Library of Mu: All Reviews

There are 101 Reviews in the Library of Mu:

Touch: Date: 18 August, 1979; Journal: ? (a music weekly); Author: ?; Description: Not so appreciative Lori and the Chameleons review: "odd...silly...but it is original"; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Touch: Date: 18 August, 1979; Journal: ? (a music weekly); Author: ?; Description: would have made single of the week in most weeks but this: "brick synthesised rythms dance as airily and appetisingly as candy floss"; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Touch: Date: 27 October, 1979; Journal: ? (a music weekly); Author: ?; Description: Very positive Lori and the Chameleons review: "impossibly sexy...very great...enter into the spirit of it"; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

TEEN TORMENT: Date: 21 July, 1984; Journal: Sounds; Author: Jane Simon; Description: Live Brilliant review - she thinks that this is the band of the moment, funky eclectic and cool; Status: original (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

It's A Man's Man's Man's World: Date: 17 September, 1985 ?; Journal: ? (Melody Maker); Author: ?; Description: "an elaborate joke, I suspect ... relaxed reggae lilt"; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

It's A Man's Man's Man's World: Date: 26 September, 1985 ?; Journal: ? (NME); Author: ?; Description: "glittering pseudo-reggaefied ... it's a tired tired tired idea"; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Love Is War: Date: 01 March, 1986; Journal: ? (a music weekly); Author: ?; Description: poor review: "So-So dancefloor fodder with a meaninglessly oxymoronic title...lacking any peculiarities"; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Kiss The Lips Of Life: Date: October 1986 ?; Journal: Q Magazine; Author: Paul du Noyer; Description:; Status: text (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

The Man: Date: 08 November, 1986; Journal: Sounds; Author: Roy Wilkinson; Description: "a touching if idiosyncratic biographical statement ... veers between Scottish jigs and Phil Spectorism's 5 stars!!!"; Status: original (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

The Man: Date: December 1986 ?; Journal: Q Magazine; Author: Paul du Noyer; Description:; Status: text (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

The King Of Joy: Date: 01 March, 1987 ?; Journal: Melody Maker; Author: ?; Description: absurdist Drummond's first single off "perfectly buckled LP" - even better is "after-dinner speech" b-side; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

All You Need Is Love: Date: 14 March, 1987; Journal: Sounds; Author: ?; Description: Single of the week; Status: (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

All You Need Is love: Date: 21 March, 1987; Journal: ? (Record Mirror); Author: ?; Description: Brilliant; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

The King Of Joy: Date: 21 March, 1987; Journal: NME; Author: ?; Description: oddity of the week...Drummond's got a bloody awful voice...sounds different; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

All You Need Is Love: Date: April 1987; Journal: Underground; Author: ?; Description: best groove so far this year is from Scotland and it shows London and New York exactly how it should be done; Status: text (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

All You Need Is Love: Date: 04 April, 1987; Journal: ? (a music weekly); Author: Jay Strongman; Description: energy that builds and builds...deserves to be massive...most interesting says from Scotland; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

All You Need Is Love: Date: 16 May, 1987; Journal: ? (Record Mirror); Author: ?; Description: excellent descriptive review; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

All You Need Is Love: Date: 23 May, 1987; Journal: NME; Author: Danny Kelly; Description: Single of the week (2): "a triumph of nowness over mere newness"; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

JAMs on dry bread: Date: 20 June, 1987; Journal: NME; Author: Danny Kelly; Description: disappointing...runs short of ideas should have been better; Status: (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

1987 (What The Fuck's Going On?): Date: July 1987 ?; Journal: Q Magazine; Author: Ian Cranna; Description: review found it dissapointing: "too few ideas being spread too thin" ... "all the magic moments on this record ... have come from other people's work".; Status: text (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

I Gotta CD: Date: 28 November, 1987; Journal: NME; Author: James Brown; Description: good review "captivating...addictive...gorgeously rank"; Status: original (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

Downtown: Date: 28 November, 1987; Journal: NME; Author: James Brown; Description: Single of the week : "one massive hell-hating holler of a song"; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Downtown: Date: 06 December, 1987; Journal: ? (Record Mirror); Author: ?; Description: Reviewer doesn't like sample-less direction: "a creature tamed...without outlaw credentials what's left?"; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

'Milking The Mu Mu' Who Killed The JAMs: Date: 13 February, 1988; Journal: NME; Author: Edwin Pouncey; Description: good review describing all the tracks + excellent Savage Pencil cartoon 'JAMS: no moose is good moose' illustrating each track; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Disco 2000 - Kings Cross The Bell: Date: 20 February, 1988; Journal: NME; Author: Barbara Ellen; Description: a good review despite the fact that Mo and Cress are too drunk to perform and only do two songs; Status: original (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

