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The KLF (also known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords and other names) were one of the seminal bands of the British acid house movement during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Beginning in 1987, Bill Drummond (alias King Boy D) and Jimmy Cauty (alias Rockman Rock) released hip hop-inspired and sample-heavy records as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, and on one occasion (the British number one hit single "Doctorin' the Tardis") as The Timelords. The abbreviation of the band has long been a mystery; however in a interview in Wired 2010 Bill revealed it to stand for "Kentucky Liberation Front", meant as a satire of the United States as the band saw it at the time.[citation needed] As The KLF, Drummond and Cauty pioneered the genres "stadium house" (rave music with a pop-rock production and sampled crowd noise) and "ambient house.[citation needed] The KLF released a series of international top-ten hits[citation needed] on their own KLF Communications record label, and became the biggest-selling singles act in the world for 1991.[citation needed] The duo also published a book, The Manual, and worked on a road movie called The White Room.
You won't pass on your bitter blood
I'll spend my every breath to undo the damage done
Your mistake will be just your mistake
Nothing more
You won't tie us to your dead and sinking
We don't relive the bigotry
We won't relive the lies
We won't relive a dead standard of old times
The proof is in the actions of the past
Who is the (real) enemy is the question that should be asked
But it's impossible to change the past
We're out for blood
For every ill-fated lie
Morality's suicide
Put a gun to your head
You're better off dead
Better off dead
You won't pass your bitter blood
I'll spend my every breath to undo the damage done
Your mistake will be just your mistake
Nothing more
You won't tie us to your dead and sinking
We don't relive the bigotry
We won't relive the lies
We won't relive a dead standard of old times
The proof is in the actions of the past
Who is the (real) enemy is the question that should be asked
But it's impossible to change the past
Let it be left in the past
You aren't even a memory