The North Cops It!

The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - It's Grim Up North

Ripped from a compact disc single released on KLF Communications (JAMS 028CD) in 1991 to high quality lossless flac audio. Highly inappropriate for Easter Day I know, but The JAMs were resurrected on this one off tribute to all that is great about northern Britain. Steam trains, sheep, Jerusalem, Bolton, Widnes, Salford, Grimsby, Hebden Bridge and the M62. Ey Up Lads.

1 It's Grim Up North (Radio Edit)
2 It's Grim Up North (Part 1)
3 It's Grim Up North (Part 2)
4 Jerusalem On The Moors

Stevie Cops It

Disco 2000 - One Love Nation

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on KLF Communications (D 2002) in 1988 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio. The JAMs backing singers were June Montana (ex-Brilliant) and Jimmy Cauty's wife Cressida. In a brief hybrid of The KLF, they became Disco 2000 and released three feisty disco singles, more Bananrama in style than Justified and Ancient in attitude. Most should recognise One Love Nation as a re-working of The JAMs Candystore.

A1 One Love Nation (Radio Edit)
A2 One Love Nation (Extended Mix)
B1 One Love Nation (Club Mix)

Disco 2000 - Uptight

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on KLF Communications (D 2003) in 1988 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio. I gave up my copy of I Gotta CD many years ago, so have included an indifferent lossless rip of this single in the archive. Thanks again to penguinflight for these two.

A1 Uptight (Everything's Alright) (Discorama Mix)

B1 Mr. Hotty Loves You

Sly Cops It

The KLF - Burn The Bastards

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on KLF Communications (KLF 002T) in 1988 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio. With 1987 out of the way, The JAMs were no more and were now The KLF. 1988 was going to be a big year, but first they had to play tribute to Sly Stone and a host of others in this disco party mash-up from the end of 1987. Also recorded as JAMs Have A Party and Burn The Beat, this final fling from the Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu failed to break the charts, it is likely the title chosen for the single prevented any airplay.

A1 Burn The Bastards
B1 Burn The Beat

Burn The Beat

The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - Who Killed The Jams?

Ripped from a vinyl album released on KLF Communications (JAMS LP 2) in 1988 to high resolution 24-bit lossless flac audio. Tricky second album syndrome - suddenly everybody was paying attention and the sample police were on stand by. Who Killed The JAMs? could never live up to the infamy of 1987 but it did mark the end of those Justified Ancients.

A1 Candystore
A2 Candyman
A3 Disaster Fund Collection
A4 King Boy's Dream
B1 The Porpoise Song
B2 Prestwich Prophet's Grin
B3 Burn The Bastards

King Boy D & Rockman Rock Cop It!

The Justifies Ancients Of Mu Mu - 1987 The Jams 45 Edits

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on KLF Communications (JAMS 25T) in 1987 to high resolution 24-bit lossless flac audio. Following the withdrawal of the original album, the JAMS released it as a 12" single with all the unauthorised samples cut out! The sleeve notes do include instructions how to replace the gaps, though I am sure not too many of you did.

A1 Side One
B1 Side Two

Petula Cops It!

The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - Down Town

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on KLF Communications (JAMS 27T) in 1987 to high resolution 24-bit lossless flac audio. The archive also contains another special 'treat' courtesy of blog contributor penguinflight.

A1 Down Town
B1 Down Town

Whitney Cops It!

The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - Whitney Joins The J.A.M.s

Ripped from a 12" vinyl single released on KLF Communications (JAMS 24T) in 1987 to high resolution 24-bit lossless flac audio. It is thirty years since Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty invaded our lives as those Justified Ancients with the immortal 1987 What The Fuck Is Going On? long player. I covered the album in depth a few months back, time now for a long weekend of posts commemorating their subsequent work.

A1 Whitney Joins The J.A.M s

This was a single-sided release in case anybody was hunting a b-side.

Shag Fest

The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - Shag Times

Ripped from a double vinyl album released on KLF Communications (JAMS LP 3) in 1989 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio. I upped a rip of my cd version of this several years ago, so I thought I'd have a go at the vinyl double album.

Shag Times does feature a few tracks from 1987, but moves things on a bit with excerpts from the more mundane Who Killed The Jams?, alongside the classic JAMs singles and those from the Disco 2000, Timelords and KLF alter-egos.

Nobody is safe from the master samplers as they flaunt copyrights at every opportunity set to an eighties scotch-rap beat. Whitney Joins The Jams was a big favourite back then as the late pop-soul songstress gets mullered by Drummond and Cauty to an Isaac Hayes disco beat, British heirloom Petula Clark goes gospel house in the glorious Downtown which in truth celebrates alcoholic down'n'outs, Sly Stone gets ripped off on the hi-energy Burn The Bastards, then follows the huge hit Doctorin' The Tardis, which all connected eventually disassociated themselves following the Gary Glitter revelations.

