KLF, The ‎– The White Room

US re-release from 2003 have as track 5: Last Train To Trancentral (Live From The Lost Continent).
I think that its worth having, because this album is then even better.

Maybe the only "The White Room" release, that includes ALL the singles (incl. "Justified & Ancient (Stand By The Jams)" and "America: What Time Is Love?") - but why did they choose "Last Train To Trancentral"'s lame "LP Mix" instead of the "single version" (which is labelled as "Live From The Lost Continent")..?!
Wtf??

This album is really great. I bought it after hearing "Justified And Ancient" and "3 A.M Eternal" on the radio. At the record store i listened through all the tracks and liked very much what i heard. I still listen to this album from time to time. One minor note: the version of "Justified And Ancient" is not the same that was played on radio, but its ok anyway.

Once i had this in my personal 'power play'.. . . then i moved to their Chill Out. :)
Great stuff but i like their deeper side more.

Hopefully most of you got the in-joke that The KLF stuck in about sampling. Having been forced to destroy their previous record due to copyright infringement (rather ironic when KLF stands for Kopyright Liberation Front) they sampled heavily from the big players in the litigation stakes, only to get one over on those overpaid and talentless idiots (that particularly includes you Bono) by sampling crowd noise and anything that is completely unrelated to the actual music itself. I'm curious whether they cleared the samples and paid royalties or stuck it out to see if anyone had the balls to risk negative publicity and drag them into court (not to mention a class action suit from people who attended the gig and feel they should be entitled to a share of the royalties!).

A great record whose entertainment is beyond the wit and self-assurance of the average snobby late-teens "IDM" enthusiast who is afraid to admit he plays Pokemon to his friends. This record is not to be taken too seriously, not much KLF stuff outside of the early singles, 'Chill Out' and 'Its Grim Up North' is. It is however good music, with catchy loops, sterling production and even some hints of Acid buried under all that poppy varnish.

In this Australian release, there are physically only 8 tracks, not 9. Although 9 are listed on the sleeve, track 3 is a medley of '3AM Eternal' and 'Church of the KLF' exactly as shown on the the master release KLF, The - The White Room.

A little information for those considering purchasing this from ebay etc, this release is an edited version. For one thing track 2 "make it rain" has the vocal sample "deee-yayy" removed, more than likely for using uncleared samples, nothing unusual with the klf to do that! And "come on boy do you wanna ride" is omitted from last train to trancentral. So essentially this is a different release and worth getting for klf fans and for the bonus tracks but don’t sell your UK copy as for me it feels as something is missing from this release

A briljant album. When we look at the credits we can see they have used several 'live crowd samples' from The Doors and U2. We can also find a guestappereance from Ashanti. Diversity at his best!!!

This album was released in March 1991 in the UK, on KLF Communications, the band's own label, and in May 1991 in the US, on Arista Records.

The US album is pretty much the same as the UK, but with the album version of "Last Train to Trancentral" replaced with the single version, which was a hit in the UK in April 1991, and also released in the US.

The album version of "Justified & Ancient" featured Black Steel singing and playing his bass guitar, instead of the club remix featuring Tammy Wynette that was released later that year, in November.
"America: What Time is Love?", also very different from the album version, featuring ex-Deep Purple vocalist Glenn Hughes, was released in October in the US. It wasn´t released in the UK and Europe until February the next year, as the KLF´s final release.

The album includes the UK hits "What Time is Love? (Live at Trancentral)" (released July 1990) and "3 a.m. Eternal (Live at the S.S.L.)" (released January 1991), both recorded with production team The Children Of The Revolution.

Five singles were taken from or remixed from this album, and the band became the biggest selling UK act in 1991 and got an award at the Brit Awards, accepted by a biker, where they performed "3 a.m. Eternal" with thrash metal group Extreme Noise Terror.
Bill Drummond, like with a plan, like John "Hannibal" Smith, ended the performance shooting at the crowd with a machine gun with blank bullets, and over the PA a voice announced "The KLF Have Now Left The Music Industry".
A dead sheep was found outside the building later that evening with the letters "From The KLF With Love" written on it.

This album was first time announced in 1989 on all the "Pure Trance" 12-inch singles, and on the "Kylie Said to Jason" single,
even with a catalogue number (JAMSLP/MC/CD/DAT 4. Later transferred to "The What Time Is Love Story"). The word is that
"Kylie Said to Jason" flopped, so the then planned album release was withdrawn.
"What Time Is Love?" the original version, an ambient trance version, was released already in October 1988, on 12-inch only, and ambient house versions of "3 a.m. Eternal" and "Last Train to Trancentral" appeared on the album "Chill Out" in 1990.

The UK pressing of the album is now a pretty rare record as the band's UK label KLF Communications
stopped pressing records in the spring of 1992, while the Arista label keep pressing the CD bundled with that "Justified & Ancient" single, last in 2003.

When is the deluxe edition coming out? There was a bunch of remixes, B-side mixes, 12" mixes and single only versions released, mostly on 12-inch only, that could fill up disc 2.

"The White Room" is a collection of songs originally written to the soundtrack of the movie with the same title, actually filmed by Bill Butt, but was never finished. It was rumoured to be screened once in Germany, but never again.