This discography lists the key British and notable international releases of The KLF and the other pseudonyms of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty. It also details the other releases on their independent record label, KLF Communications, by KLF-spinoff Disco 2000 and Space (Cauty's solo work). In the United Kingdom—their home country—Drummond and Cauty released six albums and a wide array of 12 " singles on KLF Communications. In other territories their material was typically issued under licence by local labels.
Although the duo's early works as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (The JAMs) aroused media interest, with many singles being awarded "single of the week" by various music publications, [1] Drummond and Cauty neither sought nor found mainstream chart success until the release of The Timelords' million-selling DIY release "Doctorin' the Tardis" in May 1988. [2] The KLF's single "Kylie Said to Jason", from The White Room soundtrack, was designed for chart success, but failed to reach the UK Top 100. [3] However, The KLF achieved international chart success with the string of pop-house singles that began with "What Time Is Love? (Live at Trancentral)", and they became the internationally highest-selling singles band of 1991. [4] [5]
Note that this is a not a complete list; compilation appearances of otherwise available tracks, bootleg recordings, and certain very limited edition remix and promotional singles have been excluded. [n 1]
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certification | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [6] | UK Indie [7] | AUS [8] [9] | AUT [10] | NLD [11] | SWE [12] | SWI [13] | US [14] | |||
| 1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) |
| — | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Who Killed The JAMs? |
| — | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| The "What Time Is Love?" Story |
| — | ||||||||
| Chill Out |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Space |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| The White Room |
| 3 | — | 5 | 13 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 39 | |
| "—" denotes that the release did not chart | ||||||||||
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK Indie [7] | |||
| Shag Times |
| 5 | |
| MU [16] |
| — | |
| This Is What The KLF Is About I |
| ||
| This Is What The KLF Is About II |
| ||
| Solid State Logik 1 |
| — | |
| Come Down Dawn |
| ||
| Solid State Logik 2 |
| — | |
| The White Room (1989 Director's Cut) |
| ||
| "—" denotes that the release did not chart | |||
| Year | Single | Artist | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | Album | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [6] [17] | UK Indie [7] | AUS [8] [9] | AUT [10] | IRE [18] | NLD [19] | NOR [20] | SWE [12] [21] | SWI [13] [22] | US [23] | US Dance [23] | |||||
| 1987 | "All You Need Is Love"
| The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu | — | - | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Single Only | |
"All You Need Is Love (106BPM)"
| — | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1986 (What The Fuck's Going On?) | |||
"Whitney Joins The JAMs"
| — | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Singles only | |||
"1987 (The JAMS 45 Edits)"
| — | 35 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
"I Gotta CD"
| Disco 2000 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
"Down Town"
| The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu | — | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1988 | "Burn the Bastards" /"Burn the Beat" [n 2]
| The KLF [n 3] | — | 15 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Who Killed The JAMs? | |
"One Love Nation"
| Disco 2000 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Singles only | ||
"Doctorin' the Tardis"
| The Timelords | 1 | 1 | 2 | — | 4 | 25 | 10 | — | — | 66 | 16 | |||
| "What Time Is Love? (Pure Trance Original)"
| The KLF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1989 | "Uptight (Everything's Alright)"
| Disco 2000 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "3 a.m. Eternal (Pure Trance Original)"
| The KLF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "What Time Is Love? (Pure Trance Mixes)"
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
"Kylie Said to Jason"
| — | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "3 a.m. Eternal (Pure Trance Mixes)"
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| "What Time Is Love? (Power Remix)"
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| 1990 | "Last Train to Trancentral (Pure Trance Mixes)"
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "What Time Is Love? (Live at Trancentral)"
| 5 | — | 73 | 23 | — | 15 | — | 14 | 23 | — | 13 | The White Room | |||
| "What Time Is Love? (Remodelled & Remixed)"
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
"It's Grim Up North (Original Club Mix)"
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| 1991 | "3 a.m. Eternal (Live at the S.S.L.)"