?: Date: 09 April, 1988; Journal: NME; Author: ?; Description: Disco 2000: One Love Nation; Status: (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Doctorin' The Tardis: Date: 28 May, 1988; Journal: ? (Record Mirror); Author: ?; Description: apocalyptic Acid House megamix...has a sense of humour; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Doctorin' The Tardis: Date: 28 May, 1988; Journal: Melody Maker; Author: ?; Description: "'Pure, unadulterated agony ... excruciating'; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Shag Times: Date: 14 January, 1989; Journal: NME; Author: Michele Kirsch; Description: more a review of the JAMs '87 and '88 than of the LP; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Shag Times: Date: February 1989 ?; Journal: Q Magazine; Author: Mat Snow; Description:; Status: text (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

Shag Times: Date: 04 February, 1989; Journal: NME; Author: Michele Kirsch; Description: Shag Times was 'Select'ed as one of the best LP's of January, this is just a clip from the two-week old review"; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Death Jams!: Date: 25 February, 1989; Journal: NME; Author: Steven Wells; Description: review of The Manual with list of facts that it reveals + White Room get-your-name-in-the-credits competition: suggest an ending for the film!; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

?: Date: 05 August, 1989; Journal: NME; Author: ?; Description: Kylie Said To Jason/What Time Is Love; Status: (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Kylie Said To Jason: Date: 12 August, 1989; Journal: ? (a music weekly); Author: ?; Description: 'superb Neil Tennamt delivery'; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

3am Eternal: Date: 16 September, 1989; Journal: Record Mirror; Author: ?; Description: chanting atmospheric cathedral-like resonance ... "eruo flavoured deep house pulser"; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

The What Time Is Love Story: Date: October 1989 ?; Journal: Q Magazine; Author: Ian Cranna; Description:; Status: text (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

Last Train From Transylvania: Date: 16 December, 1989; Journal: Record Mirror; Author: ?; Description: Last Train from Transylvania (sic) gets slating "Nobody who makes records like this should be allowed on the street ... It isn't a dance track KLF"; Status: text (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

untitled: Date: 23 December, 1989; Journal: Record Mirror; Author: -; Description: Drummond's opinion of Neighbours; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Last train To Trancentral: Date: 06 January, 1990; Journal: Record Mirror; Author: ?; Description: 'ethereal atmospherics ... freight trains and keyboards'; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Chill Out: Date: 20 January, 1990; Journal: ? (Sounds or MM); Author: Russell Brown; Description: 'The patchwork of sounds is too arbitary and formless ... comforting but no shag'; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Last Train To Trancentral: Date: 20 January, 1990; Journal: Melody Maker; Author: ?; Description: not a good review: "look how mischevious we are the fatheads giggle!"; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Chill Out: Date: 20 January, 1990; Journal: Sounds; Author: ?; Description:; Status: (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Chill Out: Date: 27 January, 1990; Journal: NME; Author: Helen Mead; Description: more a history of ambient than a review of the LP (8/10); Status: original (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

Chill Out: Date: February 1990; Journal: The Face; Author: Ian McCann; Description: it works if you're in the mood but to the undrugged ear it is "hopelessly pompous and almost classical".; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Chill Out: Date: February 1990 ?; Journal: Q Magazine; Author: Ian Cranna; Description: pretty good consise review: "ambient music for city people"; Status: text (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

Chill Out: Date: 03 February, 1990; Journal: NME; Author: Select; Description: the best LP's of January - Chill Out; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Chill Out: Date: 04 February, 1990; Journal: ? (a broadsheet); Author: ?; Description: 'New age sensual background sound'; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

untitled: Date: 24 March, 1990; Journal: Melody Maker; Author: Tim Peacock; Description: Bunnymen and KLF at Liverpool Marsh Lane Community Centre: "The KLF briefly swell the Bunny ranks for a spot of eminently dancable weirdness"; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

What Time Is love? (Live): Date: 28 July, 1990; Journal: NME; Author: ?; Description: Single of the week : "energy humour and violence collide" Sean Dickson of the Soup Dragons reviews it; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

What Time Is Love? (Bunnymen Mix): Date: 25 August, 1990; Journal: NME; Author: Jim Reid; Description: Single of the week, reviewed by Jesus and Mary Chain's Jim Reid; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

What Time Is Love? (Bunnymen Mix): Date: 08 September, 1990; Journal: NME; Author: Sherman; Description: Moody and Bunnymen mixes described; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

The Man reissue: Date: 08 September, 1990; Journal: NME; Author: David Swift; Description: Julian Cope Is Dead stories; 7/10; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

