The KLF discography

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This discography lists the key British and notable international releases of The KLF and the other pseudonyms of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty. It also details the other releases on their independent record label, KLF Communications, by KLF-spinoff Disco 2000 and Space (Cauty's solo work). In the United Kingdom—their home country—Drummond and Cauty released six albums and a wide array of 12 " singles on KLF Communications. In other territories their material was typically issued under licence by local labels.

Although the duo's early works as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (The JAMs) aroused media interest, with many singles being awarded "single of the week" by various music publications,[1] Drummond and Cauty neither sought nor found mainstream chart success until the release of The Timelords' million-selling DIY release "Doctorin' the Tardis" in May 1988.[2] The KLF's single "Kylie Said to Jason", from The White Room soundtrack, was designed for chart success, but failed to reach the UK Top 100.[3] However, The KLF achieved international chart success with the string of pop-house singles that began with "What Time Is Love? (Live at Trancentral)", and they became the internationally highest-selling singles band of 1991.[4][5]

Note that this is a not a complete list; compilation appearances of otherwise available tracks, bootleg recordings, and certain very limited edition remix and promotional singles have been excluded.[n 1]

Albums

Studio albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Certification
UK
[6]		 UK Indie
[7]		 AUS
[8][9]		 AUT
[10]		 NLD
[11]		 SWE
[12]		 SWI
[13]		 US
[14]
1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) — 5 — — — — — —
Who Killed The JAMs?
  • Artist: The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu
  • Released: 8 February 1988
  • Label: KLF Communications
  • Catalogue number: JAMS LP2
 — 3 — — — — — —
Chill Out
  • Artist: The KLF
  • Released: 5 February 1990
  • Label: KLF Communications
  • Catalogue number: JAMS LP 5
 — — — — — — — —
Space
  • Artist: Space
  • Released: 16 July 1990
  • Label: KLF Communications
  • Catalogue number: SPACE LP1
 — — — — — — — —
The White Room
  • Artist: The KLF
  • Released: 4 March 1991
  • Label: KLF Communications
  • Catalogue number: JAMS LP 6
 3 — 5 13 11 12 13 39
Waiting for the Rights of Mu
  • Artist: Kopyright Liberation Front (The KLF)
  • Released: 13 October 1997
  • Label: Echo Beach
  • Catalogue number: EBSC8/EB814
 — — — — — — — —
"—" denotes that the release did not chart

Compilation albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions
UK Indie
[7]
Shag Times
  • Artist: The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu/The KLF
  • Released: 16 January 1989
  • Label: KLF Communications
  • Catalogue number: JAMS DLP 3
 5
The "What Time Is Love?" Story
  • Artist: The KLF/Various Artists
  • Released: 25 September 1989
  • Label: KLF Communications
  • Catalogue number: JAMS LP 4
 —
Solid State Logik 1
  • Artist: The KLF
  • Released: 1 January 2021
  • Label: KLF Communications
 —
Solid State Logik 2
  • Artist: The KLF
  • Released: 23 March 2021
  • Label: KLF Communications
 —
"—" denotes that the release did not chart

