What's that you say? You're not particularly into early 90s house/ dance music? You think it's all super lame? Or perhaps you think, "Oh, yeah!! I remember that song '3 AM Eternal.' Junior high school ruled." Let us be the ones to tell you - there is SO much more to this story.
The KLF are known for their popular dance songs "3 AM Eternal," "What Time is Love," and "Justified and Ancient." You may also know them for their novelty pop song done under the band name "The Timelords," called "Doctorin' the Tardis." What you may NOT know is that they gave a big middle finger to the British music industry with an outrageous display at the 1992 Brit awards, deleted their entire music catalog, and burned a million quid. Why, you ask? The answer will take us deep into discordian thought - you may never see the world quite the same way again.
We have a lot of reference links and photos for you this time - so please enjoy.
References:
Inside the Resurgence of Discordianism – the Chaotic, LSD-Fuelled Anti-Religion - Vice article that details the birth of Discordianism
Principia Discordia - Website devoted to bringing the Principia to the masses.
All You need Is Love - Song by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (The Jams)
Tammy Wynette and the KLF - 1992 article on her collaboration with KLF
KLF - the making of Justified & Ancient and America: What time is love? - Ever wonder what it is really like on the set of a music video? It's bizarre.
Compilation videos - The Yeah Fraggle Yeah video is missing its part 1, so I include a different video series that covers that section, along with parts 2-4 of the YFY compilation mentioned in the podcast
The Klf: (K Foundation) - Burn A Million Quid (Part 1 of 5) - Part 1 of a separate series, also good
Why did The K Foundation burn a million quid? (part 2 of 4) - Parts 3 and 4 should be in the Up Next selections
Return of the KLF: ‘They were agents of chaos. Now the world they anticipated is here’