"Ancients of Mu Mu" is the lyric you couldn't figure out. The KLF (Kopyright Liberation Front) are also known as The JAMS, also know as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu.
For a long time I thought it was Ancients of Groove just like they did.
Kopyright Liberation Front*
When I was a kid I always thought they said “catch this groove”. It doesn’t sound like that at all
And Kings of the Low Frequencies? Kärt barn har många namn.
Mu a lost civilization from Africa kinda like Atlantis was supposed to be an advanced civilization.
I was in my late teenage years when this song came out.
KLF, a British Acid House group.
I'm 53 now you must be close ha ha
Stadium House!
Nowhere near acid house. Eurodance.
I agree! 52 here..Brings back some awesome memories!
You need to watch their last ever performance. They played with Extreme Noise Terror, shot blank rounds at the crowd and then deleted their back catalogue! Eventually they went on to burn £1m on a remote Scottish island. Absolute odd balls!
That was just brilliant!
At the brit awards, awesome live show, inviting Hardcore punk stalwarts ENT to appear live on tv at an awards show lol
KLF is its own genre, its the most 90s of all 80s bands. No boundaries, not limits, no boxes, just KLF. This is one of the most interesting story of artists that just would not conform. What Time is Love, Last Train to Trancentral and of course the iconic Justified and Ancient, KLF is pure culture.
I was all about these guys when this came out. KLF, SNAP, Arrested Development, and Urban Dance Squad were all great bands ahead of their time.
I was in middle school when this came out early 90s. They are a UK band. This isn't really rap music, despite the guy rapping. We called this house music or techno. Also known as Euro dance. It's high energy dance music 🎶. Popular music in the 80s and 90s.
I still have that rapping new jack swing affect mixed with it
Saw them support Echo and the Bunnymen with another two bands supporting back in the 90's, they did there song "what time is love" and the Bunnymen played alongside them!!!! It was epic 😍
Wow! that's cool.
Greetings from Germany, KLF was a big thing in Europe in the early 90s. I Love their Songs, my favorits are America: What Time is Love and Justified & Ancient.
I bought this on cassette single my freshman year of college. Still have it too. Lmao. Awesome song.
Me too it was a white single cassette tape with a microphone 🎤 on it with a building a think. But I just know I had this and she’s got the look single from Roxette
That cassette didn't leave my walkman for like a year in the early 90's. One of the best electronic albums of all time, hands down. So many classic jams.
I was 12, maybe 13 when this dropped. Nothing else was like it on popular radio in the states during that era. Blew my mind!
“KLF IS GONNA ROCK YA!”
The K.L.F were HUGE back in the day... nothing but club dance floor fillers that were absolute bangers..... 3 am the time you leave a nightclub and go looking for another party... ancient's of Mu Mu
Gotta love the old brick phone. What a time to be alive. Lol
This & "Justified And Ancient" are amazing tunes! Those were their two big hits. The latter was with Tammy Wynette on lead vocal. Weird combo, but it worked!
Two?? KLF have more Hits:Last train to trancentral , What Time is Love, America:What Time is Love.
And resulted in whigfields No 1 Saturday Night!
@@COIN_zockt Only two hits in the USA. That's the chart I follow. I've never heard of those songs.
@@BillGraper ah ok i'm from Germany. KLF had more hits here.
I haven't heard this song in YEARS!!! what an era!!!
such a creative song!!! hip hop, techno, disco, R&B...WOW what a memory
Great band. Took me straight back to the early 90s 🙂
OMG one of my old school favorite songs I gotta sit down. Lex when are you due what is in your labor playlist??😂
You've no clue how huge KLF were back in the day. A few facts? The title (3 am eternal) refers to chucking out time at the Spectrum Acid House club in London. They were huge places at the time. I went to one or two myself lol. This was the first song to reach the Top 40 of the Hot 100 that started with "3." Other songs since that have done so include Alana Davis' 1998 hit, "32 Flavors" and Eminem's 2009 ''Sing'' Others are right. Ancients of Mu Mu. There's some good song's they've done, but there is controversy regarding the band you should look into.
the KLF are the inventors of Stadium House - dance music that's Epic, with samples, rock, hip hop, vocals, everything turned up to 11 and everyone having a great time. the rest is history...
They're saying "Ancients of Mu-Mu." The KLF (Kopyright Liberation Front) were also know as The JAMMs (Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu), as well as The Timelords. The Orb was an offshoot that developed its own sound.
Yes in the early 90s it was quite an "in" thing to combine rapping with dance music. "The Shamen" are a good example of that :)
Back in the day we never really never thought about lyric just felt the song and learned the lyrics it was more how it got you moving most these songs was in clubs you heard these come on you hit the floor
This song was, is, and forever will be a BANGER!!
All hail The KLF, Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - furthermore known as The JAMMs, previously The TimeLords (check Doctorin' The Tardis). Can't tell you how many times I've blasted this song on my various audio setups!
Suggest the songs What Time Is Love?, Last Train To Trans-Central, Justified and Ancient (single with Tammy Wynette), & The White Room. These guys rock!!
Don’t try to understand it; just enjoy the sounds :) They’re basically talking nonsense. The Ancients of Mu refers to the mythical Land of Mu. It doesn’t really mean anything much, but the KLF were at one point called The Justified Ancients of Mu. It’s all a bit silly, but I love how the track sounds, and it’s very nostalgic for me and reminds me of the late 80s / early 90’s.
"Ancients of Mu Mu".
Oh yes I remember this one! Acid House in the 90's!
This brings me back to my youth!!! I think the KLF were two Scottish music producers big on the then rave scene. I think I may have a couple of their 12 inch singles somewhere gathering dust!! What Time is Love is another good track, and I think they also did a single with country singer Tammy Wynette!
Can't believe you are finally reacting to the legendary KLF, Timelords, JAMMS, Justified and Ancients of Mumu, the band that supposedly burnt a million dollars and turned their back on the music industry. The White Room is still one of my favorite albums of all time.
Sounded great back then - still does.
This was the song of summer in '91. This was a crossover of so many different genres from hip hop, house to pop rock and synth.
In the 70s I was a kid. Dug the music. In the 80s I came of age. In the 90s I was a young adult. I thank the universe I was born when I was, the perfect time, got to experience the greatest decades at the perfect age. So dig this tune.
Music that causes the body to move. 90s was peak music and people having fun together
"..ancients of Mu Mu"
Mu is one of the mythical, ancient, sunken continents, also known as Lemuria. The group carried the theme on several songs.
No it comes from the babylonian God Mummu and you need to read the illuminati triology novels and then all the lyrics of KLF will make a lot more sense! ;)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy
@@maedden1974 Allright, but then the Mu or Lemuria is being referred to in that book, and is the reference point to ..."all bound for Mu Mu Land..." as it is written, not Mummu land. However I hasten to add that I haven't read or studied the book.
@@maedden1974 I had to come a long way down the comments list to finally find someone who'd read the illuminatus and understood everything they were talking about and referring to in their lyrics. Mummu was a god of chaos as represented in the books and not a reference to a continent as I remember it. The JAMS (Justified ancients of mummu) were kicked out as their beliefs didn't coincide with those of the illuminati - hence the KLF song. They obviously really loved the book and were probably as stoned as I was when they read it. I also can't remember if 3am was relevant in any way. Maybe it was the time when Hagbard Celine had to commit his destruction of another due to his inability to talk to his opponent and resolve his differences due to being on his submarine. Looking back at what I typed it feels like I might be tripping right now. Must give the books another read! :)
FINALLY!! I LOVE The KLF! I still have my audiotape 'The White Room' from 30+ yrs. ago. ~Jenn-X ♊☕
America : What Time Is Love? is my personal fave by them :)
They were saying Ancients Of Mu Mu :)
Not hip-hop at all, this is house music. and they are one of the best. justified and ancient with Tammy Wynette was one of the best early cross-genre collabs.I can tell you that i had multiple CD's from KLF back when I was just a 20-something.
Saw the title, clicked play, 30 years on still got the lyrics and beat down to a tee.
TUUUUUUUUUNE from back in da day, good old club music 🎶 🎵 👌 🙌
In one of their early songs, they mention the Kopywrite Liberation Front.
They were supposedly freeing Music from copyright laws (presumably through unauthorised sampling.)
What they mean by Kipywrite Liberation Front, is they did all their stuff on the cheap, at their own time, with their mates, and no music bigwig input.
In fact, the bigwigs hated them, until the awards, where they quit.
The KLF was also caught on not paying tax, so to do that on court orders, they decided to make a film, that they thought would just pay the tax they owed only. The film they made, was Crocodile Dundee, which was a global hit.
They burnt a £million, and one of them wanted to cut his hand off live at The Brit Awards. They settled for machine gunning the audience (blanks thankfully) and leaving a dead sheep on the stage. Legends.
