What does everyone think about the whole KLF thing?

To summarise: they were a pop/dance duo from Scotland (I think) who in the late 80s and early 90s established themselves as one of the most controversial dance acts ever known. They had a few hits as the Timelords (which was a version of Gary Glitter's "Rock 'n' Roll (Part 2)" complete with Doctor Who references), the JAMMs ("Justified Ancients of Muu-Muu" - I'm serious, really) and the KLF (one hit featured the late Tammy Wynette), also breaking America briefly, but seemed to want to make their mark on the pop scene permanently and in the most zany way possible. They pulled off some crazy stunts such as announcing their split with buckets of blood and a sheep carcass, deleting their entire back catalogue, hijacking an arts event, burning large sums of money (as the K Foundation), and disappearing from the face of the dance world. In this respect, at least, they were not an easy phenomenon to forget.

They're probably sitting in a pub right now, looking back on their little adventure and laughing.

Apparently KLF stands for "Kopyright Liberation Front" in case anyone wondered.

Did "Dr" Alex Patterson of the Orb count as a member of KLF? He's still about, altho' he doesn't get the amount of press attention he once did.

This "band" was really a Scottish duo - I forget their names, but I could look it up easily. I was a fan of theirs after "3AM Eternal" came out back in 1991. And then they did the song "Justified & Ancient" with the late Tammy Wynette in 1992, that one was good too.

Years later, I bought "The White Room" CD that is really the only one released by the duo/band that is still easily acquired, as they made enough copies of it so it was readily distributed. Also, I found out that they had a short-lived group called the Timelords that preceded the KLF, where they did a song called "Doctorin' The Tardis" that heavily sampled Gary Glitter's "Rock & Roll Part 2" as well as the Doctor Who theme song. I liked that too, so I bought the import CD single that had a few different versions of the song.

Later, I bought the import CD single of "What Time Is Love?" which had different versions of the song, one of which one of the singers used the twelve-letter swear word during a live performance of it. With that and the tracks from the White Room and the Doctorin' CDs, I made my definitive "The Timelords/The KLF" compliation CD, which I really like.

Also, if you listen to the two tracks "Build A Fire" and "The White Room" from the album of the same name, one of the Scottish guys actually speaks at the beginning of each one. I thought that was interesting, as it was mostly other men and women who were performing the majority of the vocals in the KLF songs.

Interestingly, it was not until 1999 when the duo reunited and released the single "F*** The Millennium" under the name 2K. It was not a successful comeback, unfortunetly.

To further elaborate on what Sven of Nine said in 2002, the duo basically had three monikers: the KLF (Kopyright Liberation Front), the Justified Ancients of Muu Muu, furthermore known as the JAMs. And for what relatively little music they put out in the 80s and 90s, I thought it was pretty good!

I was listening to The White Room just recently.

It was planned to be the soundtrack to a film that was never made, & followed up by another album called The Black Room.