So Hard (Pet Shop Boys Vs The KLF): Date: 20 October, 1990; Journal: NME; Author: ?; Description: Singles - KLF vs the pet Shop Boys; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Waiting: Date: 10 November, 1990; Journal: NME; Author: Roger Morton; Description: Generally positive review: "blurring the lines between extreme pretentiousness and extreme silliness"; Status: original (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

What Time Is Love? (Live): Date: 22 December, 1990; Journal: NME; Author: -; Description: 4th best single of the year; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Waiting: Date: 22 December, 1990; Journal: Record Mirror; Author: Vision On; Description:; Status: (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

3am Eternal (Live): Date: 12 January, 1991; Journal: ? (Melody Maker); Author: John Harris; Description: 'the crowd noises ... improve its appeal, conjuring up images of searchlights, gyrating hordes and the kind of madness your mum wouldn't be awfully keen on'; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

3am Eternal (Live): Date: 12 January, 1991; Journal: ? (Sounds); Author: ?; Description: 'exploitative conmen ... computerised funk-by-numbers soulless track'; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

3am Eternal (Live): Date: 12 January, 1991; Journal: NME; Author: ?; Description: vibrant dance blast...nifty sounds; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

3am Eternal (Live): Date: 12 January, 1991; Journal: Record Mirror; Author: ?; Description: Single of the week : 'a magnificent pulsating beast combining bleeps and body heat'; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

The White Room: Date: March 1991 ?; Journal: Q Magazine; Author: Iestyn George; Description:; Status: text (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

The White Room: Date: 02 March, 1991; Journal: Sounds; Author: ?; Description:; Status: (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

The White Room: Date: 1991-03-06; Journal: Time Out; Author: ?; Description:; Status: (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

The White Room: Date: 09 March, 1991; Journal: ? (a music weekly); Author: AF; Description: a neat summation of Drummond and Cauty's colourful history; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

The White Room: Date: 09 March, 1991; Journal: NME; Author: ?; Description: includes fine caricature; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

The White Room: Date: April 1991; Journal: Vox; Author: ?; Description:; Status: (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Last Train To Trancentral (Live): Date: 20 April, 1991; Journal: NME; Author: ?; Description:; Status: (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Give Peace A Dance: Date: June 1991; Journal: Vox; Author: ?; Description:; Status: (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Stadium House (The Trilogy): Date: July 1991; Journal: Vox; Author: ?; Description:; Status: (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Stadium House (The Trilogy): Date: 06 July, 1991; Journal: NME; Author: Stephen Dalton; Description: breathtaking, pulse-racing spectactle with a sly sense of humour" good reiew with reservations; Status: original (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

It's Grim Up North: Date: 02 November, 1991 ?; Journal: Melody Maker; Author: ?; Description: A hell of a record. Literally. as the JAMMs refrain from making a judgement on the grimness of the region, "opting instead to list a whole bunch of towns"; Status: original (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

It's Grim Up North: Date: 02 November, 1991; Journal: NME; Author: ?; Description: Single of the week - "vengeance and poignance" and graffiti was "last year"; Status: original (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

Justified And Ancient: Date: 07 December, 1991; Journal: Melody Maker; Author: ?; Description: Single of the week; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Justified And Ancient: Date: 07 December, 1991; Journal: NME; Author: Simon Williams; Description: Single of the week; Status: original (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

Last Train To Trancentral (Live): Date: 21 December, 1991; Journal: NME; Author: -; Description: 15th best single of the year; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

3am Eternal (KLF Vs Extreme Noise Terror): Date: 11 January, 1992; Journal: NME; Author: ?; Description: (Mail order) Single of the week; Status: (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

America: What Time Is Love?: Date: 22 February, 1992; Journal: NME; Author: Stephen Dalton; Description: Single of the Millenium!!; Status: original (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

America: What Time Is Love?: Date: 29 February, 1992; Journal: Melody Maker; Author: ?; Description: positive review: "the whole bizarre concoction's brilliantly bonkers" but wondering when they'd come up with something new.; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Justified And Ancient History: Date: 30 January, 1993; Journal: NME; Author: Stephen Dalton; Description: Pete Robinson's "labour of love" makes "inessential reading."; Status: original (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Justified And Ancient History: Date: May 1993; Journal: Q Magazine; Author: Jimmy Nicol; Description: Ridiculously overenthusiastic review (****); Status: text (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

Chill Out (Wax Trax import): Date: June 1994; Journal: Q Magazine; Author: Andrew Collins; Description: KLF were ahead of their time, and whole careers have been built following their lead; Status: text (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