It stands for ‘Kevics liberation front’, Kevics is their old high school in Totnes, England. 😅
Very much part of the British rave scene in the late. 80s early 90s where thousands of people would go to the countryside and dance all night after taking ecstasy. It was almost a religious experience.
They had only a couple of hits, but they were all magnificent.
I love The KLF.
I had to have listened to this song at least three thousand times when it came out around 1990. I had a tape radio alarm clock and would play the cassette to this album every night when I would go to sleep.
This was peak hotness in the club scene back in the early 90s.
This band brings the weird in a great way. Your next stop should be the official video for "America: What Time Is Love?" Here's the link: ua-cam.com/video/O_253-HURY8/v-deo.html
Dance music from the late 80's and early 90s was my generation's disco moment! Love this song and this band!
They're not hip hop. They were an early UK Rave/Acid House group.
They threw £1,000,000 in Scottish £1 notes into the crowd at a rave in 1989!
When this first came out, it made no sense. But I still bought the album because it was unique and funky.
Still groove out to it from time to time.
Thanks for some Old School.
I remember seeing KLF in concert back in the 90's they were good in concert.
Man, the first time I saw a reaction video, I was like "This is some bullshit!"
The thing is, I REALLY enjoy y'alls videos. I think it's so cool to see young people experiencing the music I grew up with for the first time.
I really enjoy how you each approach it from different places. Brad listens with a furrowed brow. Concentration. He wants to understand the song; figure out what it's about. Lex listens emotionally, and I'm often fascinated at how well she so often understands the artist's intent, or comes up with a new insight. I'm still tickled by her description of Billy Gibbons' voice as being like "leather moccasins" on La Grange.
I especially appreciate the way y'all respect each other's opinions and listen to each others' thoughts with open minds.
I'm gonna go watch the Rapper's Delight reaction now. That song changed EVERYTHING, and I'm really curious to see what y'all think of it.
90s dance music❤❤❤❤ EVERYONE DANCED...even if you couldnt. What a time to be alive
KLF are awesome 👍
I used to listen to their music back in my school days, still do now actually.
You should listen to Justified and Ancient featuring Tammy Wynette.
This is late teens, driving around with mates, cassette player blasting out. Carefree.
I have been listening to KLF since the early 90's. I love that it is being rediscovered now.
gives me goosebumps when she comes in with that "its 3 am." timeless.
Great dance song in the clubs in early 90s.
A lot of the imagery of this band relates to a book series called The Illuminatus Trilogy, wherein the KLF were the Kallisti Liberation Front. Kallisti being the Greek work for "for the prettiest", which was inscribed on the golden apple Eris, goddess of strife and chaos, used to set the Greek goddesses against each other and start the Trojan war.
I fucking love these guys
This brings me back to early childhood in the early 90’s
Omg I'm so excited to see you upload I was so worried you all weren't coming back on! Plus this song was ages ago and still can drop a beat and sound relevant
The music style, I would consider it Euro Dance. KLF (Kings of the Lower Frequencies/Kopyright Liberation Front) was part of it. They themselves called it Stadium House.
Try to listen to Mr Vain from Culture Beat or Rythm is a dancer from Snap.
Beginning of house lounge music
The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, aka The J.A.M.M.s which is their secret band. The KLF - the Kopyright Liberation Front is their alt-band. Their press conferences were legendary.
This was a great group out of the UK!! You should listen to their WHITE ROOM album... BRILLIANT..
Welcome to the KLF party. As somelse has said, they are their own genre. I bought the White Room on casette and it was the soundtrack of a great summer back in the early 90s. Youve got to do Justified and Ancient, with country star Tammy Wynette singing. Its sublime and they drive an ice cream van! Youll get it when you listen to it.
In 1991, the KLF, an acronym for Kopyright Liberation Front, was the bestselling British act in the world. Riding the post-acid house boom in club music, they could do no wrong: every tune they touched turned to gold.
Well, you DID ask what KLF stood for.
Got to check out 'what time is love' , 'last train to transcentral' and 'justified and ancient'.....kLF gonna rock ya 😉
This song along with Snap I got the power were two big jams in the 9tees
I use to crank up this song back in the day. When this came out it was a very cool new sound. Still makes you move. Thanks for reacting.
Great track !!!!!!! I played a lot of their tracks when I was deejay'ing back in the day. A very popular club song.
