The White Room/Justified & Ancient

Artist: The KLF
Label: Arista
Category: Music

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Media: Audio Cassette

UPC: 078221870740
EAN: 0078221870740
ASIN: B000002VMO

Release Date: 1992-02-20

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Tracks:

What Time Is Love? [LP Mix]
Make It Rain
3 A.M. Eternal [Live at the S.S.L.]
Church of the KLF
Last Train to Trancentral [Live from the Lost Continent]
Build a Fire
White Room
No More Tears
Justified and Ancient

Tracks:

Stand by the Jams
Stand by the Jams [12" Version]
White Room [Version]
Justified and Ancient [All Bound for Mu Mu Land]
Let Them Eat Ice Cream

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Customer Reviews:

Not a bad influential acid house album, but it's so cheesy and unaccessible that most non-acid house fans simply won't like it.......2006-01-03

This was a very influential acid house album in its day, but it hasn't aged well at all. It's not terrible, but most people simply will hate it. It's DEFINITELY acid house - you either like it or you dont (though some songs contain some interesting instrumentation ideas. As a whole, though, it's hard to listen to and very much a guilty pleasure). I can't imagine that most people would have fun dancing to this as that's essentialy all it's good for. I'm pretty confident in saying the only song most people will enjoy is the first one (which really starts about a minute into the song - it's still a VERY guilty pleasure). The rest are pretty hard to listen to, even IF parts of the songs are interesting (usually the electronic bits). I would've given it 2.5 stars, but its historical influence pushes it to a 3. Not recommended unless you're interested in the history of acid house or if you're just a die-hard acid house fan.

Highlights include:
"What Time Is Love? (LP Mix)"
"Make It Rain" (certain parts of it)
"3 A.M. Eternal (Live)" (certain parts of it)
"Church Of The KLF" (some of the electronic parts are interesting)
"Last Train To Transcentral (LP Mix)" (parts of it)
"The White Room" (SMALL parts of it)
"No More Tears" (it's not bad)

One of the greatest music industry jokes has turned into a truly classic LP ..........2005-08-14

If you ran into James Cauthy & Bill Drummond today, they would probably tell you how much they hated the KLF (which stood for the Kopyright Liberation Front). After releasing "The History of the Jams a.k.a. the Timelords" LP on TVT (which features sample theivery that rivals the Beastie Boys' "Paul's Botique") and realising a #1 hit song ("Doctorin' the Tardis"), he two musical pranksters wanted to release a pop album, just to see how easy it is to win a #1 single. And you know what? They did just that.

If one listens to "the White Room" today, it's obvious that they were intentionally trying to make the most ridiculous album they could think up of. (Recall, they even released a book before this album's release entitled "The Manual: How to Make #1 Singles With the Least Amount of Effort"). This is a full-on yet masterfully constructed prank. Just listen to the lyrics of the version of "Justified & Ancient" that closes the LP (the one WITHOUT Tammy Wynette): "They're justified & they're ancient / And they know what time is love / Rockman, he's just made of bricks / and Kingboy loves his screws / The JAMS don't need no master plan / To do whatever, whatever they can / Oooh nah-nahnahnahnah" This is not high art by any means. Yet, the more one sees that it's a joke, the funnier the album gets.

But the music? For just about being 15 years old at this point, it holds up REMARKABLY well. Opening track "What Time is Love?", after the brief mellow chorus of "Justified & Ancient", a sample of MC5's "Kick Out the Jams" kicks in, and then full-on techno keyboards start up (which sounds like the theme that guys who made the "Mortal Kombat" theme blatantly stole from). It's a dance-floor grinder in the highest order, and harder than any of the songs on the album.

"Last Train to Transcentral" continues on the electro-dance-burner trend. "3 A.M. Eternal," though good, isn't even one of the best singles on the album. Though the radio singles are no doubt fascinating (and hearing Tammy Wynette, a country starlet, sing jibberish like "All Bound for Mu Mu Land" is very amusing), songs like the title track get lost in the mix. And "The White Room" is a fantastically catchy piece of work, featuring mellow almost monologue-ish verses (which somehow sound like Chris Martin nowadays), and an irresistable oboe (!) rythym line. Even the 4-chord keyboard melody of "Make It Rain" manages to make its catchy way into your head. And to balance it all out, the mellow "Build a Fire" makes surprisingly effective use of slide guitars for the penultimate chill-out song on the LP.

It's an odd contradiction of an album. For something that was made as a total joke and only to make money, it holds up to the test of time amazingly well. Sure, they may be waiting for World Peace before they record again ... but, for all we know, this could be just another elaborate joke ...

Definitive dance music.......2005-06-14

It has to be said, although many have done so already, that the KLF's 1992 LP The White Room is probably the best dance music album ever recorded. Splitting its nine tracks between chart-friendly techno and blissed-out ambient, the disc covers a diverse range of styles which serves to make it all the more essential.

Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty were obviously well ahead of their time, and their popularity in the UK proves that (only five singles released, charting at 5, 1, 2, 2 and 4 respectively). They disbanded on 5 May 1992, and took their entire back catalogue with them, which included the legendary Black Room LP.

The highlights on this album are obviously the three dance singles, of which Last Train to Trancentral is the best. But the other cuts, such as Justified and Ancient, shouldn't be ignored.

This album is such a masterpiece, I've had to give it five stars-- the only time I've ever done so.

Great Dance Classic!.......2005-01-19

Hey
the packaging is very missleading! I thought it was going to be two cds but then discovered that they added the single to JUSTIFIED AND ANCIENT onto the White Room Album which i thought was so cool! So i don't have to have two cds and keep trading.
I bought this cd for the JUSTIFIED & ANCIENT song but then found out that there are some great dance tunes along with some slow grooves. BUILD A FIRE is a great song to chill to. The other singles WHAT TIME IS LOVE?, 3 A.M. ETERNAL, LAST TRAIN TO TRANCENTRAL are very good and bring me back to the days in Bismarck. So if you remember when you first heard these song then they'll take you back!
My love though is JUSTIFIED & ANCIENT
STAND BY THE JAMS 7" (this is the radio edit and is only 3 min long)
STAND BY THE JAMS 12" (this is a longer version with a break that i think is very cool a guy comes on and explains about the Justified and ancient traveling in their ice cream van very cool)
ALL BOUND FOR MU MU LAND (this has Tammy singing the Chorus but Maxine Harvey sings the lyrics. This is 7 min long also. Very cool)
LET THEM EAT ICE CREAM (this is like a dub version it has the guitar form the song and the hype men talking but no words just the music)
All in all i love this cd!

Why no go to sleep?.......2004-07-24

I love this album, but for some reason the best track from the white room soundtrack "Go to Sleep" isn't on it. Being as the KLF deliberately deleted their back catalogue and are the Kopyright Liberation Frount I'm sure people sourcing it from other sources will not burn for this one. Nice to have the high-fidelity though, but I am confused by the omision of the best track.

Music CD:

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The Homecoming Concert ~ Tim Hardin

Dead Or Dreaming ~ Into Eternity

Small Deadly Space ~ Fight

Casa Villegas ~ Luis Villegas

Prospect ~ C%C3%BAig, Cuig

Enregistre en Public ~ Stocks

Io Sono Qui ~ Claudio Baglioni

Big Heart - Classical Egyptian Dance ~ Essam Rashad

Second City Divas-Women of Chicago Musical Theatre

Chase ~ Giorgio Moroder