Re: [KLF] A KLF Communication
where exactly do "It's Grim Up North", "Last Train To Trancentral" and their biggest success "3 A.M. Eternal" fit in here?
Isn't "IGUN" based on a poem - Betjeman, or someone like that? The lyrics, I mean, rather than the music. In style it's similar to "The Night Train" - and the title is a reference to (possibly) the Fall or Pink Floyd (with the parts 1 & 2). "LT2T" is based around a classical piece (I think we're all agreed) - at least, the trilling bit known as "Rolling Stock" is. The melody, however, seems original - and is probably the finest thing they ever did, I think. The title, of course, is The Monkees. "3 AM Eternal" seems to stand as their most original work, and as you say Thomas, was their biggest hit. I have read a few articles that claim it's very "808 State-esque", but I've never heard it myself. I sometimes wonder how much influence Graham Lee had in the early recordings, when it was meant to be a flamenco affair (and "Madrugarda Eterna" is surely his track with Jimmy and Bill's beats and samples beneath, in different versions). Some of the album tracks on "The White Room" (and the soundtrack) seem to be totally original though (despite "KSTJ"'s resemblance to "Left To My Own Devices" by the Pet Shop Boys - a debt Bill Drummond acknowledged himself) and probably the "purest" original creation of all would be the instrumental "Mr Hotty Loves You", written by Cauty one his own, for the b-side to Disco 2000's "Uptight". John
john wrote:
"3 AM Eternal" seems to stand as their most original work, and as you say Thomas, was their biggest hit. I have read a few articles that claim it's very "808 State-esque", but I've never heard it myself.
it's mainly because the "boom-bip, bip-boom" mobile sounds at the start of 3AM were *very* similar to those used in an 808state tune called "Tunes Splits The Atom". 808state and the KLF had a good natured "spat" about it in the NME at the time, as i recall... ...and if you're quick with the pause button, you can see the model train in the LTTT video on the "Stadium House Trilogy" go past an "808" logo billboard on it's travels. good god, i am a very sad man. ;-o cheers, --- Smiley ---------------------------------------- My Inbox is protected by SPAMfighter 582 spam mails have been blocked so far. Download free www.spamfighter.com today!
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john wrote:
"3 AM Eternal" seems to stand as their most original work, and as you say Thomas, was their biggest hit. I have read a few articles that claim it's very "808 State-esque", but I've never heard it myself.
it's mainly because the "boom-bip, bip-boom" mobile sounds at the start of 3AM were *very* similar to those used in an 808state tune called "Tunes Splits The Atom".
Thank goodness those tracks weren't *too* similar: that MC Tunes track was just plain *awful*! Where was Wanda when 808 needed her?!! seek
Smiley <smileyweb@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: ....and if you're quick with the pause button, you can see the model train in the LTTT video on the "Stadium House Trilogy" go past an "808" logo billboard on it's travels. I think this is more likely a reference to the Roland 808, hence the '808 Bass Version' of LTTT, and presumably how 808 State got their name in the first place. Also the 3AM/Tunes Splits the Atom thing is interesting, as the latter charted in Sept 1990 but the 'bleeps' of contention also occur in the 1990 demo version of 3AM which I believe was recorded in August. Close thing! I guess the 808/Tunes track could've been around on white label, and i'm not sure if his album 'The North at its Heights' was released before or after the single. I could probably find out if I could be bothered =) --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage!
Smiley <smileyweb@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
....and if you're quick with the pause button, you can see the model train in the LTTT video on the "Stadium House Trilogy" go past an "808" logo billboard on it's travels.
I think this is more likely a reference to the Roland 808, hence the '808 Bass Version' of LTTT, and presumably how 808 State got their name in the first place.
Also the 3AM/Tunes Splits the Atom thing is interesting, as the latter charted in Sept 1990 but the 'bleeps' of contention also occur in the 1990 demo version of 3AM which I believe was recorded in August. Close thing! I guess the 808/Tunes track could've been around on white label, and i'm not sure if his album 'The North at its Heights' was released before or after the single. I could probably find out if I could be bothered =)
No - it's definately an 808 state logo on the LTTT video. Andrew
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