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Sometimes an act can get ideas above itself and tries to make an impression in a way that nobody appreciates. They fcuk up big time and dissappear.
KLF were one such band who passed under my radar when they were around in the late 80's early 90's, but I stumbled across some of their stuff on YouTube and realise I didn't appreciate how good they were. If you've not heard any of their stuff before, KLF aka Dave Drummond and Jimmy Cauty had a thing about a triplogy of books which contained references to the Justified Ancients of Mu-Mu, shortened to The Jamms, and hence this appears in a lot of their songs.
KLF screwed up at the Brit Awards by chucking a dead sheep on stage and doing some other crazy sh1t. They were vilified and vanished without trace almost overnight.
One of my favourite KLF numbers is Last Train to Trancentral, not least beause of the piece in the white who sings the line 'come on take me for a ride'. I fcukin wish!!!

 
KLF also did a song with country singing legend Tammy Winette and included a lyric about an ice cream van on the Leeds to manchester motorway.

Bands that imploded/vanished Millie Vanillie they disappeared PDQ when it was revealed they didn't actually sing at all and it was all done by hired session singers.
 
The Glenn Miller Band weren't 'In the Mood' after he vanished.
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Jailbroken
 
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The Shamen. What happened to them?

Their early music was some of the best experimental electronic music of its time and was always featured on Peel.

But when they turned into a rave act with Mr C barking over the music they went downhill as far as I'm concerned. Boss Drum was a good album musically but I think that it really killed the Shamen.

They released a couple of other albums throughout the nineties and then just disappeared into the abyss.

TW
 
Tin basher said:
KLF also did a song with country singing legend Tammy Winette and included a lyric about an ice cream van on the Leeds to manchester motorway.
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And before they were KLF....they were the Timelords!!!! Hence the US Police Car which was in the video of their 1988 single 'Doctoring the Tardis'
 
propersplitbrainme said:
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didn't they also burn 1 million it notes for a stunt and also purchased this ex army experimental sound device that was supposed to be invented to break up NI crowds, well they played it at some peace camp aiming at the police/security but it only had the effect of keeping the protestors awake who couldn't do shifts like the said security, having the result they were expelled from the camp
 
I wouldn't say the KLF imploded, they just took the proverbial out of the pop & art business, witness the sheep and buckets of blood at the Brits and the burning of £1 mill. I think their finest moment was when they were making a documentry about their break up ('we'll never record together again blah, blah) they made a brilliant track for the Help album under the guise of the One World Orchestra (a cover of The Magnificent 7 - a bit of digging around found it below, hope you enjoy it).



It's worth tracking the album down as it's also got some great stuff by Paul Weller & Terry Hall (serial band imploders) and the Manics version of Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head (recorded after they decided not to break up following the disappearance of Richy Manic).
 
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I wouldn't say the KLF imploded, they just took the proverbial out of the pop & art business, witness the sheep and buckets of blood at the Brits and the burning of £1 mill.
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Well, maybe 'shot themselves in the foot' would have been a better way of putting it.

Chumbawamba could fall into the same category I suppose after their escapade also at the Brits in which they heckled John Prescott (was it?).
 
propersplitbrainme said:
Well, maybe 'shot themselves in the foot' would have been a better way of putting it.

Chumbawamba could fall into the same category I suppose after their escapade also at the Brits in which they heckled John Prescott (was it?).
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I seem to remember John Prescott not fighting back in this instance. After all he didn't want to lose 5 votes :PDT_Xtremez_26:

TW
 
propersplitbrainme said:
Well, maybe 'shot themselves in the foot' would have been a better way of putting it.

Chumbawamba could fall into the same category I suppose after their escapade also at the Brits in which they heckled John Prescott (was it?).
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I think they did a little bit more than heckle Prescott as they threw a bucket of water over him. Luck for them he didn't do his streetfighter bit like when he got the egg in his face.
 
Chumbawumba were on the Radio 2 folk hour being interviewed by Mike Harding last week. Don't ask ........it was a slow week on my car radio.....
 
What about The Darkness?

Actually saw them live. Brilliant show. Justin Hawkins played the Freddie Mercury role way over the top. But it worked.

First album was....different. Loads of wailing, loads of guitar, fcukin' loads of swearing! (A very unique singing of the word cnut!)

Second album was 35 minutes of questionable tat.

And then they just disappeared.

I can hear the gentle refrain now:
"Get your hands off of my woman, mother-fcuker".
 
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...I can hear the gentle refrain now:
"Get your hands off of my woman, mother-fcuker".
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Off TopicMy sister in law swears that this is "get your hands off of my lawnmower you mother-fu(ker"

New Order, however, are my favourite band that have always been threatening to implode ever since the Joy Division days. Things have finally come to a head and they eventually spit up but not before being the most influencial band of their era.

 
I never personally thought that the KLF imploded as such. Even when they first hit the charts I seem to remember that they were saying that they were taking the pi55 out of the music industry, a bit like Malcom McClaren a decade before.

I still remember their documentary where they took the ashes from the burnt £1M to the bank, the guy from the bank of England explaining how he needed to identify individual bank notes before he could redeem their value, I thought that they adequately explained themselves and their actions from buring the money to trying to redeem the ashes.

As for the Shamen, they went down hill after their first hit, 'Move Any Mountain'. One of the original members died and Mr C, the rapper on 'Move Any Mountian', moved to the centre stage centre and the focus to the drug culture of the time.

The Darkeness' first album was brilliant but then they became all serious about what they were doing and band members were sacked. The Stereophonics did the same and its took them years to recover.
 
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What about The Darkness?

Actually saw them live. Brilliant show. Justin Hawkins played the Freddie Mercury role way over the top. But it worked.

First album was....different. Loads of wailing, loads of guitar, fcukin' loads of swearing! (A very unique singing of the word cnut!)

Second album was 35 minutes of questionable tat.

And then they just disappeared.

I can hear the gentle refrain now:
"Get your hands off of my woman, mother-fcuker".
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The Darkness didn't really implode, it was more a case of Justin Hawkins getting too big for his boots.

The rest of the darkness went on to form Stone Gods, who are far, far better than the darkness ever were. This is from somebody who liked The Darkness, although I thought that the second album was actually pretty good too.
 
MingMong said:
The Darkness didn't really implode, it was more a case of Justin Hawkins getting too big for his boots.
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Isn't that usually the case with "implosion" though: one ego gets too big, one addiction takes over, one musical difference cannot be reconciled. Spiral out of control, bye-bye band?


MingMong said:
The rest of the darkness went on to form Stone Gods, who are far, far better than the darkness ever were.
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Will have to give them a listen.

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although I thought that the second album was actually pretty good too.
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Some of it was ok, some just sounded self-indulgent.
To be honest, I more resented paying full-CD price for half-CD content.
 
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