Not sure what these 2 older guys have to do with klf, bit where are all the band members at?? Their songs from the 90's were interesting and then they disappeared which was wierd
TheKLF came to Russia on cassettes in 90, for me it was a turning point in music, every track was a bomb, every album was a sensation, all 100 percent hits, and provocation became like a lifestyle. Even then, I dreamed that someday I would see these legends live, I would just be able to thank them for changing the music and finding the very new sound that no one else could find except them. I am already 45 years old, but I still believe that someday I will see these geniuses of music and show business live.
I remember finding them at 3 AM watching some video show on old C Band satellite and knowing within 30 seconds I would love them forever. This random news article just showed up on my YT browser and knew NOTHING about this happening here in North America. I am now intrigued beyond belief. LLTKLF.
If you have a million quid and don't want it then at least give it to people that genuinely need it. They could've donated that money to a children's hospital but no.. they just had to be self-absorbed arseholes instead. It is the equivalent of burning a food mountain in front of starving people. Even to this day they can't explain adequately what the meaning of that stunt was, or the thinking behind it. It's grotesque, and fuck those guys.
Perhaps they made more than 1 million profit and burned some of it as a credibility policy. To give what they did afterwards more credibility than Status Quo!
The reporters missed the significance of 23 throughout. KLF stands for Kalisti Liberation Front, only of the groups in Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's Illuminatus trilogy (The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu or JAMMs are another group in those books). The number 23 features heavily in the writings of Wilson. There was a German movie entitled 23 about hacker Karl Koch who was also heavily influenced by Illuminatus. Wilson and Shea were in turn inspired by a satirical religion called Discordianism which was founded by two ex mormons, one of which, Kerry Thornley, later played a bizarre tangential role in the investigation of the Kennedy assassination. Discordianism is centered around the figure of Eris, the goddess of chaos and nods to the symbolism and philosophy of Discordianism is quite deliberately littered throughout the KLF's entire body of work.
What's important to remember is that they came up with an idea and then planned to: a) write a book about making a mint in pop music following a formula no one had suggested before, b) wrote said album and released it and hit #1 all over the world (White Room), and then c) burned the money. The entire artwork was concocted in advance as an artwork, so yeah, they burned the money, but they planned to, and, the book and the record, that all worked out for them to be able to burn the money in the end (not all the money they made but still a chunk of cash), which is pretty fkn amazing, easily one of the top works of art of the 20th century by my accounting. Nothing so cleanly eviscerates capitalism and the entire notion of commercial art and success as this does. Duchamp opens the century with a urinal on a gallery wall, and while Warhol screenprints Marilyn Monroe, and Koons derives from his own derivatives, Banksy makes a critique of the way we consume, but this three act conceit is withering. The whole point is that money isn't real. You can't burn it, you can only burn the bills that represent the right of the bearer to present the bill in exchange for goods or service at the market price corresponding. The question is where did that million come from? Book sales, album sales, the ideas? Ideas translate into paper printed with instructions to make a digital recording which many people buy with capital they earned (again, it's stand ins for what isn't really there) and from which dividends are paid to the makers into a bank account in the form of a number corresponding to what the company determines is the percentage amount due by contract. Ideas about making that money have turned into an asset that can be withdrawn but only in the form of many promissory notes. Which they burned. Was the bank ensured, were they insured and what was lost? Paper or profit? In the end, it's the consumer arguably who end up paying for the art, but that just makes it wildly populist and they as the ones who payed for the art did get albums and books. Music back catalogue deleted, they cannot resell or reissue their catalogue, so the owners of the KLF's art are truly the holders of the recordings. They exit stage left as poor as when they arrived (or did they?)
That money could have been donated to just a single person in need, or 5 or 20, or 100, instead, it was used in an edgey cringe-f@ck publicity stunt. The KLF were pioneers, sure... pioneers in being edgy cringe-lords. Imagine being so full of yourself, and rich, that you'd rather burn money than donate it.
What's amazing about wasting good money that could've gone to charity if they didn't want it, and morons like you applauding them for it? They were pretentious knobs then and still are now. Great music but detestable posers who made it.
@@petecoventry6858 I don't think they own their own catalogue anymore, and what platform do you suggest? Smoke signals? Also, you know how much spotify (doesn't) pay its artists?
0:53 “Plays a haunting chime”. Little that reporter knows, that “chime” is actually from a riff from the song “What Time Is Love” and that same riff is on other mixes of theirs.
Space - "Space" (really feel like you're visiting the solar system, and The Orb - "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld" (Feel like your visiting your own private solar system). But KLF - Chill Out and specially where it changes into "Madrugada Eternal", and "Evil on the Radio, Steel Guitar in my Soul", is the best pot music ever, so glad I experienced to listen to it in the 90's and early 00's The Orb also got some music that come close to something spiritual. I remember two friends of mine (and me) - that's 3 (!) - just lost it from how deeply we went into this kind of music, including the best 90's Trance and Goa. One friend is still sitting, grinning in a psychiatric hospital. I don't know if that's incredible sad or if he's in some trip I'd like to have a peek into. Most likely not...
@@kennethocongerskin9460 ...above windscreen: "all bound for Mu Mu Land", on the side: Raw for You (Freshly Made For You was on the Justified and Ancient single cover), at the top back "make mine a 99" substitute I think. It looks like these are translations from their original 90's Ice Cream Van.
