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7691138 | Play | Don't Take Five (Take What You Want) | 03:58 Tools | |
7691142 | Play | It's Grim Up North (Radio Edit) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691149 | Play | Hey Hey We Are Not the Monkees | 06:06 Tools | |
7691148 | Play | The Queen and I | 00:00 Tools | |
7691161 | Play | All You Need Is Love | 00:00 Tools | |
7691141 | Play | Whitney Joins The Jams | 00:00 Tools | |
7691147 | Play | Me Ru Con | 00:00 Tools | |
7691146 | Play | Jerusalem On The Moors | 00:00 Tools | |
7691145 | Play | It's Grim Up North (Part 2) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691153 | Play | Mind the Gap | 00:00 Tools | |
7691152 | Play | Next | 00:00 Tools | |
7691144 | Play | Candyman | 00:00 Tools | |
7691143 | Play | Burn The Bastards | 00:00 Tools | |
7691154 | Play | Top Of The Pops | 00:00 Tools | |
7691165 | Play | Rockman Rock (parts 2 and 3) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490396 | Play | All You Need Is Love (106 bpm) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691155 | Play | It's Grim Up North | 07:03 Tools | |
7691162 | Play | The Candystore | 00:00 Tools | |
7691159 | Play | King Boy's Dream | 00:00 Tools | |
87101481 | Play | Rockman Rock Parts 2 and 3 | 00:00 Tools | |
7691156 | Play | Disaster Fund Collection | 00:00 Tools | |
7691151 | Play | Burn the Beat | 00:00 Tools | |
7691163 | Play | Doctorin' The Tardis | 00:00 Tools | |
7691158 | Play | The Porpoise Song | 00:00 Tools | |
7691150 | Play | Downtown | 00:00 Tools | |
7691160 | Play | Prestwich Prophet's Grin | 00:00 Tools | |
7691176 | Play | Me Ru Con (0 BPM) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691173 | Play | Porpoise Song | 00:00 Tools | |
7691179 | Play | Next (100 BPM) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691169 | Play | The Candyman | 00:00 Tools | |
7691171 | Play | It's Grim Up North (club mix) | 00:00 Tools | |
87101482 | Play | Gary In The Tardis | 00:00 Tools | |
50490398 | Play | Mind the Gap [unlisted] | 00:00 Tools | |
7691172 | Play | The Porpoise Song (instrumental remix) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691192 | Play | Don't Take Five | 00:00 Tools | |
7691164 | Play | Whitney Joins The JAMs (remix) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691185 | Play | All You Need Is Love (original) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691167 | Play | Down Town (remix) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691168 | Play | It's Grim Up North London (Full Moon Scientist Remix 2) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691300 | Play | Top of the Pops [unlisted] | 00:00 Tools | |
7691166 | Play | Deep Shit [The Cult of Mu] (7" Mix) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691189 | Play | Down Town (118 bpm) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691175 | Play | It's Grim Up North (omsk mix) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691199 | Play | It's Grim Up North (Radio Edit | 00:00 Tools | |
50490399 | Play | Top Of The Pops + All You Need Is Love | 00:00 Tools | |
7691174 | Play | Burn The Beat (club mix) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691178 | Play | Prestwich Prophet's Grin (instrumental remix) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691177 | Play | I Love Disco 2000 | 00:00 Tools | |
7691242 | Play | It's Grim Up North (deep dive mix) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691229 | Play | Rockman Rock (Parts 2 And 3) + Why Did You Throw Away Your Giro | 00:00 Tools | |
50490400 | Play | It's Grim Up North Part 1 | 00:00 Tools | |
7691231 | Play | Hey Hey We Are Not The Monkees [100 BPM] | 00:00 Tools | |
7691207 | Play | It's Grim Up North [Radio Edit] | 00:00 Tools | |
7691188 | Play | Whitney Joins The JAMs (remix) ["114 BPM"] | 00:00 Tools | |
7691230 | Play | Don't Take Five (Take What You Want) [89 BPM] | 00:00 Tools | |
7691234 | Play | Rockman Rock Parts 2 And 3 [105 BPM] | 00:00 Tools | |
7691219 | Play | Me Ru Con [0 BPM] | 00:00 Tools | |
7691212 | Play | It's grim up north (for love nor money mix) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691197 | Play | Made @ 3 A.M. Coming Down Off E | 00:00 Tools | |
