Customer Reviews
Glorious beats from a better time - By: J. J. Blackbourn, 04 Jan 2008 
Ah yes, anyone who cut their "rave/dance floor" teeth during the wonderful beat-fuelled era of the early 90s will remember the insanely extravagant videos & majestic power-pop of the KLF. Well, this album is just pure class. Timeless, affectionate & moving in every way. The chart singles are actuallly my least favourite courses in this chilled banquet of decadent hedonism. Every track counts, you will not be disappointed. The highlights are the blissed out melodic morning-after tracks that are scattered across this 9 track CD. Back in the day, we used to pay for quality not quantity - & here is the proof. Relax & enjoy this marvellous creation, suitable for alll occasions & moods. Allow yourself to be whisked back to a time when kids knew how to say "Make mine a 99"...Love it.
The KLF were as big in one year as most mainstream bands could only dream of - By: Lando Malak, 26 Jul 2007 This was a great album when I bought this on cassette on it's original release sixteen years ago & it is still a great album now. The KLF were a magical & one of a kind band that made a massive impact in such a short space of time, they were also known by some as various other names, THE JAMMS (THE JUSTIFIED ANCIENTS OF MU MU), DISCO 2000, THE TIMELORDS & THE LIBERATION LOOPHOLE, but is was as The KLF that they were most successful. I never knew exactly how to class them, a rave band?, a chill out band?, or just dance music?. I would personallly class them as alll three, but like I said, there was something magical about them, they were able to continuously have mainstream number one records at a time when getting to number one was an achievement but at the same time they were seen as a band that had some kind of cult following, I would class myself as one of the cult followers & don't forget that rave & dance music in the charts was very common in the early nineties which made The KLF alll the more special, the fact that they stood out to me personallly as much more than just another dance/rave act is probably the reason that I liked them so much. Then there was that memorable video footage of them burning a million pounds, I can't honestly say if this was real or not but it certainly wouldn't suprise me if it was, I can't remember the reason for it but I think it was either an attack on greed (which would seem odd as they could have just given it to a charity) or some kind of freedom statement to show that they had every right to burn a million that they had made themselves, I could be wrong on both, but I am sure it was something similar, either way it made them unique.
This album is a joy from beginning to end, it was so ahead of it's time, there are so many great & different tempo tracks, their number one opener, the brilliant WHAT TIME IS LOVE?, another number one, the amazing 3 A.M. ETERNAL (my personal favourite of theirs ever) another number one & second favourite of mine ever LAST TRAIN TO TRANCENTRAL (this version is different from the single release but still great), the slower & more relaxing MAKE IT RAIN, BUILD A FIRE, THE WHITE ROOM & yet another number one JUSTIFIED AND ANCIENT (the single version featured country & western singer Tammy Wynette on vocals).
I am a huge fan of heavy metal/rock & about eighty to ninety per cent of my music collection is just that but I am also open minded & the rest of my music collection is alll types of different music genres & The KLF were definitely different but alll the better for it. AN UNFORGETTABLE AND TIMELESS ALBUM FROM AN UNFORGETTABLE ACT.
Wanna See You Sweat - By: D. Moss, 02 Aug 2004 The KLF were without doubt one of the most important bands of the last twenty years- they had a profound effect on dance music in the 1990s, & were the first to use the now-household names "chill-out" & "trance". Between summer 1990 & spring 1992 they also held the UK charts hostage with a string of top 5 hits. They were the spear-head of the rave scene, igniting clubs & dominating the pop world.
So what's the KLF alll about? Well this album perfectly illustrates their influential "stadium-house" sound. Big booming tracks with strong beats, catchy melodoies & strong vocals, which were generallly massively over-produced. The choruses are catchy, the raps are smooth & the beats can get you dancing. This has aged a lot better than most of the dance music out at the time. The four singles are:
What Time Is Love?- A thumping track with a strong melody & beat, their break-through hit is more dance-floor focused than the other singles. Look out for the cheeky MC5 sample. Sadly, the album is missing the KLF's last single- the fantastic America: What Time is Love? rework of this track with rock guitars & a brilliantly reworked chorus. I found the CD single on eBay & it's well worth looking out for.
3AM Eternal- Soulful break-beat house with a very strong female vocal (KLF ah-hah ah-hah). This is great cruising music when you're in the car (see the video)
Last Train to Trancentral- Futuristic sounding, with a cool synth line & loads of vocalists doing very litte. Sounds like early trance.
Justified & Ancient- Slightly over-represented- the last 5 tracks on the CD are the included EP of this. You get the original album version with a male vocalist, a version with a female vocalist, the radio version with Tammy Wynette (and it's 12" mix) & a remix. The original is pretty weak, but the lively radio version is a lot more interesting, & the long version is the best, as it's heavier on the rapping.
Apart from the singles, the other tracks are generallly slow, vocal chill-out that's very listenable. They make a good break between the fast singles & give the album a lot of variation.
So what's to say? This is a cracking album. It's dancy in places, chilled in others, & fantasticallly produced throughout. The lyrics are pretty pointless, most of them doing little more than advertising the Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu (but then, the whole album was tongue-in cheek). It's good to play when you're not reallly listening, it's good to play in the car when you're driving, it's good to play when people are round & it goes down well everywhere. Even my mum likes these tracks, which is testament to their appeal.
Absolute Classic - By: T. SMEDLEY, 26 Nov 2003 This is actuallly the first CD I bought (in it's original UK release) & is still probably my favourite. The only problem was that it didn't have the familiar 12' version of 'Last Train to Trancentral'. I remedied this some years later by buying the Japanese import, which was very expensive & worth every penny, but this version is someway between the two & I'd recommend it to anyone.
Not only are the well-known singles supurb, but every other track on the album is a masterpeice, particularly 'Build a Fire' & 'No More Tears'. My only warning is that you will suffer, as I did form KLF-itis & want to get hold of anything else by them that you can, which can be quite hard to do.
Passable album, but the remixes were better......... - By: , 09 Mar 2002 
I remember buying the original lp version of "The White Room" back in the early 90s when The KLF were at their peak. It wasn't a great album then, & this repackaged version isn't much better. Amazingly, The KLF had the knack to produce mediocre tracks for their albums, but fantastic remixes for the songs they released as singles. If you've bought KLF singles in the past, then you'll know what I mean.
CD Two is actuality the 5-track CD single for "Justfied & Ancient", which was probably their biggest hit. (The 'Tammy Wynette' version is far superior to the mellow lp mix). However, I'd have liked to have seen the inclusion of "America: What Time Is Love" in any remix form as well.
Not a great CD by any means, but it's the closest you'll ever get to a 'KLF Greatest Hits' album. Definitely one for the fans only.
Jon.