A Bible Of Dreams: Date: 02 November, 1994; Journal: NME; Author: Gavin Martin; Description:; Status: original (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

Pick of the Week - Omnibus: Date: 05 November, 1995; Journal: Scotland On Sunday (Spectrum); Author: ?; Description: Doesn't say much really; Status: original (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

Money to burn, anyone?: Date: 07 November, 1995; Journal: Guardian (G2); Author: Adam Sweeting; Description: Poor review of the Omnibus program; he doesn't really get it.; Status: original (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

? (review of Omnibus documentary): Date: 07 November, 1995; Journal: The Independent (tabloid section); Author: Thomas Sutcliffe; Description: Excellent review of the Omnibus program; says a lot about art and the art system.; Status: original (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

Watch the K-F burn a million quid: Date: 1995-11-24; Journal: Venue (Bristol Listings Magazine); Author: Mike Gartside; Description: Good review of the Bristol showing, including extraordinary outbursts, crowd reaction and anti-materialism theory.; Status: photocopy (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Burn a million quid and call it art: Date: 27 November, 1995; Journal: Daily Post (Liverpool); Author: Angie Sammons; Description: Simple review of the Liverpool Everyman showing that doesn't say that much.; Status: photocopy (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Chill Out: Date: 1996-03-01 ?; Journal: Mix-Mag; Author: Dom Philips; Description: excerpt from 50 greatest dance albums article - Chill Out was No. 5; Status: text (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

Bad Wisdom: Date: 09 November, 1996; Journal: NME; Author: Gavin Martin; Description: sums it up well, mainly giving the background to saving the world … "the troubled, explosive festering imaginations of the two authors" … "a Boy's Own adventure to end them all"; Status: text (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

? (Bad Wisdom reading review): Date: 1996-12-01; Journal: Blah Blah Blah; Author: ?; Description: Quite a poorly written review of a London reading. Only interesting content is the picture of the Elvis icon and some other holiday snaps from the expedition.; Status: (Not available online - would you like to scan it?); » View full record & suggest changes

Pop & Jazz: Reviews: Date: 30 August, 1997; Journal: The Independent; Author: Angela Lewis; Description: preview of 2K at the Barbican: "The idea walks the tightrope between lunacy and brilliance."; Status: text (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

Blast from the past: Date: 20 September, 1997; Journal: Guardian; Author: Phil Daoust; Description: good short review; Status: text (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

K Foundation Burn a Million Quid: Date: 1997-11-03; Journal: Big Issue; Author: ?; Description: consise and clever; Status: text (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

Hit man, myth maker - 45: Date: 26 February, 2000; Journal: Guardian; Author: Steven Poole; Description: Review of "45" in the Guardian Saturday Pages; Status: text (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

More revolutions every minute with the KLF: Date: 26 February, 2000; Journal: The Independent; Author: Charles Shaar Murray; Description: pretty good review of 45 by famous music journalist; Status: text (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

Pop's top stuntman: Date: 26 February, 2000; Journal: The Times; Author: Jerome Boyd Maunsell; Description: another review of '45': "Drummond has the inimitable wisdom of a true maverick"; Status: text (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

Pop? He wrote the manual 45 By Bill Drummond LITTLE, BROWN pounds 12.99: Date: 27 February, 2000; Journal: The Independent; Author: Laurence Phelan; Description: doesn't say much, mainly a history of Drummond's career, although he does say 45 is "wilfully misleading and perversely contradictory" but "still worth reading for the daft aphorisms"; Status: text (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

Pop: It's in the Mix -Tammy Wynette And The KLF Justified And Ancient (Stand By The Jams): Date: 03 November, 2000; Journal: The Independent; Author: Robert Webb; Description: A look back at Stand By The Jams, nothing new, as part of a series on Pop's Unlikeliest Collaborations; Status: text (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

Paperbacks - To the north pole with the king of imaginary pop: Date: 18 November, 2001; Journal: The Independent; Author: Scarlett Thomas; Description: brief review of the re-release of 45, calls it "inspired".; Status: text (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

Performance Bill Drummond: How to be an artist, CCA, Glasgow: Date: 03 October, 2002; Journal: The Herald (Glasgow); Author: Moira Jeffrey; Description: Drummond comes across as "a kind of eccentric rural uncle" and his talk is just "a charming sales pitch, in front of a fond and indulgent audience."; Status: text (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes

Underground - Bad Wisdom: Date: 05 April, 2003; Journal: Guardian (G2); Author: Steven Poole; Description: A short review of the Creation Books re-release: "a classic of underground psychogeography".; Status: webpage (Text available); » View full record & suggest changes