and there's not one ounce of originality in any of their work
Yeah, and how about the collage artists/life artits/tricksters/pranksters? Duchamp? Negativland? They ARE original!!! BOOOOOOOOO!!!!
While one has to admit that "Doctorin' The Tardis" was ripped from various other sources and "What Time Is Love?" is based around a riff from Andrew Lloyd Webber - where exactly do "It's Grim Up North", "Last Train To Trancentral" and their biggest success "3 A.M. Eternal" fit in here ?
Hm. I thought about it yesterday. Let's see: 3AM Eternal uses directly the KC and The Sunshine Band's "That's the way aha ahaI like it aha aha"-phrases. While having international success as The Timelords they even referred to a future use in their Manual book. See also: Dance to the music/Jams have a party. Last Train To Trancentral uses those woo-woo sounds from the Rolling Stones' Sympathy For the Devil track. The woo-woo sounds were also used by Thrill Kill Kult (who, along with the KLF are probably the only ones who weren't sued by the Stones. Carter USM, but even Janet Jackson had to pay heavy royalties for using snippets or vocal phrases -NOT samples!!!- from the Stones' work. While Robbie Williams stole the whole fucking Sympathy song, renamed it "Let Me Entertain You". Was he sued? I don't think so...). The Sympathy... track was covered by many artits, but those fun-loving Slovenians, Laibach did it best: they released a whole album from their versions... See also: The What Time Is Love Story. America: WTIL has a Motörhead-sound-alike guitar ("Ace Of Spades"). Justified... has the Jimi H. sound-alike guitar ("Voodoo Chile"). These are not just rip-offs. These are REFERENCES to the original songs, built into another songs. They give further meanings to the KLF tracks.
I wonder if it wasn't for Tony Thorpe the klf would not exists or had any tracks to use
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! Sacrilege!!!! a Gyerek "Usually we lose but sometimes we win, so light up and let us begin" (Shivaree) _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail