{"id":1028,"date":"2002-05-13T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-13T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2002-05-13T18:29:00","modified_gmt":"2002-05-13T22:29:00","slug":"last-laugh-of-the-klf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/05\/13\/18\/29\/last-laugh-of-the-klf\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Laugh Of The KLF?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the old dreams of the pop pranksters the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22Also+since+they+had+worked+with+Tammy+Wynette+and+Glen+Hughes+they+had+been%22\">KLF<\/a> (Kopyright Liberation Front) seem to have come true as I read in the NY Times that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/05\/09\/arts\/09MASH.html?pagewanted=print&#038;position=top\">Mash Ups<\/a>&#8221; &#8212; mixed-up blends of disposable pop tunes &#8212; the newest <a href=\"..\/Webstore\/Mash%20Ups\/Spreading%20by%20the%20Web,%20Pop's%20Bootleg%20Remix.html\">&#8220;hot&#8221; commodity<\/a> in the music business. I doubt these new mashers will have anything like the panache of the KLF pranksters though. It&#8217;s amazing to think that in the early 1990s the KLF were the biggest selling UK pop group and, at the height of their success, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22Who+Killed+The+KLF%22\">they chucked it all in<\/a> to go away and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=k.foundation+turner+prize\">slag off modern art<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=k.foundation+million+pounds\">burn a mllion pounds<\/a> for kicks. I always thought their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=klf+brit+awards\">Brit Awards exit<\/a> (Screaming through a thrash metal version of their song, killing and gutting a sheep and dowsing the audience in its blood (darn lawyers intervened), shooting the audience with machine guns (blanks!) and chanting <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22The+KLF+Have+Left+The+Music+Industry%22\">The KLF Have Left The Music Industry<\/a><\/i>, then deleting their entire back catalogue and burning all the remaining merchandise) was a classic&#8230; right up there with Johnny Rotten stalking off the San Francisco stage during the Sex Pistols tour (<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22Ever+Get+The+Feeling+You%27ve+Been+Had%22+rotten+OR+lydon\">Ever Get The Feeling You&#8217;ve Been Had?<\/a><\/i>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the old dreams of the pop pranksters the KLF (Kopyright Liberation Front) seem to have come true as I read in the NY Times that &#8220;Mash Ups&#8221; &#8212; mixed-up blends of disposable pop&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}