7691318 | Play | Doctorin The Tardis (Minimal) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691224 | Play | The Queen And I [99 BPM] | 00:00 Tools | |
7691193 | Play | Doctorin' The Tardis (minimal) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691180 | Play | Disaster Fund Collection (12'' Mix) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691201 | Play | Downtown (remix) ["118 BPM"] | 00:00 Tools | |
7691209 | Play | Doctorin' The Tardis (minimal) ["120 BPM"] | 00:00 Tools | |
7691233 | Play | Next [100 BPM] | 00:00 Tools | |
7691186 | Play | Burn The Beat (club mix) ["125 BPM"] | 00:00 Tools | |
7691196 | Play | I Love Disco 2000 ["90 BPM"] | 00:00 Tools | |
50490403 | Play | Hey Hey We Are Not The Monkees / Don't Take Five (Take What You Want) / Rockm... | 00:00 Tools | |
7691184 | Play | Burn The Bastards (the long version) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691252 | Play | ***k The Millennium | 00:00 Tools | |
50490401 | Play | Ivum Naya (Ibo version) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691283 | Play | Deep Shit [The Cult Of MU] (7' Mix) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490407 | Play | Me Ru Con / The Queen And I / All You Need Is Love / Next | 00:00 Tools | |
7691279 | Play | Rap, Rhyme and Scratch Yourself | 00:00 Tools | |
7691232 | Play | It's Grim up North [Part 1] | 00:00 Tools | |
50490402 | Play | Prestwich Prophets Grin (Dance Mix) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691223 | Play | All You Need Is Love (Original Version) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490404 | Play | Fuck The Millenium | 00:00 Tools | |
50490405 | Play | It's Grim Up North (Razormaid) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490406 | Play | All You Need Is Love (106 Bpm) [Very Small Bit Cutoff] | 00:00 Tools | |
7691235 | Play | It's Grim Up North (Original Club Mix) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691312 | Play | The Timelords / Doctorin' The Tardis | 00:00 Tools | |
50490410 | Play | Ivum Naya (Ibo Version) / Rap, Rhyme And Scratch Yourself / Burn The Bastards... | 00:00 Tools | |
50490408 | Play | 08 top of the pops | 00:00 Tools | |
7691215 | Play | 120 BPM | 00:00 Tools | |
7691140 | Play | It's Grim Up North, Part 1 | 00:00 Tools | |
7691247 | Play | Acid Brass / What Time Is Love? [Version K] | 00:00 Tools | |
7691228 | Play | Disaster Fund Collection (12" Mix) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490409 | Play | Candy Store | 00:00 Tools | |
7691220 | Play | Why Did You Throw Away Your Giro? | 00:00 Tools | |
7691216 | Play | The Queen & I | 00:00 Tools | |
7691194 | Play | Fuck the Millennium | 00:00 Tools | |
7691258 | Play | It's Grim Up North (Original) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490411 | Play | 07 The Queen And I | 00:00 Tools | |
7691314 | Play | The Black Room And Terminator 10 (Lost In Venus Mix) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490415 | Play | 03 Don't Take Five (Take What | 00:00 Tools | |
7691214 | Play | Down Town (no bill vox) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490412 | Play | 128 And Rising (Vari-Speed Grim'ix) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691237 | Play | Hey Hey We Are Not The Monkees (Part 1) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490417 | Play | E-Train To Trancentral (Sleepless) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490416 | Play | Burn the Beat (Mu Mu mix) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691240 | Play | Fuck The Millenium [Radio Edit] | 00:00 Tools | |
50490413 | Play | Deep Shit (DJ Kuta & C-Row remix) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490414 | Play | Prestwichs Prophets Grin | 00:00 Tools | |
7691303 | Play | Porpoise Song (Instrumental Remix) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691190 | Play | Fuck The Millennium (Radio Edit) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691238 | Play | The Candy Store | 00:00 Tools | |
7691298 | Play | The JAMs / Burn The Beat | 00:00 Tools | |
7691319 | Play | Hey Hey We Are Not The Monkees (Part 2) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490427 | Play | ***k The Millennium (Radio Edit) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490428 | Play | 114 Bpm | 00:00 Tools | |
50490418 | Play | rockman rock | 00:00 Tools | |
