Sorry, I'm a bit behind with all this. I was at home in Ireland for Christmas, and I'm still settling back into France. Hope I haven't missed the last train in all this :(
There is one other option - we make up and put out a "greatest hits" ourselves. We all agree on a title, artwork (which can uploaded somewhere, and then printed off), tracklisting (lots of rarities on there), maybe even type up a small informative booklet - and burn off a selected number of CDRs (say 10 copies each). People could upload WAVs to somewhere, and they could be access for burning purposes. Then, we all go to local record shops, and drop the CDs into the racks (KLF ones, if they have then; related artists or ones who have fans that might be KLF-interested if they don't). People will find them, and either take them home or give them to the cashier (who will be confused, or delighted, or ... oh, there's 100s of possibilities). We could still make them look slightly cheap (by necessity, I suppose) and then remove everything on-line so people can't just print up new copies.
I'd be very happy to host the relevant materials for the creation and also any promotional site or support site (which should include a KLF story). I have a share in a co-located server, so I can happily take the strain. I'll also buy and host any domain. I think we need to do this. Seriously! John On 17 Jan 2007, at 00:41, John Lunney wrote:
All this talk of Greatest Hits is an idea I had a while back, but forgot to mention on here. I can set up a wiki on my site if we want a place to store the tracklist while we're working on it. Just let me know. I think we should do this. The only question I have is whether the 23rd anniversary would have been more appropriate ;) As for helping, I'm pretty handy with music and audio software and Photoshop. I'd like to help do the covers or pretty much anything else.
Now, for a project of my own, I need to know the exact release date of the 1987 album
Thanks, John
On 15 Jan 2007, at 19:28, John Milne wrote:
Bugger. That's true. And presumably a JAMSCD4 or KLF010CD barcode would put the check-out system into meltdown (hmmm ... could be interesting).
I think if we're going to a retrospective, you can't really avoid "Tardis" (and I'm still a big fan of the video/radio 2'23 shortest possible version option). The Gary Glitter connection is, in retrospect, regretable, but not a huge obstacle.
If on their next record the KLF had sampled a Pete Townsend guitar riff, then maybe we'd have had a problem!
Message Received: Jan 15 2007, 05:10 PM From: "Simon Glass" <tygerbc@yahoo.com> To: "All bound for Mu-Mu Land." <klf@mailman.xmission.com> Cc: Subject: Re: [KLF] KLF Greatest Hits
only possible issue with the barcodes is it means people will get charged 10 quid or whatever for our CD, and presumably that money will go to the store and the record company who owned the barcode we sto...liberated =/
tbc.
Elliott <blindedbythedarkness@ntlworld.com> wrote:
Great idea about bar codes for HMV and the like, it would mean people might be able to buy them because i dont think many KLF'ers would try to steal them, unless they have a sticker on saying 'FREE please take me home'... We could also leave some in coffee shops for people to take, just tell them its a free promotion, they have those crappy hairdresser flyers. How about a chilled out remix cd and a more ravey remix cd?
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Milne" To: "All bound for Mu-Mu Land." Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 11:30 PM Subject: Re: [KLF] KLF Greatest Hits
as for Gary Glitter - i'd vote for not including that c**t - but i'd like to see Dotorin' represented somehow - how about the mix from Shag Times, it's one of my favourite tracks, and is a lot more Doctor than Glitter
Ah, but which mix from Shag Times? There's the radio edit and the minimal remix (which is great), remember. I'm always fond of the "video edit" from the Video CD single, which is a bit more obscure but is the version from the video. It's shorter, which leaves more room on the CD for other things, it's arguably the most Glitter-less of all, and as its the video-length version, it's the one many people remember fondly.
for the copies that are dropped in places like HMV and Virgin, we could find something absolutely horrific that's been released and copy it's barcode - potentially sending it to number one despite not actually shifting that many units :) although, tbh, that's probably unlikely
As I said, I reckon if if there's any shameless 40-years-of-Sgt- Peppers CDs brought out by the Beatles' accountants around that time, maybe we should do some barcode filching with that. Alternatively, maybe a barcode from a rare KLF release - JAMSCD4 or something. Imagine "The What Time is Love Story" in the top twenty in May 2007! :-)
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