Singles

Year Single Artist Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales thresholds)		 Album
UK[6][16] UK
Indie [7]		 AUS
[8][9]		 AUT
[10]		 IRE
[17]		 NLD
[18]		 NOR
[19]		 SWE
[12][20]		 SWI
[13][21]		 US
[22]		 US
Dance
[22]
1987 "All You Need Is Love"
  • JAMS 23
 The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu — 3 — — — — — — — — — 1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?)
"Whitney Joins The JAMs"
  • JAMS 24T
 — 4 — — — — — — — — — Singles only
"1987 (The JAMS 45 Edits)"
  • JAMS 25T
 — 35 — — — — — — — — —
"I Gotta CD"
  • D 2000
 Disco 2000 — — — — — — — — — — —
"Down Town"
  • JAMS 27
 The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu — 5 — — — — — — — — —
1988 "Burn the Bastards" / "Burn the Beat"[n 2]
  • JAMS 26 / KLF 002
 The KLF[n 3] — 15 — — — — — — — — — Who Killed The JAMs?
"One Love Nation"
  • D 2002
 Disco 2000 — — — — — — — — — — — Singles only
"Doctorin' the Tardis"
  • KLF 003
 The Timelords 1 1 2 — 4 25 10 — — 66 16
"What Time Is Love?
(Pure Trance Original)"
  • KLF 004 [Pure Trance 1]
 The KLF — — — — — — — — — — —
1989 "Uptight (Everything's Alright)"
  • D 2003
 Disco 2000 — — — — — — — — — — —
"3 a.m. Eternal
(Pure Trance Original)"
  • KLF 005 [Pure Trance 2]
 The KLF — — — — — — — — — — —
"Kylie Said to Jason"
  • KLF 010
 — 6 — — — — — — — — —
1990 "Last Train to Trancentral
(Pure Trance Original)"
  • KLF 008 [Pure Trance 5][n 4]
 — — — — — — — — — — —
"What Time Is Love?
(Live at Trancentral)"
  • KLF 004
 5 — 73 23 — 15 — 14 23 — 13 The White Room
1991 "3 a.m. Eternal (Live at the S.S.L.)"
  • KLF 005
 1 — 3 7 — 5 5 2 4 5 1
"Last Train to Trancentral
(Live from the Lost Continent)"
  • KLF 008
 2 — 5 6 — 1 4 5 6 — 17
"America: What Time Is Love?"
  • KLF USA4
 4 — 40 3 4 4 2 6 3 57 10 Singles only
"It's Grim Up North"
  • JAMS 28
 The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu 10 — 136 — — — — — 26 — —
"Justified and Ancient
(Stand by The JAMs)"[n 5]
  • KLF 099
 The KLF (featuring Tammy Wynette) 2 — 3 1 4 2 3 1 2 11 2
1992 "3 a.m. Eternal"[n 6]
  • KLF 5TOTP
 The KLF with Extreme Noise Terror — — — — — — — — — — —
1993 "K Cera Cera
(War Is Over If You Want It)"[n 7]		 The K Foundation presents
The Red Army Choir		 — — — — — — — — — — —
1997 "Fuck the Millennium" 2K (featuring Acid Brass) 28 — — — — — — 29 — — —
"—" denotes that the release did not chart

Remixes and production work

The following tracks were remixed by The KLF:

Year Original artist Song Remix
1990 Depeche Mode "Policy of Truth" "Trancentral Mix"
Pet Shop Boys "So Hard" "The KLF vs Pet Shop Boys"
"It Must Be Obvious" "UFO Mix"
1991 Moody Boys "What Is Dub?" "Kings of Low Frequency Dub Version"
"Dub Is What?"

In 1989, as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, the duo produced the Moody Boys' single "First National Rapper" and its B-side, "Funky Zulu".

Compilation appearances

The following tracks and remixes were made available only on Various Artists compilation albums. Compilation appearances by tracks which were also released on an album or single are not included. Mixes for DJs and megamixes are also excluded.

Year Artist Song Compilation Album
1989 Discotec 2000 "Feel This" Eternity Project One
1990 The KLF "Build a Fire (Lenny Dee Remix)"[n 8] Energy - DJ's In The House
1991 The KLF "What Time Was Love"[n 9] Give Peace A Dance: A CND Compilation
1995 One World Orchestra "The Magnificent" The Help Album

Films

The KLF

All titles credited to The KLF and released on VHS video.

Year Title Notes
1990 Waiting KLF VT007. Ambient house film with an original soundtrack.
1991 The Stadium House Trilogy Picture Music International. Video performances of "3 a.m. Eternal", "Last Train to Trancentral", and "What Time Is Love?"; and a new instrumental piece, "This Is Not What The KLF Is About".
The Rites of Mu Promotional VHS only; KLF VT014. "Documentary" filmed on the island of Jura. Aired on MTV Europe, 24 June 1992.