| 1 | — | 3 | 7 | — | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | The White Room | ||
"3 a.m. Eternal (The Moody Boys Selection)"
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
"Make It Rain / No More Tears"
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | The White Room | |||
| "Last Train to Trancentral (Live from the Lost Continent)"
| 2 | — | 5 | 6 | — | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | — | 17 |
| |||
| "Last Train to Trancentral (Meets The Moody Boys Uptown)"
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
"America: What Time Is Love?"
| 4 | — | 40 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 57 | 10 | Singles only | |||
"It's Grim Up North"
| The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu | 10 | — | 136 | — | — | — | — | — | 26 | — | — | |||
"Justified and Ancient"
| The KLF (featuring Tammy Wynette) | 2 | — | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 2 | The White Room (USA) | ||
| 1992 | "3 a.m. Eternal (Top of The Pops)" [n 5]
| The KLF with Extreme Noise Terror | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Singles only | |
| 1993 | "K Cera Cera (War Is Over If You Want It)" [n 6]
| The K Foundation presents The Red Army Choir | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1997 | "Fuck the Millennium"
| 2K (featuring Acid Brass) | 28 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 29 | — | — | — | ||
| 2017 | "2023: A Record" | The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "—" denotes that the release did not chart | |||||||||||||||
The following tracks were remixed by The KLF:
| Year | Original artist | Song | Remix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Depeche Mode | "Policy of Truth" | "Trancentral Mix" |
| Pet Shop Boys | "So Hard" | "The KLF vs Pet Shop Boys" | |
| "It Must Be Obvious" | "UFO Mix" | ||
| 1991 | Moody Boys | "What Is Dub?" | "Kings of Low Frequency Dub Version" |
| "Dub Is What?" |
In 1989, as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, the duo produced the Moody Boys' single "First National Rapper" and its B-side, "Funky Zulu".
The following tracks and remixes were made available only on Various Artists compilation albums. Compilation appearances by tracks which were also released on an album or single are not included. Mixes for DJs and megamixes are also excluded.
| Year | Artist | Song | Compilation Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Discotec 2000 | "Feel This" | Eternity Project One |
| 1990 | The KLF | "Build a Fire (Lenny Dee Remix)" [n 7] | Energy - DJ's In The House |
| 1991 | The KLF | "What Time Was Love" [n 8] | Give Peace A Dance: A CND Compilation |
| 1995 | One World Orchestra | "The Magnificent" | The Help Album |
All titles credited to The KLF and released on VHS video.
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Waiting | KLF VT007. Ambient house film with an original soundtrack. |
| 1991 | The Stadium House Trilogy | Picture Music International. Video performances of "3 a.m. Eternal", "Last Train to Trancentral", and "What Time Is Love?"; and a new instrumental piece, "This Is Not What The KLF Is About". |
The following K Foundation films have all had public screenings, but have not been released on any home video format.