I loved the KLF, they were way ahead of their time, I still have several of their records including a promo version of America What time is Love? 3AM Eternal, Doctorin the Tardis and of course Last Train to Transcentral, ( Transcentral was the squat one of them lived in and they made it a studio apparently) Drummond and Cauty YOU GUYS ROCK
Just got my notifications of 23 Seconds to Eternity, a short film, and this was the next video so here I am. Have been a KLF fan for years and still have The White Room CD even though I have nothing with which to play it anymore. The White Room was the best album put out in that year and I still play it on the regular on my Bluetooth! I introduced my granddaughter to it but she's 14 and wasn't impressed...yet. She will come to love it eventually (she will have no choice since I pick her up from band practice)! Best part of all, I have always loved cows, and when I played Justified and Ancient for her she said, "I see now why you like it, MooMoo (her name for me)!"
I remeber watching a documentary on these guys burning all that money. It was many many years ago and was done in the name of art. Forensics did check through the ashes, so yes the money was real, as to the amount, only these guys will know for sure. I did not know it was KLF up until today. Mad!!
No one focuses on the plan which was to make this money by writing a book about how formula pop music would make them rich, then they made the album and then they were going to robin hood the money but that went sideways because no one would help, so they burned it which is even better. Had it not been an extension of a long work of art sketched out in advance, it would matter less.
Not sure how I was unaware of KLF several decades ago. Having danced my fanny off & this is a whole new level in shaking up the cells. Just discovered & oh, yes. When reading leads one down the yellow brick road to Justified & Ancient with Tammy Wynette. I'm now Justified & Ancient & over due for Mu Mu Land. I'm hooked. Art is what changes the world by making one think & question, by provoking, waking up, blowing the cobwebs off, to make curious, joyous, outraged, connected, a participant, brave & to see the big picture instead of the puppets. Rejecting the status quo that serves few & harms many . To not just be alive but feel alive. THAT is ART. To know we are all one tiny part of the whole & mighty in #s. Most unique collaborations bar none. May go so far as to say brilliant & needed now more than ever. Was beyond delighted in what I've seen so far & for showing respect for women in the videos. A far cry from the profitable pimping sexploitation that is not talent nor intelligence just an easy buck at the expense of others & now so common many are doing it to themselves. Hope all are this way & not just the ones I've seen. It's all made me utterly joyous. Loved the steam train & the music & each time I watch the same videos I see something new. So many layers in all of it it's evocative of a masterpiece. One of a kind. Fishing in the river of life until I'm bait & the cycle continues. I want MORE of this. The door has blown open let the fresh air in 😄 "There are more things in heaven & earth, Horatio/ Than are dreamnt of in your philosophy." KLF ✊ Be still my beating heart 💓
The KLF reminds us of: Principia Discordia Culture Jamming Project Mayhem Did The Cacophony Society make Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club - TYLER) rich and famous? Is the number #23 and its reduced number #5 a #93 marker? 23 is the 9th prime number. 5 is the 3rd prime number. Are Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty members of a secret society? Did they also have to sign a secret contract so they could become rich and famous?
Project Chaos. See the writings of Miles Mathis. They have too many connections to others who were involved, including the island they burned the money on.
I once heard they really burned 20-50 quid and called it a million. I have no reason to doubt that cuz the only thing better than burning a million pounds is convincing everyone that you did
@@KiLN_ first off I meant 20-50k. Didn't wanna nick the K from the KLF like EMF did the F. Secondly,. I'm not the fact checking dept. If I was I'd lead a truly miserable existence as opposed to the, uhhh, anything but truly miserable existence I lead now
I would be very happy to hear that it was a stunt and that they used fake money for the stunt and privately donated the actual amount to perhaps feed starving children 😔
No loss to them. Prove the money was as stated and had genuinely been destroyed and they just claim it back and the BOE will credit their account. Small fine for destroying script however. 2023 only a year off re the Ukraine...
You mean Ricardo da Force, the guy that did a bit of rap for them? Firstly, he wasn't a member of The KLF. Bill and Jimmy were the only two members and anyone else brought in on individual tracks were just other artists that they collaborated with. Perhaps more significantly though, Ricardo died about 10 years ago. Bringing him back now would just be a bit too weird, even for The KLF.
They're still at it, RESPECT. Idiot's believing everything they say, didn't do and what they did. Believe nothing, believe everything. If you believe them well here comes the fool, if you don't, look over your shoulder. Remember a fool is easily parted with his money but ay, art is art but is it art for art's sake? The slaughtered lamb is not an offering, you will get nothing back for your act.
What is there relation to Ukraine? They use inscriptions (on the bus, in logos) in Ukrainian, and some UA words during live performances. And moreover, the book is titled as 2023, what could that mean? Did/Do they know something special? The guys have always been unusual, to be frank!
They burned a bunch of printed paper and you still think it was really 1,000,000 pound? You know they had colour Xerox back then? No one outside the duo witnessed it, and sure they video taped it, but as far as any knows, it was just copies. If you really think they were stupid enough to burn that much money, then you should buy my book, "How to keep an idiot in suspense" for $49.99
I’ve seen loads of people say they didn’t do it, but i’ve seen JC interviewed about it and he looks like he’s gonna cry each time. Either he’s a great actor or they did burn it. I thought it was amazing, so I just convince myself they did do it.
It's not important really. Money is printed by criminals, central banks who's social engineering has dominated the path of our species. As for the music industry, the world has been so busy with the new technologies and being able to instantly hear any new music, the entire process of listening and being a fan has changed. Now we can choose from Abba to Anthrax, but I am sure going to listen to the KLF... They get points for seeing the future, maybe they are back to join forces with Ed Sheeran 🤣....