A1 The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - All You Need Is Love
A2 The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - Don't Take Five (Take What You Want)
A3 The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - Whitney Joins The JAMS
B1 The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - Down Town
B2 The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - Candyman
B3 The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - Burn The Bastards
B4 The Timelords - Doctorin' The Tardis
C1 The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - Whitney Joins The JAMS (Remix)
C2 Disco 2000 - I Love Disco 2000
C3 The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - Down Town (Remix)
C4 The KLF - Burn The Beat (Club Mix)
D1 The KLF - Prestwich Prophet's Grin (Instrumental)
D2 The KLF - The Porpoise Song (Instrumental)
D3 The Timelords - Doctorin' The Tardis (Minimal)

Hey Hey, We Are Not The KLF

The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - 1987 What The Fuck Is Going On?

Ripped from a vinyl album released on KLF Communications (JAMS LP 1) in 1987 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio. Here's a record which should need no introduction to most. My copy has seen a lot of use over the years and I also note that the pressing quality was never the best. I've also pitched in with a rip of the bootleg compact disc version which quite bizarrely features a mis-credited 36-minute live set from Big Black as track three! Enjoy!

A1 Hey Hey We Are Not The Monkees
A2 Don't Take Five (Take What You Want)
A3 Rockman Rock Parts 2 And 3
B1 Me Ru Con
B2 The Queen And I
B3 All You Need Is Love
B4 Next

Baaaaa!

KLF - Chill Out

I was turned off by the acid house scene and avoided the KLF big dance hits What Time Is Love? and 3AM Eternal. Chill Out was something quite different. By the late eighties Jimmy Cauty had also been part of The Orb project, and my final JAMs related post is this 45 minute esoteric opus. The cover states there are 14 tracks but it rips as one complete piece of music, and I strongly recommend that the only way to appreciate Chill Out is to listen from beginning to end. So, make yourself a cup of coffee, put this on your hi-fi, sit back and relax, and enjoy from beginning to end.

Ripped from a compact disc released on KLF Communications (JAMS CD5) in 1990 to high quality lossless flac audio.
1 Brownsville Turnaround On The Tex-Mex Border
2 Pulling Out Of Ricardo And The Dusk Is Falling Fast
3 Six Hours To Louisiana, Black Coffee Going Cold
4 Dream Time In Lake Jackson
5 Madrugada Eterna
6 Justified And Ancient Seems A Long Time Ago
7 Elvis On The Radio, Steel Guitar In My Soul
8 3am Somewhere Out Of Beaumont
9 Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard
10 Trancentral Lost In My Mind
11 The Lights Of Baton Rouge Pass By
12 A Melody From A Past Life Keeps Pulling Me Back
13 Rock Radio Into The Nineties And Beyond
14 Alone Again With The Dawn Coming Up

Mooo Mooo!

The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu - Shag Times

It's time to dig out the classics with Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty. I upped 1987 What The Fuck's Going On? years ago and was planning a lossless re-up but fellow lossless blogger Vinyl 301 has ripped flawlessly in flac here. Therefore I have reached for the wonderful Shag Times compilation CD, which does feature a few tracks from 1987, but moves things on a bit with excerpts from the more mundane Who Killed The Jams?, alongside the classic JAMs singles and those from the Disco 2000, Timelords and KLF alter-egos.

Nobody is safe from the master samplers as they flaunt copyrights at every opportunity set to an eighties scotch-rap beat. Whitney Joins The Jams was a big favourite back then as the late pop-soul songstress gets mullered by Drummond and Cauty to an Isaac Hayes disco beat, British heirloom Petula Clark goes gospel house in the glorious Downtown which in truth celebrates alcoholic down'n'outs, Sly Stone gets ripped off on the hi-energy Burn The Bastards, then follows the huge hit Doctorin' The Tardis, which all connected eventually disassociated themselves following the Gary Glitter revelations. I am rather partial to the minimalist version which concludes the compilation.

Ripped from a compact disc album released in 1989 on KLF Communications (JAMS CD3) to high quality lossless flac audio.

01. All You Need Is Love
02. Don't Take Five (Take What You Want)
03. Whitney Joins The Jams
04. Downtown
05. Candyman
06. Burn The Bastards
07. Doctorin' The Tardis
08. Whitney Joins The Jams (Remix)
09. I Love Disco 2000
10. Down Town (Remix)
11. Burn The Beat
12. Prestwich Prophet's Grin
13. Porpoise Song
14. Doctorin' The Tardis (Minimal)