50490419 | Play | The Timelords / Gary In The Tardis | 00:00 Tools | |
50490425 | Play | ***k the Millennium [Radio Edit] | 00:00 Tools | |
50490426 | Play | 10 Next | 00:00 Tools | |
7691270 | Play | Tachograph Overload (The Gate Is Open) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691268 | Play | 118 Bpm | 00:00 Tools | |
7691277 | Play | Rockman Rock (Parts 2 & 3) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490420 | Play | Borderline | 00:00 Tools | |
50490421 | Play | Down Town [no bill vox] | 00:00 Tools | |
7691321 | Play | The JAMs / Downtown | 00:00 Tools | |
50490422 | Play | It's grim up north (part1) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490423 | Play | 01 Hey Hey We Are Not The Monk | 00:00 Tools | |
50490424 | Play | All You Need Is Love (original | 00:00 Tools | |
7691259 | Play | Deep Shit (C-Row Distorsion Extended) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691221 | Play | It's Grim Up North (Club Mix - Pete Wylie) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490438 | Play | It's Grim Up North [Part 2] | 00:00 Tools | |
50490436 | Play | 90 Bpm | 00:00 Tools | |
50490437 | Play | ***k The Millennium (Censored Radio Edit) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490429 | Play | 04 Rockman Rock (Parts 2 and 3 | 00:00 Tools | |
7691288 | Play | Rockman Rock, Pt. 2 & 3 | 00:00 Tools | |
50490430 | Play | The JAMs / Porpoise Song | 00:00 Tools | |
7691320 | Play | 125 Bpm | 00:00 Tools | |
50490432 | Play | ***K The Millenium [Censored Radio Edit] | 00:00 Tools | |
50490431 | Play | The JAMs / Don't Take Five (Take What You Want) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490433 | Play | Whitney Joins The JAMS 12" | 00:00 Tools | |
7691304 | Play | The Queen And I (Part 2) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691299 | Play | Hey, Hey We Are Not The Monkee | 00:00 Tools | |
7691222 | Play | It's Grim Up North, Part 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
50490434 | Play | The JAMs / Whitney Joins The Jams | 00:00 Tools | |
50490435 | Play | The JAMs / Candyman | 00:00 Tools | |
50490442 | Play | Kingboy's Dream | 00:00 Tools | |
7691213 | Play | Down Town (remix) ["118 BPM"] | 00:00 Tools | |
7691286 | Play | ***k the Millennium [Censored Radio Edit] | 00:00 Tools | |
50490439 | Play | Dont take five | 00:00 Tools | |
7691254 | Play | Acid Brass/What Time Is Love [Version K] | 00:00 Tools | |
50490443 | Play | Downtown (12 inch version) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490440 | Play | It's Grim Up North (Omsk) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490441 | Play | Speak Of The Devil | 00:00 Tools | |
7691210 | Play | Acid Brass/ What time is love (Version K) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490461 | Play | Deep Shit (The Cult Of MU) (7" Mix) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490445 | Play | Mind The Gap [hidden Track] | 00:00 Tools | |
7691274 | Play | It's Grim Up North (Part One) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691203 | Play | Fuck the Millennium (censored radio edit) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691227 | Play | Mẹ Ru Con (0 BPM) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691202 | Play | Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - It's Grim Up North (Part 1) | 00:00 Tools | |
87101484 | Play | It's Grim Up North (Part 1 - 12inch) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691281 | Play | Îvum Nayâ (Ibo version) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691316 | Play | The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu / All You Need Is Love | 00:00 Tools | |
50490454 | Play | 1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490444 | Play | It's Grim Up North (Pt. 1) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490451 | Play | Top Of The Pops [hidden Track] | 00:00 Tools | |
50490446 | Play | 09 All You Need Is Love (106 bpm) [very_small_bit_cutoff] | 00:00 Tools | |
7691302 | Play | The Disaster Fund Collection | 00:00 Tools | |
87101483 | Play | It's Grim Up North (Razormaid Mix) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691241 | Play | Porpoise Song (instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691263 | Play | Downtown (Remix) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691282 | Play | Rockman Rock (Part 2) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490447 | Play | The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu / Don't Take Five (Take What You Want) | 07:48 Tools | |