K Foundation

The following K Foundation films have all had public screenings, but have not been released on any home video format.

Year Title Notes
1994 Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid 55 minutes of footage showing the K Foundation (Cauty and Drummond) burning one million pounds. Premiered on 23 August 1995 on the island of Jura.
1995 Pissing in the Wind Footage of Drummond, Cauty and Mark Hawker urinating into the wind. Shot on 3 November 1995 and premiered at Glasgow University on the same day.
1997 This Brick 4 minutes of a still picture of a brick made from the ashes of the million pounds incinerated by the K Foundation. Premiered at the Barbican Hall, London on 17 September 1997.

Books

Year Authors Title Publisher ISBN
1988 Jimmy Cauty
Bill Drummond		 The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way) KLF Publications ISBN 0-86359-616-9
2017 Jimmy Cauty
Bill Drummond		 2023: A Trilogy Faber & Faber ISBN 9780571342242

Unreleased

The following KLF projects were announced but not released. Some of these, but by no means all, circulate as bootleg recordings/videos; some may not have been recorded at all.[n 10]

Year Format Project Notes
1988 Flexidisc "Deep Shit (Part 1)" Given catalogue number DS 1. KLF Communications Information Sheet 8 (1990) claimed that 500 copies had been pressed but had "never been deemed safe to release".[3]
Graphic novel "Deep Shit (The Further Adventures Of The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu)" A comic book or graphic novel drawn by Cauty (with words by Drummond) was mentioned in NME and The Face and various KLF Information Sheets.[29][30][31]
Single "Love Trance" ["Pure Trance 3"] KLF 006. Sleeves and labels printed.
Single "Turn Up the Strobe" ["Pure Trance 4"] KLF 007. Sleeves printed.
Single "E-Train To Trancentral" ["Pure Trance 5"] KLF 008. Sleeves and labels printed.
Single "The Lovers' Side" ["Pure Trance 5"] This song also featured on the unreleased version of the album The White Room (see below).
1989 Single "Deep Shit (Part 3)" KLF 010R. Reportedly, 6 copies were pressed.[3]
Album The White Room - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack JAMS LP4. Very different from the White Room album eventually released, this widely bootlegged recording was scrapped after the commercial failure of the single "Kylie Said to Jason".[3]
Film The White Room KLF VT006. The KLF's road movie. A rough version was completed in 1989, before The KLF decided to film an "Outer Film" to augment it.[3] This was never completed. The "Inner Film" has been screened privately, and bootleg copies of it circulate.
1991 single "America: What Time Is January?" KLF 92 PROMO 2. Unreleased remix of "America: What Time Is Love?" Small amounts of single sided promos were pressed on black and clear vinyl.[32][33]
1992 Album The Black Room The KLF started work on a final album, but it remains unfinished and unissued.[34]

Notes

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Further reading

  • "The KLF: Enigmatic dance duo" (feature and discography up to that time), Record Collector Magazine, April 1991.

External links

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  1. ↑ See the Library of Mu: list of "singles of the week". Retrieved 31 May 2006. Archived 10 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine A browsable list of reviews is archived
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 11 October 2016.{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/315}}
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 5 October 2007.{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/508}}
  4. ↑ Bush, John. KLF at AllMusic
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 11 October 2016.{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/309}}
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 UK chart peaks:
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  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 UK Indie chart peaks:
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  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 ARIA chart data cited in: Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Australian (ARIA Chart) peaks:
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    • The KLF top 50 peaks: Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
    • Top 100 peaks from January 1990 to December 2010: Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  11. ↑ Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, Hidossier 1939 - 1994
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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  17. ↑ Irish Single Chart Irishcharts.ie (Retrieved 10 April 2008)
  18. ↑ Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, Hitdossier 1939 - 1994
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  30. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  31. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Archived (via the Library of Mu) on 5 October 2007.{{Wikipedia:WikiProject The KLF/LibraryOfMu/505}}
  32. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  33. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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