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Watch the K Foundation Burn a Million Quid | 55 minutes of footage showing the K Foundation (Cauty and Drummond) burning one million pounds. Premiered on 23 August 1995 on the island of Jura. |
| 1995 | Pissing in the Wind | Footage of Drummond, Cauty and Mark Hawker urinating into the wind. Shot on 3 November 1995 and premiered at Glasgow University on the same day. |
| 1997 | This Brick | 4 minutes of a still picture of a brick made from the ashes of the million pounds incinerated by the K Foundation. Premiered at the Barbican Hall, London on 17 September 1997. |
| Year | Authors | Title | Publisher | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Jimmy Cauty Bill Drummond | The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way) | KLF Publications | ISBN 0-86359-616-9 |
| 2017 | Jimmy Cauty Bill Drummond | 2023: A Trilogy | Faber & Faber | ISBN 9780571342242 |
The following KLF projects were announced but not released. Some of these, but by no means all, circulate as bootleg recordings/videos; some may not have been recorded at all. [n 9]
| Year | Format | Project | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Flexidisc | "Deep Shit (Part 1)" | Given catalogue number DS 1. KLF Communications Information Sheet 8 (1990) claimed that 500 copies had been pressed but had "never been deemed safe to release". [3] [30] |
| Graphic novel | "Deep Shit (The Further Adventures Of The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu)" | A comic book or graphic novel drawn by Cauty (with words by Drummond) was mentioned in NME and The Face and various KLF Information Sheets. [31] [32] [33] Originally scheduled for sometime in 1989, later said in KLF Info Sheet 4 (1989) that it has been pushed to 1990 before cancellation. Jimmy allegedly thought it was crap and threw it out. Some frames later re-appeared in the Advanced Acoustic Armaments Cook Book. | |
| Single | "Love Trance" ["Pure Trance 3"] | KLF 006T / KLF 006R. Sleeves and labels printed. Scheduled for 14 November 1988 [34] | |
| Single | "Turn Up the Strobe" ["Pure Trance 4"] | KLF 007T / KLF 007R. Sleeves printed. Scheduled for 28 November 1988. [35] | |
| Single | "The Lovers' Side" ["Pure Trance 5"] | KLF 008T / KLF 008R. Scheduled for 12 December 1988 (Later dropped in favour of E-Train to Trancentral) [36] This song also featured on the unreleased version of the album The White Room (see below). | |
| Single | "E-Train To Trancentral" ["Pure Trance 5"] | KLF 008T. Sleeves and labels printed. Scheduled for 12 December 1988 [37] | |
| 1989 | Single | "Deep Shit (Part 3)" | KLF 010R. Reportedly, 6 copies were pressed. [3] [38] |
| Single | What Time Is Love? (The Monster Attack Mix) | KLF 004M. Scheduled for 1989. 4 Copies reported to exist. [39] | |
| Single | Go To Sleep | KLF 008T Later re-named to KLF 012T / KLF 012R. Single for the upcoming The White Room. Scheduled for 1989. [40] | |
| Album | The White Room - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | JAMS LP4 / JAMS CD4 / JAMS MC4 / JAMS DAT4. Very different from the White Room album eventually released, this widely bootlegged recording was scrapped after the commercial failure of the single "Kylie Said to Jason". [3] | |
| Film | The White Room | KLF VT006. The KLF's road movie. A rough version was completed in 1989, before The KLF decided to film an "Outer Film" to augment it. [3] This was never completed. The "Inner Film" has been screened privately, and bootleg copies of it circulate. It was cancelled in 1990 due to the amount of money required to continue filming along with the commercial failure of "Kylie Said to Jason". [41] | |
| Single | Deep Shit (Part 3) | KLF 010IT. Scheduled for September 1989. 6 copies reported to exist after pressing plant refused to press any further copies. [42] | |
| Single | No More Tears | KLF 011G / KLF 011IT / KLF 011R / KLF 011CD / KLF 011C. [43] Single for the forthcoming The White Room film/album (see above.) Announced as a Christmas Single in KLF Info Sheet 4 (1989) [44] | |
| 1990 | Single | Madrugada Eterna | KLF ETERNA 1. Scheduled for March 1990. Reported 20 copies exist. Contains the "Madrugada Eterna (303 Edit)" used in The White Room Promotional Films. The "Club Mix" from this Single later re-appeared in The White Room (1989 Director's Cut). [45] |