This was so popular my sophomore year in high school. The KLF is all you heard
One of the most underrated yet badass songs ever. Love it.
Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty are two of the most interesting men in pop music. Well worth a deep dive.
I LOVE the KLF
I used to play this when my wife was expecting our first child. Her bump would go mental moving all over the place.
Ahhh, Brad... 😄You have got ZERO chance of making any sense of these lyrics, but don't feel bad about it: neither did 99% of the audience when the KLF first hit the radio. Those few of us who were, like the band, fans of the novels of Robert Anton Wilson were laughing like drains though. The novels (principally the Illuminatus! trilogy) are VERY hard to describe in a few words, but very broadly, they're a psychedelic sci-fi trip through the realms of conspiracy theory as it stood in the mid 1970s.
Most of the names in the KLF's songs are the names of conspiratorial groups in the novels. "KLF" itself allegedly stands for 'Kopyright Liberation Front', but more likely started out as "Kallisti Liberation Front", since "Kallisti" is a Greek word related to the goddess of chaos Eris, and there's an anarchist group in the novels called the "ELF": the "Erisian Liberation Front". The lyric you're struggling to make out is "Ancients Of Mu Mu". This is short for the "Justified Ancients Of Mummu" or JAMs, who are referenced in other KLF songs. The JAMs is also an alternative name for the group itself. Mu is a mythical sunken continent (a bit like the Pacific version of Atlantis) and also a Greek letter. Mummu is a VERY ancient Mesopotamian god. It's also an alternative name for Marduk, the god of Order who sees everything and defeats Tiamat, the goddess of chaos, in Babylonian myth.
nightshift watching radar and i had this on repeat!! 1990's 🙂
Love this song!!! We listened to it constantly back in the day.
i havent heard this one in 30 years since i was a senior in high school do sir mix a lot posse on broadway
For the life of me, I heard "ancients approved"and just a while ago, found out it was "Ancients of Mu Mu'.
This band of the early 90's called themselves 'The KLF (Kopyright Liberation Front) and they also recorded under the acronyms "The Timelords", "JAMS' and "Justified Ancients of Mu Mu'. This band engaged in some controversy involving music samples that were often protected by copyright, but were used by the KLF band without authorization, like they tried at once to use ABBA's music in one album and the management of ABBA ordered The KLF to destroy their album copies, because they used ABBA's music without permission. But they found success after recording their album "The White Room" in 1990, which included the songs "3AM Eternal" and another hit with late country singer Tammy Wynette called "Justified and Ancient". In 1992, the band came on stage at the Brit Awards in the UK and when performing a "Metal version of it, the founding member Bill Drummond took out a big machine gun and started shooting blanks into the audience... Following that awkward performance, the band called it quits and has been off since then...
Love the use of the Motorola "Brick". The latest and greatest of the cell phones of the time.
KLF still sound great 30 years on ......... " What time is Love " is another epic tune .
I love the fact that they exited the music industry by doing a grindcore version of this song with ENT.
You guys are getting into some deep cuts. The Orb next?
These guys set fire to a million pounds as an art installation/anti-capatalist statement.
Cool as f.
This is what was great about 90's. Songs with a good beat and not just regular instruments or vocals.
Seems like when 2000 hit, the energy and speed of songs slowed down. I'm looking at you 50 Cent!
The KLF is not a band, it's a rabbit hole. 🙂
3AM is the time at the rave where you can't tell what planet you're on anymore.😵💫🛸💊
You guys need to listen to one of the most important bands ever. The KLF also known as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, Furthermore known as The Jamms.
Tensions a groove; clubbing, raving, sun-rise children
I think it was about being stuck in Glasgow Central Train station at 3am. The ancients of Mumu were a tribe that smoked a lot of weed!
Like the band then!!! Lol!!!
Danço até hoje nas festas flashback 💃
Ancients of Mumu. Kopyright Liberation Front -- one of the most fascinating projects to have ever existed, from Britain strangely enough, led by those two white boys on guitar. Got the album behind me. It was kind of all one elaborate artistic prank, where they became the biggest singles band in history, then deleted their catalogue, left the music business (announced after shooting machine gun blanks at the audience) and then burned a million pounds.
Haha, The Timelords, look them up, singers of catchy novelty songs, turned their hands to this type of crazy music, and i still love it
Please don't!!!
@@mattpotter8725 haha
Wow where you got that from? Try Last Train to Transcentral, Justified and ancient.