50490457 | Play | Why Did You Throw Away Your Giro | 00:00 Tools | |
50490448 | Play | Hey Hey We're Not The Monkees | 00:00 Tools | |
50490449 | Play | All You Need Is Love (me ru con mix) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490450 | Play | queen and i | 00:00 Tools | |
7691260 | Play | The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu / Candyman | 00:00 Tools | |
50490452 | Play | Why Did You Throw Away Your Giro? [unlisted] | 00:00 Tools | |
50490453 | Play | Doctorin The Tardis | 00:00 Tools | |
7691236 | Play | It's Grim Up North (part I) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490455 | Play | Rockman Rock Part 2 and 3 (105 bpm) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691293 | Play | The Cage | 00:00 Tools | |
50490456 | Play | Hey Hey Het We Are Not The Monkees | 00:00 Tools | |
50490458 | Play | 04 Rockman Rock (Parts 2 and 3) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490470 | Play | It's Grim Up North (Part 1 - Radio Edit) | 00:00 Tools | |
87101488 | Play | Mẹ Ru Con | 00:00 Tools | |
50490460 | Play | All You Need Is Love (Possum Edit) | 00:00 Tools | |
7691265 | Play | Whitney Joins The J.A.M.s | 00:00 Tools | |
50490462 | Play | The Eton Rifles | 00:00 Tools | |
50490463 | Play | Whitney Joins The JAMMs | 00:00 Tools | |
50490480 | Play | All You Need Is Love: LP | 00:00 Tools | |
89160391 | Play | The Porpoise Song (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490464 | Play | The Queen And I (Jams) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490478 | Play | Side A | 00:00 Tools | |
50490465 | Play | The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu / Burn The Bastards | 00:00 Tools | |
50490466 | Play | Down Town [118 bpm] | 00:00 Tools | |
50490467 | Play | Monkees | 00:00 Tools | |
50490468 | Play | Down Town (118 bpm - edit) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490469 | Play | Burn the Bastards (Jams Have a Party mix) | 00:00 Tools | |
87101485 | Play | It's Grim Up North (Pt.1.) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490471 | Play | B.F.B. | 00:00 Tools | |
87101486 | Play | It’s Grim Up North (radio edit) | 00:00 Tools | |
89160392 | Play | It’s Grim Up North (Part 1) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490475 | Play | Naar Oostland | 00:00 Tools | |
7691239 | Play | The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu / Whitney Joins The JAMs | 00:00 Tools | |
89160393 | Play | It's Grim Up North (original grey vinyl mix) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490472 | Play | Whitney Joins the JAMs (2007 Edit) | 00:00 Tools | |
87101487 | Play | Deep Shit (part 1) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490474 | Play | five | 00:00 Tools | |
89160394 | Play | It's Grimm Up North | 00:00 Tools | |
89160395 | Play | Down Town (Edit) | 00:00 Tools | |
87101489 | Play | prestwich prophets grin | 00:00 Tools | |
50490476 | Play | Side B | 00:00 Tools | |
50490477 | Play | Hey Hey We Are Not The Monkees (100BPM) | 00:00 Tools | |
87101490 | Play | Dont Take Five (Take What You Want) | 00:00 Tools | |
50490479 | Play | Prestwich Prophet's Grin (Inst | 00:00 Tools | |
50490481 | Play | NoCopy, Burn the Bastards | 00:00 Tools | |
50490482 | Play | The KLF / Burn The Beat (club mix) ["125 BPM"] | 00:00 Tools | |
50490483 | Play | Don't Take 5 [Take What You Want] | 00:00 Tools | |
87101491 | Play | Bfb | 00:00 Tools | |
50490485 | Play | queen | 00:00 Tools |