| 1991 | Promotional Single | "America: What Time Is January?" | KLF 92 PROMO 2. Unreleased remix of "America: What Time Is Love?" Small amounts of single sided promos were pressed on black and clear vinyl. [46] [47] |
| 1992 | Album | The Black Room | The KLF started work on a final album, but it remains unfinished and unissued. [48] |
| Film | The Rites of Mu | Promotional VHS only; KLF VT014. "Documentary" filmed on the island of Jura. Premiered in America, 21 May 1991. Aired on MTV Europe, 24 June 1992. However, never officially released. | |
| Compilation Album | Mu (Revised Edition) | Cancelled due to KLF leaving the music business. Originally planned to have 4 new tracks including new "White Room". | |
| 2021 | Compilation | Kick Out D'JAMs | Chapter 1 of "Samplecity Thru Trancentral" |
| Pure Trance Series | Chapter 2 of "Samplecity Thru Trancentral" | ||
| Moody Boys Selected | Chapter 4 of "Samplecity Thru Trancentral" |
| Year | Format | Project | Notes |
| 1987 | Studio DAT | Whitney Joins The JAMs | Confirmed to exist. 2 Variants exist, "Demo Mix 1" (7:19) and "Demo Mix 2" (5:51). Later released by Positive Void Communications sometime around 2013. (Allegedly rescued from a skip Jimmy Cauty was using.) |
| Studio Master Cassette | Who Killed The JAMs? | Studio Master Cassette containing early versions of tracks such as "Clean Up Men", "The Cage" and "King Boy's Rap". | |
| 1988 | Studio Master Tape | Doctorin' The Tardis | Several versions exist. One known as "Doctor Who" (7" and 12"), "Doctorin' The Tardis (Newest Edit)" and "Gary In The Tardis". |
| ? | The Lover's Side | 12" Master version of The Lover's Side (Possibly KLF 008T.) | |
| 1989 | ? | Leave This Party (Radio Mix) | Early version of "Kylie Said to Jason" from 1989. |
| ? | Kylie Said to Jason (Edits) | Contains 7" Edited Master and Radio Edit Master. | |
| ? | Kylie Said to Jason | 7" and 12" Master Tapes from 4 August 1989. | |
| ? | The White Room (OST) (Un-Edited) | Contains early versions of The White Room (OST). Contains only 8 Tracks. | |
| ? | The White Room (OST) | Contains final version of The White Room (OST). Contains 10 tracks. | |
| 1990 | Master Cassette | What Time Is Love? (2nd Remix) | A master cassette of various unreleased mixes such as "Extended Primal Mix", "Extended Techno Slam Mix", "70 Foot Monster Attack Mix" as well as the Pure Trance Mix 1 and 2 (labelled "Original Mix" and "Sub Bass Acid Mix") |
| Master Cassette | What Time Is Love? | 4 new unseen mixes included such as "KWS Mix", "KWS No Rap", "16 Bar Edit" and "BKWDS Edit". Cassette datted 12 April 1990. | |
| Master Cassette | What Time Is Love? | Contains Live At Trancentral 7" and 12" Edits as well as the "Unfinished Edit". Dated 22 May 1990. | |
| Master Cassette | 3AM Eternal | Contains 7" Radio Edit Demo. Dated 28 October 1990 A second tape from the same day contains the 12" Demo. A third tape contained the "TOTP Edit". | |
| Master Cassette | 3AM Eternal | Contains multiple demos such as "7" Live @ The S.S.L", "7" Guns of Mu Mu" (as well as 12" Versions.) Dated October 1990. | |
| 1990/91 | Master Cassette | 3AM Eternal (Mixes) | Contains 7 mixes labelled Mix 1-7. "Mix 3" is known as the "No Rap Edit", "Mix 4" is known as "The Anti-Acapella Edit" and "Mix 6" is the "Live At The S.S.L Demo" |
| 1991 | Studio Mixpass | Last Train to Trancentral | Contains 7" Master Edit. Dated 15 February 1991. |
| ? | Justified and Ancient | Contains a mix known online as the "Ice Cream Men Edit" - Labelled as "Master Full Length Version". Dated 8 August 1991. | |
| ? | Justified and Ancient | Contains "Edited Tammy Master". Dated 4 September 1991. | |
| Studio Cassette | 3AM Eternal (KLF vs ENT) | Contains 3 versions "3AM Eternal (KLF vs ENT)", "3AM Eternal (No Bill Vox)" and "3AM Eternal (KLF vs ENT) (Instrumental)". Dated 12 December 1991 | |
| 1992 | Studio Demo | Make It Rain | Features "Make It Rain (7-2-92 Chords)". Dated 7 February 1992. |
| Internal Demo | America: What Time Is Love? | Contains the same tracks as release "KLF USA 4CD". Dated 24 February 1992. |
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