While we're on the KLF tip, I just finished reading "The Manual", KLF's 1988
book on "How to Have a Number One the Easy Way." An incredibly funny and
insightful look not just at the machinery of the record industry (12 years
old but still just as valid), but more importantly at our cultural obsession
with fame and the layers and layers of people out there who support the
machine. The book was written shortly after KLF themselves, in their
"Timelords" guise, turned a silly little song they slapped together called
"Doctorin' the Tardis" into a bona fide UK #1. Although their success was by
their own admission accidental, they wrote the book based on the premise
that anyone could do the same thing if they followed a strict success
strategy where any sense of artisitic integrity, personal dignity, and
career longevity is supressed to acheive the single goal of reaching the Top
of the Pops.
Here and there they discuss the fragility of the music industry in language
that strangely anticipates today's digital music "revolution", and of course
the term KLF itself stands for Kopyright Liberation Front.
It was just re-issued, so you should be able to find it at amazon or bn or
wherever. Happy reading.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Davison [mailto:yoshi@enteract.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 1:04 PM
> To: Dot Bot
> Cc: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: Re: [idm] KLF 1987
>
>
> i dunno if it's been reissued but the KLF is always worth it
> on principle
> if not for the music, which is sometimes whack but goddamn if
> they arent
> the fucking coolest band ever just for the Brits thing (Bill
> Drummond with
> a Machine Gun. yow) and the Burning a Million Pounds thing.
>
> their whole attitude represents a higher consciousness of pop culture
>
> love 'em
> josh
>
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> On Wed, 24 May 2000, Dot Bot wrote:
>
> > Hi there
> > Does anybody know if the KLF album "1987 (what the
> > fuck is going on)" by any chance has been re:issued?
> > It sounds strange if so, but I found a near mint copy
> > very cheap last weekend.
> > So am I a lucky guy or did I just buy a not-so-good
> > album for no real good reason?
> >
> > thanks in advance,
> >
> > franz
> >
> >
> >
> >
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