In 1987, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty's collaborations began in London, England. They assumed alter egos - King Boy D and Rockman Rock respectively - and they adopted the name The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (The JAMs), after the fictional conspiratorial group "The Justified Ancients of Mummu" from The Illuminatus! Trilogy. In those novels, the JAMs are what the Illuminati (a political organisation which seeks to impose order and control upon society) call a group of Discordians who have infiltrated the Illuminati in order to feed them false information. As The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, Drummond and Cauty chose to interpret the principles of the fictional JAMs in the context of music production in the corporate music world. Shrouded in the mystique provided by their disguised identities and the cultish Illuminatus!, they mirrored the Discordians' gleeful political tactics of causing chaos and confusion by bringing a direct, humorous but nevertheless revolutionary approach to making records, often attracting attention in unconventional ways. The JAMs' primary instrument was the digital sampler with which they would plagiarise the history of popular music, cutting chunks from existing works and pasting them into new contexts, underpinned by rudimentary beatbox rhythms and overlayed with Drummond's raps, of social commentary, esoteric metaphors and mockery. The JAMs' debut single "All You Need Is Love" dealt with the media coverage given to AIDS, sampling heavily from The Beatles' "All You Need Is Love" and Samantha Fox's "Touch Me (I Want Your Body)". Although it was declined by distributors fearful of prosecution, and threatened with lawsuits, copies of the one-sided white label 12" were sent to the music press, receiving positive reviews and being made "single of the week" in Sounds. A later piece in the same magazine called The JAMs "the hottest, most exhilarating band this year.... It's hard to understand what it feels like to come across something you believe to be totally new; I have never been so wholeheartedly convinced that a band are so good and exciting." The JAMs re-edited and re-released "All You Need Is Love" in May 1987, removing or doctoring the most antagonistic samples; lyrics from the song appeared as promotional graffiti, defacing selected billboards. The re-release rewarded The JAMs not just with further praise (including NME´s "single of the week") but also with the funds necessary to record their debut album. The album, 1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?), was released in June 1987. Included was a song called "The Queen and I" which sampled large portions of the ABBA single "Dancing Queen". The recording came to the attention of ABBA's management and, after a legal showdown with ABBA and the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society, the 1987 album was forcibly withdrawn from sale. Drummond and Cauty travelled to Sweden in hope of meeting ABBA and coming to some agreement, taking an NME journalist and photographer with them, along with most of the remaining copies of the LP. They failed to meet ABBA, so disposed of the copies by burning most of them in a field and throwing the rest overboard on the North Sea ferry trip home. In a December 1987 interview, Cauty maintained that they "felt that what [they]'d done was artistically justified." Two new singles followed 1987, on The JAMs' "KLF Communications" independent record label. Both reflected a shift towards house rhythms. According to NME, The JAMs' choice of samples for the first of these, "Whitney Joins The JAMs" saw them leaving behind their strategy of "collision course" to "move straight onto the art of super selective theft". The song uses samples of the Mission: Impossible theme alongside Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody". Ironically, Drummond has claimed that The KLF were later offered the job of producing or remixing a new Whitney Houston album as an inducement from her record label boss (Clive Davis of Arista Records) to sign with them. Drummond turned the job down, but nonetheless The KLF signed with Arista as their American distributors. The second single in this sequence—Drummond and Cauty's third and final single of 1987—was "Down Town", a dance record built around a gospel choir and "Downtown" by 1960s star Petula Clark. These early works were later collected on the compilation album Shag Times. A second album, Who Killed The JAMs?, was released in early 1988. Who Killed The JAMs? was a rather less haphazard affair than 1987, earning the duo at least one five-star review (from Sounds Magazine, who called it "a masterpiece of pathos". JAMS aka.. time lords, and the KLF, and 2k. Drummond was once a manager of Echo and the Bunnymen, Cauty has worked with the Orb. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.